Julian Huxley

Although many try to blend in with the rest of the population, the few who break away and think with eccentricity stand out and make a change. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson all use their knowledge and ability to be an individual in order to understand freedom and escape from average society and community. Bernard is very important in the plot of the story because he is the one who first openly shows individuality and freedom, and…

Winston Smith as a Flawed Hero Within the first few pages of George Orwell’s 1984, one can determine that this is not a normal place by any means. One’s mind starts to paint the scene of a cold, dark, and gloomy place where a uniform society exists. At first, this so-called Oceania, seems very distant with no current relations to the world we live in today, but the one constant within the two is what it means to be a hero. Overtime the concept of a hero hasn’t changed in itself, but the deeds…

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…

Brave New World presents a wide array of warnings and ominous ideas about how our current actions and lifestyles can affect our future those of which can also be seen in the film Gattaca. The seemingly simple concept of having the ability to choose the gender of your child can so rapidly turn into a gateway for much more drastic changes regarding how far the altering of a human is able to go. In the novel Brave new world humans are grown artificially and created to fit into a five class system…

Soma The use of the drug soma in Brave New World is very influential to the story line and the world that the story is based on. Soma in the New World is equivalent to the processed food, alcohol and drugs in our world today. The drug is used as a symbol of instant gratification to control the populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society. We can easily see the instant gratification that taking the drug provides. It puts the consumer in a…

Within all people are some similar qualities and yet, every person remains unique. Although Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, a modern dystopian novel, and William Golding, in Lord of the Flies, a modern dystopian novel, develop similar characters with John the Savage and Simon, they differ in the portrayal of a theme. Huxley’s John the Savage and Golding’s Simon are similar in their demonstration in Christ-figure qualities, while the two authors convey the theme of being captured or limited.…

system used to control the people in a society. This is clearly evident in the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. This book is a dystopian novel that focuses on the direction the world is headed in. Set in the year 2540, Huxley predicts that technological advancements will be used to create a consumeristic, obedient, and ideal society of people with complete harmony. In his novel, Huxley warns of the dangers of a government who controls all aspects of people's life. In Brave New World,…

terror” after John faces her with such a “menacing”, savage-like demeanour, reflecting the fear of the outside world in the World State, which is a key characteristic of a dystopian society. In addition, Huxley describes the manner in which the students “[stare] with the frightened and stupid…

Totalitarian Government it affects people ,relationships, and brainwashing. Huxley Totalitarian Government in Brave New World show how many characters are affected. In the book Huxley says “outside the garden it was play time naked in the warm june sunshine six or seven hundred little boys were running over the lawns or playing ball games or squating silently in tubs or threes among the flowing shrubs. In this quote by Huxley Government is contrasted with nature. The children are naked but…

Kevin Wang Mrs. Streckenbach Senior English P.7 28 September 2014 In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, people live in a supposedly dystopian society created after all civilization has been destroyed and two great wars. Then the era of ford ushers in, ensuring societal stability through dictatorship. Population is controlled through scientific methods; marriage is forbidden, and children are not born, but produced in an embryo factory. The society depicted in the novel is based on a rigid…