Brave New World

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.

What is social stability? According to ReversoDictionary it’s, “living or preferring to live in a community rather than alone”. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, stability means much more than that. In the World State the government takes full control of every aspect of the people’s lives; even going as far as to brainwash the community into being content with their lives. Through genetic engineering people are mass produced and then conditioned into certain castes that they’re forced into for the rest of their short lives. Technology has been made to eliminate all suffering and a widely used, if not overused, drug called Soma has been created to diminish any pain. Individuality is stolen from the people of the World State and they have no way of understanding their dissatisfaction because the government has manipulated their entire existence. Conditioning, drugs, and promiscuity aren 't the only things in life a person will need to feel satisfied; we as human will always yearn for more, which is why going as far as the World State did for social stability is wrong.

Clareson says, "They have sacrificed the past and the future for the pleasure of the moment, shortening that time between desire and consummation to nothing, or escaping time and space with soma" (Clareson 238). They try to forget what has happened with their lives and go on a soma holiday. There is a character in the story name Lenina, who has a problem with soma. She is able to take soma like anybody else in the world. When she goes to the reservation she learns to live without soma. On the reservation she see something that she can’t unseen. She tries to find a way to get her mind off of it and all she is thinking about is the drug that can make the pain and suffering go away. When she is back from the reservation she takes too much soma and puts her into a coma. She is able to release all of the bad things that have happen flied away. According to Medication and Social Control, says, “In fact, soma was such a part of their culture that it was considered unnatural to not require its use to get through the day. For example, in describing Benito Hoover, a popular member of the World State, the narrator commented, “Benito was notoriously good natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma”( Medication and Social Control). There is another character in the story is named John. He tries to tell people to not take their daily ration of soma and instead live without soma which would give the people freedom over the drug (Huxley 219). Obviously, the people of a Brave New World are upset with what John says and they give him treats to his life. A fight breaks out and the police control the mob by soma gas. This scene in the story, makes the realization that soma is more than just a drug. The people of the Huxley Brave New World, find that when they live without the drug for too long, they start to crave it. They also go into a state of where they start

“ ‘Or the Caste System. Constantly proposed, constantly rejected. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physic-chemically equal.’

In this world where people can acquire anything they need or want, we have to wonder, “Is the government controlling us?” Both the governments in A Brave New World and in the United States of America offer birth control pills and have abortion clinics that are available for everyone, thus making birth control pills and abortion operations very easy to acquire. Although both governments offer birth control pills and abortion clinics, A Brave New World’s government requires everyone to take the pills and immediately get an abortion when pregnant. This in turn shows us that A Brave New World’s government is controlling the population and the development of children. China is one of the few countries that currently have control of the

Every man and woman has everything they could ever want. Everything they could ever need. No war, hunger, or sadness. A perfect blissful society, they say. Everybody’s happy now, they say. The citizens of the futuristic society of Brave New World are nothing more than brainwashed drones. They have no individuality or feeling. Their lives are much worse than the lives of the characters in A Tale of Two Cities and Really, Really because they cannot understand things like love or know what it is to have a family. The “new” society isn’t better than the societies of today or of the past because it eliminates and recreates the entire social structure of society. Rousseau, a revered Frenchman who analyzed the human way of governance and life in the 1700s, stated that “the oldest of all societies, and the only natural one, is that of the family; yet children remain tied to their father by nature only so long as they need him for preservation”

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley, there are many topics covered about the world, freedom, and men. One of the topics discussed is the theory of evolution. There are many arguments presented about how the world and people evolved. There are different arguments created by creationists and evolutionists. For the creationists, everything is created by a creator such as God and that matter was formed by him to create the earth and even people on earth as well as other creatures in the universe. On the other hand, the evolutionists do not believe in creation, and they argue that everything evolved from their old forms to their new forms now. Another topic presented is the discussion about freedom which evolutionists believed not to exist since matter is not free and it is governed by laws of nature and that includes people and all living things and non-living things in the whole universe. However, creationists would tell otherwise. This proves that evolutionists and creationists have a different perspective in how all things are formed and how they are going to be.

Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's

In order to create a society that is striving, stability needs to be present. Without stability, weakness is created, which then leads to uncertainty. There is no possible way for society to be stable with unstable individuals walking around. For example, I believe society in this sense can be directly related to a sports team in competition. In order for a team to be stable and thrive, stable individuals are needed, and with unstable individuals present, success is unattainable.

Is Huxley’s novel Brave New World, slowly becoming our reality? Are we becoming the individuals in the book, that live their lives oblivious to the fact they are brainwashed by the government? In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, our present society and their world state society share many similar habits, however it is the differences in our two societies that are more visible and clear. The three most obvious topics seen in the novel, was the similarities and differences in reproduction, drugs and family/relationships.

Aldous Huxley wisely inserts many instances of distortion to the elements in Brave New World to successfully caution the world about its growing interest in technology.

Her views on society are conflicting throughout the story and she often will act unorthodox in a way that presents her as a desirable character. She relates to many other characters through sex and does not relish the thought of spending time to truly get to know another person. Although she shows a different side of her views when stating she is attracted to Bernard Marx who longs for individually and true emotions. Her thoughts of a relationship do not extend far beyond public events and sexual activity. “I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays” (91). Lenina is too blind in the beginning of the story to recognize what true happiness could feel like. Her relationship with Marx gives her an idea of his thoughts and begins to change her character. She also goes against the society normal by being in a relationship for several months instead of having sex and simply leaving the relationship behind. Although taking a liking to Marx begins to let Lenina think for herself and get an idea of how wonderful true emotions can be for individuals. “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly” (93). The way Marx begins to question Lenina’s happiness forces her to think about if she is truly happy. Her change in viewpoints causes her character to evolve into an independent person who is willing to look beyond the social

To me Social Stability means that your whole community is equal. We all earn and do the same as others around us, which makes us even. Social Stability can also help us keep our society in balance. Without Social Stability our society can end up being chaotic. Social Stability has a big part in the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, their society is balanced out by having their citizens take certain amount of soma and by also having certain restrictions . I do not believe that the sacrifices that the World Sate requires of its citizens are a price worth paying to maintain Social Stability, because it can eventually make someone in unintellectual, rebellious, and unhappy.

This again shows Lenina's attempt to escape from the harsh reality of her brainwashed society. All the times that Lenina resorts to soma use, it is due to a recognition that her life and world are not perfect and in control, but rather full of people who have no grasp on real freedom and control. Though she does not directly fight the power that dominates society, her apperception of the problem exhibits a greater intelligence and understanding of the Brave New World.

This scene in the reservation causes Lenina to become extremely uncomfortable because it concerns things that are different than what she is used to. Where Lenina is from, the people are created using technology and are decanted rather than born, making them act uncomfortable about anything that is “revoltingly viviparous”. It is ironic that Lenina finds this subject so strange and obscene because this is typical for the “savages” and for the audience. Normality is subjective. It is also ironic because many of the things Lenina think of as normal are considered “obscene” by our society. For example, the characters in the book take a drug called soma in order to avoid reality. Soma clouds reality and replaces it with happy hallucinations,