Corruption In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

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

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.

Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, portrays a World State that has made consumption one of its centerpieces. Economic stability is essential to the effectiveness of the World State. They are brainwashed by advertisements and organizations that make them feel as though they are free. The people within the World State continuously consume because of the conditioning they obtained when they were younger. They are educated that when an object or good is in need of fixing, they must get rid of it. By not possessing the latest and greatest good, the people within the World State are looked less upon and is in the lower class. In this new society, emotions, religion, and culture are forfeited for social stability. The reason for which

The system of power society has often have unexpected consequences when used in an abusive manner. My study of Brave New World has enabled me to understand that a society is capable to control the behaviours and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. In Huxley’s Brave New World, rather than using violence to enforce the law like Bruce Dawe’s Weapons Training; those in power in this futuristic society have simply programmed the citizens to be happy with the laws. This is evident through Huxley’s use of personification, “Government’s an affair of sitting, not hitting.” The rhythmic notion of “sitting” and “hitting” suggests that the same power is limited only by those individuals who desire to be unhappy. The

The satirical world that Aldous Huxley curates in Brave New World possesses a futuristic society that the culture of today has yet to reach. Within Huxley’s novel, the residents of London devote themselves to the World State and live by the infamous motto: “Community, Identity, Stability” (3). They pride in sexual activity and view themselves superior to other regions of the world. They travel to savage reservations, such as Malpais, for vacations and romantic getaways to observe the savage people, who are uncivilized and lawless to the World State’s standards. Throughout the novel, Huxley hunts for true civilization through the parallel societies of the World State and Malpais. By creating Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus, and John the Savage; Huxley was able to connect the two worlds with different customs to conceive a clear discovery. The contrasted characters in Brave New World showcase the seemingly different forms of life, yet contain the same underlying flaw. Huxley built his novel upon the idea that the greatest comfort to people will bring the greatest pain.

In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the character John the Savage is brought from his homeland of Malpais to London. When he arrives he finds that this world is very different from his own. Saddened and angered by the injustice of the society, he attempts to isolate himself from the world. John the Savage’s experience of being exiled from Malpais was enriching in that it showed him the true nature of the Other Place and alienating in that he was separated from his culture and not able to integrate into the new one. This illuminates the meaning of the work in that it shows the negative side of the “utopian” society.

Imagine, the government being your plug. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (BNW), the citizens get a drug called Soma from their government. Soma works as a miracle drug, in that it gives the mental effects of euphoria, but doesn’t give any negative physical effects. When I first heard about this so called, “miracle drug” I was immediately intrigued. I was enthralled by the idea of a government giving its citizens drugs, and how Soma was a major part of how their society functions. Throughout the story, I thought that one of the most important ideas brought from the story was Soma. While reading, I made an association from Soma to a real life drug, marijuana. I chose the topic of marijuana being used medically as well as

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.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley takes place in 632 A.F (After Ford). Most of the population is part of nation called ‘The World State’. In this nation (which seems to be the only one left) people are ‘born’ from assembly lines, and the populace is brainwashed into believing what the government tells them; constant happiness, consumption, and the ‘Everyone belongs to everyone’ ideology (Sexual acts are purely recreational, and is considered a social event, not as a means of reproduction). If you still aren’t happy, just pop a few pills of soma and you’ll have no worries. So a man named Bernard, a human assembly line worker, starts thinking that unlike everyone else, he is an individual person, and starts wondering what life outside The World

Conditioning the citizens to like what they have and reject what they do not have is an authoritative government’s ideal way of maximizing efficiency. The citizens will consume what they are told to, there will be no brawls or disagreements and the state will retain high profits from the earnings. People can be conditioned chemically and physically prior to birth and psychologically afterwards.

While one is reading a book or watching a movie, it is very easy to pick up things that might make a viewer’s relate to the themes. Most of these are made not just to entertain the audience, but also to interact with their emotions and help them to relate to the work. There are tons of different examples of books or movies that people can relate to, but there will never be just one that everyone agrees on. Three books or movies that affected me greatly are Brave New World, Harry Potter, and The Blind Side.

Before writing Brave New World, Huxley traveled to America and was troubled of the materialistic ideology and temporary happiness people were indulging in during the Roaring 20s. This influenced Huxley, since the society in the novel were only nourishing themselves with the drug Soma and were only worried in the temporary . This results in the loss of identity since they rely on the drug to be happy and don't want to experience the feelings of pain. And as he grew old, Huxley spent his years in California, “His observations of life in the United States did not in any way make him more optimistic about the condition of the world” (Birnbaum 18). Huxley expressed his distaste in the world and the issues it kept fueling, vividly in Brave New World.

MAIN THEME:  It is essential to prioritize individual happiness, emotion, and humanity in order for your life to have value.

The book starts in the beginning with how the process of making human beings is.The