Social Stability, the most important element in any established society. Sometimes this important element comes with a price, but what kind of price would we pay for it? Would we pay with religion? What about the family? Or even our best friends, or our pets? In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, we see a society where they have given up all these important pieces of their lives in the name of that supreme element, social stability. There is no pain, limited sadness/stress, and little to no attachment. Sounds pretty dang perfect, right? Well we’ve talked benefits and according to the law of physics there has to be a reaction or some push to the pull. So what’s the push, or the cost? Without these elements we lose identity, we forget fidelity,…
Is Social Stability Worth It ? Social stability means that your whole community is equal. We all earn and do the same as others around us, which makes us even. Social stability can also help keep our society in balance. Without social stability , our society can end up being chaotic. Social stability has a big part in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Their society is balanced by having their citizens take an amount of soma and by also having certain restrictions. The sacrifices that…
The novel Brave New World shows that in order for a utopian society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoings of Mother Nature must occur. That being said successfully engineering these conditions produces a world of hope where the people are finally living a "happily ever after", but at a great cost. Community, Identity, and Stability is part of the conditions that plays a major role in the novel Brave New World. Community did not have the meaning that we…
A Brave New World opens up in the year of 632 A.F. All of civilization has been obliterated by a terrible war. After this a new era is produced under the man Henry Ford, who enforces stability through dictatorship. The society depicted in the story is based off of a caste system. Ford created and maintained peace throughout society by producing children in factories and conditioning them to act a certain way when it came to society and also by tranquilizing adults with a drug called “soma”.…
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…
How close is modern America’s government to controlling all, if not most, of our society today? Our current government gradually begins to take over the lives of people like that in Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World depicts a futuristic society that utilizes science to control the lives of mostly everybody by categorizing them into specific castes. The author’s vision of a utopian society in his novel is relatively, but not entirely, close to modern American society.…
Inspired in large part by the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, authors such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne popularized science fiction in the late 19th century. Building off of this relatively new genre, Aldous Huxley published what is widely acknowledged as his greatest work, Brave New World, in 1932. Huxley drew heavily upon the pioneers of science fiction; however, his predictions of the future differed from his predecessors. While earlier authors, specifically Wells,…
thoughts and opinions. Humans tend to categorize and link theories and ideas to what they perceive is correct and moral by the language and propaganda they are exposed to throughout their lives. In the literary work Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, language and propaganda are used as the main factors of the structural basis of their society. Civilians in the World State are delusional with the fact that they are living in an utopian world. Liberty is prohibited and a threat to society;…
Is social stability worth the price of giving up your individualism in exchange for a life filled with nothing, but joy? Is this not what everyone thrives for? In the book Brave New World the society that everyone is accustomed makes sure everyone is happy, has a role and title, and there is no crime nor religion. For a society to become a utopia in my opinion, must have these essentials: a society that everyone can be themselves without any worry, crime is a thing of the past, everyone…
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 pre-assigned purpose in society. However, Huxley shows us through…