Comparing the Dystopian Society in Brave New World and Modern Society

The future of the world is a place of blooming business and stability. Being safe and happy are at a record high, and not one person suffers from depression or any other mental illnesses. There are no more wars; there is peace and harmony throughout the world. With the world being free from sickness and mental illness, there is a lot happiness and satisfied people in the social classes. When the social classes get to be too much or something injustice occurs, there is a simple solution to the problem, which is soma. The usage of soma completely manipulates and controls the perfect society described in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. Soma also represent the society a complete society. This happiness medication is the solution to all of

The true meaning of happiness is different for everyone. For most people, it is feeling satisfied with every aspect of their life. The society of Brave New World does not know the true meaning of happiness because they have never had any form of true conflict show up their lives. When trouble comes up in their life, they avoid fixing it by taking soma. By taking soma, they base their happiness off a fake reality, therefore, it creates no true relief. Not having any form of conflict in their life creates a problem within itself because then they never get to experience true joy.

Do you ever watch the Super Bowl for its commercials? Have you ever bought a more expensive product because you had seen its advertisement? If the answer is yes, then you might have been a victim of today’s marketers. Jean Kilbourne, the author of “Killing us Softly” stated in one of her lectures, “The influence of advertising is quick, cumulative and for the most part, subconscious, ads sell more products.” “Advertising has become much more widespread, powerful, and sophisticated.” According to Jean Kilbourne, “babies at six months can recognize corporate logos, and that is the age at which marketers are now starting to target our children.” Jean Kilbourne is a woman who grew up in the 1950s and worked in the media field in the 1960s. This paper will explain the methods used by marketers in today’s advertising. An advertisement contains one or more elements of aesthetics, humor, and sexual nature.

Children are easily influenced, and this can be taken advantage of in the commercial industry. Thy have the desire to fit in and do what is considered “cool”. Many people believe that people use this desire to their own benefit in order to create profit. While it’s true children are easily manipulated by commercials, these commercials and be beneficial to the child's development. Commercials can be used to bring good ideas and good life skills to children that will lead them to being a successful adults. Commercials aimed at children are ethical because they can reinforce positive behaviors and good ideals. This is shown through articles, press and reports.

Different societies have risen and fallen in the continual search for the “perfect” society. The definition of this utopia is in constant flux due to changing times and cultural values. Many works of literature have been written describing a utopian society and the steps needed to achieve it. However, there are those with a more cynical or more realistic view of society that comment on current and future trends. These individuals look at the problems in society and show how to solve them with the use of control and power. Such a society is considered undesirable and has become known as dystopian society.

When we look to define happiness, many different ideas come to mind. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary uses three definitions for happiness: good fortune, a state of well being and contentment, and a pleasurable satisfaction. In Brave New World, Aldus Huxley argues that a society can redefine happiness through the government’s manipulation of the environment and the human mind itself. The government accomplishes this by mind conditioning throughout the process of maturing, keeping a caste-based society, and obliterating problems. The government thus defines happiness as the absence of all conflict. This differs from happiness as the American society sees it: the ability to pursue and enjoy individual desires.

Our modern day society may have some problems but it could be a lot worse. In dystopian societies everything is controlled and is hard to deal with. Modern day society and dystopian societies are very different though, they both have a need for laws like in The Giver.

Hook: A dystopian society and a modern-day society both are very much alike and different in many ways.

In Brave New World, the author suggests that we should seek something else in life other than our happiness by using characters that believe they are happy, and characters who do not. Some characters are happy because they rule over others with dominance and authority. While other characters struggle with internal and external happiness because they are put in a life not suited for natural human functionability. Happiness is defined by the leaders and model citizens of World State by crossing a terror with a false happiness. For example, Mustapha Mond states that “You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s:

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World reflects the fallacies of utopian happiness when a totalitarian government artificially controls a society. Controllers of the “World State” in Brave New World strategically allow their citizens to use designer drugs, mainly Soma, to create an unintelligent and unquestioning population that is segregated into five different social classes. However, there are some rebels in the midst of the World State that don’t stand true to their government’s laws. Moderation is almost unheard of in Brave New World.

Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, is about a society that gives into pleasure to form a happy society. The society functions on the idea that everyone is happy because no one denies themselves the things that give pleasure, such as drugs and sex. However, hinging the entire structure on such an abstract concepts of happiness is dangerous and scary. Researchers today still don’t know everything they would like to about happiness health. Although there is a science to happiness, a societal happiness is a much more complicated concept than Huxley imagines.

Happiness and truth are two fundamental principles which are crucial to humanity. These two concepts can refer to a variety of aspects: truth – such as human truths, emotion or love, whereas happiness may refer to one’s passions, experiences which overall bring authenticity to one’s life. Everyone has their own definition of these two aspects since everyone was raised differently and experienced different life situations. People raised in a totalitarian society may have a different definition in comparison to those raised in a democratic society. For the people of the World State from Huxley’s novel “Brave New World”, individuality was extremely looked down upon, therefore the aspect of truth was taken away and replaced with other principles which people believed in, by the cause of their intensely conditioned minds, and their reliance on consumption of soma. Throughout Huxley’s novel, the two principles of happiness and truth were frequently juxtaposed in order to see whether or not the two concepts may cease to coexist. The coexistence of happiness and truth is unachievable in society. Due to the factors of consumption, censorship and the overall dissatisfaction of life upon the discovery of truth, these two principles cannot coincide together.

Having been conditioned for an entire lifetime to be happy and normal, Bernard finally recognizes his entrapment in the ploy of the World State, and wonders "'- what would it be like if [he] could, if [he] were free - not enslaved by [his] conditioning'" (78). Trapped by happiness, the people of the World State cannot know the truth; there is no contrast to their purely pleasant lifestyle. If happiness and truth were compatible values, then Brave New World would arguably be a Utopia, rather than a Dystopia, but instead Happiness is the driving force behind both the World State's control, as well as the societal dynamic of the "Civilized World. " Truth is truly incompatible with the foundation of the World State's society; Happiness.

It’s deceptive. Children don’t have the cognitive wherewithal to defend against advertising (Kanieski, 2010). Very young children can’t distinguish between a program and a commercial (Tepperman, Albanese, & Curtis, 2014). Until the age of 11 or 12, kids don’t truly understand persuasive intent they don’t understand that every single part of the ad is trying to get them to do something (Moglan, 2014). Furthermore, children have less impulse control and are more vulnerable to

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