Brave New World

Huxley’s Brave New World has become our world. Although Geroge Orwell’s 1984 is often the dystopian society we have all feared, it is Huxley’s vision that illustrates much of our current reality. Although Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930s, it is hauntingly relevant in today’s world of smartphones and constant distractions. Huxley’s vision of the future is profound because it is so familiar to our own present. In 1985, Neil Postman argued in his book “Amusing our Selves to Death” that…

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an epitome of a future dystopia where everything is censored or controlled. Everyone is created in a factory and conditioned to think and behave in a certain manner. Each and every person is brought up to do specific work and is not exposed to life outside of their caste. From the time people are born to the time they are shipped to work they are only exposed to what the conditioning of their caste calls for. This includes being taught to scorn…

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…

free thinking and cause addictive behaviors that can lead people to not seek opportunities to succeed. The influence of others pushes people to take part in the use of things like drugs in order to appear normal in society. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government pushes the drug Soma as a replacement of religion and brainwashing tool inhibiting people’s ability to think freely and lack individuality, as a way to maintain supremacy and power over the people. To begin, Huxley…

“Everyone belongs to everyone else,” exclaims the voice in the dream of the innocence in Aldous Huxley’s future world - the hypnopaedic observation deterring singleness in friendship and love (Huxley, 35). In a sense in this “brave new world,” Huxley illustrates a society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoing of Mother Nature must occur. Along the extensive use of hypnopaedic training, fetal conditioning, and the ability of convention, any individual can be…

amendment passed. World War I ended. The economy was booming, as more Americans lived in the city rather than the farms. More women chose to become independent rather than counting on a man to bring home the income. More men chose to be independent as well to party more and hang out with “flappers.” In the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, Huxley envisions the mockery of the future idea of Marriage with relationships possessing no emotional connection. Those in the new world who do feel…

Assignment, I read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Huxley was born into a wealthy family of scientists and wrote Brave New World in 1931, when the Great Depression was starting up and Hitler was rising to power, not to mention the fact that Huxley already had lived through WWI and lost his mother, his brother, and most of his eyesight, all in the same year[1]. Given all of these circumstances, he had plenty of reason to fear for the future. Brave New World is a model example of a society…

In Brave New World, John is exposed to a rift between himself and his home, the New Mexico reservation. As he takes a trip to “civilization” with Bernard, Lenina, and Linda, he encounters a very different physical and ideological environment that has been shielded from him by the stability-driven motives of the Controllers. Once he finally breaks down the boundaries of a dystopian society, propelled by Bernard’s self-interests, he sees the life he never had. As Edward Said writes, the “essential…

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…

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the entire population of the world is under the control of the few in power through the installation of a modified social structure, universal brainwashing, and a powerful mind control drug, and this has serious, far-reaching implications for the modern world. Foremost,the controllers must overturn the general structure of society, and the new system portrayed as truly superior in every way compared to the older systems. In Brave New World the…