Technological Advancements In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

Fear can numb a person. It can make one live a deluded reality, facing more trouble avoiding their fears rather than obtaining what they desire. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley races past a comfort-driven ideal of life to the reality of living with no values. Technology within society demoralizes factors that make one human, and the divisions within the population isolate each individual. This aids in the development of underlying tones centered around the meaning of life and the incapability of both happiness and truth. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World illustrates a prominent use of technological advances, a mandatory division of people and underlying cautionary tones, which work together to create a dystopic nature within the novel. The futuristic era of the novel brings with it several technological advancements all of which largely control and manipulate the inhabitants of the nation. Brave New World has a society that lingers past the traditional upbringing of children. Major technological improvements allow the State to control childbirth as well as the minds of the infants, which essentially creates the world …show more content…
The technology underlines the irrational prospect of human life. Divisions within the novel isolate each individual to the desperation of belonging, and the elemental cautionary tones warns the reader of the tragedies associated with comfort and happiness. Ultimately, that which one feels, that which one makes, and that where one belongs is what makes one human. Thus, the citizens of Huxley’s disguised dystopic State are simply extensions of robots: tailored in a factory, programmed as though they are machines and not given an option to be anything other than what they were designed to be. Despite the disingenuous views, even the most exquisite paradises can be surrounded by deafening