Brave New World Always Good

Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Huxley depicts a cruel reality if technology one day advances too much. In no way does the book support racism, or religious intolerance. The books main idea, is a character realizing the holes in the “perfect” society. The dystopian community’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability,” by separate classes from each other, Musafa mon intended a society to be stable; or no competition. Not a “racist” society. The controller simply had to eliminate racial or religious problems through classes and hypnopaedia. If there wasn’t one religion in the civilization, it would cause potential for instability opposite of what he wanted. Brave New World should not be banned from schools due to race and religious intolerance.

The view of Brave New World in respect to exposure to sex, emotion towards others, and families are all linked together. The early exposure of sex to children helps develop the emotionless attachment towards other people. Meanwhile, in modern society children are taught to value family and relationships before they are ever exposed to sex; therefore, sexual relations are already connected with emotion. Some people in modern society choose to have sexual relationship without emotion, and in that way modern society is similar to that of Brave New World. In Brave New World, sex is only viewed as something that “feels good”, not as an emotional and physical bond between two people as the majority of modern society views it. People of Brave New World are also taught “everyone belongs to everyone else”. In modern society, people do not believe they “belong” to anyone else. Instead, people are a part of a family, and other than that they are subject to the laws of their country. In modern society, people are allowed to keep to themselves and whomever they associate themselves with—people do not “belong” to other people just because they live in the same place. All in all, there are a lot more differences than similarities between the Brave New World and modern day

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.

Brave New World is set in a dystopian London in a time called A.F. which means after Ford referring to after the making of Henry Ford’s Model T. This new era called the World State was developed after the Nine Years’ War which destroyed everything, leaving no traces of the history. A mythologized version of Henry Ford replaces the faith civilization once had in Christ, turning all crosses into T’s. “All crosses had their tops cut and became T’s. There was also a thing called God,” (Huxley, 45). Everything in this time period is based off of science. All the new developments in technology such as human cloning, rapid maturation and prenatal conditioning have overpowered the human race, dehumanizing them. “For in nature it takes thirty years for two hundred eggs to reach maturity. But our business is to stabilize the population at this moment, here and now. Dribbling out twins over a quarter of a century - what would be the use of that?” (Huxley, 5). Out of

The characters Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” live their lives being brainwashed. The two novels demonstrate corrupted societies that have taken away freedom, the ability to be unique, and the ability to express opinions due to the government. The people of both these societies have to act a certain way and cannot show any form of individuality. Both novels include the theme of viewing society as more important than the people. That is how the characters are raised, including the protagonists. The protagonists in both stories begin to express their uniqueness and stand out from others, which leads them to creating their own society.

The human mind is perhaps the greatest object on the earth, animate or inanimate, but without the proper training, the mind is a relatively useless tool. Through the development of formal education systems, humans as a whole have tried to ensure the training of all minds so as to continue prosperity for the world. Most of the time, though, education systems do not realize the harm they are doing to developing minds and the subsequent negative consequences. Among the largest of these inadequate education systems is the American primary schooling system. The American education system is in fact failing; it continues to deplete children of their natural creativity and thirst for knowledge while preaching conformity, which in turn creates an

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

In Brave New World the author, Aldous Huxley, creates a community that is efficient and and stable, but not at the expense of people’s individuality. To create this world, Huxley uses technology to manipulate mankind by synthetically producing people. By producing people, their society is dependent upon the programming of the people and later dependent upon drugs and sex to deal with problems. The people are less developed in emotions which allows for similar reactions to stress and other problems in their lives. Although their world is efficient in the work they get done, the production of the people cause them to be clones of those around them.

In Brave New World, the community is given priority above the individual; and although this priority may seem like a sort of devotion, the way in which Huxley illustrates it strips a person of any form of individuality. William Matter sees that in Huxley’s Brave New World, “individuality must be repressed because it invites a malleable social structure” (Matter 95). This elimination of individuality causes no depth of feeling, no creativity and no intellectual excitement. What makes a person an individual is to have a sense of himself as being separate, distinct, and unique. This sense of self includes both the joys and sorrows of one’s life.

While the society may be perfect in the citizens’ minds, there are many problems apparent to us, the readers. By separating haves and have-nots, we see this as denying people their unalienable right to success and to personal thought. Brave New World, without the people’s permissions, brainwashes its citizens through soma and hypnopaedia. We see this as morally wrong. I believe that everyone has the right to failure and to sadness, but Brave New World limits personal success and personal emotion. An interesting topic brought up in the Socratic seminar was the genetic problems apparent in this society. Problems in this society may arise due to the identical characteristics of each individual. Because they are all identical, if there was a new virus introduced, the whole population could potentially be wiped out. In reality, they are not curing the diseases as they claim to. Also, because all the individuals are similar, there is no diversity present in the society, something our society thrives

their curiosity is too great and their lives too boring without indecency. If such a book as Brave New World were banned, a novel known widely for its offensiveness, the world would lose a vital source of entertainment. There is an obvious difference between Huxley’s world in which “people are...never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age, they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives or children, or lovers to feel strongly about, they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave” (Huxley 220), and our society which is opposite of Huxley’s and also familiar to us. Would someone choose to read about the world they are accustomed to, or about a foreign and shocking world? Most would argue the latter.

Brave New World – Practice Essay In the novel, how have science and technology made the world better? Worse? Compare to modern society.

A major similarity between Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and life in 2016 is how we are influenced. In Brave New World, Bernard Marx is heavily influenced by his peers and what society tells him to do. This is similar to 2016 because we are influenced by what our peers say and do to us as well as on social media. Social media was designed for peers to influence each other's ideas but over time has limited our ability to pursue other activities. As we mature we also become heavily influenced by trends set by our peers and it becomes less important to be ourselves and more important to follow our peers.

In Brave New World their society is taught moral lessons and slogans by hypnopaedia. For example "a gramme is better than a damn." Today we are forced into believing propaganda and advertisements. We are bombarded with ads and pressure to buy certain things, or believe what people tell us. In Brave New World if they do not follow propaganda they are considered abnormal, and are forced out of society.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World takes place primarily in the World State, a society where people are genetically engineered and conditioned from the time of fertilization in order to live a life in a predestined social caste. Social relationships like families and significant others do not exist, and everyone is conditioned to be happy.