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    but it is a society that others long to live in. In comparison, the society found in Brave New World is remarkably innovative technologically; however, the society itself is stagnant. There is no promotion of individualism, creativity, or freedom. Although, most of the citizens do not let that characterize their home as a dystopia because it is all they know. There can be similarities drawn between the Brave New World society and the direction American society is changing; however, the…

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    The title of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is ironically a quote from another author. However, said author is the great Shakespeare. Huxley uses a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a masterful way. John the Savage quotes the play’s line “O brave new world that has such people in it” (139). This simple phrase is not only a driving factor of the novel, but a philosophical adventure. John the Savage says these lines at first with hope and enthusiasm. His ideal world is at his hands, and he…

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    In the first chapter of the novel, the author introduces to the reader the process of how the humans are made in Utopia. The improvement of science and technology made it possible to create life. By using the new improved science and of course technology, Utopia can produce humans by just one single ovary that makes thousands of identical people. Since everyone are similar in appearance, belief and relations, they are able to live in this perfect agreement with each other. The author uses two…

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    their literary works. In the novels 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the themes of gender inequality and oppression of women are expressed through the feminist literary theory. In general, feminism explores women’s roles in society and promotes…

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    government gradually begins to take over the lives of people like that in Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World depicts a futuristic society that utilizes science to control the lives of mostly everybody by categorizing them into specific castes. The author’s vision of a utopian society in his novel is relatively, but not entirely, close to modern American society. Although Huxley published Brave New World in 1932, his vision of the future society frightens people of the idea…

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    Huxley’s Brave New World, technology is used to shape what is described to be a utopia- a place without war, bloodshed, or social instability. However, this utopia is false, a sham of a society that oppresses its citizens while claiming it is for the people’s own good. A social caste that is engineered and impressed upon every individual from birth exists to keep people in place. Technology is twisted and warped as a dastardly effective tool in molding and suppressing the populace of Huxley’s…

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    Brave New World Analysis

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    Bernard is begging Mustapha Mond not to exile him to an island. Mond is not very pleased with his begging and has him taken away to be gassed with vaporized soma. Bernard is taken out of the room by three men while sobbing, kicking, and screaming. The World Controller goes onto say that Bernard and Hemholtz will meet the most interesting people that do not fit into society either and that it is much better than death. Mond continues the conversation by asking what island they would like to be…

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    Period 5 26 October 2015 Brave New World Is your life a lie? Have you been fooled into thinking our lives are perfect? This book is called Brave New World written by the wide mind of Aldous Huxley. Huxley was born 1894 and passed during 1963, he lived in Surrey, England. He lived in a time where the words that make up the dozens of pages forming his book were absolutely preposterous to even imagine, but that has changed. Tenth graders should be able to read Brave New World because of its deeper…

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    aspect in everyday life, everywhere around it is being used in someway. Although it was originally used to provide news and information, now it is mainly used for entertainment. In the World State, media is used to construct the people into the way they need to be. They use different forms of media,in a more therapeutic way, such as Hypnopaedia, Feelies and Synthetic Music. All over the world media is one of the biggest influences in people’s lives, The average child in America witnesses over…

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    In the novel, Brave New World, a specific character by the name of Bernard Marx is portrayed with the characterization of Bernard's anti-heroism and dynamic growth. For instance “Bernards physique was hardly than that of an average gamma. He stood eight centimeters short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion. Contact with his members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy” (64). Bernard’s mentality haunts him for the rest of the book,…

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