Bad Things In Brave New World

1.Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy

Society in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World was an exaggerated society of the United States during the 1920s. These extreme societal boundaries were unknowingly predicting the future. Brave New World developed a liberal trend toward materialistic views on physical pleasure. Throughout the novel, there was dependence on science for reproduction, open-minded views on sex and, ideological concepts that disvalue family and relationship. In the modern-day United States these views are reciprocal and ever-present, however, these views were not directly mirrored, values today are not completely lost.

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

The effects of soma are very “drug-like”. Soma is often used by the government to control or condition the members of Brave New World.The use of soma or drugs in Brave New World is different than today and the past’s usage of drugs. During the 1930s, substance abuse and addiction began to rise. In World War II, amphetamines were widely distributed to soldiers to fight fatigue and improve their mood and endurance. Marijuana and a large wave of opiate addiction began to rise greatly. Today, marijuana is the most common illicit drug used.An estimated $193 billion are spent on illicit drugs today. Like today, people during the 1930s used these drugs as “feel good” drugs. Substance abuse and addiction is still a rising problem in today's

“’Try to imagine what living with one’s family meant’ They tried; but obviously without the smallest success ‘And do you know what a home was?’ They shook their heads” (Huxley 36). ‘Living with one’s family‘, and ‘home’ are concepts that have been lost in the minds of this new world. Ideas like these are ways of life in the world today, and thought as aspects of being human. Politics of Huxley’s world have basically eliminated key facets that reduce people to rapidly reproducing mice.

The future of the world is a place of thriving commerce and stability. Safety and happiness are at an all-time high, and no one suffers from depression or any other mental disorders. There are no more wars, as peace and harmony spread to almost every corner of the world. There is no sickness, and people are predestined to be happy and content in their social class. But if anything wrong accidentally occurs, there is a simple solution to the problem, which is soma. The use of soma totally shapes and controls the utopian society described in Huxley's novel Brave New World as well as symbolize Huxley's society as a whole. This pleasure drug is the answer to all of

The first chapter of the book Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis, titled “Brave New World,” focuses around the discovery of the continent of North America, the origins of its first inhabitants, and the different ways that the European countries established settlements in America. The voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 were important to the development of America because even though he did not set foot on North America, he let the Europeans know that there was a “New World” and that there were people living there. The first Spanish settlements in the New World helped to change America because most of the settlements still exist today, such as the St. Augustine settlement in Florida. The establishment of the English settlement of Jamestown changed America because it was the spark that started an era of English dominance in North America.

When one reflects on the period during which Huxley’s novel was written and the modern world of his time, the comparison to the socialist world cannot be ignored. The whole idea of a utopia is very similar to socialism. The World State society is under the complete control of the government. Pre-destination department chooses what people will learn, what they will do and how they will look. Each caste wears a different color clothes and does different type of labor. None of these decisions are made by people themselves. In our society, even with the socialism, where government decides what products to produce, in what quantities, and how people will live, people still have a choice and opportunity to be different. Stability and individuality in utopia are reached by taking away the individuality from people. In the World State government controls desires and consumption by creating and destroying the demand for certain objects through the psychological training of infants.

The World State forbids the citizens from experiencing any negative emotion, for fear of losing control. Soma, Latin for sleep, renders its users to a coma-like blissful state, which Congdon describes, borrowing the statement from Huxley himself, that soma allows the citizens to,“periodically escape from the pressure of routine and worldly cares”(Congdon). Citizens are conditioned to use the drug at the slightest challenge to the cultural norms, preventing any thoughts of rebellion or contempt against the government.

In World State Society, individuals believe that "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability" (8). Huxley utilizes the citizens’ appreciation of this Process to emotionally appeal to his readers. Bockanovsky Process’ strays away from the idea of family, something that continues to be an important aspect in the lives of contemporary citizens. This therefore reinforces the idea of detrimental scientific advancements. Furthermore, World State Society strives to “mak[e] people like their unescapable social destiny” through conditioning and harmful substances prior to and after birth” (13). For instance, the controllers of the government condition individuals so that they remain ignorant, yet satisfied of their low status in order to maintain stability. This additionally appeals to audiences emotionally in that in the contemporary era, we are taught that an individual can rise up from poor beginnings

Soma is “the drug sponsored by the state to reduce or eliminate feelings of unhappiness” (Huxley 23). If a drug like Soma were to be created in today’s world it replace all the drugs in the world because there is no side effects. The number of Americans abusing prescription drugs has almost doubled from 7.8 million in 1992 to 15.1 million in 2003 (The Washington Times, 2005), where soma is used worldwide in Brave new world. The drug Soma in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, could easily be described as a modernized prescription drug.

The citizens are not concerned with themselves as individuals; they have, however, been brainwashed to see the world as a collective and technologically oriented entity, upholding the central theme of the party: "stability, community, identity." (Huxley.1.1) The World Controllers possess their own assembly line to mass-produce humans, highlighting the dangers of how technology can be negatively used. The of the novel laments, " Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par, at seventy per cent oxygen you get dwarfs, less than seventy percent, eyeless monsters!"(Huxley.1.11) The World Controllers have the ability to create humans based upon the needs and wants of society, both augmenting and mutating the child to serve societal needs. Many themes in the novel are based around economic systems. Through technological advancement, the economy has progressed years before its time, leaving a mentality that new is better, and that consumerism is the purpose of life. The consumerist principles can be better delineated with the following quotation, "but old clothes are beastly, ending is better than mending."(Huxley.3.17) Stated more simply, essentially all citizens are conditioned through technology to have the mindset of a consumer. Currently, in modern day religions ', God is believed, by many, to be the creator of all, and that everyone is both a child of and a

Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” highlights the theme of society and individualism. Huxley uses the future world and its inhabitants to represents conflict of how the replacement of stability in place of individualism produces adverse side effects. Each society has individuals ranging from various jobs and occupations and diverse personalities and thoughts. Every member contributes to society in his or her own way. However, when people’s individuality is repressed, the whole concept of humanity is destroyed. In Huxley’s “Brave New World”, the concept of individualism is lost through hyperbolized physical and physiological training, the artificial birth and caste system, and the censorship of religion and literature by a

Huxley’s imaginative examples of how we prioritize superficial desires illustrate to the audience that our society needs to care more about our lives and the lives of those around us, instead of looks and drugs. For years we have used our technological and scientific improvements for our shallow desires, not for the health of our society. The parallels between Huxley’s society and ours exist because his brave new world represents an exaggerated version of our world, he meant his novel to display the faults of sophisticated

No emotion. No love. No mothers, fathers or families. No marriage and no pregnancies. No individuality. It’s all non-existent. Aldous Huxley’s brave new world written in 1932 introduces us to a vision of a utopian community that is fashioned as one of mindless drug use, sleep hypnoses, conditioning, castes in society and a community were fidelity is shunned and social stability is key. All of these combine to discourage any possible individuality. Bokanovskys process also deliberately deprives human beings of their appearance, intelligence, job and level in society. They become nothing but mindless faceless colour coated sheep. One of the main themes in the novel is individuality and is exposed through the bold individualism of the protagonist