A Review of Brave New World

The New World is a 2006 historical drama set in the early 1600’s, as settlers come from Britain to begin exploring and colonizing the American continents. Written and directed by American director and writer, Terrence Malick, The New World depicts the foundation of Jamestown, the story of John Smith, and their relationships with Pocahontas. The film stars Collin Farrell as John Smith, Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas, Christopher Plummer as Captain Newport, and Christian Bale as John Rolfe. Produced by Sarah Green, the film received strong positive reviews for its cinematography, score, and young 15 year old Q'orianka Kilcher’s performance as Pocahontas. (Boehm 1-5)

While in some extreme situations it can be useful to gain some semblance of unity and organization, totalitarian societies damage one 's individuality and feeling of self-worth; defining people without ever allowing them to make their own decisions. This can potentially cause one to feel ousted or distress. Totalitarianism creates no outlet for personal growth, and as seen in Brave New World. Totalitarian societies strip people of their basic human right, free will. Totalitarian governments impair the success of individuals, ultimately failing society.

In my research for Brave New World, I came across literary criticism that unveiled fresh perspective of the work when it comes to the psychology of characters. The idea of a perfectly stable world versus a world of recklessness and savagery that shape every aspect of human morale and convictions held at society’s core beliefs; which through psychological analysis of characters and how their external influences can vindicate questionable actions displayed by those in the novel. The dichotomy of inherited and learned behavior in society, clashes with diffusions of culture ands impacts on instinctive culture, all accentuated by John the Savage and his intricately fervent relationships with other characters in the novel,

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, education and creative expression aren’t exactly the way today’s society teaches education and self-expression. In the novel the goal is to teach certain people certain things. Each clone is given a specific job and aren’t granted permission to further their jobs that are assigned to them. In Brave New World, there is no creative or self-expression. Having individualism is basically telling the people they have the right to freely express themselves. Freely expressing ideas and emotions will lead to instability which would go against the society’s moto, “…COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABIBILTY.”(pg.3).

The characters in "Brave New World" are all conditioned in their ways. Even John himself has been conditioned. "Brave New World" is set in a future London after horrible wars, the aftermath of which leads the government to condition everyone and everything. Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and Lenina Crowne have all been conditioned from the time they were in the tube to their current everyday lives. Conditioning never really stops; it just takes different forms. John how was raised by his mother on an Indian reservation in New Mexico, yet he was cast as an outsider because of his DNA. John struggles to be himself in both worlds, he was treated as an outcast because of his DNA and that he was a savage.

Many titles that are heard around the average high school english classroom on a frequent basis are considered to be a classic. These titles include The Great Gatsby, 1984, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, and many more. Although these books are considered to be classics and a requirement for many students, do some of these belong on that list, or are there some that should be on that list that are not very well known. The books Brave New World and A Lesson Before Dying should both be on the classics list as they teach many important values and are a great introduction to more intense novels to be found later in education.

In the novel, Brave New World, comparison and contrast between the brave new world and the real world, which they refer to as the old world, is very direct in their terms of both worlds. The section of annotations I chose brings an important minor character, named Mustapha Mond. Mond has views on both the new world and old world conveys the biggest theme, in which is the brave “new” world in better than the “old” world. Mond explains how the “old” world is worse than the “new” world. He refers to the “old” world’s negative conflicts, such as wars and the use of nuclear and chemical bombs, and weapons. More specifically, the Nine Year’s War and how the economic collapse. Along with that, is the stress that comes with war, such weapons, economic

The world has progressed and changed so much through time. In my opinion I think the world has changed to become a bit worse, but there are other things that have progressed to be better. One reason why I believe it has gotten worse is because of all the sin in the world. Another reason is the acceptance of certain sins. Lastly so many people in this time have forgotten the true natural and loving way humans should live.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, happiness does not really exist. The government controls the environment and the minds of the people to make citizens happy. The World State and the World Controllers believe that happiness and truth are opposites and don’t work together, so they picked making the citizens happy instead of allowing them to know the truths. Huxley argues that we as a population distract ourselves from the truth with technology and other means of diversion and that these things will ruin us.

Our defeat was bad enough, but this is worse. Octora and her group have us surrounded. We’re prisoners. I can see Octora ahead, talking with another octoling. I know their plans. Take us to their world and use the abilities my friends have to their advantages, forcing as much as they can out of them while keeping me imprisoned somewhere else to do who knows what to, and then destroying this world. I need to stop this, but I can’t. Stopping it would mean facing Octora, the living nightmare. The very thought causes my hands to feel clammy. I can’t. But then suddenly an image flashes through my mind-of Splaterina collapsing from exhaustion, unable to do anything more. Then of Marie. Would she ever see Callie again? And Xavier. He would try to help everyone, but I know they wouldn’t let him. With us

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Brave New World is based on a future dystopian society that strives off efficiency and social standings. The first section of the book takes place in future central London. The book opens at the central Hatchery in London where the D.H.C (Director of Hatchery) is giving a tour of the plant to a group of students. Here we learn that the world is based on a class system, children are genetically modified to fit any needs. The entire world is based on efficiency so these children are breed to love their jobs no matter how harsh or physically demanding. The class system is broken down to 5 castes, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. Alphas are the highest class, breed to be perfect and in control, Deltas and Epsilons are the lowest and modified to be hard workers.

As Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, he watched a disillusioned society turn towards science and technology. His idea that “human beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other” (Huxley) drove the direction of his novel. As the 1920’s ended it gained reputation as the Roaring Twenties, for many rejected traditional moral standards during this decade; and for what Huxley believed would continue to elude from the conventional norm. Aldous Huxley predicted that family units would become outdated and undoubtedly disintegrate in the future, while easily becoming replaced due to the changing culture in our society, as is seen presently in the cultural movement sweeping America as non-traditional families are ever more common.

Through the novel’s first few lines, Aldous Huxley sets a framework for his characters and his plot. With the story’s progression, the motto’s seemingly benign ideals reveal a harsher meaning. In Brave New World, everybody has an immutable role in the community of Alphas, Betas, and laborers ― the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Genetically engineered clones

The TV and surveillance equipment in 1984 was always watching and “the instrument… could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell 2). Most of the people in both societies are okay with the constant surveillance and manipulation, and for this reason, they also do not mind the case system that is implemented into both societies. In Brave New World, everyone accepts their caste, even the lowest ones. The government tries to make sure that people do not socialize outside of their caste so that another caste doesn’t get jealous and rebel. One woman, a Beta, was happy with her caste because the Deltas and Epsilons “all wear green… [and] khaki” and that “they’re too stupid to be able to read or write” (Huxley 27). She was also happy not to be an Alpha because “they’re so frightfully clever” and because she doesn’t want to “work so hard” (Huxley 27-8). The government has brainwashed everyone to such extremes that even the lowest caste is content at most times. The caste system in 1984 is not as prominent, but there is still a different kind of system in place. The lower class citizens are ‘proles’, and they are completely irrelevant to the Party even though the Party still monitors them. The proles are generally not as intelligent as the other members of society and they are satisfied with any little thing that they can get. The proles greatly resemble Epsilons in the fact that they do not have aspirations or strive for things greater than what they