Brave New World Chapter 3 Analysis

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses tone to develop characters in the novel while simultaneously showing that every character is cast out at some point in their lives. This utopian future setting is developed throughout the whole first half of the novel.The entire culture is different, children are genetically bred and conditioned in so called Hatcheries. “ “Stability,” said the controller, “Stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (page 42) Each person supports a specific role in society, and if they break that role they are exiled. Readers get the chance to meet a few characters who question why they were even decanted or in John's case, Born.

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

Huxley’s novel takes place in the future, one in which it is acceptable to condition citizens to maximize the overall efficiency of the entire society as opposed to the efficiency of the individual. This future’s biological engineering reaches an all time high level; people are no longer born “naturally”, children are now “decanted” in bottles and pre-natal conditioning is not only acceptable but necessary as a means to limit human behavior. The theme of dehumanized life is a central one in the novel, perhaps the most important one, but one critic argues that although it is evident that this theme dominates the pages of Brave New World, the characters of this novel prove to be more human-like than one might have thought at a first glace. Peter Edgerly Firchow of the Bucknell University Press argues that:

During the 1930s, the times of World War II and the Great Depression, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. There were several issues going on in Huxley’s time that are still present in today's world . Huxley features some of these problems in his book, Brave New World. These problems include drug or medicine usage, women and gender inequality, and traditional marriage/homosexuality. Since this book was written during the times of the Great Depression and World War II, these factors also contributed to some of these issues. Since World War II and the Great Depression are over, these do not affect the problems today. Although some of these problems are still a problem in today's world and society, they are not as much of a problem as they were during Huxley's time.

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.

The Brave New World that Huxley created in his book is one of dramatically stratified social classes, Alpha through Epsilon, designed and conditioned from even before birth to fit into their predestined role in the society. Especially for the upper classes, everything is engineered towards comfort and consumption, to the point where people can even escape uncomfortable emotions by taking a drug known as

While in some extreme situations it can be useful to gain some semblance of unity and organization, totalitarian societies damage one 's individuality and feeling of self-worth; defining people without ever allowing them to make their own decisions. This can potentially cause one to feel ousted or distress. Totalitarianism creates no outlet for personal growth, and as seen in Brave New World. Totalitarian societies strip people of their basic human right, free will. Totalitarian governments impair the success of individuals, ultimately failing society.

In Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley predicts a future, like no other, where truth is trumped by happiness. The people in the World State are ignorant of the truth. They mistake the truth as happiness. This ignorance leads them to believe that a tablet called soma is used “to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient” (Huxley 213). Through drugs and conditioning, the government has kept the World State uninformed of the truth. Being controlled by the government, people in the World State do not know society is built upon lies. Throughout this novel, John, Bernard, and Helmholtz, go through this Dystopia lifestyle being a savage, a misfit and too intellectual for the society they are born or

Imagine a life without a family, a world without the loving support and nurturing from a Mother and Father. An existence without best friends and dear loved ones. The human soul longs for relationships with substance, continuity and a sense of belonging. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Families are non existent and close relationships are against the rules. Children are grown in bottles located in hatcheries and every stage of growth is micromanaged by the government. The embryos are chemically manipulated to stimulate or to retard their physical and mental growth. One commonly used practice was oxygen depravation, "The lower the caste," said Mr. Foster, "the shorter the oxygen." The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton.

In the first sentence of the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the reader is exposed to the slogan of the World State, “Over the main entrance…a shield [with] the World State’s motto: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY" (Huxley 3). What the reader does not understand at that point is that this motto is the complete opposite of how the civilization operates. In the mind of the World State Controller, these words represent what the 'new and improved' society has achieved. However, the goals of community and identity are impossible to reach because of the questionable actions performed by the government. Community and identity lead to the goal of stability.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, strict societal rules and class structures bear negative results for the World State, such as resentment, gender inequality, and rebellion. The citizens resent different classes and societies, caused by draconian societal structure. A society wholly reliant on medical technology to thrive creates gender imbalance as it erases motherhood and has a flawed familial structure. The World State ultimately becomes its own worst enemy, as the harsh rules and caste system eventually lead the people to rebel against the law. Resentment caused by strict societal rules and classes is evident through the reactions of the citizens of the World State to the Savage.

This book allows students to compare our own society to the one in the book which can lead to very deep analysis and detailed compare and contrast essays. Brave New World starts out in the Central London Hatching center where nearly identical human embryos are used to create different people with different roles. The Alpha embryos are the most important and are destined to be leaders while the rest, which are Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon, are less physically and mentally successful. Lenina is a worker in the Hatchery and she is seen in most of the rest of the book. Her and bernard, an Alpha male who wasn't able to fit in due too his lacking physical abilities, go too a Reservation Center where they meet many aged and sick people, which is rare because people in the world State, which is where they live, no one has signs of aging, and are shown many of the things that the people in the World State do not see. This is just some of the book, for if I had to go into full summary it would take much lionger. The main reason Brave New World should be on the required reading list is because of the fact that it inquires the reader too have a

Unlike our world today Brave New World is entirely different due to the way children are reproduced. The following paragraphs are summaries of chapters one through three in the book the Brave New World.

First, Huxley’s Brave New World does an exceptional job of showing what a society is like when its citizens do not think for themselves. In their society, children are not “born”, but instead they are fertilized in test tubes and the government decides what level of intelligence they will have; from Epsilons who can only understand basic commands to Alphas who are taught in a separate school from other children and are able to learn and specialize in different subjects. Although, all

At the beginning of Sandra Cisneros series of vignettes The House on Mango Street, the main character, Esperanza, is unhappy and feels as though she is unable to express herself. She does not have many friends, and she yearns for, “one I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without having to explain them. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor”(Cisneros 9). Esperanza wants to be understood by the people around her, instead of having to repeatedly explain herself. Esperanza is upset by the fact she does not have someone who listens to her share her jokes, feelings, and secrets. Esperanza refers to herself as a balloon. Balloons have potential to rise up and grow; however, Esperanza feels that her inability to express herself is keeping her from being freed from an anchor holding her down. She is tied down from achieving high levels of happiness. Just as Esperanza struggles with achieving happiness, characters in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, also struggle with understanding happiness. The society in Brave New World, values citizen’s content with their respective roles; therefore, the society biologically conditions the citizens to appreciate their roles and they instil the society’s values in the citizens through hypnopedia. When Bernard, a character who is often opposed to society’s values, expresses his struggle with society to Lenina, a character who identifies with the society’s values, she disagrees and is uncomfortable with