When you compare two different culture 's there 's always differences. Its the same in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World there 's two different society 's with very different cultures, the civilized people and the savages. The people from the savage reservation are very different than the civilized people of the new world which highlights Huxley 's theme that happiness cannot be forced on people. The differences in relationships between the two society 's are major. The savages believe in marriage and being together forever with that person, while in civilization they believe that everyone belongs to everyone else and they can have anyone, that its bad to be with just one person. "Listen Lenina; in Malphais people people
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The savages think old age is normal, and still go about there daily lives, while in civilization they purposefully keep people young and fit for as long as they can before killing them. "An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house-rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian. The toothless mouth had fallen in. At the corners of the lips, and on each side of the chin, a few long bristles gleamed almost white against the dark skin. The long unbraided hair hung down in grey wisps round his face. His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost flesh-less. Very slowly he came down, pausing at each rung before he ventured another step." (Huxley 110). "But the Director 's old; lots of people are old; they 're not like that." "That 's because we don 't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don 't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don 't look like that. Partly," he added, "because most of them die long before they reach this old creature 's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, …show more content…
There 's a great difference between the civilized people and the people from the savage reservation which highlight Huxley 's theme that happiness cannot be forced on people. Through the differences in their society 's can they start trying to understand each other. Even in a society as "perfect" as can be, and a society "not perfect" at all, the people are never truly
The savages think old age is normal, and still go about there daily lives, while in civilization they purposefully keep people young and fit for as long as they can before killing them. "An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house-rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian. The toothless mouth had fallen in. At the corners of the lips, and on each side of the chin, a few long bristles gleamed almost white against the dark skin. The long unbraided hair hung down in grey wisps round his face. His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost flesh-less. Very slowly he came down, pausing at each rung before he ventured another step." (Huxley 110). "But the Director 's old; lots of people are old; they 're not like that." "That 's because we don 't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don 't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don 't look like that. Partly," he added, "because most of them die long before they reach this old creature 's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, …show more content…
There 's a great difference between the civilized people and the people from the savage reservation which highlight Huxley 's theme that happiness cannot be forced on people. Through the differences in their society 's can they start trying to understand each other. Even in a society as "perfect" as can be, and a society "not perfect" at all, the people are never truly