Analysis Of Aldous Huxley 's ' Brave New World '

Happiness is a state of mind that most people typically urge themselves to achieve, to somehow magically land on, what is inexplicable is the dangerous lengths people will sometimes go through in order to make this a reality. Aldous Huxley attempts to explain the so called “steps” that are taken to assure the happiness of a “community” controlled by a totalitarian government and how this government creates a false sense of stability in order to manipulate its citizens’ minds thus creating this Brave New World. The World State lives by the motto, “Community. Identity. Stability.”, this stability being defined as a time in which there is no visible violence, there is a healthy economic stance and the people are… happy. Its aim is “universal

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.

In Brave New World, John experiences a radical shift in his life after he leaves the Reservation and goes to the World State. In the reservation, he was already somewhat exiled, as he was the only white person other than his mother and was ostracized for that as well as for his mother’s promiscuity, but this was doubled down in the World State as he was very quickly exposed to what the rest of the world looked like, and he found himself in exile again, this time self-imposed in a lighthouse.

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.

Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, a story about a futuristic society that believes stability is the ultimate need for survival. In this society, human beings are born by genetically engineered. They are being put in a ranked caste system that determines their position in the society. For example, the Alphas are considered superior to the Betas. Everything in the society is preprogrammed, any hardships and challenges are to be excluded.

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.

Historical information about the Setting: Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 which was during the Great Depression. The start of the Great Depression was when the American stock market crashed in 1929. Banks started closing and all the savings from the American people simply disappeared like water vapor. This market crash causes a chain reaction that lead to mass unemployment and poverty. On top of all of this, American farmers were not profiting from their crops because of a major drought in history which caused lack of food, further unemployment and a great migration out of the farming belt. The economic security Huxley wrote about was exactly what the people yearned for. This economic crash in America started to affect not only in the nation but on a world-wide level. Britain, which is where Huxley lived, was not exempt from it. Huxley had much economic issues on his mind but also was keen on the changes that began in the beginning of the 20th century, social and scientific. Technology was quickly advancing and in return replacing many jobs for workers. The politicians promised that this was a good change and that it would solve all the problems present but instead workers were unwillingly forced to work jobs that were low pay, strenuous, and unsafe. They had no free time and no money for leisure. Despite this fact, people like Henry Ford invented a way to deliberately keep prices of his product low so workers could afford it with debt, causing more problems. This was

Independance and self-awareness is an important part of our society, without it, people lose sight of who they genuinely are. Today’s society relies on people doing their duty to work together, like another cog in a machine. It is easy to find oneself feeling insignificant in terms of an independent person, and because of this, people have to actively find ways to keep ourselves occupied. Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1984. His father was a scientist that helped to develop the theory of evolution. Science was obviously a large part of his life and was most likely a key source of inspiration for his book. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Individualism is a rarity and society is structured to serve a higher class of people. Society is

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley presents us a number of fascinating characters, such as Lenina, who is arguably the most interesting and complex figure depicted by Aldous Huxley. In a society that conditions its population and imposes social norms, individuals can be separated into two distinct categories: the few who chose to speak up and act against the oppressive system, and most common, the conformists who blindly follow the rules and do not question authority. On one hand, Lenina is a conformist as a result of conditioning because she was taught to reinforce social norms, however the young woman presents rebellious character traits in her desire to experience romantic feelings prohibited by her

Here, it is seen through Bernard?s eyes how members of different castes interact with one another. Bernard views members of lower castes as disgustingly inferior to himself;

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes about a controlled society where everyone has their own job but their divided up in groups: alphas, gammas, betas, epsilons, and deltas. Alphas are the intelligent ones, Betas is right below the alpha caste, the gamma, delta and the epsilons are basically progressively servers. Huxley adopts a manipulating tone in order to reveal conflict between human beings and machines

On the topic of alienation, Brave New World presents four characters who are/feel alienated from a utopian society that circulates around the motto “Community, Identity, and Stability.” In a world that revolves around a caste system, there are five divisions and in this novel the Alphas and the Betas are the two groups allowed to communicate with one another. As for the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, they go through the Bokanovsky’s process which undergoes alcohol treatment and oxygen deprivation to guarantee lower intelligence and size. The author, Aldous Huxley, a social satirist, wrote this novel to express his concerns over control by the government that would change the way society is portrayed. In a socially stabilized world, the

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.

"History is bunk..." (Huxley, 34). Introducing the historical forces that directed the creation of the dystopia, Huxley delivers this quote through World Controller Mustapha Mond, which seems to contradict Henry Ford due to Ford originally stating it himself. Mond continues to lecture the students with enthusiasm and aspect on the self-destruction of the world of the reader and the construction of the World State, the only option to bedlam. In doing so, Huxley outlines the angst-ridden demise of the common world of egalitarianism and individual freedom and the people of the brave new world bring forth what they believe to be the only really winning structure for living developed in the new age — Ford 's assembly line, with its idea of “interchangeable parts”, making possible almost countless rounds of production and consumption. In his third person omniscient novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses Juvenalian satire to create a fictional world which idealizes the streamlined assembly lines of Henry Ford to warn readers that consumerism dehumanizes people.

The book starts in the beginning with how the process of making human beings is.The