Social Stability in Brave New World Essay

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    everything is completely controlled. This scenario replicates the World State. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley centers around the unattainable idea of a utopia; however, the society described better reflects a dystopia and was written to convey a warning message to the readers in 1932 and future audiences. First, The World State, the functional society in Brave New World, seems Utopian in theory, but its overarching plan for moral, social, and cultural improvement actually results…

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    Huxley’s Brave New World creates a picture of a perfect society that wins happiness by altering the minds of its people to believe they are happy. The population is so conditioned to think things done today that are seen as wrongful doings or taboo, will be considered the norm. In a world where painting an unorthodox vision of the future to create stability, the people are no longer as happy as they would make their beliefs up to be, but as happy as their government allows them. Brave New…

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    The Critical Analysis of Brave New World and The Modern World Did Aldous Huxley really foresee the world of today in his Brave New World? Huxley describes a ‘‘dystopia which is a community or society that is undesirable and frightening’’ in his novel. Generally, dystopias set in the future and predict how the features of the modern societies will be. Also, Huxley predicts the modern world in some ways in Brave New World. There is a society which contains many new technologies and developments…

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    society, but their potential is foreshadowed in literature such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, written in 1932. In Brave New World, Huxley presents a dystopian society that introduces many parallels to modern society, but, as a whole, does not provide a perfectly accurate depiction of our current world due to the extremity in which technology controls each person’s life. Although the society in Brave New World does not fully reflect modern society, the overwhelming influence of technology…

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    Throughout Brave New World, Huxley shows how an extremist, government "society" has destroyed social individuality. The citizens of the society lose all ability to truly feel emotions and be an individual. Hemholtz, Bernard, and John, are a few of, if not, the only symbols of individuality that the World State has yet to conquer. Community in the World States, calls for unity and one-mindedness. There is no room for individualistic ideals or creative thoughts. You can 't think outside of the…

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    Marxism In Brave New World

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    “Everyone belongs to everyone else,” exclaims the voice in the dream of the innocence in Aldous Huxley’s future world - the hypnopaedic observation deterring singleness in friendship and love (Huxley, 35). In a sense in this “brave new world,” Huxley illustrates a society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoing of Mother Nature must occur. Along the extensive use of hypnopaedic training, fetal conditioning, and the ability of convention, any individual can be…

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    Brave New World Dystopian

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    Early on in The Brave New World the reader is informed of the three pillars that create the of the World State: “Community, Identity, and Stability.” The World State is set in a futuristic era after nuclear devastation. The Brave New World’s society is held together by manipulating the genes, family, and relationships of the community. Although it seems on the surface that the World State is an utopian society, a deeper analysis shows that the conformity and control of the people cause a…

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    The Contradictory Pillars of the World State The three pillars of the World State in Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, community, identity, and stability, are words that label the problem in society rather than sustain the society. Aldous Huxley uses this phrase to represent the faults of the World State, and to apply a warning to the reader of the issues that develop because of how these ideas carry in the novel. Community is thought to be a connection between people that share a similar…

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    Imagine a world where “everyone belongs to everybody else” (Huxley Aldous, 40). A world where the main purpose is happiness; But nobody cared how it was achieved, the only thing that mattered that it was there. A place where humans don’t reproduce sexually but are all twins, manufactured in a factory. Where people could not be themselves, but follow the rules that they were conditioned to obey. This “Brave New World” might seem ludicrous, however, it very similar to the real world today. To…

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    conform to the group. In book Brave New World the entire dystopia is built around the stability of conformity and rejection of the individual. While in the film Gattaca their society is not focused on conformity as much so the success of the individual. In the novel Brave New World the children go through constant conditioning and hypnopedia to instill conformity and values while in Gattaca they push the succession through genes which gives them more free range. In Brave New…

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