A Brave New Word by Aldous Huxley

"'God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.'" So says Mustapha Mond, the World Controller for Western Europe in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In doing so, he highlights a major theme in this story of a Utopian society. Although the people in this modernized world enjoy no disease, effects of old age, war, poverty, social unrest, or any other infirmities or discomforts, Huxley asks 'is the price they pay really worth the benefits?' This novel shows that when you must give up religion, high art, true science, and other foundations of modern life in place of a sort of unending happiness, it is not worth the sacrifice.

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

Huxley’s Brave New World could be considered almost prophetic by many people today. It is alarmingly obvious how modern society is eerily similar to Huxley’s novel with the constant demand for instant gratification encouraging laziness, greed, and entitlement. Neil Postman, a contemporary social critic, seems to have noticed this similarity, as he has made bold, valid statements regarding the text and its relevance to our world today. This response is strongly in support of those statements and will prove both their accuracy in clarifying Huxley’s intentions and how Postman’s assertions compare to society today.

Aldous Huxley has a humanistic, deep and enlightened view of how society should be, and of what constitutes true happiness. In his novel, Brave New World, he shows his ideas in a very obscure manner. Huxley presents his ideas in a satirical fashion. This sarcastic style of writing helped Huxley show his views in a very captivating and insightful manner. The entire novel describes a dystopia in which intimate relationships, the ability to choose one's destiny, and the importance of family are strictly opposed. In Huxley's mind, however, these three principles are highly regarded as necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling existence.

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

Often individuals choose to conform to society, rather than pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than create a new one. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, this conflict is explored. Huxley starts the story by introducing Bernard Marx, the protagonist of the story, who is unhappy with himself, because of the way he interacts with other members of society. As the story progresses, the author suggests that, like soma, individuals can be kept content with giving them small pleasure over short periods of time. Thus, it is suggested in the book that if individuals would conform to their society’s norms, their lives would become much

Imagine a world where happiness is given to you. Happiness is not worked for nor earned, you just get it. Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, is a novel written in 1932, where Huxley predicts the future of humankind. At the time, Henry Ford was famous for the cheap mass production of the T-model cars using the assembly line. Thus, Huxley predicts a future in which people from the World State(the society he predicts the future will hold) are engineered in test tubes and conditioned to be one of the castes in their society. In this society, the characteristics and emotions that makes humans human are banned. Families, love, passion, literature, natural birth, religion and monogamy are banned because

In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce

Lastly, Huxley predicted fairly well that love and relationships will become almost like a game. It’s heartbreaking to hear about how many relationships end in divorce, abuse, or a cheating partner. Just like the BNW citizens, the majority of people see love and marriage as an almost unpleasant

The social critic, Neil Postman, created six assertions he believed supported Huxley’s visions in, “Brave New World.” Out of the six, the three most relevant ones regarded the unnecessary banning of books, the loving of technology in order to think less, and the adoration of the things we love that will eventually ruin us. Which are all linked together in some form, through the ideas of adoration and pleasure.

As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs

“Brave New World” is a novel written by Aldous Huxley about a utopian world where there is only infinite sex, drugs, and happiness. The people in this society are happy and content with their lives, but in this society things such as art, emotions, love, a strong sense of family, and many other things are just sacrificed, and thrown away to preserve this everlasting peace. The characters in this book are struggling to embrace this ideal society or just simply reject it. I believe that Aldous Huxley wants us to ask ourselves if we would give up our most important values for happiness, but I think that Huxley would say that he would rather suffer than be happy.            Huxley shows this idea through one of the characters in the novel John.

From floating obstacles courses to movies that make you literally feel the characters sensations, and more, Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World offers a peculiar yet interesting story that very much relates to modern times. The book is set in a future Utopia, but the advanced technology isn’t the only thing that’s changed. People in the society of the book, the World State, have a very loose grasp on what truth and happiness really are. These interesting relationships prove just how incompatible truth and happiness can be. In society as a whole, truth must be chosen over happiness in order to obtain a self-reliant, thriving population; however, in today’s world, individual happiness is often chosen over truth by way of inhibiting substances.

This novel suggests that there is more to life than just happiness; Brave New World insinuates that readers should seek freedom, knowledge and love in life. Huxley implies that without these fulfilling emotions and feelings, readers will be subject to a dreary and repetitive life.

Happiness can be experienced if there is no love, hate or passion, sadness, relationships, or family. One of the central themes of Huxley’s “Brave New World” is to erase emotions and feelings from its citizens to achieve happiness. This society is based on logical thinking, and all evidence of history and religions have been destroyed. The closest thing to a religion or God that the citizens have is Ford Company founder, Henry Ford. Ford is motivated, and an innovator that has a vision for the future and has a way of getting things done. Huxley’s choice of Ford as a god-like figure depicts that the most significant value of this new world is production and consumerism. Consumerism is of the