Aldous Huxley

Although it seems on the surface that the World State is an utopian society, a deeper analysis shows that the conformity and control of the people cause a dystopia. Community is what keeps citizens from becoming outkast by solidarity with one another. Huxley writes “Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons…”(91). Lenina demonstrates the five castes in their community as well as the reliance on each other and government intervention. The idea of putting…

In the Brave New World Huxley presents us with a Utopia and Dystopia also known as the World State and the Savage Reservation. We learn that these two societies are very different with how they view love, religion, nature, and more. The Savage Reservation does everything it can to contradict the World State. Unlike the World State the Reservation is seen as uncivilized and when Lenina and Bernard visit there Lenina is overwhelmed by the smell and grime. In that dystopia birth and death are…

Personal relationships with your significant others have been similar from 1931 to 2015. In our society now, they have changed from and two in the dystopian novel Brave New World. In Brave New World, there is a sense of freedom that Aldous Huxely writes about. The society in the novel are expected to date more than one person at a time. They have a type of freedom where they can go wherever they want with whomever they choose. In chapter 6, Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne have an engaging…

Although many try to blend in with the rest of the population, the few who break away and think with eccentricity stand out and make a change. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson all use their knowledge and ability to be an individual in order to understand freedom and escape from average society and community. Bernard is very important in the plot of the story because he is the one who first openly shows individuality and freedom, and…

power that over runs the rest. Whether it be by corruptness or segregation. Even today, most of this world still goes by social class. Huxley also foresaw today’s events as correct. Their still is social class, or a casting system for Huxley’s sake, people are into what the next best fashion is, looks in Brave New World, and lastly, who we follow, which is religion. Huxley was on point with this type of…

Brave New World presents a wide array of warnings and ominous ideas about how our current actions and lifestyles can affect our future those of which can also be seen in the film Gattaca. The seemingly simple concept of having the ability to choose the gender of your child can so rapidly turn into a gateway for much more drastic changes regarding how far the altering of a human is able to go. In the novel Brave new world humans are grown artificially and created to fit into a five class system…

Soma The use of the drug soma in Brave New World is very influential to the story line and the world that the story is based on. Soma in the New World is equivalent to the processed food, alcohol and drugs in our world today. The drug is used as a symbol of instant gratification to control the populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society. We can easily see the instant gratification that taking the drug provides. It puts the consumer in a…

Totalitarian Government it affects people ,relationships, and brainwashing. Huxley Totalitarian Government in Brave New World show how many characters are affected. In the book Huxley says “outside the garden it was play time naked in the warm june sunshine six or seven hundred little boys were running over the lawns or playing ball games or squating silently in tubs or threes among the flowing shrubs. In this quote by Huxley Government is contrasted with nature. The children are naked but…

Brave There were many easily observable variances between the society shown in this film and the culture the writer is most familiar with, and these differences cover a variety of areas like magic, gender, combat, and customs. When given thought, it seems unsurprising that these variations between the cultures should lead to variations in the psychological factors of this culture from others. Likewise, it seems obvious that there are changes which should be made to the way a professional…

The morality in Ken Kesey’s counterculture novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest juxtaposes the novel’s setting. Themes of healing and moral clarity are adversely contradicted by the rigidness of society and its pressure on outsiders. Chief Bromden is the protagonist of the novel, and his freedom and clarity, given to him by nature, are destroyed by the industrialization of society and the mechanical hospital. Chief’s suffering and deterioration are representative of the actual effects of…