Analysis Of Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World

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 Aldous Huxley’s novel a Brave New World, published in 1931, there are several attacks on society. Throughout this essay it will be seen what these problems were and if they were fixed. If the problems were fixed, it must be determined when they were. The primary focus is to answer whether we have changed for the better, women’s role in society and the social classes. In the end it will be obvious that a perfect society is impossible but we have made improvement.

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

Derived from “polis” meaning city-state, politics as Bismarck refers to is an art of total government control, exercising complete authority and power by creating, introducing and enforcing rules made by collective decision. However in both texts, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley and the film “The Giver” directed Phillip Noyce, the roots of politics stem from the art of total and limitless control. The novel Brave New World presents a futuristic society that has tried to create a perfect community where everybody is happy, they use science to mass produce people and condition them to do and want only things prescribed to them, taking away freedoms such as the freedom to think for one self. While, “The Giver” sets a story in a society which at first is presented as a utopian world. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "sameness”. The main character Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the memories of the past. Through a variety of literary techniques, the notion of politics as an art rather than a science is thus explored in both texts.

In his text Brave New World Aldous Huxley imagines a society genetically engineered and socially conditioned to be a fully functioning society where everyone appears to be truly happy. This society is created with each person being assigned a social status from birth, much like caste system in modern society or the social or the social strata applied to everyday society. Huxley shows the issues of class struggle from the marxist perspective when he says the structure of society in relation to its major classes, and the struggle between them as the engine change its major classes. Huxley describes a perfect society created through genetic engineering where each individual is assigned a class from the time of being . In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley it states “Why not? Bernard’s an Alpha Plus. Besides, he asked me to go to one of the savage reservations with him. I’ve always wanted to see a savage reservation. But his reputation?”(Huxley 123). Clearly the social interactions of the upper castes are a little more nuanced than a simple matter of agreed caste status.

creation of children like something you can buy in the store and just for the profit of

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.

When IVF first became popular Van Blerkom says, “ My First Reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding’” (qtd. in Cheng). Scientists are now going to try to create a chapter method of IVF so many more people would be able to enjoy a test tube baby that would not cost the $60,000 incubator cost ( Cheng). In her article titled, Shoebox Lab + $265= one test-tube baby, Maria Cheg writes that this new method would help over half the people who need infertility help (Cheng). While Cheng believes more IVF would be beneficial to he world (Cheg), Baird says that we will

The need for social stability can be considered one of the key beneficial factors when it comes to maintaining order within a society. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, exemplifies several methods that are used in order to maintain social stability, and how they affect the society of New London. Preconditioning, the drug soma, limiting the exposure of science, and the removal of old works of literature all benefit stability and they are for the good of society. Throughout the novel, there are multiple examples of these methods in action. Whether it be through the use of soma for distracting oneself, or how the citizens of New London interact with each other due to the caste system. Mond, being one of the World State controllers and leader of New London, stresses that in order for a society to function, stability is a requirement.

Firstly, Brave New World was much more intriguing to start off. It enveloped you in a completely different world from the very start by giving you new ideas and foreign concepts to work with. With passages like, “’I shall begin at the beginning,” said the D.H.C. and the more zealous students recorded his intention in their notebooks: Begin at the beginning. “These,” he waved his hand, “are the incubators.”’ they were able to keep you on your feet and keep you wondering what could happen and what these things were. This world was completely different from our own, and seemed, to me, much more entertaining. As the novel progressed, key elements of our society were factored into the seemingly disparate world that this took place in. This including

The constant development of society is faulted with the advancement of technology. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents a controlled society which creates a faulty idea of perfection to be obtained. The theme of technology being used to control society is faulted. The attainment of perfection is faulted through symbolism with the assembly line producing children, the taking of the drug soma, and the changing of one 's individual appearance to have all people look alike. The assembly of children takes away the individual process of birth. Escaping one’s harsh, cruel reality by taking soma gives the user a false sense of happiness.The changing of one’s appearance so that most of the people all look alike takes away individuality. For

The identity of a person is often considered to be synonymous with his culture, whether it be to a distinct nation, race, or way of thought. However, one of the greatest conflicts a person can endure is one with himself, when he is caught between the innate desire to belong and a sense of self and difference from the society that he belongs to. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, such is the case with Bernard Marx. Marx faces the immense dilemma of not fitting in in the greatly socialized and cohesive civilization that he lives in, the “Brave New World.” Despite how much Bernard disdains this world, which he identifies as brainwashed and infantile, he cannot help desiring to belong. Huxley brilliantly contrasts Marx’s hatred of his civilization with his eventual plea to remain a part of it after his exile is sealed in order to highlight the natural desire of man to belong, regardless of how different he may feel from his surroundings.

Aldous Huxley places an individual with conservative values into a future society. John, the protagonist is raised on a salvage reservation, where there are little technological advances. The world outside the reservation is much different, children are manufactured, and drugs and sex are daily activities. There are no strong emotions, desires and human relationships, instead pleasure replaces these things. The reader can instantly see that John’s traditional views (views that we see are traditional) are in a head on collision with society’s views. John represents humanity implanted into this society. However, the values of society not only reject John’s humanity, they destroy John. John’s humanity is ripped from him when he compromises with society, and he commits suicide.

Eugenics has been in the light of controversy from the 1800’s until present day. Many people are still unaware of what eugenics mean and was it embodies. The study of eugenics is a complex science with multiple possible upsides and some critical downsides to using eugenic testing on humans. These pros and cons are what causes such controversy over the study of eugenics. Eugenics is “the complex study of human heredity, aimed at ‘improving’ the genetic quality of the human stock” (“Eugenics” 1).

In all the corners of the world there are diverse perspectives , that lead to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a Universal Utopia. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley , we are able to understand the critical differences between our modern day society and the dystopian one created in the novel. There is no such thing as “perfection” and in order to function everyone should choose who they want to be, which is the complete opposite of the society formed in the Brave New World. In this society there is no such thing as morality, freedom or individual identity. The philosophy of Ethics plays a big factor to show that the behavior portrayed in the book shows no distinction between right and wrong. Their world and ours fall into two very complex and different ranges. From their lack of identity, lack of sexual reproduction, pleasurable satisfaction and psychological references their world has fallen back into the twisted times of an imaginary dystopian world that we hope to never live by.