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    In the Brave New World Huxley presents us with a Utopia and Dystopia also known as the World State and the Savage Reservation. We learn that these two societies are very different with how they view love, religion, nature, and more. The Savage Reservation does everything it can to contradict the World State. Unlike the World State the Reservation is seen as uncivilized and when Lenina and Bernard visit there Lenina is overwhelmed by the smell and grime. In that dystopia birth and death are…

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    In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the motto of the World State is ‘Community, Identity and Stability’. This utopia desires to be a world where pain and suffering are eliminated for all citizens, but pleasure is perpetual. Consequently, this unknowingly ceases the freedom of the citizens of the World State. Ultimately, citizens of Brave New World’s society are in a constant state of imprisonment due to their inability to feel unhappy. Brave New World focuses on how happiness and truth cannot…

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    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,…

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    Fordism is what defines the society that Huxley creates, in the novel a Brave New World. Without God or any type of religion, science, and art, people grow up with everything they need, right in front of them, at all times. The society of the World State is spoiled; every person is ashamed to have feelings, so they react promiscuously to get what they want, and whenever they feel miserable they take soma, which instantly make them feel better. The language Huxley uses throughout the novel helps…

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    power that over runs the rest. Whether it be by corruptness or segregation. Even today, most of this world still goes by social class. Huxley also foresaw today’s events as correct. Their still is social class, or a casting system for Huxley’s sake, people are into what the next best fashion is, looks in Brave New World, and lastly, who we follow, which is religion. Huxley was on point with this type of…

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    The Role of Science and Psychology The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a World State where there are no imperfections and every citizen is controlled by the government. Everyone in the State is born by genetic cloning and is chemically produced to be in a certain caste: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The Alphas are at the top of the food chain and are the most intelligent people in the State, while Epsilons are used for slavery. In the novel, Bernard, an…

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    ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Aldous Huxley, the author of the futuristic dystopian novel “Brave New World” is innocent in rightfully challenging the idea of a modern utopia. He invites the reader to challenge the ideal society as his writing is a cautionary tale and a warning to people that humanity may transform from being free independent people to slaves to our own greediness and society. “Brave New World” is a disturbing, loveless world and Huxley shows this through his writing, tapping…

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    society to be happy, conditioning society to think a certain way, and designing babies to work a certain job and be in a certain social class. Brave New World is just that. The author, Aldous Huxley, forewarns that if present society was taken a step further, it may mirror the Brave New World society. Huxley accomplishes this by created similarities between the use of happiness, conditioning, and science to control society in both present day and the brave new world society. Soma is similar to…

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    the question of how Aldous Huxley would perceive our society today we must look to the past. Who was Aldous Huxley? Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England in 1894, to a well-established intellectual aristocratic family. He grew up far from poverty and much closer to riches than most at the end of the 1800s. He originally wanted to become a doctor, however due to juvenile sickness he lost his eye sight for two years and never fully recovered it. This caused Aldous Huxley to reimagine what he…

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    In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley shows a new world which has changed the way the reader thinks of the use of technology. Huxley uses the invention of the assembly line throughout his writing to show how every citizen of society was created. Society has changed drastically according to Huxley and can be seen in each of his characters as their view of life has changed from a previous time. Technologies influence can be seen through of Huxley’s characters Linda and John. Both of these…

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