A Brave New World Quote Analysis

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” This quote by Jawaharlal Nehru shows that even with limits, there is still free will. Free will is defined as “freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention” (Merriam-Webster) In both Brave New World and Gattaca there are limits. In some ways, both governments do give their people the freedom to make their own decisions. In what these two books share in common, they also differentiate a lot. The movie Gattaca presents more of a free will environment than Brave New World.

The censorship theme is easily the most important theme in the entire book. As men try to learn more and uncensor the world around them, they are instantly put at risk. For example this quote from Mildred shows how terrified she was, not because of the information but the fear of being burned. “He'll come in," said Mildred,

In the dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the people live in a society full of censorship and ignorance. Montag, the main character of the story, is meets a young girl named Clarisse, and begins to question law around him and begins to have doubts about what good they serve. Many things come to mind when the word censorship is involved. Censorship is noted to be the most important theme in F451. Censorship in Fahrenheit 451 has a major role on the society's knowledge and characteristics in the novel.

Censorship takes away the intentions left by the creator. It becomes bland, and unoriginal. Words set the mood of the story and character’s behavior within a work. It is important for explicit material to remain raw and natural. It is meant to show what’s underneath the rock, and behind closed curtains. For example, in Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty states, "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless” (Bradbury 39). Books expose man as imperfect beings that make mistakes, emotionally hurt, and live in a troubled society. Instead of dealing with their personal problems and society’s, the people ignored books, simplified them to sentences through censorship, and eventually banned them from their own lives. They surrounded themselves in a bubble of ignorance from the world to live in bliss. Their solution for happiness was removing evidence of controversial and troubling flaws from their lives entirely. Books burned away, so they no longer had to face their faults or take notice of their society’s and government’s corruption. As Captain Beatty explains, "’Now let 's take up the minorities in

An amazing example of the effects censorship has on people is the protagonist's wife, Mildred, in Fahrenheit 451. Mildred is turned out of the world with no idea or concern for her own well-being, her husband, or the world around her. Like her, many people in the book have the slightest knowledge of what is going on in the war that is currently plaguing their world. This is all due to the censorship of books, and neglect of education sources, such as new channels, new reports, and more. Deprived of books, Mildred has not fully developed the ability to process information, and act upon it.

Censorship in the society in Fahrenheit 451 mirrors the excessive amount of restriction in the communities

Censorship is the prohibition of any parts of books, films, or more, that are politically unacceptable or a threat to security. Censorship is often to benefit someone. However, the objects that end up being censored, are often censored to further political values. Similarly, in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the dystopian society that Montag lives in censors everything, to protect their power, to the point where there is nothing of any importance or value shown to the people. However, The fireman can’t stop people from having conflicting theories and thought. There will always be different sides to everything, but conflicting ideas aren’t the only source of unhappiness in the story. there is approximately ten suicide calls a night, on a normal basis. There is no way to make everyone think the same thing,

“I have freedom,” you say? Do you really? Perhaps, in some ways, you do. But in the end, you’re just another puppet being controlled by invisible strings whether you know it or not. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said. In society, man is “chained” and controlled by the government, by pressure of conforming to the social norms, by wealth and social class, and by one’s desires and emotions. Prior to birth, man is not restricted by such factors but that is merely a fleeting moment as he is slowly exposed to more and more of the world. I agree that “everywhere [man] is in chains,” but on the contrary, I believe man is already chained from the start—that man is never free. In the novel, Brave New

A world without fear, without pain, without age...utopia, right? A stable world such as this can look good on paper, but not until you look at it in reality. Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by author Aldous Huxley displays a society in which men and women are mass-manufactured as twins and conditioned even while they are being developed, to fit a pre-ordained societal role. In this novel, the characters of importance are as follows, John, Linda, Lenina, Helmholtz, Bernard, Mustapha Mond, and The Director. Bernard is a normal product of society designed to do the role he was created for. All goes according to plan until he introduces an unexpected outlier; John the Savage. A man born of normal means in one of the only traditional

Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's

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Throughout your life each choice you make will define who you are as a person. Would you rather be told exactly what to do and how to feel or be able to do whatever that you please? To me, it is more important to make decisions on your own. If you want to spend your weekends going out and getting drunk, go for it. I may not agree with it but I am not going to tell you what to do. It is solely your choice on how you choose to spend each and every day. In Brave New World, it states that the motto is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, I cringe just thinking about that.

In this world where people can acquire anything they need or want, we have to wonder, “Is the government controlling us?” Both the governments in A Brave New World and in the United States of America offer birth control pills and have abortion clinics that are available for everyone, thus making birth control pills and abortion operations very easy to acquire. Although both governments offer birth control pills and abortion clinics, A Brave New World’s government requires everyone to take the pills and immediately get an abortion when pregnant. This in turn shows us that A Brave New World’s government is controlling the population and the development of children. China is one of the few countries that currently have control of the

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, is a dystopian world that science plays a big role in this world state, they make their own generations, teach differently and have their citizens taking medication. There are different type of classes with each group of new kids. As they are in their growing stages, they are taught things most other people from a different area would not understand. Here and there they have some people who do not really have the same mind set as the rest of the population.