The typical family extinction
Introduction:
In the book Brave New World, the author describes the life in a dystopian futuristic society in which poverty, hunger, war and diseases exist. Technology is advanced enough to never deny what is considered “progress”. A lot of important aspects in our actual society (like family life, marriage, art, literature, religion, etc.) have been removed in order to make this possible. In the family and marriage side, the book says that families make people weaker because they have emotional relationships that makes them to be instable and commitment is seen as bad (promiscuity is what’s good in the World State). Huxley implies that the lack of families in the World State is actually a regression rather than a progression.
Analysis portion:
The “Ford” god of the society that appears in Huxley’s book says that he had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion from …show more content…
In his book family was seen as a bad and obscene thing and fortunately (again) this is not happening yet. It’s true that the typical family unit is declining but it’s still an important thing in our lives and family matters to us in aspects related to happiness, help, etc. I would say that marriage is declining faster than having kids or having a family because we can see that a lot of couples now live together without getting married but they may still have kids and start a family even though they are not married: In 2011, only 45% of the households in the US included a married couple. Some studies say that the problem is the big impact of kids and also long-term economics
Introduction:
In the book Brave New World, the author describes the life in a dystopian futuristic society in which poverty, hunger, war and diseases exist. Technology is advanced enough to never deny what is considered “progress”. A lot of important aspects in our actual society (like family life, marriage, art, literature, religion, etc.) have been removed in order to make this possible. In the family and marriage side, the book says that families make people weaker because they have emotional relationships that makes them to be instable and commitment is seen as bad (promiscuity is what’s good in the World State). Huxley implies that the lack of families in the World State is actually a regression rather than a progression.
Analysis portion:
The “Ford” god of the society that appears in Huxley’s book says that he had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion from …show more content…
In his book family was seen as a bad and obscene thing and fortunately (again) this is not happening yet. It’s true that the typical family unit is declining but it’s still an important thing in our lives and family matters to us in aspects related to happiness, help, etc. I would say that marriage is declining faster than having kids or having a family because we can see that a lot of couples now live together without getting married but they may still have kids and start a family even though they are not married: In 2011, only 45% of the households in the US included a married couple. Some studies say that the problem is the big impact of kids and also long-term economics