A Brave New World Literary Analysis

"'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 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

Many times there is an underlying topic to a novel and what it truly means. For Brave New World, there are many underlying ideas as to the makeup of Aldous Huxley’s novel. For example, themes like science, sex, power, freedom and confinement, drugs and alcohol, society and class, and dissatisfaction as different themes that Huxley produces in the novel. Also there could be many symbols in the novel including, bottles and Ford. Not only are these themes and symbols throughout the novel, but there also could be a direct tie to Brave New World with Freud.

In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses many literary

Huxley’ wrote Brave New World to warn the world of science and technology and its wrongful uses, because in the World State a caste system is available in which certain people are superior to others. During the tour of the children around the World State, Mr. Foster says. “We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” which demonstrates through science people in the World State are easily controlled (Huxley, 13). From the point these utopians were fertilized embryos; their lives were already planned for them. They were set to certain intelligence, caste, height, looks. This allowed the state control society because they determined who became successful and was in the upper classes and who would always be a lower class member. Furthermore, in the caste system there is four different classes were each class wears a certain color to represent their

The World State from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World desires a citizenry that is obedient, useful, and satisfied. This requires meticulous manipulation through conditioning, soma, and relationships to grow a population that accepts not only this falsified happiness but also a lack of freedom with gladness.

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, he started to realize how “Outdoor play has been steadily decreasing for North American children” (Let Kids Be Kids: Using Adventure and Nature to Bring Back Children’s Play). The desire to play outside has been decreasing for years now, and a primary reason behind this issue is technological advancements. As a result, Huxley incorporated many futuristic technological advancements in his dystopian novel. Aldous Huxley predicts that more people will turn away from nature and become more involved with technology.

Freedom is one of the pillars on which modern society is built upon. Our freedom, though it may give sadness, also gives purpose and quoting Walter Wangerin Junior: “The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow”. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World demonstrates a society deprived of its freedom through societal conditioning. The first instance of conditioning is the consumerist ideology and this ideology causes the loss of high arts and culture. The second instance of conditioning is found within the forced dependence of recreational drugs, causing the population to constantly pursue a shallow and temporary happiness. The third instance of conditioning is found within the caste system and prevents any individuality

The media tells us how to live and how to act. When we fall short of these expectations, we can take anti-depressants to make us feel better. In this part of the novel, Huxley’s warns us that individuality happiness must come from within in order for the good of the community. Brave New World is a novel about the impact that technology and psychological conditioning can have on society.

Everyone has something they use to distract them from the unpleasant parts of their own life. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, a few examples of these distractions are soma, alcohol, and, for the main character, John “the Savage,” literature. The society of Brave New World intentionally prioritizes happiness and contentment over truth. Citizens are inconspicuously provided with instantaneous pleasures as placeholders for their freedom and their right to truth. The novel demonstrates that the concepts of happiness and truth are naturally incompatible in certain aspects of life.

Brave New World begins in a strictly controlled futuristic society, known as “the World State” that is unsettlingly sterile and uncontaminated by disease. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC) explains the process where humans are grown inside a bottle and then specially conditioned to follow certain moral values. Each person’s sole purpose is the supply the community and be supplied for. Every job is filled by a different caste individual, each caste received different conditioning while they were growing up. The controllers of the World State want to maintain stability in their society, they do so by ensuring that comfort and happiness are always present. Throughout the novel, it is clear that through the drug “Soma”, the pre-birth conditioning and unlimited

Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is an insidious novel which explores the possibilities and outcome of dystopian society. The novel takes place in a dystopian society which is similar to communism in the sense that individuality is unacceptable, yet different through this particular society's use of a social caste system. The protagonist, named John, was born and raised outside of the “regular” society on a reservation and was brought to civilization by a psychologist in order to conduct a “social experiment”. Huxley is able to portray the theme that without suffering, one cannot be significant or find raw happiness through John’s coming of age in which his exile causes

Aldous Huxley’s compelling futuristic novel, Brave New World, takes place in an elaborately constructed society whose citizens have their intellect highly conditioned from birth to be entirely “jolly” [as stated in the text] throughout life merely through superficial fulfillment that the government is able to provide. However, the perpetually gleeful yet blind citizens are stripped of their dignity, compassion, values and morals-ultimately losing their human emotions without the realization that they’ve lost such an important aspect in life. When problems arise, the drug soma is a quick ‘solution’ to the distress it brings. An outcast to the new society, Bernard Marx struggles through his life, seeking to understand why his peer’s, such

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses vivid imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices to show that the government becoming corrupt under all of the facades they put out. He separates the government corruption into two categories; political and social. In Brave New World Huxley brings out the social and political issues he sees in the government by using satire and literary devices in his works. In Brave New World the “people” of the society rely on drugs, sex, and brainwashing to keep peace in the society. In Brave New World drugs are the main way of keeping the society functioning normally and without chaos. Huxley describes the drug’s effects on society and the people as “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant … All the

Brave New World is set in a futuristic, utilitarian society that values consumerism over human life. Science has advanced to the point that humans are now mass-produced in batches of identical embryos and conditioned to eliminate emotions of love, passion and desire. Happiness is achieved through superficial stability and members of society can regulate their emotions through the use of drugs, known as soma. At the centre of this dystopian society is Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus hypnopaedia specialist who serves as the only discontented member of a society intent on propagating its ideal of universal happiness. The novel documents Bernard’s standpoint on society, detailing his various encounters with others within and beyond the confines of the World State. Towards the end of the novel, the attention shifts to focus on John the Savage, following his introduction and subsequent involvement in the society of Brave New World.