Are “Perfect Societies” really perfect?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your whole life planned out for you? Since fertilization, the embryos in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have already had their class and job picked out for them. This is an example the dystopian element of independent thought and freedom being restricted (Wright). Many utopian and dystopian elements can be found in the novel and movie, like technology controlling a community, citizens living happily together, and a main character questioning the society they live in.
In both mediums, the society in which the main character lives is controlled by technology. In Brave New World, the community is controlled by soma, an ideal pleasure drug. An example of this is when John the Savage is crying by his dead mother Linda’s bedside, the Bokanovsky group was staring at him with wide eyes (Huxley, 211). A young alpha yelled soma distribution and the whole group totally forgot about John the Savage (Huxley, 215). The …show more content…
In Brave New World, John the Savage has always questioned the customs and ideas of the London society. During John the Savage’s talk with the Controller, John get upset at the fact that the Controller does not expose the population to God, old literature and many other things. “I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (Huxley, 242). He questions why the people can’t be exposed to things he knows and loves. Unlike, Brave New World, in The Truman Show for thirty years Truman doesn’t question the town he lives in or the people he meets. He blindly accepts the world around him as real. Later he becomes more observant and realizes that people are watching him and that he can control the world he lives in. He starts becoming bolder and becomes aware that he is in control of his life, not the Director and his
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your whole life planned out for you? Since fertilization, the embryos in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have already had their class and job picked out for them. This is an example the dystopian element of independent thought and freedom being restricted (Wright). Many utopian and dystopian elements can be found in the novel and movie, like technology controlling a community, citizens living happily together, and a main character questioning the society they live in.
In both mediums, the society in which the main character lives is controlled by technology. In Brave New World, the community is controlled by soma, an ideal pleasure drug. An example of this is when John the Savage is crying by his dead mother Linda’s bedside, the Bokanovsky group was staring at him with wide eyes (Huxley, 211). A young alpha yelled soma distribution and the whole group totally forgot about John the Savage (Huxley, 215). The …show more content…
In Brave New World, John the Savage has always questioned the customs and ideas of the London society. During John the Savage’s talk with the Controller, John get upset at the fact that the Controller does not expose the population to God, old literature and many other things. “I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (Huxley, 242). He questions why the people can’t be exposed to things he knows and loves. Unlike, Brave New World, in The Truman Show for thirty years Truman doesn’t question the town he lives in or the people he meets. He blindly accepts the world around him as real. Later he becomes more observant and realizes that people are watching him and that he can control the world he lives in. He starts becoming bolder and becomes aware that he is in control of his life, not the Director and his