Society Depicted In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Brave New World is a fascinating book that gives us a particular perspective of life as we know it. Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley, was Aldous Huxley’s intent too far ahead of his time or was he just simply out of his own mind. For instance, BNW (Brave New World) shows us the way humans are treated and their wealth and ranks in this community. Alongside wealth, ranks, and fairness; this essay will interpret the way humans amongst this book are treated, analyzed, and represented. Brave New World is a society where there are different ranks, living styles, and even human production. By human production, yes, processing DNA to result in refined humans. This procedure is far-fetched in the U.S.; however, someone in our world today has possibly tried to clone humans before. Taking a look at this society, refined humans, abstract technology, and even world leadership; this society overall has the technology that only one scientist could ever dream of having. This book goes on about the ranks and the way some are treated and if they deserve to be treated better. Acknowledging the perspective of how unordinary this book truly is; for instance, the word Mother is a curse word to them. Now upon these humans being modified and taught otherwise, these abstract humans are phenomenally better in some ways. For instance, …show more content…
These humans are represented as robotic figures. Now, this is a stretch, but looking at what is limited throughout this society; not being able to do what you like, only listening to what you are told to do, living under certain conditions given to you, and much more; this society is fully corrupted. These humans are only seen as no more than a piece of machinery that can think like a human. These humans are not treated any better than machinery. These humans have no say. These humans are only useful to this society and this society

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