Thomas Henry Huxley

The concept of home can be portrayed as a physical place or a state of mind, but either form will have a considerable impact on the individual of which it influences. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s physical departure from Malpais does not serve to diminish the traditional values that he adopts from his home while he finds the values in the World State immoral and revolting, portraying that two juxtaposing sets of values may not be able to exist together. Although John is born to…

Values of a Society In the book “Brave New World” Aldous Huxley depicts a world where the humans are breed in a lab and are placed into different groups depending on what chemicals were washed over the still developing, fertilized egg in the lab. No matter what group these people are put into they all are given basic guidelines to live by, those values include community, identity, and stability. In the story the reader can visualize the sense of community that the people live by, for example,…

mistreatment of women and stereotyping in well-known literary pieces from the past, which formed a base for this oppression and inequality seen today. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are two famous writers who include this gender gap in their literary works. In the novels 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the themes of gender inequality and oppression of women are expressed through the feminist literary theory. In general, feminism explores women’s roles in society and…

Huxley’s Brave New World "A Gramme is Always Better Than a Damn" (Huxley, 2006, p. 90) Aldous Huxley saw a fully aware and intelligent society the only way to obtain a government which would keep the people’s best interest a priority. In Brave New World it was clear the government had utter control of its people, which the government gained by supplying the population with Soma. Soma was a fictional recreational drug which caused euphoria, relaxation, and “an escape from… reality” (Hickman,…

Chairman X is the complete antithesis of both Dr. Gift and Dean Harstad. Like Dr. Gift, his religion is also not specifically referenced in Moo. However, Smiley does include that Chairman X is a communist. Because of his belief system, Chairman X loathes both Dr. Gift’s self-helping, capitalist methods, especially the Costa Rican gold mining plan, and Dean Harstad, whose use of, “patience as a weapon” the passionate and driven Chairman X finds irritating to the point where he daydreams of…

Imagine a perfect society, where people that live in the world benefit from society, a utopia. The author of both Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron explain what a world would be like if we had a perfect world, but also what would dramatically change if we did. Both societies in the books, Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, have shown that their world's censorship can be the most dangerous thing they can hide. Along with that, technology can have a big effect on how much power the…

By cause of its nature, scientific and technological progress will thrive in an environment where free thinking is allowed and encouraged. In Anthem’s totalitarian society, science and technology is incredibly rudimentary. Their latest invention, the candle, was presented and accepted 100 years ago; they haven’t invented anything in at least a century. When Equality 7-2521 presented his valuable discovery to the Council, they treated him unfairly by disregarding the invention’s many benefits for…

Greetings Why citizens stop looking for work. Please read the complete short article(URL below) regarding unemployment statistics in Nevada. I experienced this in LA, I had tenants, in my rental units, that were on welfare that were making more tax-free money than I was making on one of my regular full time jobs. And.... They did not want to pay the rent to the white man. Oh... did George make a racist remark?... Call the PC Police... I need to seek asylum in my safe place so I do not have to…

prophetic novel, Brave New World, includes among its many and varied themes the recurring notion of a society that is consumed by material goods and who find pleasure solely in the things that they possess. The inhabitants of the world invented by Huxley are not concerned with waste or sustainability; their main focus is pleasure and the enjoyment of the newest, shiniest, pleasing item to be played with and then discarded as they find a new object to be enamored with, perpetuating the vicious…

"that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards), but sterile. Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last," continued Mr. Foster, "out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention” (Huxley 65). Here we can see that that the World State controls its citizens by controlling their…