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.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, is a masterpiece of science fiction. His imagined, dystopian state creatively employs facts and theories of science, as well as his very own thinly-veiled commentary on the future of society. His family background and social status, in addition to molding Huxley himself and his perspective, no doubt made impact on his writing and contributed to the scientific accuracy of his presentation. However, Huxley certainly qualifies as a social commenter and his extensive works, while sometimes biased, were always perceptive comments on the future of mankind, predictions made based on current event in his world. In other words, current affairs had undeniable impact on Huxley’s novel, and his

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 texts 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the regulations and the restrictions imposed by the government leads to decline in the society. Technology plays a major role in both texts, the confidence of the people in these technologies eventually makes them surrender their humanness. In the novel 1984, the everyday lives of the people were monitored around-the-clock. Technology is also used to demolish the past, to make the citizens accept something divergent, a new present and the future. The central direction in the technological progress is not for promoting love between people or for the enlightenment of minds, but rather it is used for industrialization and for humanity to be the

In the books 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, both authors depict a dystopian

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

It has been said that literature and art reflect common beliefs and sentiments from the time period in which it was created, especially so for literature. Throughout history it has been observed that a person’s writing reveal historical moments and the gathered consciousness of a generation. George Orwell wrote “1984” in response to the impeding totalitarianism of the Soviet Union over Europe on the cusp of WWII after having experience the regime first hand in Spain. “1984” displays the fears of living under a totalitarian society along, warning readers not to become mindless followers to the government and to question authority figures along with the order of things. Similarly, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley was written partially in

In Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, life is peaceful without any rebellion from its citizens. The society is called ‘The World State’, where scientist can finally produce eggs, without women getting pregnant. As a result, there is no such thing as a “family”, and the word ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ are consider as obscene. “. . . the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of childbearing –– merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety” (Huxley 159). They use the Bokanovsky Process, in which they fertilize human eggs in a vitro and make the eggs split into identical copies. They condition the embryo in favor of what class the embryo will develop into. The castes are just the same as the Upper class, the Middle class, and the

Did you know that 1% of the population owns 48% of the world’s wealth. Our whole life is based on people being classified into certain groups. We are divided into social classes based on everything in our lives. A huge example is found in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In the book people divided into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.

The title, Brave New World, was not a randomly chosen title by the author, Aldous Huxley. The whole premise of the story is the creation of a Utopian society where everyone lives in a peace and happiness. Within this New World, babies are no longer naturally birthed from their mothers. Instead, they are developed in test tubes, on conveyor belts, and within machines in order to be created as perfect for this new society based upon motto: Community, Identity, and Stability. The babies are genetically modified and further conditioned to dislike or like certain things, so they will fit into one of the five castes: Bokanovsky System.

The writer’s position on Brave New World is that the implementation of caste systems and the process of making inferior humans, as well as devaluing these inferior humans is a racist and ableist process. By incorporating this into his book, Huxley makes it seem that people who are not perfect are lesser than others, according to the critic. I disagree with this critique on Brave New World. The writer says that the process of valuing people who are perfect over the less perfect people, and that “Children in the higher castes are taught to have little regard for those below them just because they are physically and mentally superior”. But that is the whole point of the manufacturing of humans; the world state creates lesser humans to take on the menial jobs that the Alphas and Betas don’t want.

The characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World live in a society where they are trained from childhood to be the ideal, rule following, abide by their class citizens. They are taught that happiness comes from a stable society where people are born into one of five classes and taught during embryonic development what their life-long jobs will be. Brave New World illustrates a future where people live like robots, are discouraged from feeling anything but happiness, and told to shield their emotions from others. They have no families, no parents, and no relationships. The leaders of the World State ensure that every citizen knows his or her place in society; one mistake can lead to exile. Unlike today’s society, those in the World State

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are two novels that prophesize a future void of individuality and willful expression. Through the eradication of personality and sentiment, the dystopian societies depicted ordered civilizations that chide free thinking and unique temperaments. Nonetheless, within both books, the protagonists secretly rebel against these societal oppressions, and ultimately pay a price for doing so. Although they may differ in execution, both books deliver the same message: never allow individuality to be taken away, because with it goes the voice of the people, and results in a subjugated totalitarian society. Being different is chastised in both Brave New World and 1984.

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and 1984, by George Orwell, explore various possible future dystopian societies that maintain control through the limitation of freedom, regulation of behavior, and the implementation of rigid class systems. Both authors experienced traumatic wars, and recognized the danger of certain world powers. Their novels serve as extreme political commentary on their contemporary societies. Orwell saw the rise of fascism and communism, and as a result developed the ideas of “the party” in 1984. Huxley observed the after effects of WWI and the Depression in Britain.