Aldous Huxley

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the society conditions its people and this is a form of social control. This approach to social control makes the citizens happy and trouble free because of the conditioning they are unable to be any way other than content. The conditioning that they receive happens before they are even alive in the society. One example of the type of conditioning the society uses to control the population is when the Director talks about, “oxygen-shortage for keeping…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave new world portrays that citizens of their society must be highly controlled and regulated for it to be a utopia. This is portrayed through identity, community and stability in the reservoir. The setting of Brave New World takes place in 2450 A.D referred as 623 year “After Ford” (Huxley 2). The view of identity describes how society must have the same moral in order to believe it can be a utopia. Identity is a key meaning of the World State’s Motto. “Community,…

Achieving true happiness in this world requires a small sacrifice: individuality. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the dystopia presented is one of incredible scientific advancement. However, this society is one drunk on happiness and sex. Individualism cannot co-exist and is essentially a crime. With Huxley’s symbolism, scientifically precise diction, and theatrical tone, the society created is one that has heavy implications for the modern world. The most interesting aspect of Huxley’s…

Individuality causes suffering in the individual. In Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, Huxley uses symbolism to speak to the theme of Individualism brings the Downfall of the Beholder by showing that being an outcast makes someone feel like they are being pursued like an animal, the individual can use their isolation to explore themselves and their spirituality, and the only way to truly escape a society is by death. Bernard is an outcast and feels like he is pursued by his enemies. A…

fears rather than obtaining what they desire. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley races past a comfort-driven ideal of life to the reality of living with no values. Technology within society demoralizes factors that make one human, and the divisions within the population isolate each individual. This aids in the development of underlying tones centered around the meaning of life and the incapability of both happiness and truth. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World illustrates a prominent use of…

influence and boundless possibilities of technology affect most aspects of life and society. Not only are these influences visible in every-day modern society, but their potential is foreshadowed in literature such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, written in 1932. In Brave New World, Huxley presents a dystopian society that introduces many parallels to modern society, but, as a whole, does not provide a perfectly accurate depiction of our current world due to the extremity in which technology…

Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World’s” author introduces us to a futuristic technological world where science is used in order to maintain stability, and society is divided into five caste divisions consisting of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alphas are the highest in society while Epsilons the lowest. In the novel, the author demonstrates how society shows people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the entire story. The society was manufactured in a test tube therefore, it…

To aid his extensive fright and odd futuristic ideas, Huxley held exceedingly strict, technocratic, totalitarian views when he began to write Brave New World. In 1931, the year the novel was written, and 1932, the year it was published, science and technology were two aspects of life that began to develop rather rapidly, and became known as “utopian promises.” Specifically, Huxley was fairly moved by the growth of an artificial fertilizer, which greatly affected the feature of Brave New World…

Isolation is an ever-present theme in the novel written by Aldous Huxley. In the first few chapters, the main protagonist is introduced as an outsider with scarcely any wish to join in on the daily world the people comply with. Loss of individuality and strict categories that define what breed of person you are by the second chapter create an overwhelming feeling of alienation and out of touch reality. Huxley’s novel embraces the off-putting emotions that garner isolation and uses it to convey a…

bench, and swiftly take a seat. The winsome twin to the far right wiggles her perfectly sloped nose, and begins to repeat the phrase, "Everyone belongs to everyone else..." This is what a dystopia may represent; repetition, repetition, repetition. Aldous Huxley produced a novel, Brave New World, that depicts a very similar, repetitious, and corrupt society. Likewise, Rod Serling does this in his television series, The Twilight Zone, episode “Number 12 Looks Just Like You.” Both societies are,…