Sense Of Individuality In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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In Aldous Huxley novel “Brave New World” there is a sense of stability that the society has. Due to technology, there is no such need for individuality , personal freedom and other freedoms we have as humans beings.They’ve created a world where there is no taste of independence, but rather a sense of unity and belonging that everyone desires, to fit in and to be blooming with happiness. Belonging to one another and to enjoy life doesn 't seem so bad. Huxley manage to give us a taste of what the life in the world state it 's pretty obvious how different everything is to our world. The perfect utopia but is it really worth the big hype of unity and world stability or is it just a load of crap that forbids individualism?

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Being born in test tubes, being conditioned to basically train a child how to think. The citizens also have caste systems, with lower class people, but that 's okay, they have no recognition to this.I find it difficult to think of the people, mindless and shallow concerned about looks, and not being to form romantic relations. I feel that romantic relationship are needed, it nice to feel loved. Monogamy is also a taboo in the society that is ridiculed and avoided, sex isn 't used in a way to procreated but to mess around with others and have no real emotions connected into it. John understood the feeling of this emotions and connection because he lived outside of the world state. He was aware of how wrong the this was, it 's not much he could have done. They was no way of change, it would not be possible when the controller was still around. Family is a very big issue for me i don 't know what i 'd do without my family, or to not have the foundation that i have built over time. For Lenina it wouldn’t be seem that way, she was born and raised in a facility with not mother or father figure to help you threw your life. She would find this weird and strange just as she thought when she went to the reservation. Its wrong to take away the structure of family and intimacy away is not worth having a thriving society when you can 't have closed loved one,mother, father, lover? It doesn 't seem to have an appeal …show more content…
In the beginning they show us how the world state manges sadness, by taking Soma. Soma is a drug that relaxes you to believe that everything is alright. It allows them to experience happiness when you 're feeling blue. It’s really not healthy to take drugs that make you forget you real emotions, really because those are nature feeling. The idea of this seem real great, to live life without pain seem fucking cool. But I think what makes us human the most are feelings of sadness and the despair of loneliness that we tend to get. We overcome these things and it 's really great how we do that, how we can break down when death occurs to a loved one or getting physically injured, having a feeling process and being afraid of pain, is pain but it worth it. It helps us grow, allowing us to grow into something great. Life is about the high and the lows, it 's different to every person but I’d rather live in a world where I can cry and be confused, angry, feel love. John was a great example, he experienced loneliness and was rejected from both the reservation and World state. He showed basic human emotions he wasn 't afraid to grieve and become angry he was letting his emotions run wild, while this happens the citizen were intrigued and wanted to feel what he was going threw, but they made it into another game. John tried to change the people, to think for

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