Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, people in the book show lack of emotion,feelings,interest or concern especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal wishing we had lack of apathy, my prediction is that people will no longer have strong emotions about anything important.They will become apathetic about most issues.We are convinced that one individual doesn’t matter. We can’t really make a difference in anything we believe in. That’s one of the reasons why people have started to lose interest in many aspects of their lives because they can’t do anything to change that. However,this only applies to a certain part of the population. To be honest in my opinion I personally think most of our generation thanks to social media

Aldous Huxley creates a futuristic utopian society in his novel, “Brave New World”. Individuals have little to no freedoms, and are conditioned not question their superiors from birth to adulthood. Jobs are predetermined before birth as is being taught to belong to one another. John the Savage, however, provides an insight on this society told from an outsider perspective. Being born from a nonnative mother is unfortunate, as the civilization he belongs to heavily punishes those nonnatives, such as not being able to hunt as a group. John was born and grows up as a nobody with no one to talk to besides his mother, Linda. Shoved into the New World, John continues to realize he struggles to fit in the general population and experiences alienation

Among all the different people we have a man named John. John was born from a mother and a father just like our world. Unlike the rest of the people John wants a family, someone only for him. John is a man with knowledge, he sees what is being done wrong with the New World people. These people do not have the ability to think for themselves they are being raised as an experiment rather than human being.

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over compensations for misery” (Huxley 221). In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, many of the characters question happiness and freedom throughout the novel. Brave New World suggests that we should seek something else in life rather than our happiness by having Lenina, Bernard and John, to compare and contrast the differences. Lenina believes she is happy and free in the World state that she lives in.

Imagine living in a society where every single person acts and behaves the same. Do you think it’s possible? In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tells of a society where everyone is the same but, compared to today’s society, everything is different. Huxley tells of a world where everything that happens or takes place is because of one’s own desire and nothing more. The hero in the novel, a “savage” named John, is Huxley’s main focal point. It is through his eyes and mind that the reader sees what’s going on. Now when I read this novel, I began to think, “Could this perfect, conformed world actually exist”?

InThe Brave New World, Huxley creates a so called utopia based on the fundamentals of “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 3). In the community, citizens live together as one where everyone belongs to everyone else. The citizen’s identities are predestined which determines how they will be utilized in the community. Overall, the world is completely controlled which results in total stability of the utopia. The stability of the New World slowly deteriorates and is viewed as a dystopia when John the Savage is welcomed in. Growing up in a different community, John has made his own identity and creates his own view on how life should be lived. John spreads his thoughts to other citizens in the world and slowly starts to influence others to

Our world acts as a scale between order and freedom. A slight tip does not throw off the scale, however, the slight tip will gradually create a large imbalance in time, which will throw the world into chaos. Missing elements in society characterize a dystopian literature, and often the missing elements refer to balance between order and freedom. In their modern dystopian novels, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies, both Aldous Huxley and William Golding reveal the necessity of balance and how an overexpression of either order or freedom results in a dystopian world. Huxley reveals how an overexpression of order results in an apathetic society and warns individuals of social expectations and totalitarian governmental control, whereas Golding

Aldous Huxley, one of the most gifted and influential literary figures of the mid-twentieth century, wrote the intriguing story Brave New World. The story focused on a perfect Utopia that existed in the future and a man from a different society that came in with what they’ve believed to be distorted ideas which went against everything the Utopia stood for and would test the very ideas on which that world represented. Their uniquely different ways of being brought up led the Savage character to have contrasting opinions to those grown inside of the Utopia characters, Lenina and Bernard. By having these separate upbringings, their opinions and ideas are formed and created in ways that contrast each other because they weren’t grown to learn certain things as the other was and some of the main themes that caused conflicts throughout the story was their contrasting beliefs towards “everyone belongs to everyone” and taking soma.

In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, the main goal of the utopian society is to achieve a state of stability that allows the civilians to live “happily ever after.” Each person is conditioned into a certain class where they accept their assigned job. In the World State there is no such thing as family or any other relationships. The drug soma ensures that the only emotion the civilians feel is happiness. However, along with social stability comes a loss of individuality. Community, identity, and emotions, three characteristics that are natural and required in order for an individual to truly live life have been erased from society. The World State removes these elements because they are unstable and uncontrollable. Huxley shows that no amount of stability and happiness is worth the loss of everything that makes us human. That means a utopian society is impossible.

In the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, there is a character in the book who was named John. He was technically one of the “civilized folk” but was living among the “savages” who populated the reservation. He was brought back to civilization with Bernard and Lenina, but was treated more as a freak show rather than an actual human. He was an oddity, something to gawk at or wonder at. Even when he lived among the savages, he was ostracized by them, because he was not the same as them.

In his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman compares the two dystopian societies of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. He suggests that “Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us” (Postman). The Party of 1984 maintained control of the people by keeping them under constant surveillance, whereas the government of Brave New World kept the citizens so happy, they never felt threatened enough to put up a fight. Both Brave New World and 1984 multiple methods of fear manipulation to control and restrict the ideas of their societies. Even though manipulation of fear could be necessary for keeping a peaceful society, it is used to restrict ideas in the societies through limiting language and a lack of history, inconsistent legal systems, and multiple methods of control based on perceptions of love and hate.

“Brave New World is an enduring masterpiece of classic science fiction, a bleak future vision as concerning today as it must have been over 80 years ago.” – Antony Jones, SFBook Reviews

While the knowledge of the world around man may open door to him, it leaves his mind filled with endless thoughts that weigh on him. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, Huxley describes a satiric version of the utopian future where humans are genetically bred and classically conditioned to live passively and happily in their subservient culture. Throughout the novel, this idea of happiness verses knowledge and intelligence is brought before the characters of Huxley’s society. The only way this perfect society flourishes is due to the fact that everyone is the same; all of them working for one common goal, all of them believing one common idea. Characters in the novel often shy away from having any sort of intellectual conversation,

Authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell each attempt to demonstrate the gloomy outcomes of power-hungry totalitarian governments in their novels Brave New World and 1984. Orwell, in 1984, fabricates the “Party” as a communistic, autocratic bureaucracy that ensures their control over their populace through unscrupulous manipulation of history and ubiquitous espionage that gives them complete control over every individual’s thoughts and feelings. Huxley, in Brave New World, establishes a government that safeguards social stability and maximizes “happiness” through hypnopaedic schooling, rigid social standards, and prenatal engineering that allows them to predestine individuals to certain roles in society that they will “enjoy”. In either