Consequences Of Themes In Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

The color of the groups uniform determined how intelligent and skillful the people were mentally. A certain color(grey) determined if you were clever, an Alpha, and another color(green) determined if you were vapid, an Epsilon. More specifically, every individual was made to believe this in their sleep. As Huxley states, “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki… Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid”(Huxley 27/28). Huxley is stating that brain washing begins since one is born and occurs when an individual is not aware of what is going on in their surroundings.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel a Brave New World, published in 1931, there are several attacks on society. Throughout this essay it will be seen what these problems were and if they were fixed. If the problems were fixed, it must be determined when they were. The primary focus is to answer whether we have changed for the better, women’s role in society and the social classes. In the end it will be obvious that a perfect society is impossible but we have made improvement.

According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, bravery is “possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance” (Agnes 178). Oftentimes, people are commended for acts of bravery they complete in the heat of a moment or overcoming a life-changing obstacle. Rarely one is commended for simply living a brave life, facing challenges they do not even understand. The characters in the Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World live a peculiar lifestyle demonstrating bravery for just breathing. Although Huxley’s ideas are surfacing today, the dystopia he creates is unrelatable . The genetic make-up of these men and women is different, creating a human lacking basic function of life. In Western Europe an individual forms in a laboratory, “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” (Huxley 6). The dystopian way of reproduction rarely involves a man impregnating a woman. Huxley’s characters are born in a laboratory. These class divided people are manipulated to be personality less , sex-driven, dumb-downed, assembly line workers. Brainwashing from birth conditions them to go through the motions without doubting their purpose. Government controllers are not looking out for the egg at all, simply manufacturing them to keep the

In his text Brave New World Aldous Huxley imagines a society genetically engineered and socially conditioned to be a fully functioning society where everyone appears to be truly happy. This society is created with each person being assigned a social status from birth, much like caste system in modern society or the social or the social strata applied to everyday society. Huxley shows the issues of class struggle from the marxist perspective when he says the structure of society in relation to its major classes, and the struggle between them as the engine change its major classes. Huxley describes a perfect society created through genetic engineering where each individual is assigned a class from the time of being . In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley it states “Why not? Bernard’s an Alpha Plus. Besides, he asked me to go to one of the savage reservations with him. I’ve always wanted to see a savage reservation. But his reputation?”(Huxley 123). Clearly the social interactions of the upper castes are a little more nuanced than a simple matter of agreed caste status.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley warns of the dangers of science and technology and their impact on society. In the world he describes, humans are genetically modified and developed in factories, and the population is controlled by drugs and hypnopaedic conditioning. Although this is a fictional society, it is a very possible future based on the direction science and technology are already heading. Advancing science and technology are some the largest threats to society, and action must be taken to prevent a future similar to the one described by Huxley.

“It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley, 1932, p. 202-203). Perhaps science is to be utilized with caution because if it becomes too advanced, it may attain the sole power to create a shallow, dystopian world. Inhabitants of a dystopian world live a life that proves to be an inescapable fate. This kind of world is vividly illustrated by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The corrosive relationship between technology and humanity is reflected through Huxley’s portrayal of how technology makes individuals become less human, how the dystopian world in Brave New World closely represents modern-day society in the 20th century, and how technology negatively impacts the meaning of humanity.

Truth and happiness can be used in hundreds of different trivial ways, thoughtlessly. Merriam Webster defines truth as a “a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as {fact}” and happiness as “a state of well-being and contentment”. Modern lexicon tends to mash the two together, like knowing the accepting facts are essential to ones physical and mental well being. So naturally when we discuss human issues in societies, specifically those of the fictional variety we apply our mashed set of ideals based on truth and happiness on each of these different societies . In Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World, by conventional societies ideas the citizens of the world state know nothing of traditional reality and by the standards of the traditional world are far from a state of contentment, but if examined by the ideals of the society in question the overall appearance is quite different. the population seems happy because they don’t know the truth. In fact the characters that do know the truth are far unhappier by both societies measures.

Society today may be on a dangerous path leading towards disarray and dystopian values. Eugenics, promiscuity, elitism and class differentiation all are problems that are on the rise in America and other developed nations today. However, all of these topics are addressed in the dystopian society of “Brave New World.” Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is an incredibly relevant piece that touches on multiple issues with which society is faced. Race, religion, feminism, and basic human rights are challenged and exaggerated throughout the novel in order to warn society of the disastrous effects of predetermined societal roles.

In Huxley’s Brave New World, after struggling to fit into New London, John runs away to live in the lighthouse in isolation. In Boyle’s Trainspotting, Mark fights his heroin addiction in order to break free from drugs and his friend group to rejoin society along with the duffel bag. The lighthouse in Brave New World and the duffel bag in Trainspotting, suggest that after one is isolated from a society, he can only rejoin that society by being willing to conform to its values.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World introduces us to a futuristic technological world where monogamy is shunned, science is used in order to maintain stability, and society is divided by 5 castes consisting of alphas(highest), betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons(lowest). In the Brave New World, the author demonstrates how society mandates people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the novel.

In our world, there is a plethora of societies. Different societies have different approaches to freedom, and have different ideas of what freedom is. In our society, we are taught that freedom is something that everybody should have no matter who they are or where they are from. In A Brave New World, Huxley gives us two examples of societies. These societies are the World State and the Reservation and they both have very different types of and views on freedom. By using these two examples and providing the readers with multiple characters that live in each society, Huxley clearly shows us his view on the subject of freedom. The character that stands out the most is John, and this is because John is from the Reservation and his views

In Brave New World, John experiences a radical shift in his life after he leaves the Reservation and goes to the World State. In the reservation, he was already somewhat exiled, as he was the only white person other than his mother and was ostracized for that as well as for his mother’s promiscuity, but this was doubled down in the World State as he was very quickly exposed to what the rest of the world looked like, and he found himself in exile again, this time self-imposed in a lighthouse.

In the book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, Huxley predicted what the future would be like. There are many similarities and differences compared to the modern world, particularly the concepts of over-population, over-organization and propaganda under a dictatorship.

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.

Huxley grew up in London, England with family members who pursued careers in the science field. His family was well known for its scientific and intellectual achievements: Huxley’s grandfather and brother were top biologists, and his half brother won a Nobel prize for his work in physiology. For education, he went to Eton college and after, attended Balliol College. Huxley was considered a prodigy, being exceptionally intelligent and creative. He took an interest in writing and wrote books, poems, and short stories (“Brave”). Three themes are central to his works: relations between literature and science, the abuse of power in emerging mass societies, and the potential for science and technology to enrich or corrode human nature (Briggle).