Essay about Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, is a masterpiece of science fiction. His imagined, dystopian state creatively employs facts and theories of science, as well as his very own thinly-veiled commentary on the future of society. His family background and social status, in addition to molding Huxley himself and his perspective, no doubt made impact on his writing and contributed to the scientific accuracy of his presentation. However, Huxley certainly qualifies as a social commenter and his extensive works, while sometimes biased, were always perceptive comments on the future of mankind, predictions made based on current event in his world. In other words, current affairs had undeniable impact on Huxley’s novel, and his

Cursed to a life of isolation because of his appearance, values, and outrageous thoughts, John was alienated mentally, emotionally, and physically in both the Savage Culture and the World State Culture. Torn between keeping true to his virtues and conforming to society, the treatment of John highlights the values of both cultures in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

When John was led back into life in the futuristic society, he was mocked and treat as a strange attraction. He was at the awful end of a sick joke - people came from all over to understand this simple “savage” who has spent his life in curiously primitive manners. John was so poorly received, he went as far as wanting to commit

Even though John grew up on the reservation, he was not accepted by the community there. His complexion, along with how his mother behaved made it increasingly difficult for him to be accepted into their culture. The boys would shout, “Not for you, white-hair! Not for the son of the she-dog (Pg.127). John wasn’t allowed to participate in rituals and was rejected by many that lived there. So, he decided to have his own rituals. He once went into the wilderness and began crying, but thought, “...it was not for pain that he sobbed, it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight” (Pg. 127). In addition, John’s mother would behave promiscuously as was a normal part of life in the Other Place, but not the Savage Reservation. He was then mocked and, sometimes, even violently hurt, because his mother’s actions were seen as very inappropriate and immoral (Pg. 121). John simply wanted to be a part of Indian life and culture, but felt as far from that as possible. He wasn’t only exiled from his community, but also from the Other Place. John was looked at as the “Savage” who acted much different than they. Later on, he became a spectacle for people to watch and laugh at (Pg. 227). His background was one that people there thought was shameful and something not to be spoken of. John had his fair share of alienation from both his own Indian community and people in

"Their (Natives) present condition, contrasted with what they once were, makes a most powerful appeal to our sympathies…By persuasion and force they have been made to retire from river to river and from mountain to mountain, until some of the tribes have become extinct and others have left but remnants to preserve for a while their once terrible names. Surrounded by the whites with their arts of civilization, which by destroying the resources of the savage doom him to

“When you know the truth it will drive you insane”. The quote by Aldous Huxley perfectly encapsulates what happened to the character John throughout Brave New World. John idolizes the World State and always has wanted to go there. Since he has lived on a savage reservation his whole life he’s never known the luxuries such as “soma” and “feelies”. John has evolved a great deal throughout Brave New World, he started naive and hopeful, became skeptical of the World State’s greatness, and ended depressed and angry.

John The Savage has also been raised differently compared to the people in the World State, so he does not understand how people in the World State do not feel the emotions he does. John The Savage gets very upset when his mom ended up passing away. He wanted time to grieve, but the World State has trained people to take soma and has also trained them to not care about death, since they can just produce a new person to take the dead person’s spot in the community. John gets very upset when the children in training act disrespectful and jump around her bed. John also does not share the same feelings when it comes to relationships. The people living in the World State are trained that sex is not a sacred event and it is just something everyone does. Lenina tries to have sex with John, but John does not feel the same way. John feels he has to show Lenina he is worthy of having sex with her before it just happens. John also wants a long-term relationship and in the World State, everyone is open to everyone and there is no such thing as a long-term relationship unless approved of a marriage: ‘”The Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet aloud—reading (for all the time he was seeing himself as Romeo and Lenina as Juliet) with an intense and quivering passion”’ (Huxley 184). This quote

Imagine, the government being your plug. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (BNW), the citizens get a drug called Soma from their government. Soma works as a miracle drug, in that it gives the mental effects of euphoria, but doesn’t give any negative physical effects. When I first heard about this so called, “miracle drug” I was immediately intrigued. I was enthralled by the idea of a government giving its citizens drugs, and how Soma was a major part of how their society functions. Throughout the story, I thought that one of the most important ideas brought from the story was Soma. While reading, I made an association from Soma to a real life drug, marijuana. I chose the topic of marijuana being used medically as well as

In the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley creates a utopia world, where people live in a society with the motto of community, identity, and stability. In this novel, human are created in test-tubes. Taking soma to fix human problems and having multiple sexual relationship with different partners are considered as progress of civilization. From my opinion, throughout this novel, there are various contradictions among the characters. Huxley creates many characters who stuggle from their own values and the World States ' values.

Dystopian novels have become more common over the last century; each ranging from one extreme society to the next. A dystopia, “A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control,”[1] through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, criticizes about current trends, societal norms, or political systems. The society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is divided in a caste system, in which humans are not individuals, do not have the opportunity to be individuals, and never experience true happiness. These characteristics of the reading point towards a well-structured

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes about a controlled society where everyone has their own job but their divided up in groups: alphas, gammas, betas, epsilons, and deltas. Alphas are the intelligent ones, Betas is right below the alpha caste, the gamma, delta and the epsilons are basically progressively servers. Huxley adopts a manipulating tone in order to reveal conflict between human beings and machines

The constant development of society is faulted with the advancement of technology. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents a controlled society which creates a faulty idea of perfection to be obtained. The theme of technology being used to control society is faulted. The attainment of perfection is faulted through symbolism with the assembly line producing children, the taking of the drug soma, and the changing of one 's individual appearance to have all people look alike. The assembly of children takes away the individual process of birth. Escaping one’s harsh, cruel reality by taking soma gives the user a false sense of happiness.The changing of one’s appearance so that most of the people all look alike takes away individuality. For

"History is bunk..." (Huxley, 34). Introducing the historical forces that directed the creation of the dystopia, Huxley delivers this quote through World Controller Mustapha Mond, which seems to contradict Henry Ford due to Ford originally stating it himself. Mond continues to lecture the students with enthusiasm and aspect on the self-destruction of the world of the reader and the construction of the World State, the only option to bedlam. In doing so, Huxley outlines the angst-ridden demise of the common world of egalitarianism and individual freedom and the people of the brave new world bring forth what they believe to be the only really winning structure for living developed in the new age — Ford 's assembly line, with its idea of “interchangeable parts”, making possible almost countless rounds of production and consumption. In his third person omniscient novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses Juvenalian satire to create a fictional world which idealizes the streamlined assembly lines of Henry Ford to warn readers that consumerism dehumanizes people.

John Smith’s autobiography highlights his poor characteristics as a human being. For example, when John Smith first encounters the native Indians, he tries to escape and he used an Indian as a human shield against the rain of arrows that followed him. Smith had forcibly held a man against his will as arrows pierced the Indian’s body with each arrow being driven deep into his stomach. This act of manipulation is morally wrong as everyone should be entitled to their own actions, but John Smith takes this to a new level by sacrificing another's life to save his own. In addition, Smith’s autobiography talks of the “six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner,” (105). This terminology is found throughout all of Smith’s autobiography and is revolting as he killed many Indians despite the

John Smith was a terrible person compared to de las Casas and proves so in his work showing off his poor characteristics and personalities. For example, when John Smith first encounters the native indians he ends up using one as a human shield when being attacked by other indians. This act of degradation against the natives is absolutely barbaric as the indian still breathes for his own life. This man was forcibly manipulated to receive fatal blows from his own kind from a man who is willing to waste lives in safety for his own. In addition, when Smith recalls the events that had taken place with the natives he talks of the “Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner” (105). This event of name calling found throughout his work is