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    New World The removal of Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, from high school libraries is necessary. Brave New World is exposing high school students, who are not adults, to mature content. Although this content is relevant to the plot of the novel, it is too graphic and suggestive for high school students. The abuse of drugs and constant sexual content within the novel is not positive for high school students. These scenes can be interrupted differently than Huxley intends. In Brave New…

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    In the fiction novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley imagined a future utopia world, which contains different values and various advanced technologies. In this society, people hold the common views that human happiness and society 's stability are above everything else. Anything that against the common beliefs is considered as deviant. Out of the ordinary, John, the "Savage", was born through natural birth from a mother, which is one of the reasons that caused the alienation between him and the…

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    The Role of Science and Psychology The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a World State where there are no imperfections and every citizen is controlled by the government. Everyone in the State is born by genetic cloning and is chemically produced to be in a certain caste: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The Alphas are at the top of the food chain and are the most intelligent people in the State, while Epsilons are used for slavery. In the novel, Bernard, an…

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    Aldous Huxley's Brave New world displays an utilitarian tragic culture by debasing the societal thoughts of group, personality, and security into the contorted, un-standard "standards" introduced in the story. He does this by building a sarcastic world that must be comprehended on the off chance that you know about the societal thoughts of this present reality. Huxley does this keeping in mind the end goal to make an anecdotal distopial that cautions the world about the mechanical world. As a…

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    Throughout his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley demonstrates a dystopian society, in which he provides instances that are closely and figuratively parallel to those in today’s society. Something distinct in Brave New World from other novels, is the novel’s innovative use of its main character, John the Savage. John contrasts from the general frame of a standard main character's structure of being introduced in the beginning of a novel and plagued with a negative situation, only to overcome…

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    promote the wellbeing of human beings as a whole. In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John faces a predicament of his own values against those of the World State. John's decision to defy the absurdity of the situation results varying degrees of rebellion. Huxley uses these acts to convey that individuality is necessary for human well being. With John’s rejection of the World State’s ideology with Shakespeare, Huxley portrays how vital individualism is for human well being. Ostracized…

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    Mrs. Burrows ENG 4U-41 Chelsea Poshni Wednesday July 29th 2015 Ultimate Destruction of the Brave New World In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to input the belief that every single invention or improvement is for the betterment of mankind and is only an instrument for ultimate destruction. “We are,” he said, “on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will require all out intelligence and all out good will.” Not only in the book, but in real life aswell, one…

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    Mustapha Mond: An Analysis

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    As stated in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley by the Controller of the world they live in, Mustapha Mond, there is a “ʻprice to pay for stability’” (199). Though the people in the Society believe they are living shining lives, living life as they are meant to as they come from batches in labs and grow up being trained to like and dislike certain things so that when they are older, it will help them in their job. They have lessons put into their minds on recordings while they sleep. They are not…

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    Brave New World Comparison

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    the imagination and creativity of the author Aldous Huxley one is exposed to a controlled society hundreds of years into the future. A world comprised of mind controlling stimulants and impressive technological advancements involving the creation of humans surrounds this futures civilization. Although the author had developed this world multiple decades ago, many of his implied predictions to the future are surprisingly accurate in today’s world. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World he…

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    Brave New World is a fascinating book that gives us a particular perspective of life as we know it. Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley, was Aldous Huxley’s intent too far ahead of his time or was he just simply out of his own mind. For instance, BNW (Brave New World) shows us the way humans are treated and their wealth and ranks in this community. Alongside wealth, ranks, and fairness; this essay will interpret the way humans amongst this book are treated, analyzed, and represented.…

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