Julian Huxley

totalitarian government, in many ways, Aldous 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…

The Benefits of Solitude Solitude can be seen as a negative state; inferior to the state of being with others. While this may be true (in some cases and at some times), it is not always necessarily so. Solitude can allow one time to regroup, time to reflect and recharge. Solitude is a necessary part of life that carries benefits such as allowing one to heal from trauma. For instance, if someone is enduring grief and tries to just put it out of their mind; it will inevitably keep coming up until…

Mrs. Burrows ENG 4U-41 Chelsea Poshni Wednesday July 29th 2015 Ultimate Destruction of the Brave New World In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to input the belief that every single invention or improvement is for the betterment of mankind and is only an instrument for ultimate destruction. “We are,” he said, “on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will require all out intelligence and all out good will.” Not only in the book, but in real life aswell, one…

It is no secret that our world today is heading towards an over-developed society. Each day new phones, televisions, or movies are released showing how far the world has come since the beginning of technology. These new technological advancements also bring along new uses for drugs and the promotion of sexual interactions. However, the general population fails to see the dangerous road we appear to be on. In our world today, the use of drugs and the continual growth of social media relates us to…

As stated in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley by the Controller of the world they live in, Mustapha Mond, there is a “ʻprice to pay for stability’” (199). Though the people in the Society believe they are living shining lives, living life as they are meant to as they come from batches in labs and grow up being trained to like and dislike certain things so that when they are older, it will help them in their job. They have lessons put into their minds on recordings while they sleep. They are not…

John the Savage of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is a character who has experienced major rifts in his life, preventing him from ever returning to his original state of being. John experienced such rifts in the forms of enrichment and alienation. John experienced enrichment through his mother’s teachings of the world she came from. John experienced alienation through his mother’s death and through the multiple Delta clones he witnessed. Linda, John’s mother, spent the majority of John’s…

Sings, and Solidarity Services” (Huxley 52). They do not have any sense of what family is. The same process produces…

all which eventually failed due to the fact that complete perfection cannot be achieved as long as there is free will. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a world that has rid it’s society of free will through test tube births and childhood conditioning. In the beginning of the book, the director states “We also predestine and condition” (13 Huxley). What he means…

Brave New World The novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley positions readers to think and reflect upon values and beliefs of our society, through emphasising the differences in his fictional society and our current society (or that of the 1930s). (Main Contention) THE MEANING IN TEXT IS SHAPED BY PURPOSE, CULTURAL CONTEXT, AND SOCIAL SITUATION. (The author provided a society so different from ours that we were forced to either agree strongly with or disagree with the concepts – would this be a…

return to a non-utopian society, less ‘perfect’ more free. (Huxley V) A utopian society was previously considered as an imaginary or unreal place. However, the technological advancements that have taken place in the 20th century have made utopias achievable. Berdiaeff was the one who observed these advancements and he expressed…