New World

The Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley. Huxley wrote the book after the First World War, but before the Second World War began. Although the British society was officially at peace, the effects of war were becoming apparent. Huxley wrote about changes in national feeling, as well as changes in his feelings, questioning social and moral assumptions as well as the movement toward more equal judgement between sexes. The novel consisting of Aldous Huxley’s plan to create a…

half of 21 century, the speed of technological development quickened. Technologies made life more convenient, but our planet Earth went into the state that recovery started to seem impossible. Regardless of planet’s condition, people kept craving for new things. By the beginning of 22nd century, series of natural disasters attacked cities. Earthquakes dropped skyscrapers into crevices, tsunamis swept cities, and nuclear power plants started to explode one after another. Sky lost its clear blue…

the digital age, it relinquishes itself as whole into the welcoming arms of connectivity, convenience, and cognizance, or so it presumes. What humanity does not seem to realize is that its reality runs parallel with that of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, which in 1936 predicted a realm where human beings grow to embrace their oppression, mindlessly absorb information, and subconsciously ignore any attempts at revolution or uprising. Neil Postman advocates the Huxleyan point of view in the…

Through deliberate selection of the medium of production, composers are able to offer and emphasise their own perspectives on politics. This is evident in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian prose-fiction novel, Brave New World (1932), and Bruce Dawe’s poem, ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’ (1959). Both texts capture the composers’ own political ideologies and caution readers of governments that abuse technology to manufacture a consumeristic, groupthink culture. Composer’s criticise government bodies…

winsome twin to the far right wiggles her perfectly sloped nose, and begins to repeat the phrase, "Everyone belongs to everyone else..." This is what a dystopia may represent; repetition, repetition, repetition. Aldous Huxley produced a novel, Brave New World, that depicts a very similar, repetitious, and corrupt society. Likewise, Rod Serling does this in his television series, The Twilight Zone, episode “Number 12 Looks Just Like You.” Both societies are, all in all, absolute dystopias hiding…

Influence of Aldous Huxley in Brave New World: Horror of Hedonism Throughout history one great philosophical question that has mankind has struggled with is the question on the purpose of life. A primary answer for this question provided by different philosophers throughout history is the hedonism. The notion that the purpose of life is to be as happy as possible, so, therefore, individuals should live to fulfill their maximum net happiness while avoiding stress and suffering at all cause,…

book as it explains how the World State can function without problems. The world leaders create citizens in a factory and made to fulfill their role within the community. Thousands of tests are done on the humans to brainwash their minds and keep them conditioned. They are constantly under the control of the World State’s leaders, causing physical and mental stress. Unconditioned people are a danger to themselves and to the community when they finally snap. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley…

Brave New World is a cautionary satire that illustrates the dangers of an over-controlled society by dictators who attempt to create a “utopia” created on the foundation of “Community, Identity, and Stability”. In order to achieve a “utopia”, World State deprives arts, religion, and relationships from their citizens. Huxley’s novel shows the negative effects of ignoring one of Golda Meir’s beliefs that “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”…

to judge your success. Books are the primary source of learning, books contain knowledge and power. However, in Albert Huxley’s, Brave New World education is very different from our own. In his novel there are three different forms of learning “sleep teaching, book learning, and craft teaching.” These forms of learning can be seen among the citizen of The World State and John. This essay would examine and identify the effect of these three form of learning. In addition this essay will also…

Jennifer Government contains many elements that can directly be connected to the novel Brave New World, the famous Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth and the blockbuster film, Divergent. In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, a majority of the world’s countries have come together to form one big country called the World State, in a similar manner to the United States in Jennifer Government. The citizens of both worlds are valued on their capability to maintain a job and fit into a set role. The…