Dystopian Brave New World

During the 1930s, the times of World War II and the Great Depression, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. There were several issues going on in Huxley’s time that are still present in today's world . Huxley features some of these problems in his book, Brave New World. These problems include drug or medicine usage, women and gender inequality, and traditional marriage/homosexuality. Since this book was written during the times of the Great Depression and World War II, these factors also contributed to some of these issues. Since World War II and the Great Depression are over, these do not affect the problems today. Although some of these problems are still a problem in today's world and society, they are not as much of a problem as they were during Huxley's time.

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.

In this world where people can acquire anything they need or want, we have to wonder, “Is the government controlling us?” Both the governments in A Brave New World and in the United States of America offer birth control pills and have abortion clinics that are available for everyone, thus making birth control pills and abortion operations very easy to acquire. Although both governments offer birth control pills and abortion clinics, A Brave New World’s government requires everyone to take the pills and immediately get an abortion when pregnant. This in turn shows us that A Brave New World’s government is controlling the population and the development of children. China is one of the few countries that currently have control of the

"The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own." (Ally Condie). Dystopian Literature is intriguing as it exposes the reader to sometimes unconventional concepts and can also serve as a warning to what may become of society if the wrong path is chosen. In literary works of Brave New World, there are many warnings that the author Aldous Huxley establishes through events that take place in the civilized world. In this dystopian society we can observe that science is the thriving fragment that holds society together but it seems to demoralize and mitigate human morals and values. It is also apparent that love and family are non existent in this society as sex is meaningless and having a baby is considered a big shame. Some literature such as the works of Shakespeare and holy books are banned in society in order eliminate outbursts from people who become too curious and possess a threat to social stability.

Is there such thing as a world in the future where sexual interaction is the closest aspect of a community? Is it true that the people in this society are unable to choose what they want, due to the fact that they are genetically controlled of who they are? Or to eliminate someone’s sadness by just taking one drop of a drug can automatically make them feel better? Welcome to Brave New World. The motto of Brave New World consists of three words; community, identity, stability. These words create and conditions new human life in a civilized society that presents a dystopian view of the future. The word community is based on all the different castes of diverse people “working together” to become

Helmholtz - Helmholtz is an Alpha Plus, yet not only disagrees with the world he’s stuck in, but dislikes his life. He is bored with women, and all things that should interest him (and do everybody else). He is dissatisfied with the way his writing is used, and believes that he could be writing about much more important things, topics he chooses and enjoys. He finds a friend in Bernard because they share a common disliking of society, however has more legitimate problems with society, whereas Bernard’s complaints are rather childish.

Brave New World’s “fictional” society [World State] is practically an extreme, yet logically developed version of our world’s economic values, where economic growth and prosperity is equated with the success of a society. It has several comparisons to the realistic one we live in everyday. Huxley describes this part of his vision as being a “consumer society,” which evidently was satire of the society he was living in and the one that still exists today. In which people buy all they can and keep buying useless consumer items: nice clothes, food, and drugs. People indulge in these items and become so happy that they lose and choose not to care about their personal freedoms, which is why it is so easy for the World State’s citizens to be controlled.

Would you like someone controlling you? What about your love life, would you want someone to control that too? Or how about living in a world where your feelings are not allowed to show? In this novel called “Brave New World”, the author establishes many ways in which the people with in the society are being controlled by the government and science. All who reads this novel will be able to identify the many different ways in which the Utopian society is being controlled. Throughout the novel, there are many different ways that the government and science are controlling the society, such as population growth, romance and marriage, and people’s identity.

What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?

Both Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and 1984, by George Orwell, are considered cautionary tales due to a targeted aim to warn the reader of future danger. The threat of a totalitarian society is what Huxley and Orwell try to prevent from rooting itself into the heart of today’s society. Brave New World and 1984 contain key parts that are used to establish a totalitarian society in order to portray the dangers of becoming one. Both Brave New World and 1984 societies manipulate family units, especially children, love, and sexual drive in order to maintain a totalitarian society. However, Orwell and Huxley portray the disruption of family and sexual relations in opposite manners.

Brave New World is a remarkable journey into the future wherein mankind is dehumanized by the progress and misuse of technology to the point where society is a laboratory produced race of beings who are clones devoid of identity only able to worship the three things they have been preconditioned to love:  "Henry Ford, their idol; Soma, a wonder drug; and sex" (Dusterhoof, Guynn, Patterson, Shaw, Wroten and Yuhasz  1).  The misuse of perfected technologies, especially those allowing the manipulation of the human brain and genes, have created a pleasure-seeking world where there is no such thing as spiritual experience, just pleasures of the flesh.  In the face of a transcendent religion, the inhabitants (genetically engineered to exist in

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian society where there are no relationships and people live in castes. In the new world people are mass produced in factories and their whole lives are planned out for them. There is a saying in the new world, “everyone belongs to everyone else”. This saying indicates that it is okay to sleep around with many people. This kind of behavior isn’t stigmatized in the new world as it is in our world. The book tells the story of many characters but specifically of John, a boy from the Savage Reservation. He is brought to the World State, along with his mother Linda, by Bernard, and alpha that has some physical defects. In the book we see John’s views change about the World State once he actually begins living there. Some other important characters are Lenina Crowne, a girl from the World State who plays the “love” interest of both Bernard and John at different times, and the Director, he doesn’t actually have a name but runs the Hatchery, the place where people are made. Brave New World is an appropriate book to read

Throughout the history of mankind, man has always asked questions about their existence, natural phenomena, their own environment or perhaps most importantly, due to the natural curiosity that man has always had, is all I related to death or primarily "the beyond" .This chapter summarizes the life after the death of societies of ancient middle east. Religious beliefs and worship were closely linked to the life of man, in other words man lived by and for religion because it totally directed his actions, accompanying him from birth to beyond death, because depending on the condition social in which the individual is, assured him honorable funeral, and their effectiveness guaranteed him a very safe and beneficial eternal life.

Consumers aren't meant to fear the potentially threatening life long effects of a McDonald's cheeseburger, the cornerstone of American capitalism. Instead, patrons enjoy “happy” meals that come with toys for children. Though lucrative at a surface level, (9) the stretch between a happy meal and the children receiving copious amounts of ice cream in a Brave New World crematorium(10) is not far off. Additionally, the advent of information in the two novels demonstrates further similarities between Brave New World and the present. Unlike 1984 which depicts an information hiding government (another fear mongering tactic) Huxley’s dystopia takes a lighter route. History, literature, the arts; (11) all forgotten. Not because the government wanted to hide them, because they replaced them. The people are deluged with so many distractions that John’s Shakespeare simply doesn't have a purpose. This excess of knowledge has already occurred with the invention of the Internet. Just as Huxley predicted, (12) traditions of the past such as classic literature and music are being pushed out of the minds of the youth in favor of innovative successors (13). There are specific social norms in our society pertaining to sex that more accurately demonstrate Huxley’s vision of the world than Orwell’s. (14) Orwell predicts a society that shames sex and completely bans it unless it is necessary whereas Huxley’s world glorifies it. Sex has become the pastime of the people, yet another example of pleasure over fear. The world state government (15) has done this by regulating contraceptives (16) and making natural birth irrelevant through Bokanovsky’s process, making sex solely about pleasure. We see this in our society, which undoubtedly has a sex driven culture. In modern advertisement, sexual figures are often used to sell products. (17) In response to this, a culture of people who wear more revealing clothing and are generally less cautious of exposure

In Brave New World Huxley compares our world with extreme drastic measures and changes that resulted our of our mistakes and lack of willingness to make minion changes. Throughout the book you read about this society where hot topics such as children, sex, and social class have very strong set rules that often conflict with our view points of what we deem socially and morally acceptable. In the novel characters also recall the stories from the "olden days" which is the future as we know it now, and express its views on how bad or different we acted and were.