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    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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    government, all which eventually failed due to the fact that complete perfection cannot be achieved as long as there is free will. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a world that has rid it’s society of free will through test tube births and childhood conditioning. In the beginning of the book, the director states “We also predestine and condition” (13 Huxley). What he means…

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    forms of literature, such as novels and movies, can teach audiences about the meaning of life, while giving people ideas about how they should live their life. The movie, Dawn of the Dead, by George A. Romero, and the novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley greatly intertwine to send a strong message about the values of most people in our American society today, and about how this new set of beliefs changed ourselves and our society from the strong one that we once had. Although conforming to…

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    conditioning from government to attain a utopian society; Aldous Huxley’s surroundings in the 1930’s inspire his formulation of this class system. World State promotes a community working like a single mind mimicking a well oiled machine; however, the individual experiences isolation from the caste system because conformity can not be accomplished. Totalitarian government forces control over all aspects of the lives of people, but Huxley embraces people facing government forces like “mindless…

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    Brave New World In the novel, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley displays to us that using science and technology as a weapon of social conformity through the usage of conveying how central control of a government can lead to a euphoric, dystopian society. It becomes clear throughout the book that the World State’s total control of the human action demolishes the scientific advancement that gained it such control. To begin with, one way Aldous Huxley presents us this message is through the usage…

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    of Hitler in Germany during WWII, and how knowledge was and still is a powerful tool in order to succeed in life.This type of distopia is reflected In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World.Huxleys experiences in life contrubited to how he based his characters.The control during WWII also contrubited to the controlling nature of the government Huxley displays in Brave New World.Technology during his era verses the technology in the novel establishes how governments can control people through…

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    answer the question of how Aldous Huxley would perceive our society today we must look to the past. Who was Aldous Huxley? Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England in 1894, to a well-established intellectual aristocratic family. He grew up far from poverty and much closer to riches than most at the end of the 1800s. He originally wanted to become a doctor, however due to juvenile sickness he lost his eye sight for two years and never fully recovered it. This caused Aldous Huxley to reimagine…

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    Aldous Huxley in his dystopian literature illustrates a disturbing tapestry of an abnormal society that reproduces identical human beings, through factories using powerful technology that is taken to another level. Brave New World, published in 1931, by Aldous Huxley organizes a World State where happiness is found through the use of drugs and a vast reproduction of “perfect” human beings with the use of technology. “Perfect” human beings are designed in factories and are under the control of…

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    Huxley predicts the rise of social promiscuity in his book Brave New World. Already today it is evident the increase and effects it has. The lack to form meaningful relationships with one other and personal feelings is already happening. Brave new world is what today’s society could look like in the future if this progresses. Huxley’s World State is dysfunctional because promiscuity has become more normal and encouraged through social influences, which is also evident in today’s overall society…

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    In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, he uses many different topics and literary devices to convey to the reader social issues that are occurring in the 1930s and how they compare to the new society formed in the State World. Some of the elements that Huxley uses to describe the government control over the citizens by brainwashing and drug dependency are precise diction, vivid imagery, and figurative language. He then uses these devices to show the moral and cultural decay in the New World.…

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