Brave New World Dystopian Analysis

“Brave New World” Not so Far Away? The society presented in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, is an interesting twist on what people consider “normal in the world. In this dystopian novel Huxley takes wholesome values such as: family, love, birth, and indulging in your desires, and changes them all around to present his new distorted society. In this “Brave New World” there are no families. No love. No normal version of birth. No resisting any desires. These things and more are what makes this novel scary and honestly a wake-up call. All these bent rules on the things we know and hold true can serve as warning. The uniformity in this society is something the people of the world draw closer and closer to every day. A large issue in the modern world that can be related to the “Brave New World”, would be the sexualization of children. Competitions such as beauty contests and even the popular reality show: “Toddlers in Tiaras” are examples of this. Putting makeup and dressing up little girls in revealing clothing is seen by many people to be a horrible thing (Pickles). This sexualizes them at a young age when some would argue that this is something that should be preserved until later in …show more content…
One thing some people would compare is that in some areas of the world the whole concept of democracy is seemingly becoming a façade. Arguments have been made that so called “democracies” are secretly oligarchies controlled by the highest tier of the upper class, the “elites” if you will. “Researchers then concluded that U.S. policies are formed more by special interest groups than by politicians properly representing the will of the general people, including the lower-income class.” (Chumley). This conveys some of the suspicions of the people about the elites controlling the world, just as they do in the “Brave New World” with controllers such as Mustapha