Persuasive Essay On Brave New World

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In the book “Brave New World” A. Huxley creates a civilization build by the motto “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY”, resonating socialist ideas that were marching throughout the entire world in the 30 's. His inspiration might have been the famous french phrase: “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality” which sounds similar but opposes to what he creates in his famous book. By being sarcastic Huxley ironically judges the communist philosophies in his book as a repulse to the Marxism that enclosed him in the gap between the second World Wars, and before. By the second paragraph the readers can realize that there is more to come from the brave new world; as they are introduced to the fear of A. Huxley who foresees a dark side for the continuously evolving …show more content…
The population of this dystopian society is controlled by genetic mutation, all citizens being created by the government itself, which determines and estimates what type of civilians are needed in order to preserve the stability of their 'community '. Also, the institution of this so called government is used to cultivate the five types of citizens: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons; each have a predetermined occupation/ job in the society and they a modeled to like and dislike certain characteristics of life in order to benefit the economy. For example, Gammas are to dislike books because there is no need for them to spend their time in something that does not benefit to their work force, also they are to hate flowers but to enjoy country sports in order to expand the consumption of certain products and services while avoiding to leave the city and dislike nature so that they can focus at their daily

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