Julian Huxley

Although it seems on the surface that the World State is an utopian society, a deeper analysis shows that the conformity and control of the people cause a dystopia. Community is what keeps citizens from becoming outkast by solidarity with one another. Huxley writes “Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons…”(91). Lenina demonstrates the five castes in their community as well as the reliance on each other and government intervention. The idea of putting…

they can control our behavior. Also, another factor that contributes, is that the government is creating a huge gap between social classes, giving less care to the lower classes and more attention to the rich class. is In “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley developed the world that is divided into social classes. On his novel he shows how the government is trying to gain control among…

In The Giver, the disadvantages of Sameness in Jonas’ community far outweigh the advantages. Lois Lowry uses the sense of no freedom to demonstrate the burden of Sameness. Lowry explains that the rules for Sameness itself take away the joy of life and finally through Sameness there have been many side effects that have had a major impact on Jonas’ community. Throughout the novel, Sameness has been more of a disadvantage rather an advantage since it has taken away the freedom of humankind. The…

The citizens of the World State are rigidly controlled and thus have no free will. When Lenina is talking to Henry Ford about the fact that regardless of their caste, all humans are equal after death, she remembers waking up in the middle of the night and hearing that “everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons.” (64). This illustrates how powerful the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the beliefs and rules that form the…

Lao-Tzu founder of the philosophical system of Taoism in early ancient China. Lao-tzu teaches us that the dark can become light and has within itself the potential for growth and long life. The word that Lao- Tzu chose to represent his vision was Tao. Tao means road or way and does not represent darkness nor evil. Tao is a Chinese character made up of two graphs (head) and (go). Chinese translator concluded that “head” must mean the start of something new and the two graphs together show someone…

Boom! Just in the blink of an eye, all the biological functions that sustain an organism shut down. Death is a petrifying stage of life that over 250,000 people in Canada experienced in the past two years. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, death is meaningless, and is a natural and tolerable process, which is the optimism today’s society is trying to establish. Nobody looks forward to the end of life, but the BNW is an example of where death is accepted and no one fears it anymore,…

“Here’s to do with hate but more to do with love”(Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet). Love’s current role in society resembles how the love in Brave New World; more based on the love of society and self-preservation. "I was wondering," said the Savage, "why you had them at all—seeing that you can get whatever you want out of those bottles. Why don't you make everybody an Alpha Double Plus while you're about it?”Mustapha Mond laughed. "Because we have no wish to have our throats cut," he answered.…

I would choose the Brave New World as Alpha/Beta. I would choose to live in a clean, safe place and high class. The society in Brave New World is clean whereas the society in Savage reservation is dirty as Lenina saw when she went there. Living in Savage reservation is not safe. I would choose to live a life where i don't have to worry about money. One won’t have to worry about money, kids, and STD. Some people especially women would argue that lives for women are harsh. They would argue that…

“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to the government” (Jiddu Krishnamurti) This quote by the public speaker, Jiddu Krishnamurti, is often reflected in the novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The novels both deal with the recurring theme that the government is willing to remove humanity for an efficient, conflict-free society. We see this in both government's use of conditioning the…

In the novel, A Brave New World, John, who is often referred as The Savage, experiences the differences between two societies. John is the product of the two different societies, whose culture is completely opposite from each other, which influenced his moral perception of the world he lived in. With John being born naturally in the savage reservation and his parents, Bernard and Linda, being both created by The Controller in London, John is stuck between two worlds and isn’t accepted by neither…