Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Exposes the Flaws of Society Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World criticizes Huxley’s society while foreshadowing present-day society. Looking at today’s society, one could find the same issues as existed before: conditioning, soma, and a one world government at work. In Brave New World citizens undergo conditioning as children in order to never experience any emotional pain, to love the lives they live, and to want nothing less, nothing more, so that they are easier to control,…

Happiness can be deceiving. This deceit can sometimes be due to an unawareness of the truth. In some cases people are so blindsided by the happiness of their situation that the truth can become obscured. As seen in both Brave New World by Aldous Huxely and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the truth always finds a way to prevail. In these novels, the government does everything it possibly can to ensure that the people stay happy, whether that is through hiding the truth or merely suppressing it.…

system used to control the people in a society. This is clearly evident in the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. This book is a dystopian novel that focuses on the direction the world is headed in. Set in the year 2540, Huxley predicts that technological advancements will be used to create a consumeristic, obedient, and ideal society of people with complete harmony. In his novel, Huxley warns of the dangers of a government who controls all aspects of people's life. In Brave New World,…

What does it take to sustain control in a society? If nobody is aware and willing to step up against the problems and inconsistencies occurring, the corrupt nature will persist. In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley dramatically distorts the reality of society by inhibiting procreation through traditional means, mindless consumption of soma, and endorsing the motto “Community, Identity, Stability,” which ultimately leads the reader to believe the World-State will never be overthrown. A…

A sensational dramatist and poet in addition to the son of the town bailiff, William Shakespeare had grown to become one of the most universally-known figures, whose thought-invoking plays and sonnets have enraptured the minds of people and continue to do so even to this day. While growing up in the town of Stratford Upon Avon in a household of ___, his father’s prominent position allowed him to have an education in the local grammar school. There, Shakespeare was taught Latin, a skill that was…

Within all people are some similar qualities and yet, every person remains unique. Although Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, a modern dystopian novel, and William Golding, in Lord of the Flies, a modern dystopian novel, develop similar characters with John the Savage and Simon, they differ in the portrayal of a theme. Huxley’s John the Savage and Golding’s Simon are similar in their demonstration in Christ-figure qualities, while the two authors convey the theme of being captured or limited.…

Censorship, defined as the “suppression of ideas and information that certain persons— individuals, groups or government officials—find objectionable or dangerous,” by the American Library Association, occurs every day. Many people think of censorship as a tool utilized by governments to control their citizens, but it occurs much more frequently than that. What people never realize is that the everyday scrutiny and judgement that we place on each other and our ideas is just as if not more…

The concept of home can be portrayed as a physical place or a state of mind, but either form will have a considerable impact on the individual of which it influences. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s physical departure from Malpais does not serve to diminish the traditional values that he adopts from his home while he finds the values in the World State immoral and revolting, portraying that two juxtaposing sets of values may not be able to exist together. Although John is born to…

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley deals with the theme of fate vs free will . The author shows that it is only through struggle that one can find the meaning they search for. This idea is illustrated in Brave new world by Aldous Huxley through the settings, characters and symbols. The book takes place in a futuristic city filled with technological devices where the state controls the destiny of individuals,by stripping individuals of their identity. The characters John a…

” (Huxley, 70). Helmholtz finds himself disheartened with the content most people in the society write about, which is empty and not thought-provoking. He wants to make words “pierce” a person, and he wishes to experience a feeling of pride after reading his works. Helmholtz also illustrates his dismay for the lack of higher learning when he says again to Bernard, “Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?” (Huxley,…