When Aldous Huxley first released his novel, Brave New World, describing a dystopian society where Henry Ford has applied the assembly line concept to all aspects of society and created a civilization of content, blissfully ignorant people with none of the problems or discontents of the real human experience, the general population revered it. They did not understand the insight Huxley had and instead focused on his causal approce to sexualitly and wrote his story off as not important. Today Huxley is used to teaching and discovering key aspects of social change and his themes are used to assess society and somewhat predict the course society is taking if it continues into this technological revolution. Huxley saw the danger of giving the government
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Although the story revolved around an extreme dystopian, the point was still clear and the readers could take away the themes and see the parallels the book makes between today's society, past and present and the World State. I believe that Huxley was uniquely successful in his different approach to dystopia and the issues he wanted to address. Contrary to most dystopian society novels that use military overthrow and extremely police state civilizations to try and bring the issues of society to light, Huxley chose to go into the direction of a peaceful dystopia. The World State civilization does not use direct force and fear to control the population, the power comes from the blind following and naïve happiness of the people, making it easier to control the thoughts and feelings, or lack of feelings, of the population. The use of technology and the consumer market to silently control and "better" the lives of the people makes the World State seem less unrealistic and violent than other dystopian books. Huxley's approach allows readers to see clearly the themes that are coming through in society today and understand how it might change our society in a more realistic way. Overall Huxley is one of the few dystopian writers that I feel convincingly and successfully portrays the key aspects of social change in a way that highlights the issues that are most apparent in American society, including technology and consumer
Although the story revolved around an extreme dystopian, the point was still clear and the readers could take away the themes and see the parallels the book makes between today's society, past and present and the World State. I believe that Huxley was uniquely successful in his different approach to dystopia and the issues he wanted to address. Contrary to most dystopian society novels that use military overthrow and extremely police state civilizations to try and bring the issues of society to light, Huxley chose to go into the direction of a peaceful dystopia. The World State civilization does not use direct force and fear to control the population, the power comes from the blind following and naïve happiness of the people, making it easier to control the thoughts and feelings, or lack of feelings, of the population. The use of technology and the consumer market to silently control and "better" the lives of the people makes the World State seem less unrealistic and violent than other dystopian books. Huxley's approach allows readers to see clearly the themes that are coming through in society today and understand how it might change our society in a more realistic way. Overall Huxley is one of the few dystopian writers that I feel convincingly and successfully portrays the key aspects of social change in a way that highlights the issues that are most apparent in American society, including technology and consumer