Analysis Of Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World

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.

Throughout the novel of Brave New World the author Aldous Huxley utilises satire in order to address and criticise political systems such as communism, through human conditioning and the Bokanovsky process. The novel presents the idea of the totalitarian World State playing god and having complete

advancements and twisted morals to relate back to the political and social environment of 1930s.

Today, one 's perceptions of happiness are more often than not associated with material achievements, advancements, or perhaps, love. In Brave New World, however, happiness is based upon the pursuit of stability and emotional equilibrium Aldous Huxley 's dystopian novel, Brave New World serves as a warning of the ominous. Set in London, the totalitarian regime instills the motto of "stability, community, [and] identity"(Huxley.1.1) in its citizens. Huxley 's dystopia attempts to find the greatest amount of happiness for the largest sum of people. The simple, less complex characters of the novel seek to achieve happiness through means of scientific conditioning, thus, leaving one

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.

The way that Huxley develops he's view of the new world and our is by showing how controlled the new world is compared to our. For example in page 18 "Community, Identity, Stability", which means that where they control the eggs, hatches the babies and educate them to do and what not to do. He's showing how this new environment has changed that we as human being cant have babies on our own, that now it's controlled by hatching them in a laboratory, which our work we don't do because that's something nature. Also, how they divide there people which is stated in page 23 " we decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilon...", which the Alphas and Epsilon are the upper class people, that are intelligent like knows how to read

From the beginning of time, humans have strived to be happy. During this time, thousands of different people have given their interpretation of happiness. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the simplified definition of happiness is feeling pleasure or joy because of a certain situation. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Controller, Mustapha Mond, conceals the truth in order to keep everyone happy. He gives his people drugs and brainwashes them into believing that their life is good. Satisfying. When John the Savage enters the novel, he questions all things concerning “civilization.” The civilized people are willing to do everything in their power to hide from the truth. These people were conditioned to stay away from the truth

Truth and happiness can be used in hundreds of different trivial ways, thoughtlessly. Merriam Webster defines truth as a “a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as {fact}” and happiness as “a state of well-being and contentment”. Modern lexicon tends to mash the two together, like knowing the accepting facts are essential to ones physical and mental well being. So naturally when we discuss human issues in societies, specifically those of the fictional variety we apply our mashed set of ideals based on truth and happiness on each of these different societies . In Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World, by conventional societies ideas the citizens of the world state know nothing of traditional reality and by the standards of the traditional world are far from a state of contentment, but if examined by the ideals of the society in question the overall appearance is quite different. the population seems happy because they don’t know the truth. In fact the characters that do know the truth are far unhappier by both societies measures.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World contains many extremes, from not having viviparous reproduction to having lots of sex and taking lots of drug to not having any literature and to revolving everything around Ford. The controllers in Brave New World control the people of the society by exploiting Freud’s studies of the subconscious mind. Freud believed that through hypnosis one could go into one’s subconscious and recover a memory that was hidden from the conscious mind. In Brave New World the controllers of the society use Freud’s idea of accessing the subconscious while people are under hypnosis. Instead of retrieving lost memories, they implant phrases, truths that must be believed on the deepest level possible: the subconscious.

Huxley uses contrast to reveal distinctive features of a character. In his novel, Brave New World, Helmholtz Watson is one of the characters who are involved with the use of contrast. Helmholtz is an Alpha Plus lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering who is friends with Bernard Marx and shares a unique bond with John over Shakespeare. He is physically different from Bernard; he and John are culturally different and share different opinions; and he has psychological and personality differences with Bernard.

CeeLo Green once said “I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world”. In the “Brave New World”, the society is split into five castes, the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The D.H.C. explains the biochemical technology that makes identical human beings with the Bokanovsky's Process, which produces dozens of identical eggs, which strips human beings of their unique and different personalities that makes them diverse. The people in this strange society have strange beliefs, they stand by “Community, Identity, and Stability”.

Society today may be on a dangerous path leading towards disarray and dystopian values. Eugenics, promiscuity, elitism and class differentiation all are problems that are on the rise in America and other developed nations today. However, all of these topics are addressed in the dystopian society of “Brave New World.” Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is an incredibly relevant piece that touches on multiple issues with which society is faced. Race, religion, feminism, and basic human rights are challenged and exaggerated throughout the novel in order to warn society of the disastrous effects of predetermined societal roles.

With the main conflict being humanity vs. technology. The new society that Huxley writes about does not represent individuality and is getting rid of the citizen’s humanity. “You got rid of them, yes that’s just like you…You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.” (Huxley 238). In a conversation with Mustapha Mond, John the Savage expresses his feelings on how unfair the world is though his eyes. John notices that in the course if history the New World just banishes anything that is hard and makes everything easier, he says the side effect of this is losing humanity.

While one is reading a book or watching a movie, it is very easy to pick up things that might make a viewer’s relate to the themes. Most of these are made not just to entertain the audience, but also to interact with their emotions and help them to relate to the work. There are tons of different examples of books or movies that people can relate to, but there will never be just one that everyone agrees on. Three books or movies that affected me greatly are Brave New World, Harry Potter, and The Blind Side.

Aldous Huxley’s world accredited and celebrated masterpiece Brave New World’s futuristic world is just as horrifying as it is compelling. Nevertheless, it can be interpreted in many ways. Some of its audiences are infatuated by the technological and scientific advancements exhibited by the World State, some are mesmerised by the mere thought of a world free from sickness, torture and poverty, while others just see a fictional tale that is worth a good read. However I myself, think nothing of this. In a world plagued by unavoidable suffering – inequality, deprivation and mistreatment – my mind is filled with scepticism over how fictional this Brave New World really is. Of particular note, I am truly distressed and disturbed to know that Huxley’s interpretation of the “perfect world” is functioned through a totalitarian system of government which applauds and endorses a class system.