Persuasive Speech Brave New World

Good morning/good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Aldous Huxley, the author of the futuristic dystopian novel “Brave New World” is innocent in rightfully challenging the idea of a modern utopia. He invites the reader to challenge the ideal society as his writing is a cautionary tale and a warning to people that humanity may transform from being free independent people to slaves to our own greediness and society. “Brave New World” is a disturbing, loveless world and Huxley shows this through his writing, tapping into themes such as eugenics, behavioral conditioning, the use of advanced technology to control an entire society and showing an extreme but honest version of today’s economic standards. Huxley doesn’t mean to say that people would be happier if they were all genetically modified, nor …show more content…
Instead Huxley challenges the idea that if people had their family, freedom, compassion, and love taken from them and instead be given technology, drugs and sex used as escapism, they would be happy and a state of equilibrium would be brought into the world, as they wouldn’t know any better.
Huxley’s agenda is to warn the reader of technological utopianism and how people can become victims of propaganda and misinformation through government and social conditioning. In “Brave New World” humans are bred in test tubes and are all created for a specific reason, with their future already set out in front of them. Alpha castes are intelligent and have professional careers, whereas the lower castes are far less intelligent and do manual labor, all due to having oxygen deprived from them during their fetal stage. The people