Brave New World

is in their own head. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the story was based on the opinion of how Huxley predicted the future was going to turn out. Everyone is living under the World State which is a government who controls the society through their commands as the society seems stable and peaceful where everyone seems happy, but it is a total mess. Sexual reproduction is uncommon as children are created and raised in breeding grounds because the World State wants to limit the population…

Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, "Brave New World," is a satire discussing many different topics such as war, the advancement of technology, and the power of one government. "Brave New World" is set in the distant future where society has given up their freedom after a gruesome war, called the Nine Years War, in order to live happily without constant fear or hardship. To be able to uphold this happiness, the new world's government, also called the World State, creates many rules and standards so…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World criticizes the power and limitations of a world fixated on creating a utopian society through the use of technology, psychotropic drugs, and genetic engineering. In this specific application, this “new world” manufactures humans to fit its needs and interests by stripping away any unique personal identity and placing them into one of five social classes. Compliance is ensured while rebellion is curtailed through the use of “a wonder drug” and propaganda.…

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 two people from the World State, his true values lie in the Reservation and pre-Nine Years’ War…

‘All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects” (Huxley 54). Imagine a world free of famine, war, and a sense of identity all thanks to a controlling government. In “Brave New World” the man made and enforced caste system parallels and juxtaposes societal struggles of communism, through themes of suppression and control, as a means to expose the injustices in a suppressed society. As Deevy beautifully put the Marxist struggle is,”The age old cry of envy swelling from…

Though both set in dystopian futures, the societies in Brave New World and Matched vary immensely. To illustrate, Brave New World consists of a society focused on technology. A particular scientific method of egg fertilization serves as a foundation of the World State, as Huxley describes as a (1) “Major instrument of social stability” (18; ch. 1). This quotation shows that citizens of the World State rely heavily on technology before they are even born. On the other hand, the society in…

Is it correct to sacrifice people’s needs for the wellbeing of the society? In both Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and the article “Practice Babies” by NPR, society values their needs over the necessities of the individuals. In the novel, author Huxley shows through the dehumanising use of conditioning by the World State to override the individuality of citizens and to create their goal of consumerist society. In the article, writer NPR shows this through the inattention of universities…

most basic human pains of free will, love, and religion. Brave New World contains the basic debate on whether or not it is right to be blinded from basic human emotion to maintain happiness, or to know and experience pain in all of it’s forms. The debate of whether free will is a positive or negative thing is a very common motif in literature. In eliminating a humans free will you gain control of their emotions. The society in Brave New World functions on this ignorance, in order to be…

Aldous Huxley’s prophetic novel, Brave New World, includes among its many and varied themes the recurring notion of a society that is consumed by material goods and who find pleasure solely in the things that they possess. The inhabitants of the world invented by Huxley are not concerned with waste or sustainability; their main focus is pleasure and the enjoyment of the newest, shiniest, pleasing item to be played with and then discarded as they find a new object to be enamored with,…

classic novel “Brave New World” by the 20th century English author, Aldous Huxley, Huxley questions the values and goals of 1931 London through the use of irony and satire to portray a futuristic version of the world in which the social trends of Great Britain and the United States are taken to extremes. The world Huxley writes about, since the setting is still on Earth but an unknown amount of time in the future, is still able to resonate with readers today. Within Brave New World, there is a…