The New World

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John the Savage’s world is turned upside down when he is brought back to London by Bernard and Lenina. John basically gets thrown into a new life of new customs, new people, new experiences, etc. which he has to adapt to for both the better and the worse. As a whole, John’s experience of moving to London from the Southwest and living there was quite negative for his well-being, and Huxley uses this to develop the theme of the “noble savage” archetype as John…

A Brave New World In the novel, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley displays to us that using science and technology as a weapon of social conformity through the usage of conveying how central control of a government can lead to a euphoric, dystopian society. It becomes clear throughout the book that the World State’s total control of the human action demolishes the scientific advancement that gained it such control. To begin with, one way Aldous Huxley presents us this message is through the…

John the Savage of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is a character who has experienced major rifts in his life, preventing him from ever returning to his original state of being. John experienced such rifts in the forms of enrichment and alienation. John experienced enrichment through his mother’s teachings of the world she came from. John experienced alienation through his mother’s death and through the multiple Delta clones he witnessed. Linda, John’s mother, spent the majority of John’s…

Brave New World The novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley positions readers to think and reflect upon values and beliefs of our society, through emphasising the differences in his fictional society and our current society (or that of the 1930s). (Main Contention) THE MEANING IN TEXT IS SHAPED BY PURPOSE, CULTURAL CONTEXT, AND SOCIAL SITUATION. (The author provided a society so different from ours that we were forced to either agree strongly with or disagree with the concepts – would this be a…

Taking place in 2540 London, not even a hint of the world we know exists. Natural pregnancies are frowned upon, soma, a drug stimulant to make you happy, takes hold of almost everyone, and cars do not exist and helicopters have taken their place. The people grown are also placed into castes; Alphas, Gammas, Betas, Epsilons and Deltas. Three of the types Epsilons, Deltas, and Gammas are usually produced to undergo a procedure to make exactly 96 identical humans. Epsilons, Deltas and Gammas are…

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the society conditions its people and this is a form of social control. This approach to social control makes the citizens happy and trouble free because of the conditioning they are unable to be any way other than content. The conditioning that they receive happens before they are even alive in the society. One example of the type of conditioning the society uses to control the population is when the Director talks about, “oxygen-shortage for keeping…

There is no self-identity in Brave New World. There is no chance for an individual identity to be created due to the lack of self worth. This dystopian society is hyper focused on what a person can contribute to the community. This contribution translates into a Caste system with Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Each caste is assigned to a particular part of society, being conditioned to be the best they can be at their role in test tubes before they are even born. Self-identity is…

hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformist who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood” (Martin Luther King, Jr). In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, World Controllers try to make the perfect society that works seamlessly together and to have citizens that are always happy. In this dystopian novel the world in organized into caste systems of highly specialized workers to low class people who do the simplest jobs. To many people the world is complete, but to…

Mrs. Burrows ENG 4U-41 Chelsea Poshni Wednesday July 29th 2015 Ultimate Destruction of the Brave New World In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to input the belief that every single invention or improvement is for the betterment of mankind and is only an instrument for ultimate destruction. “We are,” he said, “on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will require all out intelligence and all out good will.” Not only in the book, but in real life aswell, one…

Although Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Equilibrium share common themes, comparable methods to suppress others, and similar characters, the two are entirely different. In fact, one distinction between the novel and movie is the severity of discipline. The Director reprimands Bernard for his rebellious attitude when he tells him, “‘If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre — preferably to Iceland’”…