Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

As for intelligence there have been three capacities and virtues that should be targeted for moral enhancement, which are the sensitivity to the features of situations, thoughtfulness about doing what is moral, and the proper capacity for people to make proper judgments. The continued progress in the modification of learning, cognition, memory, the capabilities of decision-making will help assist the moral enhancement with these tasks. There have also been many neurochemicals that have been used to enhance cognitive abilities, which include increased attention span and cognition span. Drugs like OxyContin have also been used to help with empathy, and to make people feel happier. It may be believed that a drug like soma was only possible in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, but perhaps not. Utilitarian’s have been pushing for human enhancement that uses drugs, genetic engineering and nanotechnology to ensure the maximum amount of happiness possible while attempting to eliminate any pain. Proponents believe that this would reset the brain’s thinking patterns, and allow people to think more positively by keeping our minds engaged, rather than in a constant dull and depressing state. Many anti- depressant drugs are attempting to do just this. It is safe to say that moral enhancement is not just a potential innovation, but a technology that is already beginning.

The color of the groups uniform determined how intelligent and skillful the people were mentally. A certain color(grey) determined if you were clever, an Alpha, and another color(green) determined if you were vapid, an Epsilon. More specifically, every individual was made to believe this in their sleep. As Huxley states, “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki… Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid”(Huxley 27/28). Huxley is stating that brain washing begins since one is born and occurs when an individual is not aware of what is going on in their surroundings.

Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, portrays a World State that has made consumption one of its centerpieces. Economic stability is essential to the effectiveness of the World State. They are brainwashed by advertisements and organizations that make them feel as though they are free. The people within the World State continuously consume because of the conditioning they obtained when they were younger. They are educated that when an object or good is in need of fixing, they must get rid of it. By not possessing the latest and greatest good, the people within the World State are looked less upon and is in the lower class. In this new society, emotions, religion, and culture are forfeited for social stability. The reason for which

In the 1930s technological advances influenced the type of writing portrayed. Dystopian writing was upcoming in this era when Huxley took it to a whole

CeeLo Green once said “I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world”. In the “Brave New World”, the society is split into five castes, the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The D.H.C. explains the biochemical technology that makes identical human beings with the Bokanovsky's Process, which produces dozens of identical eggs, which strips human beings of their unique and different personalities that makes them diverse. The people in this strange society have strange beliefs, they stand by “Community, Identity, and Stability”.

The flaws found in the world are what create the distinct characteristics that scatter the face of our planet. Today, in our world, there is no such thing as a perfect state in existence. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes the World State as the perfect place to be, a dystopia where everyone is obliviously happy. Every member of the community is content with his or her position, no matter what their job is, because of the special conditioning revolving around the World State’s motto: “Community, Identity, Stability”. Balance within the World State is achieved through the sacrifice of the genuineness of the citizens, demonstrating the society’s value for stability and strong desire to maintain it, to the extent of living in entire falsehood.

There can only be the powerful where there is the weak; without flaw, there is no such thing as aptness. Authority is identified through triumph and attainment, while outlining a structured classification of supremacy. Humans discriminate against unethical eminences thus isolating a domain of antagonism. Grievous power blossoms from the heart of centralism only to conceptualize the inexorable weakness which follows; the destruction of the individual. Aldous Huxley, an English novelist and philosopher, writes about the effects of a fictional world “under the iron curtain”. His inventive novel, Brave New World, evaluates the incompatibility between the savage and human which possess dangerous clashes to a community with resilient

Aldous Huxley has presented us a compelling story in the 20th-century called a Brave New World. One of the most notable dystopian novels, it calls for a reader to conceptualize a world, in which society and science are synonymous with each other, history had faded far into obscurity, and Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, becomes a deity to many "uniformed" individuals. The book was about how humans are no longer created by the conventional means of mating, rather artificially, through the process of separating the ovaries and the sperm cells, and utilizing certain embryos in a biological process called Bokanovskification, the act of stimulating an embryo to undergo a mitotic process in which the end-result being that up to 96

Although happiness is a subjective concept, there are some connections that can be made between the many interpretations. Most definitions include access to basic necessities, as well as mental, emotional, and social stability. However, Aldous Huxley’s society described in his novel, Brave New World, takes the ideal of stability to disturbing extremes. In futuristic, dystopian London, the authorities governing the country have taken it upon themselves to control every aspect of their citizens’ lives, including intelligence, careers, even emotions. All of these seemingly decision-based parts of life are predestined by the government before birth. This manipulation is disguised as stability by the Controllers of the New World State, and so they can justify the domination over all citizens as necessary to maintain happiness. They do not consider freedom or passion to be contributors to happiness and believe that they cause further distress. In order to protect the structure of their government, they eliminated all sources of passion and other negative emotions: family, disease, monogamy. They fail to realize how vital these things are to life as a human and how they help one grow and learn. Citizens of the World State equate happiness with control and having access to any luxury at the snap of one’s fingers. However, they try to smother most things that contribute to being not just a human, but a

Imagine in 2540 A.D, there is a utopian society where everything is perfect. Everything is peaceful and everyone is happy. Then one person realizes that this perfect society is not as perfect as it appears.There is a group of people who have been created to be a part of a society that focuses on sheltering and conditioning the people so that they follow whoever is in authority and believes whatever the government wants them to believe. So those in the society have no say in their lives or future. Aldous Huxley wrote about such a society in his novel Brave New World because he felt as though the future of his own society was down the path of a similar fate. In the early 20th century, The Industrial Revolution was an example where technology

Our society has several issues that have yet to be resolved. In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley advocates a variety of changes in (relatively) modern society by depicting a dystopian world. Written in 1932, many of the book’s themes are still relevant today.

In today’s world, People have been accustomed to love freedom, liberty, and the ability to choose. However, authors have been writing about a dystopian world where no one … Political and social repression will always fail, leading to the people’s desire for freedom and liberty. Once the masses know about freedom, they will fight for it their last breath. This is shown by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and the Soviet Union’s repressive regime on Poland.

John the Savage is the only person in this new world society born naturally from a mother and not from a factory, John is a unique human being with an identity and a family relationship unlike any other character in Aldous Huxley’s novel, “Brave New World”. Even though he is the son of two upper class utopians, he grows up in the depths of Malpais: The Savage Reservation. Torn between two cultures, John is not truly a part of the savage society or of the new world society. His only society is an imaginative world built around Shakespeare’s books. John is the ultimate outsider and his life is filled with confusion and struggle.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World tells of a “utopian” society in which the government has full control over every aspect of daily life. This novel contains themes, although satirical at the time it was written, that have relevance in the world today. One main theme is a society based on consumerism. The World State in this novel is largely based on consumerism, and the government specially trains its citizens to constantly buy things to that they contribute to the economy as much as possible. Citizens of the World State are conditioned from the time they are young to like activities that require money to be spent in order for them to be done. Also, the World State uses hypnopaedia to make people believe that money needs to be spent. This

Before he became a professional writer he sought various jobs including the armed forces, a french teacher, a chemical plant worker, and most importantly a farmworker at Garsington Manor. During 1917, after leaving the British Royal Air Force he decided to return to Eton to become a highly incompetent and disorderly french teacher with George Orwell being one of his students, yet he had a strong grasp on language. Maybe because Huxley knew he would never make it as a french teacher he decided to be a farm laborer which would prove to be one of the greatest impacts on his life. In 1918 near the end of WWI during his stay at Garsington manor, home of Lady Ottoline, he met and gained close relations to a diverse group of Britain’s most influential writers such as Virginia Woolf, T.S Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. There he gained a reputation as not only a witty socialite, but an intellectual and excellent writer firstly. Using his popularity at the manor he continued to write and edit for big articles such as the Athenaeum, Vogue, and Vanity fair. In 1920 a Belgian refugee by the name Maria Nys staying at Garsington manor at the time, married Huxley and as a son called Matthew. The next year he would publish Crome Yellow, a satire piece on his experience during his time a Garsington, upsetting the partons of the manor in the process. Yet this