Dystopian Society In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

The futuristic world envisioned by Aldous Huxley, in his accredited and celebrated Brave New World, was indeed as horrifying as it was compelling. Nevertheless, Huxley’s intentions have since then been up for interpretation. Some of its audiences were infatuated by the technological and scientific advancements exhibited by the World State, some were mesmerised by the mere thought of a society free from sickness and poverty, while others just saw a fictitious tale worth a good read. However I myself, thought nothing of all this. To understanding, our world is unforgiving – inequality, deprivation and mistreatment are never far from the surface. When Huxley’s interpretation of the “perfect world” idolised totalitarianism through the distinction

Throughout time numerous individuals have attempted to predict what the future holds for our society. If one was to narrow their focus on the past century they would see the works and predictions of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Both Huxley and Orwell, as one could infer, composed novels that describe future societies and their inner workings. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, where members of society originate from a lab and who’s lives are pre-determined by the controllers. The controllers of Huxley’s futuristic society’s fundamental goal is to create an ideal community where every member achieves optimal happiness through the lives that are chosen for them and through the use of a euphoria inducing drug named Soma. The main

Here, it is seen through Bernard?s eyes how members of different castes interact with one another. Bernard views members of lower castes as disgustingly inferior to himself;

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.

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Albert Einstein). Although the future remains difficult to predict, some ideas develop the undeniable fate of society. Throughout Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explains predictions for the future of society. The story begins by introducing Bernard Marx and his discovery of John, and his mother Linda on the reservation. This unfolds into John realizing the degree to which society has stripped their humanity. The emotionless society that Huxley displays depicts the nearing future of society. Although the future will introduce many useful tools for society, the damage done to society and personality is inevitable. Huxley’s predictions about the future focus mainly on the dealing with suffering, questioning true freedom, and perversion of spirituality.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to show that the role of technology in society can be used in a way that it could have a negative impact. As seen in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the conditioning technology is used to control the people of the World State and restrict them from doing things through its use. Aldous Huxley tries to warn us that technology can be used to gain control of everything.

Brave New World, was published in 1932, at the height of socialist policies that states had begun to advocate and during newly discovered research concerning conditioning and the importance of heredity and genetics. By 1932, there had been factual basis that have been laid out behind Huxley's utopian world. This includes Henry Ford's installation of an assembly line that allowed mass production of automobiles possible. In regard to Huxley's science, Huxley incorporates Freudian concepts such as the "Oedipus complex" and Ivan Pavlov and John Watson's experiments regarding conditioning human behaviors. This led many to wonder about his peculiar and ominous description of the future. Huxley has described a future where biotechnological advances will serve as social and political agendas of power. By incompletely developing characters, Huxley illustrates the nature of the new world state that succumbs to conformity and uniformity and how modern society has provided the seed that could cultivate Huxley's vision of the future.

In the dystopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a parodic and sardonic tone is often jointly used to describe a futuristic world and its views on reproduction. For example, in a passage found in chapter one, the narrator describes, “Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn’t see it, was a conveyor travelling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour”. Within this line, imagery is incorporated, allowing readers to visualize the scene. This line integrates a parodic tone as it describes a process of reproduction in which bottles of embryos are placed on a conveyor belt for easy and efficient treatment. From the clear and precise description, readers can allude to Henry Ford’s

In the book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, Huxley predicted what the future would be like. There are many similarities and differences compared to the modern world, particularly the concepts of over-population, over-organization and propaganda under a dictatorship.

Religion and sex are always controversial topics in society. The way these topics are treated often characterizes a society. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a community of homogenous, mass-produced citizens live a very strange life by modern American ideals. Citizens are sorted into castes (Alpha, Beta, etc.) chosen for them while they are still embryos. Through hypnopædia and chemical alteration, citizens are taught to love their caste. Pleasure is emphasized in Brave New World, encouraging promiscuity and the use of the drug soma. Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne travel to the Reservation, where “normal” people are kept. They discover John, a boy whose father is the praised Director of the Hatchery, an unheard of, tainted phenomenon. They bring John and his mother, Linda, back to London, where they become almost a spectacle, thrusting Bernard into a position

Huxley’s representation of the body had a different aim. In the story, John was the one who whipped himself. Huxley writes that “…they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh…” (175). Here, Huxley’s representation of the body aims to show that the body is weak and can be influenced by outside forces, but the last decision of what happens to the mind and body of a person lies within himself or herself. John hurt himself to make the people around him happy. Thus, the body here becomes the subject of gratification, and when he realizes what he has done, he regrets it to the point of wanting to die. In the end, John could not believe that he submitted himself to the World State and he gave in to what they want, so he committed suicide. Here, John did not betray anyone else but himself. This also showed that John had full control of his body and that nobody tortured him and caused him pain but

How would one depict the future? Would someone ninety years ago have perhaps dreamed of a change in society, no dying, or even a flawless government? Ninety years later, even with advanced technology, these problems remain. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World examines such recurring subjects as social class, death and the dying, and a one-world government. Moreover, such topics tie together the issues Huxley’s “Brave New World” faced with those of today’s “Grave New World.”

Imagine not being able to control a single aspect of life. Every single decision regarding life is made by the government to ensure society stays controllable. Living in a society where one has no control over anything in their personal life would not be a pleasant place to live. The World State controls its citizens by conditioning them, drugging them, and not allowing them to think freely. If the World State gave liberties like finding happiness, free thinking, and love to its citizens, then it could possibly be a utopian state. Since the World State controls all of those aspects of personal life, it is very clearly a dystopian society. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the society that is seen is a dystopia because it lacks individuality,

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,

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.