The New World

from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World desires to break the strong hold that world leaders have on the people and attempts to make a difference. However, once he receives all of the attention he ever wanted, he finds himself changing into something else entirely. Bernard’s intelligence is to be admired but his eventual arrogance and foolishness transform Bernard from the hero to an ignorant fool. Originally, Bernard Marx’s intelligence is his best perk. In Brave New World, a majority of citizens…

Even though Huxley wrote Brave New World more than 70 years ago, this does not mean that the information in it is no longer relevant. If anything, since it was written so long ago it would make it more relevant. This would make it more relevant because he writes about a dystopian future and at this time period, we are living in the dystopian future that Huxley talks about. Using Huxley’s book, we can tell different flaws in our society that were predicted. Some of the topics mentioned in the…

Yazid Darawsheh The New World The New World is a historical drama film that takes place in early 17th century Virginia. The Native Americans, including one by the name of Pocahontas, see three English ships coming to shore. The leader of these ships is Captain Newport and below the deck is prisoner John Smith who will be hanged once they reach land. John Smith is pardoned by Newport who believes he will be a valuable asset as they attempt to build a settlement. However, unlike the Spanish…

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, the theme of exile is often illustrated. When literary theorist Edward Said wrote that exile is a potent and enriching time, I did not fully understand what he meant until I read Brave New World. To be exiled is to be shut out from your birthplace and home. Not only being removed physically but emotionally and mentally as well. However, in Bernard's case, he experiences exile without being removed from his home. He feels extremely different than everyone else,…

Brave New World, known to be one of Aldous Huxley's works, is a dystopian novel that's focused around a dull, futuristic society. The novel enhances genetically engineered people and subliminal messages set into people to divide people into different castes. In this world, the castes are divided into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, where the lower castes are modified to be more deformed and less intelligent. In this sense, the people are normalized into believing that things are…

The Brave New World was a twisted society that was ruled by six dictators. These dictators were controllers who decided everything for everyone. They limited what the people could think, and used a drug which was like a sedative, but that had no withdrawals or repercussions. The controllers would put them through conditioning (brainwashing) where they were taught their place in the society and what they could and could not ask/do or think about. From this hexa-dictatorship and cast system the…

and disable its citizens from having a choice? In Aldous Huxley’s science fiction novel, Brave New World, the government regulates how civilization functions by controlling every aspect of it. All of their abilities and personality traits are either decided before birth or conditioned into them during youth; they do not have the right to decide their fate. Huxley does not give the citizens in Brave New World the ability to choose in order to ridicule the restricted freedom in the dystopian…

In Brave New World, in Huxley’s made up utopian society, the World State, does have stability. But, it is at a cost. The people living in the World State think that they have to do their exact part and and everything that they are told just to keep a functioning society. The people are not allowed to have any type of individuality. Everybody is just like the next person. They are placed into classes from birth and are given a job just to make sure that the community is stable. But, the people…

In Brave New World, John is exposed to a rift between himself and his home, the New Mexico reservation. As he takes a trip to “civilization” with Bernard, Lenina, and Linda, he encounters a very different physical and ideological environment that has been shielded from him by the stability-driven motives of the Controllers. Once he finally breaks down the boundaries of a dystopian society, propelled by Bernard’s self-interests, he sees the life he never had. As Edward Said writes, the “essential…

A Brave New World, is a book about a world that takes place in 2540 A.D. in our time; but the book uses the date 632 A.F. after Henry Ford built the Model-T. The setting is in London, England. It is a world that the is ruled under one “government” or World State where there is a cast system in place. The caste system is separated as such Alphas, Betas, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Additionally, world state has taken over the fertilization process over were by they take the ovaries out of the…