A Brave New World Dystopian Analysis

Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, presents a vivid and cynical image of a corrupt government and warns its readers of the possibilities that the current society could become. In the 1931 story, the “new world” depicts a morbid mass addiction to a pleasure-inducing drug called soma. A complete loss of individuality, as every normal citizen is created in a lab through a process called “bokonivskation” and the intolerance of any individual’s negative feelings about the government. The apocalyptic novel clarifies the journey inside a futuristic London through the eyes of a rebellious citizen and a curious primitive Indian as they expose the flaws in the new and unlawful government. Brave New World’s dystopian society portrays various …show more content…
Because no one is unique in the story, individual thoughts and creativity are nonexistent. An excerpt from an article by Alex Burt indicates, “When people lose the all important feeling of individuality, they forget about their potential as a human being. They lose sight of their passions and fall short of realizing their true calling in life” (1) delineates the issues with a loss of uniqueness. No individual would have an original expressive thought consequently causing the world to become boring and dull. Society would be in a huge state of depression with no exciting ideas. People would lose the motivation to continue their research, job, or hobbies precipitating a huge loss in production and discoveries - our world would not move forward. A beginning to loss of individuality today is found in social media, “On Facebook, every user tries to make their profile stand out as much as possible, and being ‘like everyone else’ has turned into a stigma” (Witzig 2). Social media is only a start to the lack in uniqueness among the world. Everyone trying to fit in with one another on this online network has caused most people to focus and appreciate other people’s lives rather than appreciating their own and expressing their own creative thoughts. Social media is triggering individuals to try to set a certain image for others which has taken a toll on their personal integrity. The loss of …show more content…
Throughout the novel, society’s main focus in their lives is their occupation, “the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (Huxley 1). The population’s primary expectation is to maintain a productive and hard-working body to form a perfect rewarding society. The motto includes two significant focuses: community and stability. “Community” is the formation of the citizens to work as fruitful and long as possible to produce the most joy for everyone as a whole. “Stability” is the government’s view of having a perfect, peaceful beneficial society for the public. All of these are made possible with the artificial man-made “identity” of everyone connecting to the topic of loss of uniqueness. An abuse of commodification is often seen today and is unsatisfactory for the majority, “The growth in casual employment… represents a shift back towards treating labour as pure commodity, with a corresponding widespread perception amongst casual workers of losses affecting their control of their time, their ability to earn a living income, their capacity to reproduce or support dependents, their voice, the respect they are given at work and their ability to organise collectively” (Pocock 6). The issue of overemployment is already among the world - it is causing only negative feelings for a large portion of today’s society. In order