Julian Huxley

20th century author George Orwell’s 1984 is a bleak yet powerful depiction of a dystopia deprived of individualism and free thinking. Several themes are explored throughout the novel’s progression such as freedom, gender, and technology. However, Orwell’s message about power is especially strong. 1984 is essentially a warning of the corruption and apathy that power brings when it is abused, as can be seen from the perspectives of the protagonists and progression of events. In the country of…

to a society where the struggle for resources ceases to exist. There is no fear of war here, no worries of hunger or homelessness. Wealth inequality has dissolved and society is operating in a state of interdependence; the basic needs of its people are met through cooperation. Capitalism is a thing of the past in Bellamy’s view of 20th century Boston. The consciousness of the society, as well as the world seems to have evolved to include greater health, balanced wealth and more time for love.…

Throughout his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley demonstrates a dystopian society, in which he provides instances that are closely and figuratively parallel to those in today’s society. Something distinct in Brave New World from other novels, is the novel’s innovative use of its main character, John the Savage. John contrasts from the general frame of a standard main character's structure of being introduced in the beginning of a novel and plagued with a negative situation, only to overcome…

Imagine living in a world where major decisions are being made for everyone. Being a unique individual is not existent. The government controls how a person looks, the career chose of a person, and what and how a person thinks on the daily basis. Sounds terrible. Unfortunately, these societies exist in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry. Both societies’ governments force equality on all citizens and believe that the society is a…

personal beliefs. Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932, describes a society that is based on three words; Unity, Stability, and Identity. These three principles create the Utopian (perfect) society setting that citizens could only wish for in 1932. Brave New World describes eugenics, pharmaceuticals, love and marriage, and technological advances that come very close to what society uses today. In his writing, Huxley presented ideas that were not realistic in his time,…

The society in Anthem is a dystopian society. A utopian society, is described to be as perfect a society as you can get, and a dystopian society is the exact opposite, making it the worst and most unpleasant society you could bare. Anthem can be considered dystopian in my perspective because of the oppression that the people face, the lack of voice, and the several other non favourable things they are forced to do. Because of the way this dystopian society functions, it is technologically…

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote explains how one must think for themselves and to be true to themselves without the influences of society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the protagonist Guy Montag to express how human beings struggle to strive for individualism when society influence limits one to think for themselves. He enhances this idea throughout the novel using…

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley repeatedly emphasizes the importance of technology. By using numerous references to technology throughout the novel, Huxley proposes to the reader the idea that technological advances can easily be used in any form of government to strictly control the populations thoughts, feelings, and actions in this dystopian world. These dystopian society, people are mere personal subjected to do a single individual job. The novel describes a scene where there…

New Athens is symbolic in “Childhood’s End” because it portrays a decaying of a utopian society in which everything seems to be perfect and peaceful. In the book Athens is described as a type of colony in which is “gathered…to build group with its own artistic traditions” (Clarke 134). With that being said the society itself has no concern of getting into war thus, “…no hostility towards the Overlords: we simply want to be left alone to go our own way” (135). This means that New Athens…

In the novel, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley describes a perfect Utopian society that was created by the World State in order to achieve a state of stability. The artificial society dehumanizes mankind to attain the world state’s motto, “community, identity, stability” Huxley’s fictional world is maneuvered with a brainwashing system very similar to a factory where how everything is controlled. After successfully manipulating every single aspect to creating a “happy” world it comes at…