Julian Huxley

Aldous Huxley, a well-known novelist, was best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World that emphasized his dark visions of the technological advancements in the future. Even though technological growth is inevitable in our future, it could become a possible threat to our morals. In Brave New World, many people are consumed with the latest inventions that they gave up their freedom to technology in order to fulfill their common goal - social stability. People saw their world as…

Fear can numb a person. It can make one live a deluded reality, facing more trouble avoiding their fears rather than obtaining what they desire. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley races past a comfort-driven ideal of life to the reality of living with no values. Technology within society demoralizes factors that make one human, and the divisions within the population isolate each individual. This aids in the development of underlying tones centered around the meaning of life and the incapability…

Life in North America in 2016 The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley dehumanized the members of the society, so the leaders of the controlled world could enforce their motto Community, Identity and Stability. Huxley tried to portray the World in the novel as to his imagination of the modern world but the world has not advanced that greatly. Our World has become heavily reliant on technology and social conformity. However, Huxley failed to portray the future of life in the North America in…

identity, community and stability in the reservoir. The setting of Brave New World takes place in 2450 A.D referred as 623 year “After Ford” (Huxley 2). The view of identity describes how society must have the same moral in order to believe it can be a utopia. Identity is a key meaning of the World State’s Motto. “Community, stability and identity.” (Huxley 2) Too add, it is used as a method to adapt, so that individuals such as Bernard Marx, who feels more than minimum is made to be seen as…

For thousands of years, man has been contemplating how to obtain true happiness. The Dalai Lama once said, “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions” ( Dalai Lama). A key word in this quote is “own”. This word implies that happiness is something that comes from within and cannot be forced on an individual by others. Another key component of happiness is being given the agency to choose one’s course through free will. No power should have the right to take away a…

Because Aldous Huxley was concerned about the dangers of scientific progress, he wrote a novel predicting a future in which technology dominates mankind. In Huxley’s Brave New World, John perceives the New World society – which he had high hopes for – as wicked, disgusting, and foolish. John disagrees with many aspects of this morally corrupt society: open sexuality, hypnopaedia, use of a brainwashing drug, and lack of individualism. During his experience in the New World, John befriends Bernard…

What defines an idealistic society? It could be where everyone is accepted, there are no social classes, or where no one is homeless or has to think about their next meal. In contrary, what defines a dystopian society? Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, Harrison Bergeron illustrates a dystopian society with total equality. The government achieves this status by authorizing handicaps for the citizens ensuring that nobody is smarter, better looking, or more athletic than anybody else, thus accomplishing…

The morality in Ken Kesey’s counterculture novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest juxtaposes the novel’s setting. Themes of healing and moral clarity are adversely contradicted by the rigidness of society and its pressure on outsiders. Chief Bromden is the protagonist of the novel, and his freedom and clarity, given to him by nature, are destroyed by the industrialization of society and the mechanical hospital. Chief’s suffering and deterioration are representative of the actual effects of…

Millon states that narcissists believe they should live a perfect and superior existence (Personality Disorders 344). Perfection is viewed as either all or nothing and no flaws can be tolerated (Millon, Personality Disorders 345). Gatsby therefore attempts to repress the imperfect poverty-stricken James Gatz by changing his name and creating a new life at age seventeen (Fitzgerald 74). Similar thoughts are expressed by Tyson who writes that Gatsby’s fabricated life is more than just a scheme to…

Born in 1821, Fydor Dostoevsky was an innovative thinker that produced thoughts that were divergent from the traditional men of the 1840’s. Living against the grain and refraining from common beliefs such as serfdom, Dostoevsky paved his own road rooted in beliefs of materialism, determinism, as well as atheism. As he gained more of a voice and presented more of his opinions, Dostoevsky’s differing views ultimately led to his imprisonment and later removal to Siberia. It is evident that…