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.

In the world of sex, drugs, and baby cloning you are going to be in many situations where you feel like the world we live in should be different. In the story Brave New World, they had sex with multiple partners along with a very bad use of drugs.

Today, one 's perceptions of happiness are more often than not associated with material achievements, advancements, or perhaps, love. In Brave New World, however, happiness is based upon the pursuit of stability and emotional equilibrium Aldous Huxley 's dystopian novel, Brave New World serves as a warning of the ominous. Set in London, the totalitarian regime instills the motto of "stability, community, [and] identity"(Huxley.1.1) in its citizens. Huxley 's dystopia attempts to find the greatest amount of happiness for the largest sum of people. The simple, less complex characters of the novel seek to achieve happiness through means of scientific conditioning, thus, leaving one

Imagine that by taking one magic pill, you could be at the top of your world. With one pill, you could find complete happiness and unmatched physical fulfillment. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses the drug Soma, to give the characters all of the benefits of fulfillment, both physically and spiritually, yet ironically, as the drug plays out its role, the “fulfillment” leaves its consumer empty.

The way that Huxley develops he's view of the new world and our is by showing how controlled the new world is compared to our. For example in page 18 "Community, Identity, Stability", which means that where they control the eggs, hatches the babies and educate them to do and what not to do. He's showing how this new environment has changed that we as human being cant have babies on our own, that now it's controlled by hatching them in a laboratory, which our work we don't do because that's something nature. Also, how they divide there people which is stated in page 23 " we decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilon...", which the Alphas and Epsilon are the upper class people, that are intelligent like knows how to read

A perfect society is always an ideal dream of the human mind. Peace, love, and education are intertwining parts of a perfect society or, a utopia. This idea is not always the case in an imperfect world and is usually only a hopeful dream. These types of worlds can greatly be described in detail through the world of science fiction. Aldous Huxley was an English writer who lived during a time when war and chaos were engulfing the world. His works reflect his view and thoughts on a dystopia, which is a false utopia, and describes what could occur in possible governments of the world. The ability to understand and dive into the thoughts of the author is what makes world literature such an important aspect in literature. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, depicts the horrors of a futuristic dystopia based on his society and significant aspects of his life, while leaving his mark on literature, as one of the most controversial and influential writers of the twentieth century.

Imagine living in a society where every single person acts and behaves the same. Do you think it’s possible? In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tells of a society where everyone is the same but, compared to today’s society, everything is different. Huxley tells of a world where everything that happens or takes place is because of one’s own desire and nothing more. The hero in the novel, a “savage” named John, is Huxley’s main focal point. It is through his eyes and mind that the reader sees what’s going on. Now when I read this novel, I began to think, “Could this perfect, conformed world actually exist”?

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.

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Marxism is seen through the whole story. In the story everybody serves the society in the world state. Society makes everybody’s needs and are fulfilled, as well as some of the characters show us Marxism in the way they act or where conditioned. Religion is as well seen in the novel and connected to Marxism.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism” (Postman). Postman believes that Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is more relevant to modern society than Orwell’s 1984.

Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, a story about a futuristic society that believes stability is the ultimate need for survival. In this society, human beings are born by genetically engineered. They are being put in a ranked caste system that determines their position in the society. For example, the Alphas are considered superior to the Betas. Everything in the society is preprogrammed, any hardships and challenges are to be excluded.

When you read a book, your learning of what’s going on in the characters society, you’ll get astonished of how they live their life. You might even relate a little, but you’ll never be aware of it completely. Sometime when we read books or watch movies we kind of get used to the idea, so if we do accounted any of those traits we wouldn’t react much or be aware. Especially when it comes to Fantasy, people start off with just imagining things but later on we will build on it to reality. Same goes for Brave New World.

The novel Brave New World was written by an English writer called Aldous Huxley, who was born on July 26, 1894, in the village of Godalming, Surrey, England. Huxley was the third son of Leonard Huxley (a writer, editor, and teacher) and Julia Arnold (a teacher), and Aldous Huxley was grew up in a well-educated family full of educators, writers, and scientists. Huxley’s grandfather was a biologist named T. H. Huxley who introduced Darwin’s theory of evolution to a wide public. When Huxley was 16 years old, he nearly lost his sight due to an eye disease called keratitis. Although a surgery improved his eyesight a little, Huxley still suffered from his vision issues for the rest of his life. Huxley attended Eton and Oxford, which foreshadows his success later on in his life. After getting his degree at Oxford, Huxley returned to Eton to teach, and later on he worked as an editor on the London journal Athenaeum. Huxley published few works later such as The Burning Wheel (1916), Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Point Counter Point (1928), and Brave New World (1932).

Aldous Huxley was born into a family of renowned scientists in 1894. He lost his mother at age 14, became virtually blind due to illness three years later, and lost his older brother to suicide at age 21. Despite these setbacks, he went back to school after dropping out of Eton and earned a degree in English literature from Oxford. Because of his blindness, he was not able to do the scientific research he had previously wanted to do, and turned to writing. He wrote Brave New World in four months, before Hitler and Stalin came to power, which allowed him to think beyond the confines of the traditional dictatorship. He was also deeply concerned, particularly in his later years, with the prospect of humanity becoming subjugated by drugs, mass media, or technology, which makes a significant appearance in Brave New World. In 1958, he published a collection of essays revisiting Brave New World, which critically examined the implications of overpopulation, excessive bureaucracy, and hypnosis. He became increasingly interested in parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, especially a branch of religious, theological, and philosophical concepts generally called Universalism. He died at the age of 69 in 1963 of laryngeal cancer.