Corruption In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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.

One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda...." Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and the use of drugs to control emotions, Huxley bitterly satirized the society in which we live.

During the writing of the novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, the author of the book, saw the way society was beginning to change. Throughout the story, he explores many different predictions that he has seen create an affect our world today. One of the main predictions he made was on the way promiscuity has changed the view of romantic relationships. As Huxley began to see people’s sexual behavior change he used his ideas to integrate in with how the world would turn out. Huxley incorporates promiscuity in his utopian society called the World State, to foreshadow how the world is conforming to the beliefs incorporated in the novel.

To begin, the director noticed Lenina as a symbol of all the appealing females in this dystopia. Alike most of the book, woman are just objects, “’Charming, charming,’ murmured the Director and, giving her two or three little pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself” (Huxley 13). By only page thirteen Huxley is already portraying his believes of what promiscuity will unravel to be. As readers, we begin to feel uncomfortable continuing to read about how promiscuity has changed relationships, kids, and the history of promiscuity in the ‘utopian’ London.

In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley confronts the way in which mass production and capitalism serve to disempower the individual by cementing a self-reinforcing system of consumption and production wherein the individual is reduced to his or her utilitarian function. Although the novel touches on a number of ways in which the individual is disempowered and commodified in contemporary society, from pacifying drugs to an overreliance on technology, Huxley's critique of capitalism remains the most prominent, if only because the novel includes explicit references to the father of modern capitalist production, Henry Ford. Huxley's critique of capitalism becomes most apparent in the third chapter of the novel, when the tour group is taken over by Mustapha Mond, "his fordship" and the Resident Controller for Western Europe. Examining Mond's discussion of the time before the institution of the World State, Huxley's creative demonstration of capitalist reduction, and the function of the individual within capitalist society reveals the ways in which the novel seeks to highlight the dangers of unrestrained capitalist and the consumer culture is perpetuates.

Unlimited meaningless sex sounds great right? Life in the Brave New World is entirely different than it is now. We have lost our compassion and our freedom, and now we have been turned into mindless beings. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley teaches us the importance of being human through the portrayal of the necessity of individuality, history and relationships. The lack of individuality is a common theme presented throughout the book.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has taken its place as #36 on the list of most banned books between 2000 and 2009. The novel has been banned high and low; in Ireland for its distasteful language, anti-domestic and anti-religious values, in Seattle for the racism of Native Americans, removed from classrooms in Miller, Missouri for its promiscuous influence on teens, and in India for being pornographic. Even so, the list of bannings continues on. Reasons for the censoring of Brave New World may have significance, yet are not justifiable when compared with the importance of the novel. Brave New World is a social satire that depicts a “Utopian” society under a totalitarian-based government that functions on sex and drugs.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, sexual interaction is no longer an act of love and passion; sex is instead, viewed as a recreational activity no more passionate than a game of cards. From the moment that people are born, they are being conditioned to live in the new, promiscuous world. Children are being conditioned to view sexual interaction as a game, so when they become adults in the new world they are sleeping with everyone within an arm’s reach. Draining people of all humanity, promiscuity creates a world full of emotionless robots. When one of the male children shows discomfort with the sex games that are pushed upon him, he shows that he still has some qualities of humanity.

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.

The rebellion of each generation to the last causes dramatic shifts in accepted customs. Aldous Huxley’s classic work explores the consequences of impersonal relationships leading to the over indulgence of sex. Twenty-Seven years later, Huxley explains that “legalizing a degree of sexual freedom”

How would you feel if you were exiled? Most would say this would be a terrible experience. However, several theorists have many different views on the impact of being exiled. American theorist Edward Said claimed, “It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” But on another note, he said it is “a potent, even enriching.” Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, expands on this idea of exilation. Throughout the novel, several characters are faced with being exiled, whether it be from their home or community. In particular, a man by the name of John seems to experience the bulk of it. John’s experiences show that being exiled is

What if there was a place where you did not have to, or rather, you could not think for yourself? A place where one's happiness was controlled and rationed? How would you adapt with no freedom of thought, speech, or happiness in general? In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, there are many different attitudes portrayed with the purpose to make the reader think of the possible changes in our society and how they could affect its people.

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

Orwell portrays a society of government enforced sterility, since “sexual intercourse was to be looked on as slightly disgusting minor operation” (page 65). The natural, human instinct is another area of life that the party seeks to distort because love reinforces a person’s true self and individuality creates a threat. Ultimately, “the sex instinct created a world of its own” and that world of expression must be suppressed (page 133). Huxley, on the contrary, illustrates a hyper-sexualized society in which sex has not been outlawed, but viewed as important to the community. In the shocking world of Brave New World, children’s erotic games are highly encouraged, marriage and monogamy are unheard of, and promiscuity is considered a virtue. Despite their freedom of sexuality, the World State controls a woman's fertility, which strips that individual of their humanity and potential to produce a human being that will not be like anyone else. In this case, sex is simply a mechanical diversion to drive them away from the realization of their individualism. Both novels dehumanize love and sexuality with the goal of wiping out

By virtue of his satirical novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley flips morals and the world as people know it today backwards, and by doing so, fabricates a dystopia sustained by the existence of unrestrained pleasure. Gratification remains constant throughout society, and any rare instance of discord is easily resolved through the ingestion of the drug soma, which provides a spiritual experience in a tablet. The existence of God is an absent concept unknown to the citizens of the New World, and Henry Ford is proclaimed as the idol that thanks and praise is given to through orgies that replace worship at church. Due to all people being conditioned to worry neither about death nor what comes afterwards, owing to the absence of religion, everybody lives their meaningless lives blissfully ignorant of anything that is more substantial than themselves. Emotional ties between people are nonexistent, significantly because the ideas of humanity being born from women and being taken care of by parents are repulsive, with any terms associated with family considered expletives inbred within savagery. Through Huxley 's interpretation of a world conserved by consistent contentment, he exhibits artificial rapture brought about by bread and circuses, that family would not only put a dent in universal happiness but would also put obstacles in front of the wheels of the world that steadily turn, and that no man in