Aldous Huxley

Technology is one of the few foundations that the world is built on. Even in the early 1900s, the spectacular advancements made around the world aided the result that it is today. Aldous Leonard Huxley was a part of a family famous for their stupendous accomplishments in the fields of science and literature. In the 1930s, Huxley wrote Brave New World, a stunningly revolutionary novel that depicts the progress of extreme rapid growth of technology, which creates a quite radical culture when…

In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, citizens live without individuality, intelligence, and emotions, all of which can be connected to the absence of playable music. In the real world, everyone is affected by music that they listen to or create themselves, but it is truly underestimated. People have the distinguished ability to express their individuality through the varying types of music in the world and how they react to it. Being a musician can challenge someone’s mental and physical…

all experience detached periods or moments of separation from others, feeling alone, different, and inadequate but these times can also bring out the best in us, we develop skills, discover interests, mature in who we are. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is a book about a controlled futuristic society where people are placed in caste systems, conditioned to do a single job and always remain happy, however, we are introduced to a few people who may be viewed as eccentric in this eutopia. One…

Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley uses many literary devices to form the anti-utopian society of this book. The devices that Huxley uses reveal major political and social problems in the BNW society. The characters in this book are ruled under a totalitarian government that controls everything that its citizens do. In the 1930’s, the world was on the brink of World War II. Most of this book could relate to WWII Germany because of Hitler running everything. Knowing this, Huxley uses imagery,…

destruction is inevitable. Though there have been many positive developments throughout history, it cannot be denied that negative progression has occurred, including the destruction of the family unit and the unchecked tendencies of science. Aldous Huxley uses these two issues as a basis for his vision in his novel Brave New World proving that they pose a potential threat to society. This novel is a futuristic warning of the problems of society that could plague future generations. Although on…

Did John "Overcompensat[e] for Misery"? "In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", one may ponder if would-be hero John Savage could have had any other possible outcome other than his unfortunate suicide at the closing of the novel. Although one may argue that suicide is always preventable, because of John's unique conditioning, his ultimate demise could not have been avoided by any other possible situations. His expectations of the new world-his supposed Shakespeare world-are much too extremist.…

characterize their home as a dystopia because it is all they know. There can be similarities drawn between the Brave New World society and the direction American society is changing; however, the differences are much more prevalent. The dystopian society Aldous Huxley creates in Brave New World…

Aldous Huxley foresaw a number of incredible triumphs in his novel, Brave New World, but it seems that in no point in the near, or even distant future, was liberation for women an attainable goal for him. In fact, despite the dystopic nature of his novel, Huxley instead created a world that is hauntingly similar to our own. ‘Brave New World’ is a second-rate replica of the misogynistic 1930s society that belittled women and gave men an unjust sense of superiority and entitlement. It’s a story…

spending more time at paid jobs than at home. Utopias are over exaggerated predictions of what will happen in the future. It is shown in George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World that their predictions of American families losing family values are coming true by the increase in single parents…

return to a non-utopian society, less ‘perfect’ more free. (Huxley V) A utopian society was previously considered as an imaginary or unreal place. However, the technological advancements that have taken place in the 20th century have made utopias achievable. Berdiaeff was the one who observed these advancements and he expressed…