A Perfect Society In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

How would you feel if you were exiled? Most would say this would be a terrible experience. However, several theorists have many different views on the impact of being exiled. American theorist Edward Said claimed, “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.” But on another note, he said it is “a potent, even enriching.” Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, expands on this idea of exilation. Throughout the novel, several characters are faced with being exiled, whether it be from their home or community. In particular, a man by the name of John seems to experience the bulk of it. John’s experiences show that being exiled is

One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda...." Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and the use of drugs to control emotions, Huxley bitterly satirized the society in which we live.

“It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley, 1932, p. 202-203). Perhaps science is to be utilized with caution because if it becomes too advanced, it may attain the sole power to create a shallow, dystopian world. Inhabitants of a dystopian world live a life that proves to be an inescapable fate. This kind of world is vividly illustrated by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The corrosive relationship between technology and humanity is reflected through Huxley’s portrayal of how technology makes individuals become less human, how the dystopian world in Brave New World closely represents modern-day society in the 20th century, and how technology negatively impacts the meaning of humanity.

In Huxley’s Brave New World, after struggling to fit into New London, John runs away to live in the lighthouse in isolation. In Boyle’s Trainspotting, Mark fights his heroin addiction in order to break free from drugs and his friend group to rejoin society along with the duffel bag. The lighthouse in Brave New World and the duffel bag in Trainspotting, suggest that after one is isolated from a society, he can only rejoin that society by being willing to conform to its values.

In our world, there is a plethora of societies. Different societies have different approaches to freedom, and have different ideas of what freedom is. In our society, we are taught that freedom is something that everybody should have no matter who they are or where they are from. In A Brave New World, Huxley gives us two examples of societies. These societies are the World State and the Reservation and they both have very different types of and views on freedom. By using these two examples and providing the readers with multiple characters that live in each society, Huxley clearly shows us his view on the subject of freedom. The character that stands out the most is John, and this is because John is from the Reservation and his views

John “The Savage” experiences a rift from the civil society of London as a result of his misunderstanding of that society’s standards. Dwelling among the savages, he had believed that the civilized world would be more accepting of him than the people of Malpais. However, his experiences in the savage world had enlightened him in the deeper meaning of life, separating him from the ignorantly blissful inhabitants of the civil world, and even his own mother. This rift illuminates the text as a whole because it illustrates the perpetual theme that one who puts all of their energy into fitting societal standards will never reach true happiness.

The need for social stability can be considered one of the key beneficial factors when it comes to maintaining order within a society. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, exemplifies several methods that are used in order to maintain social stability, and how they affect the society of New London. Preconditioning, the drug soma, limiting the exposure of science, and the removal of old works of literature all benefit stability and they are for the good of society. Throughout the novel, there are multiple examples of these methods in action. Whether it be through the use of soma for distracting oneself, or how the citizens of New London interact with each other due to the caste system. Mond, being one of the World State controllers and leader of New London, stresses that in order for a society to function, stability is a requirement.

Huxley also believes that the advances in scientific technology can also be a threat to society. In Brave New World, everything is completely made my machine and not human, decreasing the need for creativity and imagination. Ones creativity no longer needed because because machines are able to do much of the work that was made out for humans . The jobs available for people in Brave New World are those that work with mechanics. In Brave New World, any and everything they do is surrounded by technology.

Brave New World is political satire in which his author Huxley tries to make fun of a the growing society of his time by writing a story in which the government has a complete control over society by the means of science. Huxley’s imaginary world, according to critics, is called a dystopia, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary a dystopia is a term to refer to “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.” In short, Brave New World presents a setting where people do not have values or moral conscience. In general Brave New World than a book, it is a philosophical work in which Biblical analogies and moral values are purposely portrayed as God’s existence becomes one of the main themes hidden behind every citizen of the world state’s actions and their core values.

In the moral roller coaster, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, many events take place that mirror the problems of the real world in the 1930s. Although Brave New World’s aspect is set to a much more outlandish setting than the real world, problems still occur in the 1930s. During the 1930s electronics were making a huge change to everyone’s lives; they became dependant on these new inventions just like the people in the book. With these immense advances, people forced the world to change in both the book and in the real world. While these advances hugely differ, they both practically remodeled the way people lived. However, those in poverty worked practically the same jobs as epsilons, both worked in factories. While yes, the factories’ products were incredibly different, they both had to deal with similar stressful environments.

Every individual has a different point of view as to how they view society. In the dystopian novel, “Brave New Word”, by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx, and John want individuality but struggle to find freedom and individuality in a society where the government restricts individuality. The totalitarian government controls individuals through technology, reduce the sense of individuality, and categorize citizens in different social classes. Bernard Marx works for the world state and is categorized as an alpha, but his physical appearance is different from the other alphas. As a result, he wants others to accept him, but others fail to accept him and gets sent away from the society. John visits the world state society and questions why others avoid

A dystopia is an imaginary, imperfect place where those who dwell are faced with terrible circumstances. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley illustrates the concept of a dystopia. A utopia is an ideal place where everything is perfect, but in the novel, it becomes apparent that the author is trying to demonstrate the negative effects on a society when it attempts to become an unreachable utopian society. Brave New World is seen as a dystopia for many reasons, as citizens are deprived of freedom, programmed to be emotionless and under the control of a corrupt dictatorship. These points illustrate the irony of a society’s attempt to reach utopia by opposing ethics and morality; citizens are tragically distanced from paradise,

Is it necessary to take away various human rights and aspects of present day society in order to create a perfect society? In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the World Controllers believe restricting and removing different aspects of life is crucial in order to create the perfect society, even if there is no individuality. Every aspect of society in the World State revolves around stability, and for this reason there are many limitations in society to make sure stability in the World State is maintained. Instead of a mother having a child, there is a process called the Bokanovsky process in which thousands of embryos are formed with just a single egg. Every person in this society is classified in a caste system, which includes: Alphas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilions. The Alphas and Betas do not go

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian society where there are no relationships and people live in castes. In the new world people are mass produced in factories and their whole lives are planned out for them. There is a saying in the new world, “everyone belongs to everyone else”. This saying indicates that it is okay to sleep around with many people. This kind of behavior isn’t stigmatized in the new world as it is in our world. The book tells the story of many characters but specifically of John, a boy from the Savage Reservation. He is brought to the World State, along with his mother Linda, by Bernard, and alpha that has some physical defects. In the book we see John’s views change about the World State once he actually begins living there. Some other important characters are Lenina Crowne, a girl from the World State who plays the “love” interest of both Bernard and John at different times, and the Director, he doesn’t actually have a name but runs the Hatchery, the place where people are made. Brave New World is an appropriate book to read

I do not feel Brave New World has transcended, there is multiple aspect of power and create a so called perfect society. I believe in the United States, the majority of people have come to except the differences. However, there are some aspects of the book that I do recognize in today’s world. One aspect is that people are placed in a class based on economic and social status. In the book people are placed and know based on their rank as being an alpha, omega, which affects the job they have in their society. Also, the strive for perfection is something else we see today. Women want to look young a beautiful, they pay a lot money to become what they believe is perfect. The media and society has a lot to do with the strive for perfection. In