Julian Huxley

The Need For Imperfections In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, he introduces a utopian society where everyone is happy and have a blind eye on what the World State makes them believe. Imagine a society where there are no imperfections, everyone is the same, nobody is different, you live a privileged life and always happy. The cost is never possessing individuality and gambling where only the top classes enjoy such a lifestyle. Social stability guarantees perfection and…

Fanny discusses her biggest issue with Lenina, saying, “‘And they say he spends most of his time by himself-alone.’ There was horror in Fanny’s voice (Huxley 45).” There are two important words in that quote: alone and horror. Being alone to Fanny means time to think, it means time that is not being spent on an activity, and it means everything that her conditioning taught her is wrong. She is horrified…

Natural selection means that organisms that have the most favorable traits survive, prosper, and maintain those favorable traits. In the novel The Time Machine ,the time traveller comes up with three theories to how the people of the future evolved. The first theory is that the Eloi are the sole descendents of humanity. He assumes that scientific progress continued to make life easy for humans so much that it made them lazy and less able to survive harsh conditions. The Elois will be the only…

‘good people’, but for a religion to have it’s effects, it needs an institution. It takes a village to raise a child, and so it takes a religious dogma to breed toxic mindsets. Fordianism is that institution, and in Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley uses the psudeoreligion Fordianism to emphasize the need for human kind to have a sense of purpose, and how that can be taken advantage of and satirized in today’s religious culture . Ford is the dominant practice and praised deity in the…

Overall Introduction Paragraph In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, attempts to forge an ideal society of “Community, identity, stability” (Turner) lead to excessive emphasis on class consciousness, through utilization of a rigid Caste System, suppression of human propensities, and elimination of subversive ideologies. In the World State, the government promotes a sense of unity, an essential component of a prosperous community, by restricting the populace to predetermined castes. To…

Hubris is defined as excessive pride or arrogance. It was the center of many of the books read in class and the characters that were exuding it eventually suffered. Some characters who fit this description are Bernard, Macbeth, and Hercules. They were very promising people who fell prey to their nature. Their potential was eternally ruined by their hubris; it swiftly became their undoing. Had they not had such an extreme hubris, they would have been powerful. Bernard, a character from Aldous…

In the society of Fahrenheit 451 they are very different from our society. In their society everyone is the same and no one cares about anything or anyone and books are banned. With today's society we are all different from each other in many ways. We all care for everyone and we are all very smart. Though we aren’t that different from their society either because they have technology the size of a wall and we made a curved 4K T.V.. Since the society of where Fahrenheit 451 takes place…

Aldous Huxley Exposes the Flaws of Society Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World criticizes Huxley’s society while foreshadowing present-day society. Looking at today’s society, one could find the same issues as existed before: conditioning, soma, and a one world government at work. In Brave New World citizens undergo conditioning as children in order to never experience any emotional pain, to love the lives they live, and to want nothing less, nothing more, so that they are easier to control,…

Hi Jenna, I have to say I agree with your post mostly about the Utopian society vs. a dystopian society. I think that a dystopian society may also take social norms to far through. “The Giver,” a book that showed a society that had such a regard for human rights, economics, natural disasters, and social norms, it became a dystopian society because it was far too perfect. So the opposite can be true too. We should not fall to far down that rabbit hole that we forget how to question people or…

1. What is “the question”? What is the author trying to figure out? The question being posed in this book is about whether television is helping or harming our society as a whole. Dr. Postman readily argues that television is quickly eroding away at our way of communicating ideas. Throughout the book, he postulates the ways that television has taken speech and written word, shoved them aside, and replaced them with drama, spectacle, and amusement. 2. What is the primary method or approach…