Dystopian Quotes In Brave New World

“No social stability without individual stability”(105). Some claim that a society cannot be stable as long as the people in it have individuality. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the World State make sacrifices in order to establish stability. The things that they sacrifice are what the society of the United States is built upon. There is only one similarity between the two, both are run based on a hierarchy.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York. Perennial Classics. 1998.

A world without fear, without pain, without age...utopia, right? A stable world such as this can look good on paper, but not until you look at it in reality. Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by author Aldous Huxley displays a society in which men and women are mass-manufactured as twins and conditioned even while they are being developed, to fit a pre-ordained societal role. In this novel, the characters of importance are as follows, John, Linda, Lenina, Helmholtz, Bernard, Mustapha Mond, and The Director. Bernard is a normal product of society designed to do the role he was created for. All goes according to plan until he introduces an unexpected outlier; John the Savage. A man born of normal means in one of the only traditional

One of our founding fathers Thomas Jefferson said himself, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Of course if he were to be reincarnated today he most likely would not be able to understand the society that we live in. Author of novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to demonstrate a society based on the idea of stability. He took major creative liberties in his prediction of a stable society, in which he includes the theme of conditioning; as in conditioning people to conform to the standards of society even from a young age. In reasoning, the practice of conditioning individuals to meet their certain predestination should not be considered due to the prevention of talent and inability to explore life’s

In my eyes the book ‘ Brave New World’ accurately describes the world we live in today, due to consumerist culture and the encouragement for conformity in our everyday lives. Though ‘1984’ uses the idea of “2 minuets hate” which is quite similar to the fear mongering that we apply in today’s society with negative sanctions against not standing for the pledge; many people get outraged and take actions for those who don’t do as they are told. The point that they make has some trouble relating to our world because of the fact that it is our god given right to have free will and to speak our opinions, some through words and some through sitting. Though the society in ‘1984’ is forced to comply with the “2 minuets hate” we as Americans are not “forced” to do anything, we are more often than not guilt tripped into the brainwashing activities of our daily life; there are not any negative sanctions that can occur as that would be inhuman and wrong.

In Brave New World they use something called classical conditioning. This is known as a theory that involves learning a new behavior by the process of association. The themes within these paragraphs is describing how humans are providing profit to the society based on supply and demand. By making humans as needed to produce the greater need it is within the mass production with a interchangeable and identical models that can be used for consumer goods and desire as needed in any area. By conditioning people to keep the system running correctly as the Director wishes based on the needs and desires of the society they are all considered servants who are accepting what is required to do.

A Fake World, With Fake Happiness What would happen in a world where happiness can be artificially produced? In the futuristic novel, written by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World unhappiness has been abolished with the use of a drug called Soma and many types of conditioning. This has left the world free of any conflict. However, Bernard, one of the characters, feels excluded from his class of people. That is until he and a woman, called Lenina, go on a vacation to a place in New Mexico where people live without the use of Soma, and where the children still have a father and mother.

Eliminating emotions can cause many different problems in humanity. In the book A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, it focuses on many situations that could have been different if the World Sate did not eliminate emotions. Eliminating emotions from humanity can cause humans to act inhuman, lose the meaning of love, and release stress and negativity.

What does it mean to be imprisoned? Of course, there’s the physical act of being behind bars and being confined from society and wrongdoing but there is also a way to be imprisoned mentally and socially. Often, things that challenge normalcy or common ideas are seen as a threat to society or a potential hazard, and it is natural for people to get rid of these things to sustain order. But who is being threatened? Why does the abnormal mind have to be locked away for no reason?

Throughout your life each choice you make will define who you are as a person. Would you rather be told exactly what to do and how to feel or be able to do whatever that you please? To me, it is more important to make decisions on your own. If you want to spend your weekends going out and getting drunk, go for it. I may not agree with it but I am not going to tell you what to do. It is solely your choice on how you choose to spend each and every day. In Brave New World, it states that the motto is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, I cringe just thinking about that.

In Brave New World, Huxley emphasises on the idea of brainwashing by mentioning it over and over again to establish how incapable people are to take care of themselves so someone has to step in, aka the government. Huxley uses diction with words such as corruption and hatred to pull in a negative feeling that people experience for not conforming to the ideas that everyone else in society shares. Even when the people know that they’re being controlled, they’ve grown a sense of longing for the soma (brainwashing) and it just doesn’t phase them anymore. The Controller makes the statement “The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want and

The methods of consumption and utopia are compared and examined constantly throughout the novel to conclude whether they are compatible or not. Since the state in this Dystopian world has strategically associated a religious significance with the idea of consumption, the surrounding civilization is forced to embrace it “even against their inclination"(98). The consumer culture evident in Brave New World is what truly fuels the happiness and advancements and prosperity of the state. Even though identity might appear to be fixed and certain, it is instead dependent on the destructive methods of consumerism and mass-production. Every aspect of human life has been modified to fit the conception of the common good and has reduced ideas of family,

The novels Brave New World and 1984 both visualize a future with totalitarian rule, where one’s rights are removed by the government. Although they both display totalitarianism they have different methods of how the state assembled its power. In Brave New World Huxley discusses a world where cloning is normal and where one’s whole life is planned out for them before they are even born, the methods used is manipulation and convincing the citizens to love their situation rather than frightening them with torture. Since the day they are born the citizens are trained, allowing the government to choose the path of their future. Mr. Foster claims that, “the secret of happiness and virtue [is] liking what you've got to do...all conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny”(Huxley 16). Starting from an embryo every person has a particular job, which was chosen for them before their knowledge. Huxley expects one to grow to love the conditions in which they live in, since it is all they know. He believes that the people would have nothing to dislike because it is the

Dystopian novels have become more common over the last century; each ranging from one extreme society to the next. A dystopia, “A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control,”[1] through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, criticizes about current trends, societal norms, or political systems. The society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is divided in a caste system, in which humans are not individuals, do not have the opportunity to be individuals, and never experience true happiness. These characteristics of the reading point towards a well-structured

* Include an important quote from the book. Why is this quote important to the book or to you? Include the page number. “Destroying things is much easier than making them. ”pg - 274.When Katniss was living in the games, she blew up other people’s supplies when she was struggling herself with resources.