Brave New World Theme Essay

Close your eyes and imagine a world free of war, suffering and pain; an environment that provides all the necessary luxuries to maintain eternal happiness; one that is stable, friendly, peaceful and enjoyable. In this world, every inconvenience known to man is rid of. We are no longer affected by disease, aging, heartbreak, depression or loneliness; conformity is at hand and stability is achieved. Now envision a world where there is no love, families do not exist, humans are no longer conceived yet created in test tubes, and sexual promiscuity is not only acceptable but enforced. Picture an environment where there is no religion, art or history. The human mind and body is assembled accordingly and we lack the freedom of

"'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.

It is astounding how two pieces of literature can be similar but different at the same time, just by how the authors choose to use different literary devices. Two novels, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, portray these differentiated attributes because of the way the two authors vary in these literary techniques. Brave New World portrays a futuristic society in which people are artificially made and their jobs are pre-selected before they are created. All of the emotions and desires of man have been inhibited in these beings to create a so-called “utopian society” in which everyone lives and works harmoniously. The

In the Brave New World, the people can not live their life to the fullest. One way they are limited is that they are predestined at birth. “We also predestined and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” (Huxley 13). No one is allowed to grow beyond what the government decides is their rank. There is no competition among people and no one is trying

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

But contrary to our society, World State society were told to be independent to each other but just relies on the government that will fulfill everything that they need. Brave New World creates a society where everyone is happy even without bonds with one another to achieve stability as one of their motto. In other words, World State’s citizens are conditioned to living separately, without any social bonds to other human

The struggle and debate for and about utopias has been going on for thousands of years. In the classic book, Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, explores the aspects of happiness and stability through creating a utopia of his own. Of course, the civilization that he writes about is imperfect in many ways and the story follows an outcast in the society. In the book, Huxley shows us that true universal happiness is unattainable because to live a happy and fulfilled life with a true emotional range of feelings, essentially what it means to be human, people need to have freedom and thought. But in order to have a utopia with never ending happiness, people need stability and control. This makes a utopia an impossible

Brave New World offers insight to a frightening dystopian society for the future of the modern world. As Americans become further inclined to secede their most basic rights to the government, they are accepting their own self destruction. The inability to formulate an individual thought away from that of the predetermined is the end of a developing society. Diversification and change is necessary in temperance, where as radical rebellion will lead to oppression. As the American society continues to revolutionize social customs, the obsession and oppression of Brave New World has begun to come into existence and destroy society to the demise of the cumulative humanity.

In the novel Brave New World (BNW) by Aldous Huxley, education and creative expression aren’t exactly the way today’s society teaches education and self-expression. BNW contains similar issues that can be comparable and/or contrasted related to today’s society. In Brave New World, creativity and self-expression doesn’t exist. Having individualism allows people to have the right to freely express themselves. Freely expressing ideas and emotions will lead to instability which would go against the society’s moto, “…COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABIBILTY.”(pg.3).

What makes a person individual? Their beliefs and culture? Their aspirations and goals? Their habits and hobbies? Brave New World explores the classic conflict between society and the individual. Do you remember when your primary school teachers said everyone was unique? Well, forget that lesson today. In this classic novel, for the sake of common good, personal identity has been sacrificed.

Brave New World is political satire in which his author Huxley tries to make fun of a the growing society of his time by writing a story in which the government has a complete control over society by the means of science. Huxley’s imaginary world, according to critics, is called a dystopia, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary a dystopia is a term to refer to “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.” In short, Brave New World presents a setting where people do not have values or moral conscience. In general Brave New World than a book, it is a philosophical work in which Biblical analogies and moral values are purposely portrayed as God’s existence becomes one of the main themes hidden behind every citizen of the world state’s actions and their core values.

Brave New World shows the themes of freedom, rights, and sacrificial happiness, goes through its in-depth emotions from the characters such as John, Mustapha, along with how a utopia can also have its drawbacks. Freedom, rights and morals are vital in our world. But in the book, it talks about the different levels of class, religion, and society. It also talks about the advantage and disadvantage of a perfect world. But in this book, Huxley is trying to tell the reader about the improvement of science and how it affects individuals emotionally and physically.

After observing the novel Brave New World along with an article titled, “Catholic Church Corrupt To Its Core, Says Survivor” one can conjure the idea that human nature will always persevere. Since the birth of mankind this concept has been instilled in the minds of people. It is the nature of humanity to feel uncontrollable emotions and feelings that promote certain actions. This ranges from undergoing a state of overwhelming rage to possessing a heightened amount of fear to becoming engulfed in jealousy. These are undeniable traits of humans as seen in Brave New World because of the key figures in the novel that despite Hypnopædia and childhood conditioning, enact elements of innate emotions. When viewing Bernard Marx, one sees that he is different from the other Alphas and quite frankly, the rest of the population. He continuously experiences jealousy of Henry Foster’s intimacy with Lenina and sadness that his physical shape is deformed. From birth, children become conditioned to be happy and not to experience these emotions since it could potentially cause social instability. No matter the amount of soma Bernard consumes, he always finds a way to come back to these strong desires of love and depression. The reader can also observe Helmholtz Watson’s ambition to write rhymes that have more significant and influential meaning. Watson was predestined to cease from thinking about creating literature that disrupts society as he expresses, “...I’ve got something important to

Brave New World revolves around the idea of totalitarianism and is set in a futuristic world where the State uses science and pleasure to form a controlled society. The novel argues that the most powerful totalitarian state would be one that doesn 't overwhelm and frighten its citizens, but instead manages to convince its citizens to love their slavery. In the novel, the Director uses that the Bokanovsky Process to help social stability because the clones (humans) it produces are made to do things that are told by the State. The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to shows its guiding motto: “Community, Identity, Stability.”(Huxley, 5) We see a world of unknown and dehumanized people dominated by a government made powerful by the use of technology. The labs also symbolize how the totalitarian State abuses technology for its own ends instead of using it to improve civilization. Also, we see that the State has manipulated the people to believe that the actions of the State are the best for everyone. This is evident in the quote “The operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months’ salary”( Huxley,5) From this quote, we can see how they control society yet make them feel good about what they are doing. Through the quote, “Till at last the child 's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child 's mind. And not the child 's mind only. The adult 's mind

Brave New World,written by Aldous Huxley, is set in the time period 2540 AD. 2540 AD is referred to in the novel as 632 A.F., meaning 632 years after the year of Henry Ford; a great industrialist. The protagonists of the story are Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John. Each of these characters play a key role in the events of the story. In the expedition of the story, the author introduces the setting of the story and describes the society of the book. The author also introduces the main character of the story, Bernard, and Bernard’s struggle with fitting into society. In the rising action of the story, many events happen that lead to a very chaotic climax. Events in the story such as the meeting of Bernard and John, John’s arrival at the facility and John’s mother’s death all help lead up to the very chaotic climax. In the climax, John induces a riot in the hospital after the death of his mother. In the falling action of the story, many events occur that all lead to the eventual death of a protagonist in