Have you ever felt like the more you try to persuade someone of something, the more they disagree with you? Distortion could be considered the last, frustrated attempt to get someone to understand your point of view. Like Flannery O'Connor said, "I am pleased to make a good case for distortion because I am coming to believe that it is the only way to make people see." In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the author uses distortion to exaggerate some of humanity’s problems so that we see them as virtues in his book, distortions regarding views of romantic relationships, social life, the family structure, and education. In the book, we see from the beginning that the individuals in this society are very promiscuous. They believe
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Linda’s becoming pregnant and having a son made her an outsider in the world she used to love. “Mother”, “father”, “son”, and, an important element in a normal family’s lives, God and religion, were considered the new pornography. This was one of the most extreme distortions in the text, and it served a very important purpose. In the “brave new world”, as John so called it, babies were not birthed naturally, but rather grown in bottles. By getting rid of the family unit and completely preparing the child for life in a different way, the individual was void of any bonds with others, and those important emotions such as love, compassion, and loss. The children were conditioned from the moment they could crawl, to love books or stand the heat - all in preparation for the work life ahead. Everything was done to keep them enslaved and happy in this unfeeling, immoral society. So, since the goal of this society was to boost productivity and efficiency, which were the keys to happiness, there was no room for the family unit. Typically, people in our real-life society would consider such people work-a-holics and most people who live this way, say, at the end of their lives, that they regret not having spent more time with their family and so much time vainly spent working for mortal riches. Therefore, eliminate the problem of having a family, as well as commitment, loyalty, and responsibility, which the lack of
Linda’s becoming pregnant and having a son made her an outsider in the world she used to love. “Mother”, “father”, “son”, and, an important element in a normal family’s lives, God and religion, were considered the new pornography. This was one of the most extreme distortions in the text, and it served a very important purpose. In the “brave new world”, as John so called it, babies were not birthed naturally, but rather grown in bottles. By getting rid of the family unit and completely preparing the child for life in a different way, the individual was void of any bonds with others, and those important emotions such as love, compassion, and loss. The children were conditioned from the moment they could crawl, to love books or stand the heat - all in preparation for the work life ahead. Everything was done to keep them enslaved and happy in this unfeeling, immoral society. So, since the goal of this society was to boost productivity and efficiency, which were the keys to happiness, there was no room for the family unit. Typically, people in our real-life society would consider such people work-a-holics and most people who live this way, say, at the end of their lives, that they regret not having spent more time with their family and so much time vainly spent working for mortal riches. Therefore, eliminate the problem of having a family, as well as commitment, loyalty, and responsibility, which the lack of