Thomas Henry Huxley

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    claims that his ideal of freedom is the freedom to be an individual apart from the rest of society. Bernard strives to be free in his "own way...not in everybody else's way." Huxley argues here that certain structures in our own modern society work in the same way that drugs like soma work in this fantastical dystopia. Huxley often argues against the use of advertising specifically for the way that it hypnotized people into wanting and buying the same…

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    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 society. The people of their community are not able to educate themselves due to the restraints proposed by their…

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    Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. It is a dystopian novel that takes place in the future. The new government is known as the World State and it is run by twelve controllers. Brave New World is a unique novel that portrays multiple similarities and differences with the United States today. Some major topics include human life, death and eugenics, the consumption of goods and services, and the use of drugs and pharmaceuticals. The United States still focuses on human rights and…

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    Attila The Hun

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    Imagine a time not dominated by machines and towns. Go back in time to an era of of the real world cast with a fictional tale. That is the scene set in Attila by William Napier. Attila tells the story of Attila The Hun, The one of the most Trenchant villains of all time. The story may be fictional, but the characters and scenery is not. Places such as the Forested Britain, The inveterate Rome, and the frozen tundra of the northernland. In the time of Attila and the Roman Empire, Britain was…

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    The novels, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell, although both portray many differences, they also contain many similarities. These two books have many details that may be seen as a warning to today’s and future societies. Showcasing not only the rapid advancement of technology, but also the increasing amounts of government control over society. The two books also have similar displays of the increasing amounts of harmful drug and alcohol abuse. Writing about these three…

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    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…

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    In the novel “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley uses many different passages to reveal the symbolism of soma, the clothing & Henry T. Ford, and lastly the character of Bernard Max. Throughout the novel Huxley uses soma to symbolize control and conformity, and makes it clear that soma is a necessity to the society. It is used to keep people calm and acting in a calm, controlled way. If no one is angry, then there are no problems in the society, and so they give them soma to control their emotions,…

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    Discuss the arguments Huxley develops through the juxtaposition of the world state to our own. Juxtaposition: place two things side by side in order to compare Argument: opinion, point of view, perspective Brave new world depicts a unique, subtle different world in comparison to our world. Huxley gives a different perspective on the world that depicts toward the reader as he doesn't show the reader from a 3rd person perspective as he actually shows the world from the 2nd person perspective…

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    Quoted by George Orwell, authors write to “desire push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s ideas of the kind of society that they should strive after.” It is human nature to achieve an idealistic community, being essentially the “best of the best” as societies progress in history. Erik Carson also implements this as a purpose in his book The Devil in the White City. He described the events before and leading up to the creation of the 1893 World World’s Fair in Chicago led…

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    complex ideas make readers think.Huxley's witty, clear, nimble prose is very much an upper-class tradition. the author's point of view is the third person. Huxley chooses an omniscient, all-knowing narrator to explain his vision of a future world state, so the audience has the possibility to get an impression of all the different characters Huxley creates. You are able to be with different characters at different places, at the beginning with the director in the Conditioning and Hatchery Centre…

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