The New World

In Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley describes a drug called soma. Soma is taken by the majority of the World State’s population. This drug is often taken when someone is dealing with something “unpleasant”; it helps to relax them and keep them “happy”. However, soma has a dark side to it. The World State uses the soma to control the citizens by keeping them oblivious to the harsh reality of their world. Our entertainment is like soma’s effect on the citizens of Huxley’s Brave New World; it…

Brave New World Reveals Common Modern Conflicts Aldous Huxley was a successful novelist in the early to mid nineteen hundreds with Brave New World and many non-fictional novels. Earlier on in Huxley’s career he edited for magazines, such as, Oxford Poetry and published short stories and poetry. It wasn’t until after well into his mid career that he published some of his most successful works like Brave New World in 1932. Huxley wrote Brave New World with the impact of the great depression and…

The humanity of Brave New World morals and desires do not reflect beliefs of society today such as family, love, and triumph but alternatively the interests of the people are centered toward manufacturing, wealth, and technological growth and improvement. All the people in this strange world are not bothered with themselves individually but have in fact been conditioned to see their world as a single whole collective class of people. In his novel, Aldous Huxley, provides insight on how…

human drive for belonging also has its pitfalls. Aldous Huxley, in his novel, “Brave New World”, demonstrates that individuals living in dystopian or utopian societies alter their perspectives and personal opinions in order to feel they belong in their society. In other words, individuals are willing to sacrifice their individual identity in order to integrate within a utopian or dystopian society. “Brave New World”, clarifies the idea that in order for an individual to feel like they truly…

impact. He represents totalitarianism through conditioning and hypnopaedia for the politicians of the time to achieve absolute power and control as well as capitalism. Brave New World is his representation of the events of the time. He feared the rise of America and what it meant for Europe. “Community, Identity, Stability” the world state motto. What a joke? Yes there is community. Yes there is stability but where is the identity. I mentioned earlier about conditioning and hypnopaedia. You…

In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley is predicting the many relationships that Aldous Huxley thought would be in our society today. There are many things from the world state that are accurate to today’s society and then there are some that have nothing to do with today’s society. But we are going to look at how personal relationships are similar or different from today’s society. Personal relationships in the book are nothing like they are in today’s society. In the…

{Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World emphasizes the destructive outcomes of being unable to find a medium between wanton immorality and rigid moral standards, as well as the dangers of a perfect society.} Brave New World is set mostly in a futuristic, utopian society called “The World State” (Huxley, Brave New World 3), in the year “A.F. 632” (4). In this society, babies are mass-produced in identical batches and “decanted” (9) from bottles instead of born, and sex is used for pleasure and…

and happiness. The science fiction novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley depicts a technologically advanced society where humans are genetically bred, socially brainwashed, and extremely drugged to uphold the society--all at the cost for one's freedom, humanity, and soul. They end violence disease, and pain in exchange for all the good things in life. In this hypothetical society, we see an abnormal character named John who doesn’t fit in the Brave New World’s society. He was raised on a…

Brave New World Essay Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, takes place in London in the year A.F. (After Ford) 632. Henry Ford, the man who popularized the assembly line, inspired the World State to create the New World. People are made in test tubes in the Hatchery. The Director overlooks the process of conditioning citizens to be less intelligent, with people who are made smarter on top of the caste system. Bernard Marx is an upper class Alpha, but he is unhappy. This makes the Director…

progress, he wrote a novel predicting a future in which technology dominates mankind. In Huxley’s Brave New World, John perceives the New World society – which he had high hopes for – as wicked, disgusting, and foolish. John disagrees with many aspects of this morally corrupt society: open sexuality, hypnopaedia, use of a brainwashing drug, and lack of individualism. During his experience in the New World, John befriends Bernard and Helmholtz, who both reject some of the society’s principles.…