A Brave New World Dystopian Analysis

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses tone to develop characters in the novel while simultaneously showing that every character is cast out at some point in their lives. This utopian future setting is developed throughout the whole first half of the novel.The entire culture is different, children are genetically bred and conditioned in so called Hatcheries. “ “Stability,” said the controller, “Stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (page 42) Each person supports a specific role in society, and if they break that role they are exiled. Readers get the chance to meet a few characters who question why they were even decanted or in John's case, Born.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is set in London A.F. 632 where religion is nonexistent, familial relationships are considered pornographic, and the government maintains strict control over everyone’s lives from fertilization to cremation. However, this control is not universal as there are still pockets of the old world where savages are subjected to old age, disease, and matrimony. It is from the savage reservation in Malpais that Bernard Marx takes misfits John and Linda back with him, to London. While Linda dies a slow, easy death of soma overdose, John is forced to navigate this society with a mind unhindered by conditioning, soma, or propaganda. Through this he is able to see the dangers of complete, totalitarian control of the state

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley includes allusion, ethos, and pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in the society as a whole. The things that happened in the 1930’s plays a big contribution to the things that go on in the novel. The real world can never be looked at as a perfect place because that isn't possible. In this novel, Huxley informs us on how real life situations look in his eyes in a nonfictional world filled with immoral humans with infantile minds and a sexual based religion.

"'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.

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

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.

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

Having been a somewhat of an outsider in his life, physically and mentally, Aldous Huxley used what others thought as his oddities to create complex works. His large stature and creative individuality is expressed in the characters of his novel, Brave New World. In crafting such characters as Lenina, John, Linda, Bernard, and Helmholtz, not to mention the entire world he created in the text itself, Huxley incorporated some of his humanities into those of his characters. Contrastly, he removed the same humanities from the society as a whole to seem perfect. This, the essence and value of being human, is the great meaning of Brave New World. The presence and lack of human nature in the novel exemplifies the words of literary theorist Edward Said: “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Huxley’s characters reflect the “rift” in their jarred reaction to new environments and lifestyles, as well as the remnant of individuality various characters maintain in a brave new world.

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

Dystopian novels have become more common over the last century; each ranging from one extreme society to the next. A dystopia, “A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control,”[1] through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, criticizes about current trends, societal norms, or political systems. The society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is divided in a caste system, in which humans are not individuals, do not have the opportunity to be individuals, and never experience true happiness. These characteristics of the reading point towards a well-structured

Information is one of the most useful and important resources of our time. People make significant decisions and evaluations based on the knowledge they have. Therefore, providing all the information that each individual wants is crucial. Unfortunately, this is not always the case in our society, and in many fictional dystopias.

A major element of the dystopian genre can be seen early in Brave New World in chapter two. In this chapter, the director is with the new students taking them on a tour of the nurseries. They are exposed to what can be said to be an unorthodox and immoral way to condition the delta and epsilon class’, this is done through operant conditioning much like Watson’s experiment conditioning fear into a baby, this is done through electrocution and noise torture to condition a hatred of nature and literature. This section shows us the World States abuse of psychological technologies in order to condition its future citizens. This in turn creates a generation of citizens with ascribed status and a lack of individuality.

I believe that our society today is getting dangerously close to becoming the society in the Brave New World. Our government today is pushing people to always think alike, and to learn the same information. They also use things like social networks to influence us to think a certain way.

World and Matched: the More Preferable Dystopia Introduction A dystopia is a seemingly pleasant world often characterized by totalitarian governments and unjust conditions where citizens are mislead. Two novels, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Ally Condie’s Matched (2010), both explore these phenomena. In a postmodern society, Huxley characterizes the dystopian evolution of technology as cold and unfeeling. His world revolves around the ideas of efficiency and immaculacy, created by extreme consumerism.

The novel, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is a story set six hundred years in the future. The world shown in the novel emphasizes on social peace and stability in which emotions, love, and real relationships are hardly found. John the savage and Bernard Marx are among the main characters of the novel. Bernard Marx is an Alpha male and is a citizen of the World State. John the Savage, born on the Savage Reservation is the son of the Director and Linda.