Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

“It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley, 1932, p. 202-203). Perhaps science is to be utilized with caution because if it becomes too advanced, it may attain the sole power to create a shallow, dystopian world. Inhabitants of a dystopian world live a life that proves to be an inescapable fate. This kind of world is vividly illustrated by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The corrosive relationship between technology and humanity is reflected through Huxley’s portrayal of how technology makes individuals become less human, how the dystopian world in Brave New World closely represents modern-day society in the 20th century, and how technology negatively impacts the meaning of humanity.

As human beings existing in an unpredictable world, we often attempt to envision ourselves thriving in an unrealistic or utopian lifestyle. Commonly, while placed within situations that are rather troublesome, citizens succumb to ailments such as materialistic things or drugs in efforts to escape from their problems for a while. Thus, making it seem as if people would rather be surrounded with the fabrication of happiness rather than accepting the truth and facing one’s problems. Incidentally, consumerism has been defined as, “the perpetuated idea that you cannot be happy unless you surround yourself with things”. The human tendency of succumbing to consumerism and ignoring reality in order to preserve industrialized happiness has been shown throughout literature. In fact, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, entrails a society where brainwashed citizens turn to ailments such as soma in order to ignore the inevitable pains of life. Though, it is arguable whether or not taking happiness aids or given forced education against nature and sorts are beneficial to society as one would be living in a fabricated reality. Therefore, through the conditioning, denial of John’s enforced riot, the citizens’ dependency on soma, and the extremes made to preserve artificial happiness, it is made clear that the society revolves around monopolized consumerism which, in turn, ultimately leads citizens to artificial happiness as well as fabricated realities.

When first published The Brave New World was seen as an impossible dystopia, but as technology has advanced within the last Century The Brave New World has become a very possible future. The idea that all the fine art and real knowledge in the world were to be wiped out so that anything wrong would never happen again is interesting. While, not having war, poverty, and starvation is a wonderful thought giving up our culture and overall what makes us human is not worth it. Without our art and knowledge we become mindless drones and while those mindless drones might be great workers they are not great at anything else. Also, when the ultimate goal is efficiency all of human culture and advancement goes by the wayside. While the elimination of

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

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World kindles many questions about today’s social order and considers the questionable society exposed in the book. Throughout the book, Huxley presents a world much different than the one we are accustomed to. Some question whether the novel portrays a dystopian or utopian civilization. There are a variety of advantages and disadvantages of Huxley’s world paralleled to the one we live in today. Two major disadvantages considered consist of the lack of family, monogamy, and social organization; as well as the need for soma in lieu of happiness, or rather the ‘fake’ happiness it compromises. In contrast, the benefits of the society are limited. These consist of concepts behind the elimination of conflicts, commitments, and worries. Everybody observes the story from a different perspective. Knowing the gains and losses of each society, which pertain to the family system, monogamy, feelings of world peace, elimination of commitment, and the exclusion of disease, will assist a person in concluding their belief on whether each culture is flawless or severely corrupt.

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.

The History during 1931 and how much things changed during the period over time, 83 years ago. How humans are getting cloned for having diseases, how women were having sex with so many men without them being known as tramps, how people walk the earth with no regrets but now people live and regret.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a fascinating and analytical work of fiction warning society of the possibility of a future world state eerily similar to the modern world. It could be argued by the fictional citizens and many others that the World State is in fact utopian. Constant happiness, fulfillment, and instant gratification. However, Brave New World clearly depicts a deteriorating dystopian society. Although by the World State’s citizens it is seen as an impeccable, expedient utopian society, the world Aldous Huxley illustrates in Brave New World is without a doubt dystopian. The dismal nature of the brave new world is ultimately proved by overpowering control, a lack of individuality, and overall dissatisfaction throughout society.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley often repeats how important technology is in society. By using several references to technology, such as high-tech laboratory equipment that create new embryos and different types of helicopters for transportation, throughout the book, he proposes a radical idea that government can take advantage of people and their lifestyles by using technology. Huxley also uses the idea of a utopia in society, which is a place where all things are considered to be perfect or have no flaws. In this Utopia, the government uses a drug called soma to control the World State’s population. These ideas and consumables are considered to be the controlling aspects of society.

We are the Auxari. We are a race united as one. We have assimilated many into our hive mind, moulding a society envied across the universe. We come in peace, but in dismay. We have without interference observed the rise of human civilization for millennia. We have observed your exhilarating ingenuity, but also fail to understand your need for individual freedom, which will ultimately lead to your demise. We now realize that human society must be saved from itself. We are revealing ourselves to rescue you from your own detrimental tendencies, and offering you an avenue to escape your miseries. Many of your great novels have attempted to dictate the best path for humanity. We agree with a select few, such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Evgeny Zamiatin’s We. Although we have deduced that both stories are on the correct path, Huxley closer approaches a utopian society. In both novels, we can see how the lack of individuality creates efficiency, how individuality creates problems for the greater good, and the general populace’s tendencies to be controlled. Through comparative analysis of both texts, it is clear that human society can only find salvation from self-destructive tendencies once all humans are in perfect unity and under absolute control.

The novel, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in my opinion is not the most important piece of dystopian literature from the twentieth century. While my belief that this novel is unworthy of being known as one of the top five dystopian novels of the 20th century is partially based on the fact that I very much so disagree with his writing style and opinions, it is also based on facts found in his writing. Huxley's writing style is incoherent and waits to properly explain items or events, while his characters are immature and negative. The twentieth century also spawned various dystopian based novels such as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Giver which I believe are far better than A Brave New World. The following paragraphs will expand on the

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 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

To conclude, the efforts to use moral enhancement to further empower human virtues that help provide moral facilitation, and education of virtues is something that has already been regulated through psychiatry. Chemical and medical intervention have been a powerful regulator for those who lack self control, empathy, intelligence and positivity closer to a societal norm. Many individuals, however seem to think that they do not have all the same moral virtues that they would like. If we were to look what an ideal posthuman model of moral enhancement would go beyond being just a therapeutic solution of fixing individuals isolated flaws. Once the most obvious flaws are addressed there are still many more complex virtues that will need to be solved in order to create a more difficult perfection of character. The problem is that these more difficult virtues can be challenging to enhance in order to achieve the ideal character is a challenge for moral enhancement. The main goal of moral enhancement should be intelligence, self control, niceness and positivity. We can see that there is already substantial evidence to prove that the medical community has already begun the process of regulating weaknesses in these four virtues. While controlling these virtues have been under way, the challenge of regulating smaller and more complex issues are the greatest challenges to successful moral enhancement.

Behaviour regulations such as parenting socialization, and education can all be seen as forms of human enhancement in accordance to Harris. Harris makes the an important point in asking what moral enhancement has to do with ethical knowledge, if there is a thing as technological expertise and how all of these things relate to ethics and morality? It is very hard to determine what being good means. Harris also brings up a point mentioned previously by Persson and Savulescu, and mentions that one of the founders of moral enhancement have argued that will leave the person who was enhanced with much better motives than the person had before. Harris, and also raises the issue of counter morals that arise from large amounts of hatred between