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Brave New World Family Structure

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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

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