Brave New World Analysis

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley shows how scientific advances could and have destroyed human values. Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, and most of the technologies he examines in the book have, to some extent, turned into realities. He expresses the concern that society has been neglecting human-being distinction in the progression of worshipping technology. In the story there are no mothers or fathers and people are produced on a meeting line where they are classified before birth. They also use a drug called, soma, to control themselves which illustrate the lack of personal freedom. Everyone in the state world do whatever they were taught since they were growing. For example, one of the tasks they give people is sexuality which is

"'God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.'" So says Mustapha Mond, the World Controller for Western Europe in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In doing so, he highlights a major theme in this story of a Utopian society. Although the people in this modernized world enjoy no disease, effects of old age, war, poverty, social unrest, or any other infirmities or discomforts, Huxley asks 'is the price they pay really worth the benefits?' This novel shows that when you must give up religion, high art, true science, and other foundations of modern life in place of a sort of unending happiness, it is not worth the sacrifice.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley introduces the dystopia of a society created on the principle of social stability at all costs. Huxley wrote this book in 1932 hoping to warn future generations of what he feared might happen if society did not do something to stop the inevitable. The leaders of our society today hope for and work towards social stability without taking away primitive rights. Social stability can only be achieved by a society whose beliefs in social and ethical issues are never challenged. So even though modern society hopes for social stability, it is not a practical aspiration because it is obvious that some of the social and ethical

As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs

     "'God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.'" So says Mustapha Mond, the World Controller for Western Europe in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In doing so, he highlights a major theme in this story of a Utopian society. Although the people in this modernized world enjoy no disease, effects of old age, war, poverty, social unrest, or any other infirmities or discomforts, Huxley asks 'is the price they pay really worth the benefits?' This novel shows that when you must give up religion, high art, true science, and other foundations of modern life in place of a sort of unending happiness, it is not worth the sacrifice.

In order to properly read and understand Brave New World one must realize that Huxley was constructing a less serious ideal for perfection rather than trying to make

George Santayana once said, “Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.” In life, there is no such thing as a “complete utopia”, although that is what many people try to achieve. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is an attempt at a utopian society. In this brave new world, mothers and fathers and family are non-existent. Besides being non-existent, when words of that sort are mentioned, ears are covered and faces of disgust are made. In a report to the Controller, Bernard wrote,”…This is partly due, no doubt to the fact that he heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m-----“(106). Words of the sort cannot even be written. Art, history, and the ability to have emotions are shunned.

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley was trying to convey the message that a perfect world could never exist despite any effort to control not only society, but all aspects of the lives of human beings. Utopian societies often result in totalitarianism because rulers are so consumed with making a perfect society that they are too controlling. The demolition of a dystopian society is quite inevitable because of human curiosity, which ultimately ends in the uncovering of the lies that a government attempts to communicate. In this novel, the government in London controls the lives of the people by making a perfect human race, and outcasts are exiled to another place outside of the State.

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, he started to realize how “Outdoor play has been steadily decreasing for North American children” (Let Kids Be Kids: Using Adventure and Nature to Bring Back Children’s Play). The desire to play outside has been decreasing for years now, and a primary reason behind this issue is technological advancements. As a result, Huxley incorporated many futuristic technological advancements in his dystopian novel. Aldous Huxley predicts that more people will turn away from nature and become more involved with technology.

Even though Brave New World was a story told more than 70 years ago, I still believe it’s relevant today. I can see why people would argue that it’s not because during that time the world was definitely different than it is today, but the topics the story talked about seemed like they were more toward my generation. The motto of the people in their world was to live a lifestyle based on the concept of community, stability, and identity. It changed the whole outlook on what we claim we live by which is life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. With the story being based on sex and drugs, it makes you think; are we kind of heading toward that way of living because of how relaxed we’ve become with the idea of those things. There’s so much more living to do and that’s why I think Brave New World is still relevant for today.

While outside, Bernard asks John about his childhood growing up in the reserves. John was always taunted by the other children because of his different skin tone and the fact that Linda was known for sleeping with an abundance of men. The children even went as far as pelting him with stone, hoping that John would leave them alone. John also remembers a time where the women of the reserve would hold Linda down and whip her for bedding their men. Despite this, he found company in the books that Linda gave him as she taught him how to read and write. Popé, Linda’s more frequent lover and an abusive figure in John’s life, gave John The Complete Works of Shakespeare while bringing Linda mescal, which has acted as a source of comfort in John’s lonely life. After hearing about John’s childhood, Bernard invites both John and Linda

Alone. Exiled. Cut off from civilization. A savage. John sees the hardships of being shunned by the people of his homeland and the effects of being the center of attention in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. John first experiences being exiled in his homeland and birthplace of Malpais where the other savages don’t allow him to participate in certain activities and shun him away. His second experience of being cut off from civilization occurs when Bernard Marx brings John and his mother back to civilization where John becomes the center of attention. He is exposed to all of the conditioning and practices he missed growing up in the reservation and becomes enriched with new knowledge once talking to Mustapha Mond. Finally, his last experience

Chapter 7 of Brave New World starts with Bernard and Lenina exploring the savage reservation. Lenina wants to leave, she doesn’t like the reservation because it is dirty and there are bugs, but Bernard insists that they stay. The two witness a ritual where a boy must be silent while he is whipped, it is supposed to symbolize a form of sacrifice to please Pookong and Jesus (their Gods).

Governments in this world always tried to make society a perfect place to live in for its citizens but some of its attempts lead society into becoming a dystopian society, as the concept of perfection is different in every individual’s eye. The novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is an excellent example of how government attempts of creating a utopian society lead it to becoming a dystopian society that values its stability and happiness over the personal freedom and the thinking of its citizens.

Since the beginning of time, people have had differences in their thought processes, causing everyone to behave differently. The main problem with all utopian visions is that they do not take into account that the actions people make are based on their past experiences, and no one will ever be able to change each individual's beliefs and values. For instance, technology could aim to control every aspect of human life, but there will always be at least one person who makes their own decisions. In Brave New World, people are given hypnopaedia at a young age to condition them to all think similarly. Essentially, society plays God, and people are unable to change who they are. Unlike everyone else in the World State, Bernard has feelings and says,