Brave New World by Aldous Huxley conveys a civilization that is stripped of all humanity by restricting people of their free will. The methods of doing this is not a set of rules but a way of life that is instilled in the minds of all citizens since their birth. In the dystopian civilization of the World State social control is intertwined in every aspect of life which corrupts society and endangers the individual thinker.
The citizens of the World State are ordained to believe that they each have a confined role in the social strata and cannot jeopardize their assigned position for fear of punishment. The World State’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 1). In order to execute these ideals the World State, “engineers citizens …show more content…
To pursue their ultimate goal of obtaining absolute power the controllers (elite leaders) have expanded their authority beyond the confines of the State. The Native American Savage Reservation is a synecdoche of a pre-World State society. It is described as a “reservation containing 60,000 Indians [that] preserves viviparous life: marriage, families, religion, extinct languages, infectious disease, and priests” (Bloom). It is a safe haven for people of an old world. The life style of the reservation negates all the principles of the World State. In the novel Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne go to visit the New Mexico reservation. Lenina, being the conditioned model citizen of the State, describes the place as “very queer” (107) and “too awful” (Huxley 117). In her eyes it is seen as a place of disgust and chaos. The reservation is considered a primitive outside world, however, it is not the place of solitude that it might seem. Though the Indians are free to practice their own traditions they still have not escaped the authorities’ grasp. The reservation is isolated by the government where they do not receive outside food, medicine or aid of any kind. The leaders also placed restrictions that make it difficult for average citizens to enter and Indians to leave. One Indian managed to escape the reservation with Bernard and because his views were so different he was faced …show more content…
John was born into the native civilization, however, his mother was a former citizen of the State but was marooned on the reservation. Because John is not fully Indian or fully citizen he is rejected by both “savage” culture and “civilized” culture making him the ultimate pariah. Growing up in isolation for who he is, John travels with Bernard back to civilization seeking refuge and a new place to start over. When he experiences the new world, “He is highly uncomfortable in the emotionless and intellectually vacuous utopia” (Sova). He finds their conformity appalling and rejects their unethical values. He becomes so infuriated with their way of life that he causes a spectacle at the hospital by throwing away soma and exclaiming, "Don’t you want to be free and men? Don’t you even understand what manhood and freedom are?” (Huxley 213). Because of this unorthodox out lash of rebellion John is arrested and taken to Mustapha Mond, one of the World Controllers. They discuss old tradition, religion, books, and specifically Shakespeare. Mond explains that the government has banned all literature in order to increase consumerism for their own stability. John wishes to leave but he is seen as “exotic” and “treated as a curiosity” by the people and because of this he is denied his independence (Sova). John wishes to live in solitude in a lighthouse but society continues to force
The citizens of the World State are ordained to believe that they each have a confined role in the social strata and cannot jeopardize their assigned position for fear of punishment. The World State’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 1). In order to execute these ideals the World State, “engineers citizens …show more content…
To pursue their ultimate goal of obtaining absolute power the controllers (elite leaders) have expanded their authority beyond the confines of the State. The Native American Savage Reservation is a synecdoche of a pre-World State society. It is described as a “reservation containing 60,000 Indians [that] preserves viviparous life: marriage, families, religion, extinct languages, infectious disease, and priests” (Bloom). It is a safe haven for people of an old world. The life style of the reservation negates all the principles of the World State. In the novel Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne go to visit the New Mexico reservation. Lenina, being the conditioned model citizen of the State, describes the place as “very queer” (107) and “too awful” (Huxley 117). In her eyes it is seen as a place of disgust and chaos. The reservation is considered a primitive outside world, however, it is not the place of solitude that it might seem. Though the Indians are free to practice their own traditions they still have not escaped the authorities’ grasp. The reservation is isolated by the government where they do not receive outside food, medicine or aid of any kind. The leaders also placed restrictions that make it difficult for average citizens to enter and Indians to leave. One Indian managed to escape the reservation with Bernard and because his views were so different he was faced …show more content…
John was born into the native civilization, however, his mother was a former citizen of the State but was marooned on the reservation. Because John is not fully Indian or fully citizen he is rejected by both “savage” culture and “civilized” culture making him the ultimate pariah. Growing up in isolation for who he is, John travels with Bernard back to civilization seeking refuge and a new place to start over. When he experiences the new world, “He is highly uncomfortable in the emotionless and intellectually vacuous utopia” (Sova). He finds their conformity appalling and rejects their unethical values. He becomes so infuriated with their way of life that he causes a spectacle at the hospital by throwing away soma and exclaiming, "Don’t you want to be free and men? Don’t you even understand what manhood and freedom are?” (Huxley 213). Because of this unorthodox out lash of rebellion John is arrested and taken to Mustapha Mond, one of the World Controllers. They discuss old tradition, religion, books, and specifically Shakespeare. Mond explains that the government has banned all literature in order to increase consumerism for their own stability. John wishes to leave but he is seen as “exotic” and “treated as a curiosity” by the people and because of this he is denied his independence (Sova). John wishes to live in solitude in a lighthouse but society continues to force