Humanity In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is based around an Utopian society where humans are ruled by the government of London, England. The top ten world controllers rule everyone’s life for a complete perfect “new world”, with no war and where everyone belongs to everyone sexually. At young ages children are taught that sexual promiscuity is normal when they consume the drug soma which having a major impact on humans and qualities they will fail to develop when they age. Promiscuity is a main contribution to why young people lack traits of humanity in the new world today. Children in the brave new world are pressured into sex games and will lack many qualities of humanity when they age. Children are being brainwashed into sex games everyday while the nurse says,“ Its just that this little boy seems very reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play.” (30) Children in the new world are …show more content…
The young children, Lenina and the rest of the main characters in the new world besides John lose all the universal qualities. Lacking individuality Lenina and the kids will not develop their own sense of self and character along with their own emotions. Since being told what to do they will continue to take soma and continue in sexual relations with this leading to delayed gratification, which does not exist in the new world. John is trying to influence people in the new world with Shakespeare. He is influencing people to use critical thinking skills to think outside the box and not what the controllers are telling them to think. Comparing and contrasting with the people in England versus America, humans are very likely to lose the same qualities of humanity as the people in the new world. They are in danger because in todays society many people turn to cults and other groups to fulfill their desire to belong. Into doing this they often lose their sense of self and self