Julian Huxley

In the book Brave New World, there is a world where everything has become industrialized, including the people. To create an indestructible society, how people think and what they do is controlled before they even are born. I was disgusted when I read how babies are treated in this story to reach this goal of a rich society. Nobody in this story gets to decide their own future. They are all born in tubes and deprived of nutrients and oxygen until they are perfect or inhibited. As they grow into…

Aldous Huxley successfully shows the contrasting values of two different societies. He creates the Savage’s character in order to reveal how a more traditional society and a New World society treat an outcast. John’s actions and decisions make an impact towards the citizens of both societies. This will ultimately lead to both assumptions and morals of each society. Through John’s alienation Huxley displays the dehumanization that occurs in a “civilized” and ‘uncivilized” society. Huxley uses…

“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future.”(Huxley pg.11) In A Brave New World, hypnopeadia is used to condition the minds of its citizens. During this process they develop identical fears in each infant and they grow up to stay away from them. They recite the same morals and beliefs to ensure a stable…

new world the individual does not exist, John's decision to commit suicide allows him to take complete control of his individuality. The DHC explains it best when he expresses that " murder only kills the individual - what is an individual anyway?"(Huxley 148). However, John's demise is not created in the Predestination Room; rather, by his own hand. John's suicide should be viewed as an act of defiance-it is the only way out of the new world that leaves the audience with a shred of hope. John…

The novel Brave New World shows that in order for a utopian society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoings of Mother Nature must occur. That being said successfully engineering these conditions produces a world of hope where the people are finally living a "happily ever after", but at a great cost. Community, Identity, and Stability is part of the conditions that plays a major role in the novel Brave New World. Community did not have the meaning that we…

In the novel, Brave New World, a specific character by the name of Bernard Marx is portrayed with the characterization of Bernard's anti-heroism and dynamic growth. For instance “Bernards physique was hardly than that of an average gamma. He stood eight centimeters short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion. Contact with his members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy” (64). Bernard’s mentality haunts him for the rest of the book,…

The first thing that I noticed when I opened Brave New World and began reading was that Aldous Huxley has a very extensive vocabulary when he would say things like, “Wintriness responded to wintriness” (Huxley, p.3). I had absolutely no idea what that meant until I looked it up. This fact made the book seem like I was reading another one of those horrid books that you are forced to read in school that no one, except the teacher, understands. Despite that fact I kept reading, because this is for…

Our Modern Day Soma In Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley describes a drug called soma. Soma is taken by the majority of the World State’s population. This drug is often taken when someone is dealing with something “unpleasant”; it helps to relax them and keep them “happy”. However, soma has a dark side to it. The World State uses the soma to control the citizens by keeping them oblivious to the harsh reality of their world. Our entertainment is like soma’s effect on the citizens of Huxley’s…

happiness through drugs and constant entertainment. Huxley’s novel partially takes inspiration by current events (pre world war two) and problems, but, also satirizes of Plato’s Republic. The similarities between the two are obvious, the difference is Huxley over-exaggerates…

wealth, and technological growth and improvement. All the people in this strange world are not bothered with themselves individually but have in fact been conditioned to see their world as a single whole collective class of people. In his novel, Aldous Huxley, provides insight on how technology can control society through the reproductive restrictions, mindless entertainment machines and the soma drug use. One view of control that is portrayed throughout the book is the management of birth and…