The New World

Although many try to blend in with the rest of the population, the few who break away and think with eccentricity stand out and make a change. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson all use their knowledge and ability to be an individual in order to understand freedom and escape from average society and community. Bernard is very important in the plot of the story because he is the one who first openly shows individuality and freedom, and…

Imagine a world that has a drug that was like “lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting” (Huxley 154). Whenever one felt overwhelmed or stressed all one had to do was take the drug called soma. One can have sex with whomever one wants with no emotions attached. Also one has no such thing as parents and one believes in a God named Ford. Ones job consists of working on a machine all day but one never gets bored because they…

The citizens of the World State are rigidly controlled and thus have no free will. When Lenina is talking to Henry Ford about the fact that regardless of their caste, all humans are equal after death, she remembers waking up in the middle of the night and hearing that “everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons.” (64). This illustrates how powerful the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the beliefs and rules that form the…

Boom! Just in the blink of an eye, all the biological functions that sustain an organism shut down. Death is a petrifying stage of life that over 250,000 people in Canada experienced in the past two years. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, death is meaningless, and is a natural and tolerable process, which is the optimism today’s society is trying to establish. Nobody looks forward to the end of life, but the BNW is an example of where death is accepted and no one fears it anymore,…

Bernard craves acceptance, not individuality. Huxley writes , “Bernard’s physique was hardly better than the average Gamma…contact with members of the loser castes always reminded him painfully of his physical inadequacy,” (Huxley 64). Although Bernard is very distinct from the rest of the members, he wants more than anything to fit in with everyone else and fit society’s mold because his height is a disadvantage to his class. Bernard appreciates and values things that no one does anymore,…

from corrupting. Therefore, the goal of the country would be to generate wealth. To reach that goal, government would encourage the public to consume. Eventually, the human race would be changed by the new world to fit in. Inspired by this idea, Mr. Huxley wrote the famous…

The novel, Brave New World, explores a technologically advanced dystopian society where all aspects of civilization, economic, social, and biological, are controlled by the government. People are developed in tubes with predestined social classes, jobs, and beliefs. The lower classes are designed to be both physically and intellectually less developed, just enough to satisfy the menial labor needed to sustain the economy. The higher classes are designed to be the thinkers and leaders of this…

The dystopian novels Brave New World, Uglies and the dystopian movie The Island holds many similarities between one another within the criteria of the state. Within these three examples of dystopian worlds, the state creates the expectation that citizens must maintain a young and good looking appearance for their entire lives. In Brave New World the state uses many tactics to keep their citizens youthful and beautiful, the state administers certain drugs to the citizens each day to maintain…

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, Huxley has created a world in which they live in a dystopian society. There are many similarities and differences in our world and the world state. In Brave New World, the world state has attempted to reduce the chances of overpopulation so, they controlled the society that they live in. Many people argue that there are more differences than similarities, but I disagree. I feel like there are many similarities from our world to the world state. In our…

Brave New World: What makes our Society more in Common with Brave New World? In my own understanding of this novel titled “Brave New World” written by Aldous Huxley. I will say its contents and the characters discussed have a lot in common with our society. In comparison, the Director of the Hatchery Conditioning portray the character of our governments, all staff working in the conditioning department represent our so called scientist, while all the babies cultured represent the citizens of…