Julian Huxley

novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx is an outcast amongst the rest of the people in the world state. Even though he grew up in the same environment, with the same teachings, he is not as brainwashed as the other people. He actually has to act like them against his will because acting individually or doing anything out of the ordinary will get him in trouble in this world where society matters most, and where “Everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 40). Throughout the novel,…

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored¨ -Aldous Huxley. In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the idea of a utopian society come to light. With the sarcasm and ridiculous examples he shows, we can see the flaws of this world become apparent. The chilling predictions from Huxley’s book are showing signs of coming true more and more every year. People are using drugs, technology is advancing before our eyes and the government is showing more controlling tendencies.…

succinctly described by their world motto: “Community, Identity, Stability”. The world that Huxley depicts is one that has completely abandoned many of the things that we consider to be essential to our humanity in favor a stable civilization in which everyone is happy. As a result, their perception of community and identity are very different than our own as they are completely geared towards maintaining stability. Huxley uses the extreme practices of the planetary motto in Brave New World to…

technology they use. The World State believes it is not needed in a world with science and machines. Their “religion” is now just about technology, sex, and drugs. “For Huxley as an intellectual, mind and body are divided. Not only is human biology more than a little disgusting, it is also—specially sexual intercourse for Huxley—ridiculous. We are all slaves to the body” (McQuail). All their bodies are used for is work and sex. With this as their only form of religion, there are many unanswered…

that undo their (human) capacities to think”. Huxley’s assertion of modern society is more relevant today than Orwell’s because our dependence on technology has made us oppress ourselves, where we have become responsible for our own downfalls. “Huxley feared that what we love will ruin is”. This refers to our love for technology and how we…

Delightful Ohana Tattoos – No One Get’s Left Behind “Ohana" means "family." "Family" means no one gets left behind." This quote is from the Disney movie Lilo and Stitch (2002). In this cute film, a little Hawaiian girl adopts a strange looking dog who is actually an alien. The word “Ohana” was made quite popular by this film and many people still chose to include it in their tattoo designs. Today we will look at these ohana tattoos in a little more detail. The word “ohana” is from the…

characters—John, Bernard, and Lenina—whose contrasts communicate important messages about human nature. Written two years after the great American stock market crash of 1929, Brave New World aims to illustrate the effects of technology on social structure. Huxley exposes a more serious reality that hides under the facade of perfect consumerism. In the ‘brave new’ World State, happiness has been leached out of traditional institutions such as family. Instead, it comes in the form of drugs and…

writers to imagine their own ideas of utopia. Aldous Huxley, with both a scientific and literary background, wrote Brave New World in 1932 (Congdon). This book takes the reader to London six hundred years into the future. This stable world is filled with comfort, safety, and control. Everything is industrialized. Perhaps at first glance, this description may appeal to the reader, but a closer look reveals an undesirable and frightening world. Huxley uses parallels from his own life, his…

Love and hate two different things yet they cannot exist without each other, it’s as if they were incorruptible together. As shown in George Orwell's 1984, the ideas of love and hate seem so distant in meaning as they are polar opposites, yet they can exist without each other. George Orwell's 1984 is a novel that shows the life and aspect of a totalitarian society. The people love “Big Brother”, their dicator that is infinite, and Big Brother influences them to hate Emmanuel Goldstein, the…

Aldous Huxley foreshadows the dangers of communal identity and conformist behavior in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley creates an experiment within the World State, controlling factors such as birth in a test tube, predestined factions, color of clothes, sanitation and the rationing of soma. He casts his characters as the variables in the experiment, utilizing the outsider John, the neglected Bernard, and the indoctrinated Lenina to examine their responses to the World State. As every…