Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Someone having sexual relations with only one single person is unheard of in Brave New World. For example, a character named Lenina is seen having a casual conversation about a guy friend of hers, named Henry, with a girl named Fanny. Lenina explains to Fanny how she is going to see Henry again that night. Fanny is immediately in shock that Lenina is still going out with the same guy. Lenina says she has only been with Henry for four months. Fanny sternly reminds Lenina how the Director is against what she is doing with Henry, and she explains four months is an unacceptable length of time to be with him. Fanny tells Lenina that she needs to be more promiscuous, after all, they have been taught, “everyone belongs to everyone else”. The purpose of the statement, “everyone belongs to everyone else,” is simple—it is to allow human desire to be unrestricted. If human desire is unrestricted, people are able to have everything they want at any given time. When the duration of time between the desire and when the desires are obtained is shortened, the belief of the Controller is that emotion can be rid of all together. This philosophy is used in Brave New World surrounding the idea of mindless, emotionless sex. Mindless, emotionless sex is a similarity to modern society in respect to the younger, rambunctious generation of high school and college-aged people. In relation to Brave New World,

The issue of morality is a touchy one. Morality is defined as the values of a person or society of what is right and what is wrong. Each person’s sense of morality guides them in their actions and making decisions. Morals are very important because the actions of each individual can lead to consequences that can affect other people. Only by living by our morals can we maintain our sense of humanity and compassion for others, and be happy in ourselves.

If technology is the only thing people are going to use in the future, the world will revolve around it and the government will gain control. Characters in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are being controlled by the government without knowing it. The government believes that the people should be acting like robots in the future. Technology has taken over the people and the government is using it to their advantage. By having the people obey the government and thinking they are superior to the people, they do not have to worry about anyone trying to leave the Reservation. They use different tactics to have them able to be cajoling the people when they are children,

True freedom is the ability for each person to live as they desire; such a place is described as a utopia. Unfortunately in the dystopian novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the novel portrays a completely controlled society that has absolutely no freedom. Although you do have the few dissatisfied individuals who set out for a form of change. These individuals represent the optimistic part of the novel, despite conditioning, drugs and biological engineering; the human naturally wants more to life than just following orders.

A Brave New World published in 1932 by Aldous Huxley was about a utopian society in which people were placed in castes because of how their embryos were modified. Little did the author know less than a century later the idea of “designer babies” might be a reality. Designer babies are very similar to Huxley’s idea; a person could be genetically altered before they were born. Unlike Huxley’s book, in which embryos were genetically modified due to government industrial control, designer babies’ destinies are determined by parental control. Although, gene alteration can prevent genetic diseases, predetermining genetic outcomes should be illegal because of its negative effects on society; the effect genes have on each other, and the underwhelming success rate.

Though Lenina is a Beta with the perfect hard working life and freedoms (while not having to do too much), the promiscuity practiced and pushed upon the people of the New World State becomes overwhelming for her when she and Henry have been together for four months. “‘And after all,’ Fanny’s tone was coaxing, ‘it’s not as though there were anything painful or disagreeable about having one or two men besides Henry. And seeing that you ought to be a little more promiscuous…’” (Huxley 43). By bringing up the fact that Lenina is not near promiscuous enough to satisfy the wants of her society shows the resilience she may have towards the raunchy behaviors. Lenina says it herself—she “hadn’t been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately” (Huxley 43). Even Fanny, who has ridiculed Lenina for her promiscuity (or lack thereof) has been

Huxley’s imaginative examples of how we prioritize superficial desires illustrate to the audience that our society needs to care more about our lives and the lives of those around us, instead of looks and drugs. For years we have used our technological and scientific improvements for our shallow desires, not for the health of our society. The parallels between Huxley’s society and ours exist because his brave new world represents an exaggerated version of our world, he meant his novel to display the faults of sophisticated

In the novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley portrays the political and scientific values of the government through the way the totalitarian government runs England in the 1930’s. Huxley uses symbolism, imagery, and negative connotation to define the theme of identity loss, brain washing, and controlled society. The theme is shown through each character and the experiences they face throughout the novel. In Brave New World the government is overbearing and very scientifically advanced. They are involved in each aspect of the characters’ lives’, and Huxley uses many unique incidents to explain how and why they do the things they do with their power. The government controlled people through drugs, science, and by telling the them how they should feel and associate with one another. Which meant no they did not form relationships.

Brave New World is an unsettling, loveless and even sinister place. This is because Huxley endows his "ideal" society with features calculated to alienate his audience. Typically, reading Brave New World elicits the very same disturbing feelings in the reader which the society it depicts has

In Brave New World, the community is given priority above the individual; and although this priority may seem like a sort of devotion, the way in which Huxley illustrates it strips a person of any form of individuality. William Matter sees that in Huxley’s Brave New World, “individuality must be repressed because it invites a malleable social structure” (Matter 95). This elimination of individuality causes no depth of feeling, no creativity and no intellectual excitement. What makes a person an individual is to have a sense of himself as being separate, distinct, and unique. This sense of self includes both the joys and sorrows of one’s life.

Laprade 10 Brave New World Versus Today?s Society Brave New World is a shocking story that tells of a utopian society placed hundreds of years in the future. It challenges the human race as a whole to see if it can overcome the sudden sweep of vast improvements in science and technology, and if humans can learn how to use their inventions with dignity and respectfully on mankind. In Brave New World, Huxley does not try to accurately describe what the future will hold, rather he predicts a future in which humans have succumb to the awe of science and the power that comes with it.

Brave New World is based around characters who gave up the right of freedom for happiness; characters who ignored the truth so that they could live in a utopian civilization. The deceiving happiness was a constant reminder throughout the book. Almost every character in Brave New World did whatever they could to avoid facing the truth about their own situations. In this society, happiness is not compatible with the truth because the World State believes that happiness was at the expense of the truth. Aldous Huxley was a man ahead of his time in respect to his development and discussion of the incompatibility of happiness and truth in his 1932 novel, Brave New World.

The novel, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in my opinion is not the most important piece of dystopian literature from the twentieth century. While my belief that this novel is unworthy of being known as one of the top five dystopian novels of the 20th century is partially based on the fact that I very much so disagree with his writing style and opinions, it is also based on facts found in his writing. Huxley's writing style is incoherent and waits to properly explain items or events, while his characters are immature and negative. The twentieth century also spawned various dystopian based novels such as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Giver which I believe are far better than A Brave New World. The following paragraphs will expand on the

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The one most undeniably scrutinized in both of these books is utilitarianism. First off, the entirety of Brave New World is an example of the principles of utilitarianism gone awry, creating a world that would be horrifying to anyone living in the contemporary world. Like any utilitarian, the people in Brave New World value two things above all else: happiness and usefulness. It sounds rather innocent and innocuous, until one realizes what one must achieve to create a world enveloped in only positive and focusing only on what is useful and efficient. In order to facilitate an efficient world without negative thoughts, the regime ruling the world has destroyed the familial unit in favor of automating children’s birth and development, purposely stunted the intellect of whole swathes of the population, is encouraging people to hide any unhappiness with drugs and wanton sex, and threatens to suppress any dissidents who may disturb the peace.