Aldous Huxley

In Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley the narrator describes a future world state, and in this society people are conditioned and influenced from the minute they’re created to the minute they die. In this 'Brave New World ', the population is parted into five main castes- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilons, with the Alphas being the highest and Epsilons the lowest. When it comes to the main characters in this novel, there is a pretty wide variation of who belongs to what caste.…

Aldous Huxley foreshadows the dangers of communal identity and conformist behavior in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley creates an experiment within the World State, controlling factors such as birth in a test tube, predestined factions, color of clothes, sanitation and the rationing of soma. He casts his characters as the variables in the experiment, utilizing the outsider John, the neglected Bernard, and the indoctrinated Lenina to examine their responses to the World State. As every…

types, misfits and followers. A follower can be someone who goes with the flow of society and sticks to the norms of society. A misfit is an abnormality in society that can be threatening to the balance of society. In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, misfits clearly threaten society. The misfits in Brave New World are, John the Savage, Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx. These characters show signs of being outcasts in society. John is clearly a threat to society but he is unable to…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World takes place in what some would call a futuristic dystopia, one that seems cold and sterile, and whose inhabitants are alien to ourselves. Their society is succinctly described by their world motto: “Community, Identity, Stability”. The world that Huxley depicts is one that has completely abandoned many of the things that we consider to be essential to our humanity in favor a stable civilization in which everyone is happy. As a result, their perception of community…

Values of a Society In the book “Brave New World” Aldous Huxley depicts a world where the humans are breed in a lab and are placed into different groups depending on what chemicals were washed over the still developing, fertilized egg in the lab. No matter what group these people are put into they all are given basic guidelines to live by, those values include community, identity, and stability. In the story the reader can visualize the sense of community that the people live by, for example,…

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…

1984, by George Orwell is about a futuristic Utopian society in which the government controls every aspect of their citizens lives. Whereas in Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, he writes about a society that is also controlled completely by their government, but with much more leeway. Through reading these books, it is much easier to visualize Brave New World as a society that that has the possibility of flourishing, even if everything they do is monitored. It is a society that most people…

of utopianism or some particular eutopia” (3). Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World falls under this genre. It depicts a society in which throws conventional morals out the window and citizens finds happiness through drugs and constant entertainment. Huxley’s novel partially takes inspiration by current events (pre world war two) and problems, but, also satirizes of Plato’s Republic. The similarities between the two are obvious, the difference is Huxley over-exaggerates…

an astonishing speed. However, to our shock, AlphaGo won the battle by 4 to 1. This incident made us fear that the artificial intelligence could threaten our world in the acting areas of humankind. If the story comes true, what will be of us? Aldous Huxley, an ingenious British novelist, answers that…

falling victim to technology instead of controlling it (Among The Ruins). Huxley uses sarcasms to describe what is happening in the 1930’s with respect to the direction of science and the formation of moral ideas. Huxley’s fear of masses and wanting to do something to warn the masses is why he wrote (Aldous Huxley). He felt that the things that actually made people happy were inferior to the culture that he respected (Aldous Huxley). By understanding the authors’ points of view during the…