‘All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects” (Huxley 54). Imagine a world free of famine, war, and a sense of identity all thanks to a controlling government. In “Brave New World” the man made and enforced caste system parallels and juxtaposes societal struggles of communism, through themes of suppression and control, as a means to expose the injustices in a suppressed society. As Deevy beautifully put the Marxist struggle is,”The age old cry of envy swelling from the lips of those who have little against those who have much”. It’s a perpetual battle over the crumbs the upper class,bourgeoisie, leave behind. In Modern America this struggle is not apparent. America is run on a Capitalist platform, the economy is
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The logic is to create the perfect civilization, but in trying to create the ideal civilization “dystopian regimes actively work to suppress independent thought.” Often times there is one individual who is immune to the suppressive thought and must choose to change the world for the better or remain under the illusion of perfection (Iatropoulos 1-3). Parallel this to the revolutionary aspect of Marxist theory; the lower class must now decide if it will stand up to the injustices being faced, or it will roll over and accept the society as is. It’s an active choice seen in Brave New World with Bernard Marx, who refuses to accept the society for what it is. Regretfully, he is the only one in the World State discontent with the totalitarian control. Perhaps the people in Brave New World are happy and healthy, but they are no longer human beings (Fukuyama 6). Perhaps people living under Marxist control are happy and healthy, but are they still human beings? Huxley has done an outstanding job of recognizing and applying the oncoming pressures of fascism and communism (Witters 6). Huxley has satirised the totalitarian control by the dystopian genre to highlight the fatal flaws of a caste based system. As Congdon puts it “the novel seems to portray a world that should be devoid of capitalism-since there is a total control of production, goods, and services” (4). Although the civilization within the novel …show more content…
Each individual personality would make totalitarian control difficult, Brave New World solves this problem by removing the unique character of each genetically modified citizen. The new world is mindless, the citizens are tame animals, and they have become slabs of meat as far as the World Controllers are concerned, but it is the price paid for “community stability, identity” (Clareson 3). The individual has no rights, they have no individuality. In fact not one person in Brave New World is unique, they have several identical twins mass produced. Huxley has removed any level of distinction a character might hold, for “if one is different, one is bound to be lonely” (Huxley 137). The novel’s society promotes uniformity they have instilled into each caste. Although the allegiance to the World State remains constant within each caste, varying levels of biological suppression exist among them as well. While this makes them inferior to the World Controllers, the biological engineering also makes them inferior to each other, “separate castes of Alphas, Betas, Epsilons, and Gammas are as distinct from each other as humans are to animals” (Fukuyama 6). The degrading system has created an effective totalitarian state in which the individuals love their servitude (Iatropoulos 2). The socio-genetic engineering ensures each and every citizen complies with the
The logic is to create the perfect civilization, but in trying to create the ideal civilization “dystopian regimes actively work to suppress independent thought.” Often times there is one individual who is immune to the suppressive thought and must choose to change the world for the better or remain under the illusion of perfection (Iatropoulos 1-3). Parallel this to the revolutionary aspect of Marxist theory; the lower class must now decide if it will stand up to the injustices being faced, or it will roll over and accept the society as is. It’s an active choice seen in Brave New World with Bernard Marx, who refuses to accept the society for what it is. Regretfully, he is the only one in the World State discontent with the totalitarian control. Perhaps the people in Brave New World are happy and healthy, but they are no longer human beings (Fukuyama 6). Perhaps people living under Marxist control are happy and healthy, but are they still human beings? Huxley has done an outstanding job of recognizing and applying the oncoming pressures of fascism and communism (Witters 6). Huxley has satirised the totalitarian control by the dystopian genre to highlight the fatal flaws of a caste based system. As Congdon puts it “the novel seems to portray a world that should be devoid of capitalism-since there is a total control of production, goods, and services” (4). Although the civilization within the novel …show more content…
Each individual personality would make totalitarian control difficult, Brave New World solves this problem by removing the unique character of each genetically modified citizen. The new world is mindless, the citizens are tame animals, and they have become slabs of meat as far as the World Controllers are concerned, but it is the price paid for “community stability, identity” (Clareson 3). The individual has no rights, they have no individuality. In fact not one person in Brave New World is unique, they have several identical twins mass produced. Huxley has removed any level of distinction a character might hold, for “if one is different, one is bound to be lonely” (Huxley 137). The novel’s society promotes uniformity they have instilled into each caste. Although the allegiance to the World State remains constant within each caste, varying levels of biological suppression exist among them as well. While this makes them inferior to the World Controllers, the biological engineering also makes them inferior to each other, “separate castes of Alphas, Betas, Epsilons, and Gammas are as distinct from each other as humans are to animals” (Fukuyama 6). The degrading system has created an effective totalitarian state in which the individuals love their servitude (Iatropoulos 2). The socio-genetic engineering ensures each and every citizen complies with the