Utopia In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

The book, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is part of the genre of Utopian Literature. A utopia can best be defined as an imagined place in which everything is perfect. The first book of Utopian Literature is Sir Thomas More’s novel, Utopia. Before, Brave New World had been published, many novels were written about totalitarian societies and dystopias where everything is far from perfect. A utopia or dystopia can both be used interchangeably to describe Brave New World. In this futuristic society, people are born from identical embryos in bottles and conditioned to remove everything that makes them human such as desires, need for human relationships, and emotions. They are also put into different social classes, starting from Alpha, Betta, …show more content…
Soma can also be considered as a religion to the citizens because many people praise it for its power to let the user escape any moment of dissatisfaction instantly. Bernard is a member of the upper class, or Alpha. However, his size fails to fit the Alpha male description. Bernard also holds different beliefs than the society that he lives in. He invites another member of his class, Lenina, to come with him to the Reservation in New Mexico. The Reservation is a place where native people live but don’t abide by the rules of society. At the Reservation, Lenina and Bernard see people who are aging, and they are astonished because that’s something they’ve never seen in the World State. They also meet a man named John who was raised on the Reservation, and later finds out that he is the son of the Director. John tells Bernard that he is very eager to see the World State, and that his mother has told him so much about it. Bernard then decides to take John and Linda back home with him. While the director is waiting to exile Bernard for being different than others, the director is so ashamed from seeing his son, and being called a “father,” he