Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

The Brave New World offers its citizens possibilities that the savages in the Savage Reservation do not have access to. It provides them with sustainable comfort, and positive feelings. The Savage Reservation provides pain and a lack of cleanliness that makes it habitable solely to its savage population . Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a preferable living space that has a better quality of living, offers stability and community to its citizens, and has a cleaner lifestyle than the savage reservation .

What is the Noble Savage? Authors James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Pontiac, and Mary Rowlandson seek to answer to that very question in their respective writings. Each author has a different take on the Noble Savage—some focus more on nobility rather than savagery, others do the inverse, and some have a good balance of the two. When coupled together, the varying viewpoints lend themselves to paint a great picture of what the Noble Savage truly is: a complex archetype. After examining each of the works by the authors, I have concluded that the two aspects which make up the Noble Savage—nobility and savagery—are found in how they carry themselves, how they live, how they go about killing and why, and ultimately how they feel

In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the theme of civilization vs. savagery to show the transformation human civilization to human savagery. An example of this is when the choir boys appear to have their hats on but no other clothes. This is showing that they are still wearing some uniform form a “civilized” choir while also being naked in the wild. Another example is when they start a fire by taking piggy’s glasses without his permission. Showing that they will do anything to get what they want even if it harms someone else. The fire is also an example of Civilization vs Savagery, They build a fire to create smoke which would attract passing boats, but don't take good care of it which lead to the forest

Humans live their day-to-day life searching for something that makes them truly happy. What if someone were to tell you that what you thought was true happiness was all an illusion. In a Brave New World by Aldous Huxley people in the world state are conditioned and drugged up by soma to not experience true happiness.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes about a dystopian society consisting of consumerism and happiness. This society strictly relies on its rules and provides a narrow way of thinking in life. When John is introduced in the book, he possesses knowledge of a Indian civilization unlike Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson. In this strange civilization, John learned old English from Shakespeare and Christianity, which are ousted in the World States. Because of his knowledge of this information, he is shunned from the new society he is not used to. This alienation pushes him out separating his views of life and the government’s views. In Brave New World, Huxley alienates John and his forbidden knowledge, preventing to upset the World

Brave New World explicitly states that their society rejects people with abnormalities that make them differ from everybody else in the apparent utopian society. This is a society in which prejudice is extremely common and acceptable and at times would be encouraged among the civilians. In Brave New World, people are genetically engineered in a laboratory and categorized into five different castes, The five different castes are rendered into different magnitudes of skills and intellects, based upon how well they will be able to do in the future also how socially acceptable they will stand. In which alpha is the highest, Epsilons the lowest. The Alphas can be viewed as the geeks in school, while the Epsilons basically do the grunt work such as shoveling, and picking up trash. In their society, it is acceptable to criticize based upon looks and actions. If a person looks or acts different, the “perfect” society initiates in awkward stares and glances. Once somebody acts a little different from the norm this society spreads absurd rumors about them. In this “perfect” society civilians can only associate with the people in their same caste.

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Marxism is seen through the whole story. In the story everybody serves the society in the world state. Society makes everybody’s needs and are fulfilled, as well as some of the characters show us Marxism in the way they act or where conditioned. Religion is as well seen in the novel and connected to Marxism.

Science fiction is inherently predictive. The works created under this genre often delve deeply into important issues, including anything from scientific advancements to the ramifications of  societal control. As we break through the caution tape set up by those attempting to warn of us our future, the utopias of yesterday become the dystopias of today. A world full of possibilities becomes distorted by our own desire for power and control. Though fiction turned occasional fact, science fiction has become a precursor to important discussions regarding the advancements of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Aldous Huxley’s utopia in Brave New World foreshadowed and illuminated the complications within modern day society. Upon its release, the narrative became widely banned all over the United States due to the unorthodox thoughts and actions of multiple characters in it. Early readers, as well as modern day audiences, feared and rejected the ideals that Huxley incorporated into his perfect society; however, our society today is heading towards the dark paths the older generations desired to avoid.

Savagery” in an interesting way. At first, the boys seem to be on the path to civilization in the first chapter when they decided to elect a leader, who turns out to be Ralph (Golding 23). However, the boys have situations that show them descending into savagery, such as the aforementioned forest fire incident, and then rising back into civility through Ralph’s many meetings and speeches. In spite of this, the eventual descension into chaos can be linked to the arrival of a “beast” on the island (Golding 96). As the initial boys who found the beast did not actually verify if it was dangerous (Golding 98), fear started to spread around the camp. Even Piggy, who had expressed a firm disbelief in such a being, was afraid. As a party is sent out to find the beast, Piggy is left behind to watch the young children. Before they leave, he addresses his fear and asks “‘I mean, how about us? Suppose the beast comes when you’re all away. I can’t see proper, and if I get scared-’”(Golding 101). However, when Jack and Ralph finally find the beast, they too fail to properly verify if it is alive or not due to the fact that it was night and hard to see (Golding 123). With this incorrect “confirmation” of the beast’s existence, morale breaks down and Jack starts his own tribe. Though they promised safety from the beast, they also demonstrated further savage traits, such as offering gifts to the beast so that it might not kill them (Golding 137). As the story progresses, the tribe proceeds to grow more and more savage, committing acts like the two aforementioned murders. Clearly, Golding masterfully develops the theme of “Civilization vs. Savagery” through his compelling

Many people would argue that today’s society has loose morals and people are promiscuous. In the novel Brave New World, that is not a problem because everyone belongs to everyone else. People are expected to be in many relationships with whomever they like.

The World State views them as barbaric because of how different the two worlds are. The people of the World State say the “cleanliness is next to fordliness” which turns them away from the savages because they can't deal with the general dirtiness. Moreover, some of the savages are older than anyone they have ever seen because the new society has learned to keep people young until they are sixty and die. The differences that the people of the World State frown upon give the savages a sort of humanity that the others do not

In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the social boundaries that we have today regarding sex does not exist, families are obsolete as citizens are made in Bokanovsky’s Process (one that does not require sex meaning, the need for parents is gone), and the government conditions their citizens from early ages to keep stability throughout its regime. Brave New World follows protagonist Bernard (and his hidden love for nature and struggle for freedom) through this society, revealing all of it’s glory, from soma to Helmholtz the literature lover to the Savage Reservation, where modern day beliefs still reside in this negative utopia, leading us to John the Savage, which leads to the ultimate conclusion of Bernard, Helmholtz and John the Savage. Aldous Huxley, through Brave New World, answers the question of what society would look like if the government gave people happiness and stability at the cost of individual freedom.

Firstly, we are going to explain what the myth of the good savage is. Secondly, we are going to see with the movie “Into the wild” (2007) directed by Sean Penn how the myth of the noble savage is opposed to our modern civilization ideal’s. To prove this point we are also going to use an article from the New Scientist published the 22 August 2013 dealing with uncontacted tribes. To

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.