Children In Brave New World

REFERENCESBook 1 Understanding Childhood,Chapter 1Block 1 Study Guide and Audio-Visual Notes, Unit 1Video 1 Band 3 "Representations of Childhood"

In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, Huxley creates a futuristic world governed by conformity and submission to society. Citizens of this World State are conditioned to follow a set lifestyle determined at birth in order to create a stable civilization. However, there is still some form of individuality in each person, specifically in the characters Bernard, Lenina, and Linda. Within each of these characters, their difference in personality does not fit the norms of society, and they therefore try to suppress their own traits with unique methods such as soma. In times of sadness and despair, Bernard, Lenina, and Linda each give up a part of their own individuality and ideology, sticking to the

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

The futuristic dystopian novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is about a government and how they control the citizens using conditioning, class structure, and the use of the drug soma. Conditioning plays a big role because it helps teach children what their role in society is. It constantly teaches the children what is right and wrong whether they are awake or sleeping. Class structure also plays a role in how they control the citizens and how they live their life. Some classes are more oppressed than others, like the Epsilons and Deltas who are used for manual labor because they have little to no intelligence. To add, the governments use soma to control the citizens because it increases serotonin in the brain and it helps escape from reality.

This was Huxley’s worst fear for the future, a world where conformity causes all individuality to die off and become extinct. This is his reason for writing the book, Brave New World, to inform and warn people of the horrors that could be just around the corner if they continued on the path they were on. He wrote it as a satire regarding the increased consumerism of the roaring 1920’s in America, therefore “in the Brave New World, happiness means having everything under control” (Weber, 1), especially economic and government control. “In his satirical and sinister novel, warfare and poverty have been eliminated, but also family, culture, art, literature, science, religion, and philosophy. In their place, Soma, a powerful drug provided by the

In a world plagued by promiscuity and drug addiction the World State was designed to be a perfect world. Everyone in society is conditioned to be happy while indulging in instant pleasure. Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, depicts a civilization that is controlled by an overly powerful government that conditions its citizens to be happy through the use of over medication. The society in Huxley’s world is ruled by an overly powerful government.

In Brave New World, the false consciousness that characterizes the society is a result of enforced human conditioning and soma. From the moment a child is conceived, the

In today’s society the kids are getting older faster. They are doing drugs, and drinking alcohol. They are having sex at a young age instead of being moral. The kids aren’t caring about people as much as they used to. When people die the kids aren’t caring. In the Brave New World kids are the same exact way.

“One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.”

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley crafts a false utopia that is maintained and enforced through strict conditioning, which shapes the psyche of characters in the civilized world such as Lenina; this conditioning–evident through repetition and conflicting values between the characters and the readers–illustrates Huxley's theme: the messages and values one learns as a youth become the unshakable foundation of one's identity.

Brave New World is greatly dependant upon soma, as in our world where prescribed drugs and drug abuse are prominent. This is evident when Bernard and Lenina return from the Savage Reservation. Lenina is devastated from her experiences, so decides to take soma. It illustrates how like our world when something upsets

II. Second Topic: Population Control In the Brave New World’s society there was population control “ But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult”(Huxley 6) i. Analysis-

To dive in, social stability isn't worth the price. For example with the social stability the world in Brave new world runs at maximum efficiency because people are “bred” for different life styles and jobs in hatcheries and during the tour of the Hatcheries in the beginning of the book , the Director tells one of the students, "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability." . He explains, people are conditioned to accept the world they are presented over truth. In the nurseries, the children are subjected to hypnopaedia, or sleep-conditioning, as well as electric shock when they touch certain things. With all this they are develop identical childhood fears that last into adulthood; likewise, they recite

Aldous Huxley’s compelling futuristic novel, Brave New World, takes place in an elaborately constructed society whose citizens have their intellect highly conditioned from birth to be entirely “jolly” [as stated in the text] throughout life merely through superficial fulfillment that the government is able to provide. However, the perpetually gleeful yet blind citizens are stripped of their dignity, compassion, values and morals-ultimately losing their human emotions without the realization that they’ve lost such an important aspect in life. When problems arise, the drug soma is a quick ‘solution’ to the distress it brings. An outcast to the new society, Bernard Marx struggles through his life, seeking to understand why his peer’s, such