Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

Humans live their day-to-day life searching for something that makes them truly happy. What if someone were to tell you that what you thought was true happiness was all an illusion. In a Brave New World by Aldous Huxley people in the world state are conditioned and drugged up by soma to not experience true happiness.

Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, is a futuristic dystopian novel based upon science and technology. The society created in the work produces humans with specific qualities to make sure that everyone fits into the system. The overall happiness of the people is favored above the rights of the individual. “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. And of course whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered” (Huxley, 228). The women’s rights movement seeks the advancement of socialism and the expense of individual rights, just as the “Brave New World” described in Huxley 's book sacrifices the rights of man for the contentment of society.

The moral and psychological aspects of A Brave New World is what encompasses the reactions, adjustments, and ultimate rejections of the main character’s personality and himself in general. John’s epiphany occurred when he moved from New Mexico to London which is exemplified through his reaction, adjustments, and his eventual rejection of civilization; therefore it illuminates the theme of individuality resisting conformity.

The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932 is known for its social satire, utopian values, and unusual standpoints on stereotypical gender roles. In this time where futuristic technology has completely taken over, and men and women are given the same opportunities for everything, “the genders appear equal within the social order; both men and women work at the same jobs, have equal choice in sexual partners, and participate in the same leisure pursuits” (March 53). Huxley makes for a rather interesting feminist; “he was not only concerned about making women equal to men, he was also deeply concerned with the effects of technology and globalization on the quality of life for both genders” (Douglas-McMahon 21). However, there are many different sections of his novel that prove he was unable to fully rid of gender roles because of the time period in which he lived. Many of the stereotypical gender roles discussed in this book are also multiplied or switched rather than abolished. In his attempt to rid of stereotypical gender roles, Huxley manages to revolutionize, make fun of, and reconstruct them all in one breath.

We’re all thrown off of our feet, shocked every now and then. John stuns this “Brave New World” that really isn’t that brave or new, at least compared to himself. A man with all sorts of ideas and morals in his head. He throws the “civil” society into chaos, trying to preach and practice, what to him, is correct. A love of, who? A man called Shakespeare? That’s where we’ll start.

Freedom expressed through actions of Individuality Quotation: “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poverty, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (240). Analysis: Aldous Huxley tells a story of protagonist John the Savage where he is like a fish out of water. He is so individualized that he reacts and responds differently than the plethora of soma-infested youths.

In the novel the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John the savage is the protagonist who lost hope for all society. The exile made him realize he has no place in neither world or standards they live by. John alienated himself by his desires in isolation and going by his own rules. The enriching influence by John created and introduced the idea of individuality. Shakespeare's work contains every tragedy there is to a life experience, in which John the savage lived by but it's denied of those rights.

on the novel serving as a human allegory. This turning point in London’s life caused him

Social class as a result of differences in wealth or individuality are something that is a fundamental part in civilization. The book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley focuses on a futuristic dystopian society in which these things are magnified in order to create a rift in society. Each person is crafted specifically in order to perform their job well, and from birth they are divided into castes that dictate their way of living. By establishing a strict regime in Brave New World where the social classes are so well-defined that they are biological, Huxley makes a point about the world we live in by exploring the thought that our widely divided society will be one of our civilization’s greatest weaknesses and potentially downfalls due to

Why are the people of the World State discouraged from having close relationships and families? In the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Huxley creates a world where it can be seen as both a utopic and a dystopic state. The story is placed in the World State, where the government controls the majority of the planets population. The government, controlled by ten World Controllers, mass produces people in tubes into five different castes. At the top the social class, there are the Alphas, who are intellectually superior and have individual traits. Next are the Betas, who are moderately intelligent; therefore, their positions require less thinking. After the Betas come the Gammas; they are semi-skilled workers and experts at repetitive tasks. After the Gammas come the Deltas; they are unskilled workers that lack individuality and tend to common jobs. The lowest group in the social class are the Epsilons; they have undesirable jobs with no intelligence and have a lack of individuality. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller of Western Europe, controls his people through the usage of soma, a drug to escape sadness, embarrassment, and discomfort, hypnopaedia, a sleep-learning method, and the conditioning of babies with electrical shocks soon after their birth. While the government allows and advocates open sex, they refuse people from forming a close relationship with one partner. Emotions are portrayed to show weakness. The idea of forming relationships and families in the World

Our world acts as a scale between order and freedom. A slight tip does not throw off the scale, however, the slight tip will gradually create a large imbalance in time, which will throw the world into chaos. Missing elements in society characterize a dystopian literature, and often the missing elements refer to balance between order and freedom. In their modern dystopian novels, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies, both Aldous Huxley and William Golding reveal the necessity of balance and how an overexpression of either order or freedom results in a dystopian world. Huxley reveals how an overexpression of order results in an apathetic society and warns individuals of social expectations and totalitarian governmental control, whereas Golding

Characters play important roles in helping reveal the themes of a novel. The struggles they have to face helps build the setting. Each character interacts with each other in numerously profound ways. This interaction is the core of every story. The actions of one person affects the environment as well as the people around him or her.

“London, 1802” dramatizes the conflict between how England is now, and how it used to be. The speaker expresses concern for England’s present state when they say,” Milton! Thou should’st be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee” (1-2). This shows that the speaker feels sympathy for England’s current condition. The speaker then on to say that the cause of England’s current condition are its citizens; the speaker describes England’s citizens as “selfish men” (6) who need “manners, virtue, freedom, [and] power” (8). Finally, the speaker ends by saying, “and yet thy heart/ the lowliest duties on herself did lay” (13-14). This illustrates the fact that the speaker feels bad for England, because compared to the shape it was in in the past,

Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” and Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” are both novels which focus on the nature of the middle-man, whether this refers to social position, severity of feeling, or even geographic location. One of the major points at which Swift most directly satirizes Defoe’s work concerns the underlying conventions of the these values, and their capacity to improve the lives and the minds of those who hold them. Throughout Robinson Crusoe, the novel’s protagonist learns of the truth of the importance of holding to moderation; something which he learns through suffering the consequences of his own rash actions. Crucial to this is the idea of pre-destination, providence, and of a rational order to the universe—an order that only the middle-class is able to discover. If one considers Swift's work alongside the vision that is presented in “Robinson Crusoe,” then it is clear that the former presents a satire of the very idea, central to Defoe's work, that such events can be made comprehensible according to a schema of divine providence and conventional morality.