Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, is a classic novel written in 1932 about a society that creates stability based on control by promoting self-indulgence. Huxley predicted that in the future, society would be subject to total control of their interests, futures, careers, and ability to even have children or a family unit because it may upset the balance of a perfectly stable society. Our society today is becoming more and more like that of Brave New World, considering our dependance on the division of upper, middle, and lower class citizens, our ability to bend our moral outlook on children and their rights to erotic play, and our obsession with technology. People have grown so accustomed to these things that they rarely see just how far we
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While in the world society they are genetically engineered to remain within their social standings, we are not; although, there are some tactics in place to keep us happy where we are to avoid the collapse of the economy. For example, everyone wants to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or an airplane pilot, but not everyone can afford to do so; our society has implemented things such as an unnecessarily long amount of years to spend in school for some subjects, and outrageous tuition fees so that not everyone can spend their time and money getting the higher grossing jobs, and settle for jobs such as janitors and garbagemen. In the novel, Huxley states, “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (Huxley 42). Without every individual in the current position they are in, albeit upper, middle, or lower class, the stability of the economy would dissipate into nothing, and would eventually collapse. It is important that we have these certain social classes because if everyone had everything they wanted, the things would become meaningless, as stated in Brave New World, “In a world where everything is available, nothing has meaning” (Huxley 191). If you give either society everything that they want, it will eliminate the middle and lower class and collapse the economy for good. Classes based upon social standings is something that Brave New World and our society today have in
While in the world society they are genetically engineered to remain within their social standings, we are not; although, there are some tactics in place to keep us happy where we are to avoid the collapse of the economy. For example, everyone wants to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or an airplane pilot, but not everyone can afford to do so; our society has implemented things such as an unnecessarily long amount of years to spend in school for some subjects, and outrageous tuition fees so that not everyone can spend their time and money getting the higher grossing jobs, and settle for jobs such as janitors and garbagemen. In the novel, Huxley states, “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (Huxley 42). Without every individual in the current position they are in, albeit upper, middle, or lower class, the stability of the economy would dissipate into nothing, and would eventually collapse. It is important that we have these certain social classes because if everyone had everything they wanted, the things would become meaningless, as stated in Brave New World, “In a world where everything is available, nothing has meaning” (Huxley 191). If you give either society everything that they want, it will eliminate the middle and lower class and collapse the economy for good. Classes based upon social standings is something that Brave New World and our society today have in