Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Today

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

First, Aldous Huxley contradicts the events he’s witnessed in real life to create a dystopian world in his novel. During the 1930’s, life wasn’t so pleasant in Europe. Depression was a big factor during this time. The use of ethos shows how the morals of the Brave New World people were basic and forced. Huxley interprets the quote “That’s because we don’t allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium” to show that in order for the society to maintain stability, the people weren't allowed to think freely. The brighter people in the novel believed that if the happiness wasn't forced into the society , they would experience the life of depression and old age. The society of the novel never got to encounter a face of wrinkles or back pain. They didn’t have to go through the real stages of life like a normal

During the 1930s, the times of World War II and the Great Depression, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. There were several issues going on in Huxley’s time that are still present in today's world . Huxley features some of these problems in his book, Brave New World. These problems include drug or medicine usage, women and gender inequality, and traditional marriage/homosexuality. Since this book was written during the times of the Great Depression and World War II, these factors also contributed to some of these issues. Since World War II and the Great Depression are over, these do not affect the problems today. Although some of these problems are still a problem in today's world and society, they are not as much of a problem as they were during Huxley's time.

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

From reproductive rights, morality, and drugs, Huxley develops a futuristic approach to mankind. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley serves as a cautionary tale about contemporary American culture by illustrating the technological and scientific advancements within a society to establish power and the affects it may have on mankind.

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When Brave New World was written, mass production, popularized by Henry Ford, had begun to gain steam in the industrial world. Factories were now more efficient than ever, at the cost of any uniqueness with the item being produced when compared to someone making items by hand. The world of Brave New World runs a lot like that. Individuality is viewed as heavily shameful, and Bernard Marx is repeatedly reprimanded over the course of the book for trying to be an individual instead of part of society. For instance, he is described as “Pretty harmless, perhaps; but also pretty disquieting” (Huxley 76) for having a fascination with doing things alone on his own time, which is heavily discouraged. Instead, people are encouraged to spend as much time in public as possible, and find comfort and solace in being part of a group rather than being their own person. This message is seen in the motto of the World State, “Community. Identity. Stability” (Huxley 1). With the lack of individualism in Brave New World, there comes a large amount of efficiency. From the moment they are decanted, society in Brave New World tries to shape babies to what is needed. They are separated into castes so that everyone is happy and productive in their job. Henry Foster mentions that “We decant our babies as socialized humans beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future … Directors of Hatcheries.” (Huxley 10) Once they are born, the hypnopaedic conditioning determines everything about their lives in the future, from their likes and interests, to what friends they will have, and to what values and morals they believe in. They are conditioned to consume and purchase as much as possible to feed the economy and satisfy their own wants. Everything in the World State is designed to be as productive as possible, while minimizing discontent to make sure that society works as efficiently as it possibly

In the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley creates a utopia world, where people live in a society with the motto of community, identity, and stability. In this novel, human are created in test-tubes. Taking soma to fix human problems and having multiple sexual relationship with different partners are considered as progress of civilization. From my opinion, throughout this novel, there are various contradictions among the characters. Huxley creates many characters who stuggle from their own values and the World States ' values.

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).

“Pursuit of happiness is a pursuit of mirage; you only realize it 's a delusion at the end of the road” (“Quotes about Mirage”). Undeniably, the quest of perpetual happiness bares an ancient path that allures pursuers with the promise of vanished pain. As one follows this trail of faded footsteps, their vision of reality soon becomes blurred by their dreams of prosperity. Thus, this enduring road guides one into the deep waters of oblivion where their mind becomes flooded with the whispers of fantasies. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the cost of this everlasting happiness is questioned as it is freely given to one in exchange for their perception of the definite truth. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, a utilitarian factory that artificially produces human beings. The sole objective of this laboratory is to create a stable world where the only emotion experienced by its’ subjects is abiding elation. However, this imposed societal idea leaves the citizens of the State in a world of fiction. The novel Brave New World, exhibits the creation of fictitious euphoria through the concealment of history, development of social conditioning, and advancement of science.

Aldous Huxley foresaw a number of incredible triumphs in his novel, but it seems that he saw no kind of liberation for women at any stage in the near or even distant future. In fact, despite the dystopic nature of his novel, he instead created a futuristic world that is hauntingly similar to our own. Predictably, ‘Brave New World’ is centred around Alpha-plus men who rebel against their totalitarian government only to meet their unfortunate, and anti-climactic downfall in some way or another. Unfortunately, these men are seen as the undisputed heroes of Huxley’s novel, despite the fact that they don’t really do anything of significance. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is just another replica of the misogynistic 1930s society that has been written

People of the World State are conditioned from before birth in the hatcheries. In hatcheries, there are five different groups, Alphas, and Betas being the highest-class citizens, their embryos are not split into 96 identical people unlike the lower-class citizens, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. After the embryos are hatched they go to the nursery and there they are taught to dislike certain things. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning said, “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Huxley, 23) The Director is talking about how they

The New World, a man-made Utopia, governed by its motto, Community, Identity, Stability (Huxley 3). A man-made world in every way. Human beings fertilized in bottles. Identity, gender, intelligence, position in society, all predestined. Human beings classified in the order of precedence: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Every one conditioned to be a certain way. Every one works for every one else (Huxley, 74). All man-made to ensure social stability. Is society in the New World truly better than in the 2000s? Are people in the New World truly happier than we are in the 2000s? Do we in the 2000s have any thing in common with the New World? Are there significant sociological differences between