adults are sent to an area where the population is more in line with the available resources (More 49). More describes a family unit that has some similarities to the nuclear family we know today in the United States. I believe it is built on roots, unity, and emotional bonding within a family structure. The needs of all were put before personal needs. The family as a unit serves the state and therefore makes the common good a priority (More 34). Utopia educates each of its members in agriculture since it is the most important resource in the state (More 44). In addition a member may also practice a second trade of interest. If a child wants to learn a different trade other that what someone in his family works at, the child may go to …show more content…
There is none. Technology makes it possible to reproduce without men and women. Technology takes the place of family, unity, and care because the state becomes the family. Children are now “decanted”, and the state assigns them a predetermined social class by using a scientific process (Huxley 10). The children learn through a conditioning method and “hypnopaedia” or sleep teaching (Huxley 23,25). There is no need for nurturing or learning to respect elders because the World State is now in charge. I think by removing all traces of a human family unit in the novel, Huxley’s fear of technology controlling the human race become a central theme. Therefore, because of this, I feel the author is sending a warning to present day society about the potential dangers that could be in store for the family as a unit and humanity if limits on technology are not set and science is used …show more content…
There is none. There is no supreme eternal being or heavenly force that the World State prays to or adores. Huxley writes, “God is not compatible with machinery, medicine and universal happiness. You have to make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery, and medicine, and happiness” (Huxley 234). There are no vices if everything is condoned. Furthermore, if an issue or a problem arises then “soma” is always available to make the situation happy again. As a result, there is no need for religion or a god of any kind. But Huxley does write about honoring the legacy of Henry Ford. I again feel that he is connecting technology to his dystopian message. The introduction of the Model-T in 1908 by Ford leads to the development of his assembly line mass production system in 1913. By the time Huxley was writing Brave New World in 1931, mass production in the United States and other industrial nations was in full force. Although there is no religion in the World State, Ford is godlike in the novel. Key phrases using Ford’s name in it as well as the making the sign of the “T” are a few ways Huxley pays homage to the mass producer (Huxley 32,110,149). I imagine that in the World State the creation of life is like Ford’s assembly line, mass production creates life. Therefore human creation is machine-like and comparable to the end product of Ford’s assembly line. There is no
We are close to the brave new world in personal relationships, especially with the family unit. There is no family unit in the brave new world, you are on your own. To even think about having a mother and father is a horrible thing. We are slowly falling into the ways of the Brave New World. If we don’t start changing our ways then we are not going to have a sense of the family unit.
Aldous Huxley has a humanistic, deep and enlightened view of how society should be, and of what constitutes true happiness. In his novel, Brave New World, he shows his ideas in a very obscure manner. Huxley presents his ideas in a satirical fashion. This sarcastic style of writing helped Huxley show his views in a very captivating and insightful manner. The entire novel describes a dystopia in which intimate relationships, the ability to choose one's destiny, and the importance of family are strictly opposed. In Huxley's mind, however, these three principles are highly regarded as necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling existence.
In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, the focus is constantly on the question of whether or not the advance of technology requires a sacrifice of human individuality, religion, love, and many other aspects of life. Therefore, Aldous Huxley's theme is that the price of happiness and social stability will be the sacrifice of the most cherished possessions of our culture. In the novel, Mustapha Mond states that "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine, and universal happiness." (Huxley). Here Huxley shows how religion can be sacrificed for peace. This world he has created with his novel shows religion is no longer needed to satisfy human desires. Unfortunately sacrificing and eliminating these aspects of life causes citizens
"'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.
These are just a few examples of how the population is dehumanized and dominated by the World State through the use of technology. Huxley seems to have passed over the ideas of automation so that even the lowest in the caste system have a purpose, including toiling away in factories or working in elevators.
Moreover, the World State explicitly harvests this “religious emotion” through requiring the citizens to prescribe to their own self-made religion, Fordism. As practitioners of Fordism, the citizens of the World State revere real world Henry Ford as their savior. Huxley utilizes satirical comparisons between Christianity and Fordism to illuminate that today’s government utilizes Christianity in a similar way, to quell the masses. Huxley uses obvious parodies such as switching “Our Lord” for “Our Ford” and cutting the tops off all crosses so they resemble T’s, a reference to Ford’s Model T car, to bring the truth to light without explicitly stating the fact. The followers of Ford also attend regular “Solidarity Services.” These services are comprised of twelve individuals sitting around a table while they sing hymns and ingest soma until the climax of an
In conclusion, it is safe to say that Huxley 's utopia went about achieving its status in the wrong way. Mankind has lost its free will to the controlling powers of a system. This system cannot be called government, as it is more akin in characteristics to slavery. Man no longer has freewill and order is kept not through respect and intellect, but via degeneration and conduct. The former sections of this essay present strategies and techniques used to maintain order in a society of individuals. Finally, it may be argued that the Brave New World protects society by locking them in a cage of ignorance; however, this is at the cost of freedom, and this is unacceptable. Mankind needs be free in order to progress as has been explained. Protection is all well and good but not at the cost of
In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce
The idea of family diversity suggests that there is no dominate type of family, therefore none can be considered as the norm. However there are studies to suggest that in historical periods of Britain like when it was industrializing there is dominating types, in this period it was considered to be the nuclear family.
Thomas Mores Utopia has more of a community sense. People are forced to believe that the purpose for working is for the good of the public. No matter what a persons status or rank is, they must learn the basics of Agriculture during their childhood. As mentioned by Thomas More, “Every year of this family come back to town after
American physicist and Nobel Prize recipient Steve Weinberg once claimed that “ for good people to do evil things, it takes religion”. However, the culprit isn’t the mere term and message behind religion, but the institutions that tug the puppet strings of it’s meaning and impact. Secular “religious” institutions have proven time and time again that an idea as controversial as religion can be used for a wide spectrum of uses, and unfortunately, Fordism in Brave New World falls under the corrupt end of the spectrum. In this novel, the author Aldous Huxley uses Fordism and its purpose to mirror the modern day secular institution trend in religious communities to illustrate how lack of religion and spirituality can give way to a sovereignty of
The film, Precious, is a powerfully charged story that delves into the family dynamics of a 16-year-old girl and her struggles to survive an onslaught of treacherous experiences. Throughout the film, the viewer is enveloped in a dramatic web of extreme situations, experienced by the main character, and those to whom she is close. The themes of domestic violence, rape, incest, drug addiction, gambling, poverty, social justice, social services, housing and education are laced together throughout the story. Particularly poignant attention is paid to various systems that help shape the experiences of the characters. The social services industry, and its associated workers, educators and administrators, set the foundation for the social themes that are highlighted by this film.
In her book The Unfinished Revolution, Kathleen Gerson argues that today, family pathways are more important than family structure. In this context, family structure refers to the organization of a family, and the way that it has been changing as a result of the gender revolution. For example, some nontraditional family structures that are explored in the book include double parent families with both parents earning, single parent families (mostly single mothers), and families with same-sex parents. Gerson argues that while family structures are not negligible, it is family pathways that are more important for the children of the gender revolution. That is to say, the children value the dynamics of their family more than the structure. They are more concerned about how well their parents are able to provide them with the necessary emotional and financial support than they are about how well their families follow a norm. For them, it is more about feeling like they’re part of a family rather than just physically being in one. Gerson emphasizes this when she explains that the people she interviewed “focused on the long-term consequences of parental choices, not on the specific form or type of home these choices produced at any one moment in time.” One important implication of this argument is the way in which the children of the gender revolution imagine their own romantic relationships unfolding. Even there, they prioritize a feeling rather than a format. For example, one
As family structure has changed in the UK, so child care arrangements have become more diverse and complex. What are the implications of these changes for children?
The family structure determines where you derive from and provides a sense of who you are. The typical family structure is perceived as a father and a mother, two children, one boy and one girl, and a pet. The typical family description described above is still promoted and expected to be the “dream family.” Author Meyerhoff, “While the nuclear family with Dad, Mom, and offspring happily coexisting beneath one roof-remains the ideal, variations in family structure are plentiful and often successful” (Meyerhoff). Meaning that a lot of families are remarried spouses with prior children and more common in the last decade same sex marriages. So, do these nontraditional families have the same qualities? Personally, I would think so. After