Dystopia 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.

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

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.

Linda, John the Savage’s biological mother, is also physically alienated in the novel. She had been accidentally impregnated by Thomas, the director of the London Hatchery and Bernard’s hated boss, on their trip to the Savage Reservation nearly two decades earlier (McQuail). In the World State, natural impregnation and birth is studiously avoided in favor of test-tube babies (McQuail). Both Linda and John are considered obscene artifacts because of their immorality to the

When Brave New World was written, mass production, popularized by Henry Ford, had begun to gain steam in the industrial world. Factories were now more efficient than ever, at the cost of any uniqueness with the item being produced when compared to someone making items by hand. The world of Brave New World runs a lot like that. Individuality is viewed as heavily shameful, and Bernard Marx is repeatedly reprimanded over the course of the book for trying to be an individual instead of part of society. For instance, he is described as “Pretty harmless, perhaps; but also pretty disquieting” (Huxley 76) for having a fascination with doing things alone on his own time, which is heavily discouraged. Instead, people are encouraged to spend as much time in public as possible, and find comfort and solace in being part of a group rather than being their own person. This message is seen in the motto of the World State, “Community. Identity. Stability” (Huxley 1). With the lack of individualism in Brave New World, there comes a large amount of efficiency. From the moment they are decanted, society in Brave New World tries to shape babies to what is needed. They are separated into castes so that everyone is happy and productive in their job. Henry Foster mentions that “We decant our babies as socialized humans beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future … Directors of Hatcheries.” (Huxley 10) Once they are born, the hypnopaedic conditioning determines everything about their lives in the future, from their likes and interests, to what friends they will have, and to what values and morals they believe in. They are conditioned to consume and purchase as much as possible to feed the economy and satisfy their own wants. Everything in the World State is designed to be as productive as possible, while minimizing discontent to make sure that society works as efficiently as it possibly

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 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.

Brave New World Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World to show how science affects people in both a negative and positive way. He showed how much the World State society values industry and advancement of their technology. He wrote about how they had very different morals and values for social stability and how they idolized Henry Ford for his creation of mass production and assembly lines. Our world and the World State contrast in many different ways.

As it is seen in Brave New World, the World State has controlled so much of their lives that they have lost their consciousness through conditioning. In other words, the World State has controlled their minds so much that the people are unaware that they have lost their person freedom but since conditioning has failed on Bernard, he is able to recognize the loss of individuality in the World State. The government controls because they would rather have others lose their personal identity than have them be a threat to society. Therefore, if the country progresses to being all-powerful and invading the lives of individuals, there would be conformity and a loss of individuality.

Born in a reservation and raised by a former World State citizen, the novel’s main protagonist John Savage excepts so much from his visit to the new world because of his mom. Yet after he goes, he realizes that it is the opposite from how she described it. Being John, he was not raised nor conditioned by the World State. Instead, he grew up with actual experiences the World State prohibits like emotions, religion, and freedom. In contrast, his mom Linda was born and conditioned in the World State so throughout

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley presents us a number of fascinating characters, such as Lenina, who is arguably the most interesting and complex figure depicted by Aldous Huxley. In a society that conditions its population and imposes social norms, individuals can be separated into two distinct categories: the few who chose to speak up and act against the oppressive system, and most common, the conformists who blindly follow the rules and do not question authority. On one hand, Lenina is a conformist as a result of conditioning because she was taught to reinforce social norms, however the young woman presents rebellious character traits in her desire to experience romantic feelings prohibited by her

A dystopia is an imaginary, imperfect place where those who dwell are faced with terrible circumstances. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley illustrates the concept of a dystopia. A utopia is an ideal place where everything is perfect, but in the novel, it becomes apparent that the author is trying to demonstrate the negative effects on a society when it attempts to become an unreachable utopian society. Brave New World is seen as a dystopia for many reasons, as citizens are deprived of freedom, programmed to be emotionless and under the control of a corrupt dictatorship. These points illustrate the irony of a society’s attempt to reach utopia by opposing ethics and morality; citizens are tragically distanced from paradise,

Like in the book when it says “Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged….”(pg. 1 ch.1) In Brave New World they reproduce clones by the masses and they are specifically made for one job and to do it their whole life and are replaced by another one when they die. Also how Mustapha Mond doesn’t pay attention to the society he just runs it. Kind of like countries that have communist governments or dictators ruling over them.

In their world, no one was allowed to have books or read books because it would change their way of thinking. The word mother and father were acted as basically a curse word because there was so such thing as “parents.” The World State has removed the idea of wanting something, emotions, and controls everyone’s sexual life from the society.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley depicts a future that seems happy and stable on the surface, but when you dig deeper you realize that it is not so bright at all. People almost autonomously fall in line to do what they have been taught to do through constant conditioning and hypnopædia. Neil Postman’s argument that Huxley’s book is becoming more relevant than George Orwell’s 1984 is partly true. Huxley’s vision of the future is not only partly true, but it is only the beginning of what is to come.