Jun Andres
Mrs. Hoskins
ERWC P7
13 March 2015
Maintaining Happiness through Stability As we compare the characters in Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, to today’s society we find that there are differences. Brave New World’s motto is community, identity and stability, which relates to a stable society. Yet, we find out that everyone is really robotic-like. In actuality, in Brave New World there is no difference between individuals, the community is one of social conditioning in which all are alike, each individual is identified as a whole they are pre-destined before birth with the same beliefs, the sacrifices that the World State demands to its people, is it worth maintaining social stability to possess a stable society. According …show more content…
Humans are genetically cultivated and engineered with specific characteristics in order to serve their government a part of conditioning that was taught towards the individual, a sleep teaching method they convey information to a person while they are asleep, playing a sound recording over and over. ”Without literature, people will never think and learn… of course they will live in a stable society where nothing will ever change, but people pay the price of creativity and the ability to think” (Huxley 2). One of the World Controllers, Mustapha Mond, says that “ you’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed high art” (Huxley 226) . The citizens of Brave New World perceive life as just a livelihood of specific accustomed lifestyle instead of the the “high art” of having refined consciousness, or knowledge of the meaning of genuine life. For us, we are all created differently; we are raised as individual souls and are only “conditioned” by the influences in our lives as we grow. I for one disagree that the World State should have control of how the people live. Human emotions and attainment of knowledge are individual; therefore,citizens of Brave New World is
Mrs. Hoskins
ERWC P7
13 March 2015
Maintaining Happiness through Stability As we compare the characters in Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, to today’s society we find that there are differences. Brave New World’s motto is community, identity and stability, which relates to a stable society. Yet, we find out that everyone is really robotic-like. In actuality, in Brave New World there is no difference between individuals, the community is one of social conditioning in which all are alike, each individual is identified as a whole they are pre-destined before birth with the same beliefs, the sacrifices that the World State demands to its people, is it worth maintaining social stability to possess a stable society. According …show more content…
Humans are genetically cultivated and engineered with specific characteristics in order to serve their government a part of conditioning that was taught towards the individual, a sleep teaching method they convey information to a person while they are asleep, playing a sound recording over and over. ”Without literature, people will never think and learn… of course they will live in a stable society where nothing will ever change, but people pay the price of creativity and the ability to think” (Huxley 2). One of the World Controllers, Mustapha Mond, says that “ you’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed high art” (Huxley 226) . The citizens of Brave New World perceive life as just a livelihood of specific accustomed lifestyle instead of the the “high art” of having refined consciousness, or knowledge of the meaning of genuine life. For us, we are all created differently; we are raised as individual souls and are only “conditioned” by the influences in our lives as we grow. I for one disagree that the World State should have control of how the people live. Human emotions and attainment of knowledge are individual; therefore,citizens of Brave New World is