Creativity In Brave New World Essay

Imagine a world in which everything is controlled by the government and babies are predestined for a certain life with no choice. This is the picture that Aldous Huxley paints in his dystopian novel, Brave New World. The novel takes place in the World State in the year A.F. 632. In the World State, babies are artificially manipulated and conditioned for certain roles or jobs. I would not want to live in the brave new world described in the novel because of the lack of freedom and the cruel use of science. In the brave new world, there is very little freedom to be unique, mainly through bans on religion and creativity. The effect that this lack of creativity has on people is most obvious on John, who wasn’t conditioned to be passive to this style of living. In a conversation with World Controller Mond, John says “but I don’t want comfort. I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin” (17,240). John denounces the sterile society that is the brave new world, he believes that not having these things that he listed makes life miserable. I agree with John in that the brave new world attempts to be “perfect” in the wrong way, and instead becomes a dystopia. According to Mond, “God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and …show more content…
I believe that life in a society like the one in the novel is so wrong, that life wouldn’t be worth living. The higher castes in the novel were conditioned in a way that they see nothing wrong with the bokanovsky process, and they just sat idly and believed everything is okay. At the same time, the lower castes were artificially modified to be physically and mentally inferior to the upper castes to avoid an uprising. Essentially, all the people in the novel were conditioned and modified to either blindly enjoy, or accept their world, when in reality, it’s a terrible place to live