Aldous Huxley

“One believes things because one has conditioned to believe them,” (Huxley 158). The constant growth of technology and science is prevalent all throughout Brave New World which has caused much destruction for the citizens of World State. Advancement of technology comes off as an amazing scientific achievement but a technology and science based utopia is not a utopia, but rather the opposite. Brave New World is dominated by government with a large amount of power due to science which will later…

Lastly, how is one considered human when there is no such thing as being a mother or a father and experiencing the birth of ones own children. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World there is a civilization that is said to be a perfect world, but in this utopia none of these emotions ever existed. The people in this perfect world are completely unaware of what it is like to have feelings for anything or…

minds, and possibly, the purpose of our own individual human lives. For this reason, entertainment and pleasure, both renowned concepts in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, exist to dismiss the weight of responsibility off of one’s shoulders and to make us forget, even if it is just for a moment. George Orwell, author of dystopian novel 1984, and Aldous Huxley both have clarity and truth in their predictions of the conditions of our future world, but, Huxley’s side is more valid due to the…

Postman dramatically establishes his premise through a comparison of two notable literary authors George Orwell and Aldous Huxley and their dark prophesies of the evolution of man’s attitudes. Postman illustrates Huxley’s forewarnings through the phenomenon of television. Examples by…

Brave New World: What makes our Society more in Common with Brave New World? In my own understanding of this novel titled “Brave New World” written by Aldous Huxley. I will say its contents and the characters discussed have a lot in common with our society. In comparison, the Director of the Hatchery Conditioning portray the character of our governments, all staff working in the conditioning department represent our so called scientist, while all the babies cultured represent the citizens of…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World reveals that altering nature through science leads to the loss of humanity and individuality. Huxley expresses this idea through setting, conflict and symbolism. The novel takes place in a totalitarian society where the citizens are born through cloning therefore this society lacks individuality as everyone is the same. The main character Bernard Marx deals with a continuous conflict throughout the whole story; how to fit in with his fellow class of alphas however…

‘good people’, but for a religion to have it’s effects, it needs an institution. It takes a village to raise a child, and so it takes a religious dogma to breed toxic mindsets. Fordianism is that institution, and in Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley uses the psudeoreligion Fordianism to emphasize the need for human kind to have a sense of purpose, and how that can be taken advantage of and satirized in today’s religious culture . Ford is the dominant practice and praised deity in the…

Government Control Brave New World, a novel written by Aldous Huxley, is a satirization of an all-powerful government and a portrayal of how new technologies could be used to alter facts. A similar novel is 1984 by George Orwell where the reader is shown the physical and psychological effects of totalitarianism and brutal political authority. Both author’s books were written after Stalin’s Soviet Union (USSR) began, and Huxley and Orwell heard of the cruelty happening in the fifteen countries…

Power is like a knife. A knife in proper hands can create pieces of culinary art, however, a knife in cruel hands only creates destruction. Power is misused in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William Shakespeare’s Richard III and both literary works demonstrate the same consequences. Power destroys morality within the abuser and society. This exploitation of power will also lead to discontentment among the people. Maltreated power will lead to the manipulation of a person’s actions,…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World imagines a stark utopia—one that defies expectations and reveals the sinister byproducts of a society powered by efficiency and stability. The novel focuses around three main characters—John, Bernard, and Lenina—whose contrasts communicate important messages about human nature. Written two years after the great American stock market crash of 1929, Brave New World aims to illustrate the effects of technology on social structure. Huxley exposes a more serious…