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“Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units” -Paul Di Filippo. Utopian societies are like airing up a popped tire; nothing is getting any better or worse. While - the complete opposite of a Utopia - dystopian societies are in a state where people have no control over anything and are “slaves” of the government. There are places…

Is social stability worth the price of giving up your individualism in exchange for a life filled with nothing, but joy? Is this not what everyone thrives for? In the book Brave New World the society that everyone is accustomed makes sure everyone is happy, has a role and title, and there is no crime nor religion. For a society to become a utopia in my opinion, must have these essentials: a society that everyone can be themselves without any worry, crime is a thing of the past, everyone…

The concept of home can be portrayed as a physical place or a state of mind, but either form will have a considerable impact on the individual of which it influences. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s physical departure from Malpais does not serve to diminish the traditional values that he adopts from his home while he finds the values in the World State immoral and revolting, portraying that two juxtaposing sets of values may not be able to exist together. Although John is born to…

Values of a Society In the book “Brave New World” Aldous Huxley depicts a world where the humans are breed in a lab and are placed into different groups depending on what chemicals were washed over the still developing, fertilized egg in the lab. No matter what group these people are put into they all are given basic guidelines to live by, those values include community, identity, and stability. In the story the reader can visualize the sense of community that the people live by, for example,…

gap in their literary works. In the novels 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the themes of gender inequality and oppression of women are expressed through the feminist literary theory. In general, feminism explores women’s roles in society and promotes…

In the novel Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, creates a seemingly utopian society, called the World State. The World State is devoid of all aspects of today’s society (which is referred to as “pre-modern” times) that promote individualism, including art, music, poetry, religion, and live birth. Instead of being born as a result of sexual intercourse, children are manufactured in laboratories and “decanted” from bottles when they are sufficiently developed. The only place on Earth…

Huxley’s Brave New World "A Gramme is Always Better Than a Damn" (Huxley, 2006, p. 90) Aldous Huxley saw a fully aware and intelligent society the only way to obtain a government which would keep the people’s best interest a priority. In Brave New World it was clear the government had utter control of its people, which the government gained by supplying the population with Soma. Soma was a fictional recreational drug which caused euphoria, relaxation, and “an escape from… reality” (Hickman,…

Chairman X is the complete antithesis of both Dr. Gift and Dean Harstad. Like Dr. Gift, his religion is also not specifically referenced in Moo. However, Smiley does include that Chairman X is a communist. Because of his belief system, Chairman X loathes both Dr. Gift’s self-helping, capitalist methods, especially the Costa Rican gold mining plan, and Dean Harstad, whose use of, “patience as a weapon” the passionate and driven Chairman X finds irritating to the point where he daydreams of…

Kurt Vonnegut helps create a futuristic idea of what the world could be like, and portrays it through his dystopian short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. Using Irony, simile and personification, Vonnegut enlightens readers about how power isn’t always used properly and to spread a better idea and to show that misusing power with therefore leave society worse off. Several examples of this can be found in the short story, in an effort to create a “perfect society” they blindly follow certain practices…

Imagine a perfect society, where people that live in the world benefit from society, a utopia. The author of both Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron explain what a world would be like if we had a perfect world, but also what would dramatically change if we did. Both societies in the books, Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, have shown that their world's censorship can be the most dangerous thing they can hide. Along with that, technology can have a big effect on how much power the…