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.

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a scenario where the government has control over the people and their ideas. Throughout the novel, we are shown the different methods and techniques the leaders utilize to control the lives of the people. After reading the story, we can point out similarities of government control from our world and the book. Huxley has a message for us about government power and what it could do to us.

In what country does the most democratic society exist? In today’s world, the United States is the well-known example. The democracy in the United States makes it possible to secure one’s economic freedom without government interruption, alternatively termed capitalism. In modern world, the contemporary take on capitalism is consumerism. Ironically, given that capitalism is part of democracy, it is not equally distributed. The presence of social class separates one consumer from another and restricts one’s ability to purchase his or her want. Even with this constraint, consumerism is widely practiced right in democracy. Although the consequences of practicing consumerism are not apparent to everyone, Aldous Huxley discloses the detrimental impact of consumerism in society. He depicts two fictional societies in his works: the dystopian society of the World State in the Brave New World and the utopian society of Pala in Island. In both works, Huxley warns the readers about the influence of consumerism by illustrating its usage in manipulating individual thoughts in the World State and its function in bringing materialism to Pala.

A Brave New World published in 1932 by Aldous Huxley was about a utopian society in which people were placed in castes because of how their embryos were modified. Little did the author know less than a century later the idea of “designer babies” might be a reality. Designer babies are very similar to Huxley’s idea; a person could be genetically altered before they were born. Unlike Huxley’s book, in which embryos were genetically modified due to government industrial control, designer babies’ destinies are determined by parental control. Although, gene alteration can prevent genetic diseases, predetermining genetic outcomes should be illegal because of its negative effects on society; the effect genes have on each other, and the underwhelming success rate.

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

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

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

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.

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.

Aldous Huxley’s modern interpretation on a utopian society creates a provocative novel, rich with controversial topics. In the book, Brave New World, society is artificially constructed, with the goal of perfect efficiency. This goal is achieved through the use of advanced technology, installed to increase management of all peoples. From birth, to artificial happiness, in the form of soma tablets, to the career that an individual is designed for, civilization is heavily regulated. Bernard, the protagonist, was a unique mistake, as he was incorrectly developed as a child.

Throughout Huxley’s novel, readers come across numerous characters which heavily rely on consumption in order to deal with human truths. Due to their conditioning, citizens of the World State Society have been

Freedom is one of the pillars on which modern society is built upon. Our freedom, though it may give sadness, also gives purpose and quoting Walter Wangerin Junior: “The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow”. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World demonstrates a society deprived of its freedom through societal conditioning. The first instance of conditioning is the consumerist ideology and this ideology causes the loss of high arts and culture. The second instance of conditioning is found within the forced dependence of recreational drugs, causing the population to constantly pursue a shallow and temporary happiness. The third instance of conditioning is found within the caste system and prevents any individuality

In the 1920’s, London and the United States were going through a boom of industrialization. Technological advancements were made as Henry Ford created the assembly line for the Model T Car while psychologist Ivan Pavlov conducted research on human behavior and the brain. Huxley uses the novel Brave New World as a warning to show what could happen to society. Using Sigmund Freud’s “Iceberg theory,” the World State was created to illustrate the ‘perfect’ economy. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, Huxley’s use of Pavlov’s classical conditioning is included to illustrate how conditioning can be used to convince anyone that anything, including mass production and industrialization is ‘natural’ and ‘right.’

Aldous Leonard Huxley, the writer of my summer reading, was born on July 26, 1894 and dies on November 22, 1963. A British writer who emigrated to the United States. . He wrote his first novel at the age of 17, which was never published. The first published work "Crome Yellow" was a satire work related to social issues. He edited for the magazine "Oxford Poetry", wrote poetry, stories and created scripts for some Hollywood films. In 1911 he suffered from blindness for two or three years. As a result, he do not qualify for service in World War I. Once recovered, he studied English literature at an Oxford College, where he graduated with first-class honors. His novel "Brave New World" appeared in 1932. This novel was cataloged as one of the 100

There are not many novels that can claim to have popularized their own genre, but Aldous Huxley can. Although he may not have written the first dystopian novel, he was a pioneer of the genre. Brave New World shocked and moved its readers to rethink their ideal society. Utopia to some might mean universal happiness and content. But, Huxley addresses this image with striking visuals of a society that has taken their desire for peace too far. He is challenging those who claimed in his life that mobility for the poor was detrimental to productivity and growth. England, as Huxley experienced it, was constructed through a rigid class system. This novel seeks to destroy the notion that said classes are necessary for success. He could be criticizing