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    Religion is often turned to when one feels alone or fearful; however if no being has the capacity of feeling this way, then the comfort of religion is dispensable. In the science fiction novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, there is a dictatorship run by ten world controllers, where former old-fashioned religion is dismissed and the people now worship the figurehead, Ford, who represents the rise in technology and capitalism. The plot unravels, though, as characters such as Bernard Marx,…

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    satirical movement focusing on the political and social aspect within America. Meanwhile, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, paints an overall satirizing picture of our world that is tilted towards efficiency and justice. The pure purpose of both, Brave New World and Idiocracy, pieces are to satirize political and social opinions through the use of addiction, religion, and government, but Brave New World has a stronger impact through satire to evoke change in its audience. Without exception,…

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    Brave New World Appears As a Utopia All over the world, people complain about how lousy and miserable some aspects of their lives are, wishing they lived in a paradise where everything felt stable. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley clearly demonstrates elements of a utopia, despite the number of people believing the book displays a dystopia. The general public should be concentrating on equality, stability with happiness, and being emotionless. While the world has been in an emotional…

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    Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. It is a dystopian novel that takes place in the future. The new government is known as the World State and it is run by twelve controllers. Brave New World is a unique novel that portrays multiple similarities and differences with the United States today. Some major topics include human life, death and eugenics, the consumption of goods and services, and the use of drugs and pharmaceuticals. The United States still focuses on human rights and…

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    the jury. Aldous Huxley, the author of the futuristic dystopian novel “Brave New World” is innocent in rightfully challenging the idea of a modern utopia. He invites the reader to challenge the ideal society as his writing is a cautionary tale and a warning to people that humanity may transform from being free independent people to slaves to our own greediness and society. “Brave New World” is a disturbing, loveless world and Huxley shows this through his writing, tapping into themes such as…

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    Huxley’s Controlled World vs. 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…

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    Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, presents a vivid and cynical image of a corrupt government and warns its readers of the possibilities that the current society could become. In the 1931 story, the “new world” depicts a morbid mass addiction to a pleasure-inducing drug called soma. A complete loss of individuality, as every normal citizen is created in a lab through a process called “bokonivskation” and the intolerance of any individual’s negative feelings about the government.…

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    way of coping with these situations; however, I believe there are always a better outcome then substances. One key difference between our modern world and the society in Brave New World is our world does not set us up for lives of attempted pure bliss. Current civilization allows mistakes, sadness, and grief, along with any and all other emotions. The world in the novel was based around production, happiness, and control. My second point of discussion is not so prevalent…

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    Today, the modern world represents a great unbalance and can be seen as unstable. Society is separated by growing technologies and 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…

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    is rampant with these assumed unavoidable dysfunctions of society. Aldous Huxley’s world famous novel Brave New World presents us with a world where social unrest and the ills of society are all but eliminated. Huxley imagines a future of total social and economic stability; where “Community, Identity, Stability” is the world motto (Huxley pg.1). There is no desire for revolution against the elite leaders of the World State, and there are no disagreements; everybody is content with their…

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