Social Stability in Brave New World Essay

Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, "Brave New World," is a satire discussing many different topics such as war, the advancement of technology, and the power of one government. "Brave New World" is set in the distant future where society has given up their freedom after a gruesome war, called the Nine Years War, in order to live happily without constant fear or hardship. To be able to uphold this happiness, the new world's government, also called the World State, creates many rules and standards so…

Huxley 's Brave New World presents a world that is influenced by technology and science where your individuality is taken from you. This society is supposed to be nothing but perfection which creates stability, which maintains order as where people have no emotional intentions and do not think for themselves because they are demoralized and are brainwashed. Even history is fabricated and retold differently to maintain stability and to not let people question the World controllers. World…

ERWC P7 13 March 2015 Maintaining Happiness through Stability As we compare the characters in Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, to today’s society we find that there are differences. Brave New World’s motto is community, identity and stability, which relates to a stable society. Yet, we find out that everyone is really robotic-like. In actuality, in Brave New World there is no difference between individuals, the community is one of social conditioning in which all are alike, each…

what it means to be free. This is a thought shared in two pre World War Two dystopian future novels. The author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, presents a situation where allowing more pleasure allows for a more guidable populous. In contrast, George Orwell’s oppressive society in 1984, instills fear in its citizens through threats and enforcement by the Thought Police. Comparing Brave New World and 1984, the society of Brave New World is easier to control and as a result, they are more…

In the novel Brave New World, Huxley believes its society is perfect because of the genetic engineering of its citizens in the World State. Through genetic engineering of its citizens, the World State achieves an all happy society with predestined skills before they are even born. Although Brave New World contains drug use, sexual scenes, and is a loveless society it should remain in the high school curriculum because it teaches the reader the cost of maintaining a utopian society through the…

Is it correct to sacrifice people’s needs for the wellbeing of the society? In both Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and the article “Practice Babies” by NPR, society values their needs over the necessities of the individuals. In the novel, author Huxley shows through the dehumanising use of conditioning by the World State to override the individuality of citizens and to create their goal of consumerist society. In the article, writer NPR shows this through the inattention of universities…

Huxley’s novel Brave New World, he depicts a futuristic “ideal” society where all natural and mental pain is diminished, by biotechnology to create the most idealistic society where there was no pain or worries, everyone is equal as well as happy , but at what price?..as the novel continues huxley slowly unveils the many flaws in this “ideal” society, from citizens futures determined for them, to being unable to think for themselves...all for social stability . Is social stability worth the…

Huxley ‘ Brave new world , Thomas Hobbes ‘ Leviathan and Jean- Jacques Rousseau ‘ The social contract . “ A world of genetically modified babies , boundless consumption , casual sex and drugs “ ( Atwood , Para.1 ) , Aldous Huxley’ Brave new world is a futuristic society where individuals are formed in test tubes , and conditioned ( listening to certain repeated phrases during sleep ) to obey the society policies and to be happy with their social class . The society is known as “ The world state…

According to George Kateb, “The principal mission of utopianism is to encourage the hope that human nature is changeable for the better beyond the limits assigned by worldly pessimism or theological despair” (Kateb 621). As this is true, the new world is lucky that it is possible to alter aspects of human nature. Due to this advantage, the creation of this utopia is feasible. As these changes seem to better society, there is nothing else to improve. Therefore, change is undesirable and…

Today, society values control and stability more than ever before. The world imagined by Aldous’ Huxley’s Brave New World, encourages the idea of increased control through inflicted pleasure and excessive conditioning. He introduced the idea of imposing cheerfulness among the community with this false happiness. These untrue emotions however, create a dull community, full of people with extremely similar identities. In comparison to society today, there are also aspects where people are…