For starters this is a book about many characters in a futuristic society that are controlled by the society. They are always watched and they never really question if this is the way they should live. They live and get the jobs they are picked and they live by the rules of the society. The book was written by Aldous Huxley and it is a book based upon the society in the book but also can be seen as our society today. There are many questions that make you think hard and long about today’s society and how it is more advanced and how far it will go, but nobody what the future has in store for us. After reading “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley it made me think about our society and how society has advanced so much in just a short amount
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Parts of “Brave New World” are very familiar, Huxley may have it in as a description or way of society he was living in, but it potentially holds even more similarities now. Huxley took a logical step into the future based on the continued societal focus on economic growth, both personally and as a society (artifice, 2014). Huxley thought a lot about where this step of more future things would take us, and how we are there in many ways. People are living with catchy phrases that hold their belief in the capitalist and consumerist way of living and is ending up being enforced by society’s rulers. The phrase “Ending is better than mending” is one of the most repeated of these, encouraging people not to fix something that’s broken, but to buy a whole new product …show more content…
If you buy a pair of jeans for instance and the thread holding the jeans together falls apart within a week, will you ever fix it? “Brave New World” references to the expensive games that the higher classes have engineered in order to extract more money from consumers. One character thinks it is a joke at the idea that all people used to need for fun was a ball and a net, (huxley, 1998) when they’ve created much more elaborate entertainments that require consistent consumerism. Even games that used just a ball and net now need so much more, with a new shirt every season, football has become a profitable business. Likewise, electronic entertainment needs constant updates: you buy a console and each game that looks good, then there’s downloadable content to pay for, and don’t forget about an online subscription on top of it all (artifice, 2014). In Brave New World there is the big distinction between public and private. Brave New World, relationships are out in the open and nothing is really hidden. Everybody knows everybody else’s business, though not in the neighborhood gossip way (huxley, 1998). It’s normal to discuss sexual encounters like TV shows or with other people or with
Parts of “Brave New World” are very familiar, Huxley may have it in as a description or way of society he was living in, but it potentially holds even more similarities now. Huxley took a logical step into the future based on the continued societal focus on economic growth, both personally and as a society (artifice, 2014). Huxley thought a lot about where this step of more future things would take us, and how we are there in many ways. People are living with catchy phrases that hold their belief in the capitalist and consumerist way of living and is ending up being enforced by society’s rulers. The phrase “Ending is better than mending” is one of the most repeated of these, encouraging people not to fix something that’s broken, but to buy a whole new product …show more content…
If you buy a pair of jeans for instance and the thread holding the jeans together falls apart within a week, will you ever fix it? “Brave New World” references to the expensive games that the higher classes have engineered in order to extract more money from consumers. One character thinks it is a joke at the idea that all people used to need for fun was a ball and a net, (huxley, 1998) when they’ve created much more elaborate entertainments that require consistent consumerism. Even games that used just a ball and net now need so much more, with a new shirt every season, football has become a profitable business. Likewise, electronic entertainment needs constant updates: you buy a console and each game that looks good, then there’s downloadable content to pay for, and don’t forget about an online subscription on top of it all (artifice, 2014). In Brave New World there is the big distinction between public and private. Brave New World, relationships are out in the open and nothing is really hidden. Everybody knows everybody else’s business, though not in the neighborhood gossip way (huxley, 1998). It’s normal to discuss sexual encounters like TV shows or with other people or with