Utopia And Dystopia In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

A countless, yet oblivious, amount of people like to believe that the government does not control us or discretely watch our every move. The terms Utopia and Dystopia have been used for hundreds of years. The world we know today is filled with murderers, rapist, and drug dealers. Most of the population does not like the way the world has become, so the public seeks to find what one would call a “Utopia”. Everyone has their own dreams of a perfect society, whether it is in the mountains or on the beach. Aldous Huxley has his own thought of what life would be like in the future, since the thought of a perfect world was so common around the time he was alive, he created his own “New World”. Instead of making an “imaginary” world, he created a story about what his predictions …show more content…
Huxley called it, the Brave New World. Starting off with the first paragraph in the book, “Community, Identity, Stability” was one of the first things spoken of. People of the World State are taught about specific things that are practically implanted into their brains from the start. It is called “Hypnopædia”, and the way the rulers of the World State control the civilians with hypnopædia is when they are sleeping, they speak it in their ear multiple times a night through a pillow everyone sleeps on. That is how all the citizens learned “Community, Identity, Stability”, it is what everyone follows. These three words are a sign over the Central London Hatchery, where the story first takes place. “Community” means that people must work together to have the greatest amount of happiness for a society as a whole. “Identity” is the artificial implanted ideas that some people are alpha, betas, gammas and so on. Each civilian is, and should be, happy with themselves and where they stand in the society. The final part of the slogan is