The Ugly Utopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) At the end, John says "I ate civilization. It poisoned me"(Huxley 255). The dystopian society refers to the anti-utopian one. It symbolizes an ugly place in which the government controls everything and people have no freedom to think or create. The society is also controlled by technology and science. In a dystopian society people are also afraid of the outside society. In addition, dystopian society is a hierarchical society in which there is a division between classes ruled by the upper class who educates the citizens to worship the country and its government attempt to convince them that this is the best life ever. Dystopia is "an imagined place or state in which everything
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It depends on the reader's point of view. Although its inhabitants are safe and secure from worries, crimes, poverty and diseases, they have other problems like there is no freedom of expression or creativity. Here, it will be discussed as a dystopian novel that "presents the contradictory idea of a Utopia, a perfect world" ("Brave New World by…") and sets six hundred years in the future. Its society lacks emotions, love, beauty and strong relationships. The novel "begins as a parody of HG Wells Utopia vision" (Antony). It is said that Wells' optimistic view of the future gives Huxley an inspiration to write a parody of this view. In Huxley's civilized society, humans have come across all scientific inquiries. They are able to control everything in the society starting from aging to death. They have a full control over the persons they create to make them free from diseases and pain. This gives the controllers a great power. This novel explains how humans use their intelligence to control each and everything in the society. "writing a novel about the future — on the horror of the Wellsian Utopia and a revolt against it" ("Brave New World at 75") as Huxley informs one of the
It depends on the reader's point of view. Although its inhabitants are safe and secure from worries, crimes, poverty and diseases, they have other problems like there is no freedom of expression or creativity. Here, it will be discussed as a dystopian novel that "presents the contradictory idea of a Utopia, a perfect world" ("Brave New World by…") and sets six hundred years in the future. Its society lacks emotions, love, beauty and strong relationships. The novel "begins as a parody of HG Wells Utopia vision" (Antony). It is said that Wells' optimistic view of the future gives Huxley an inspiration to write a parody of this view. In Huxley's civilized society, humans have come across all scientific inquiries. They are able to control everything in the society starting from aging to death. They have a full control over the persons they create to make them free from diseases and pain. This gives the controllers a great power. This novel explains how humans use their intelligence to control each and everything in the society. "writing a novel about the future — on the horror of the Wellsian Utopia and a revolt against it" ("Brave New World at 75") as Huxley informs one of the