Dystopian Society In Brave New World

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

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.

"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.

The types of governments that we experience today has changed periodically but certain factors of society has not changed. This is true for Bernard Marx, a protagonist from Brave New World who has acknowledged this with his partner, John, also known as “The Savage”. They both have discovered what had been missing in the Brave New World by asking questions about why things aren’t there or why is it there, like when John answers to Bernard about why he felt like he was left out of the community. “The Savage” started talking about how this society runs to the kids in the hospital after his mother passed away and they sat there an awh, not understanding what is going on. The Brave New World society has influenced the way the people act by creating

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley crafts a false utopia that is maintained and enforced through strict conditioning, which shapes the psyche of characters in the civilized world such as Lenina; this conditioning–evident through repetition and conflicting values between the characters and the readers–illustrates Huxley's theme: the messages and values one learns as a youth become the unshakable foundation of one's identity.

Some people may think Aldous Huxleys’ “Brave New World” is a representation of our societies’ future, but perhaps our society is not that much different now. We do things in present time that convince and control the way people think, by use of propaganda and drugs, as done in the novel. This dystopian society is brainwashed in a method done to all humans, to make them all the same so that the government can have control.

The majority of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley takes place in the World State, or what is considered to be the civilized world. In the World State, citizens emerge from test tubes where their lives have been predestined in the Fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. In the novel, readers are also introduced to a reservation called Malpais. Malpais resembles a more traditional society where women undergo birth and the destiny of their offspring is typically left up to them. Throughout the novel Huxley highlights the differences between the two societies in terms of customs, values, and ideas. It is indeed the conditioning of each character that forces them to react to their surroundings in the manner in which

A utopian society is essentially a perfect world. In literary works such as Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and 1984, it is evident that societies with the intent of being a utopia actually develop into the complete opposite, a dystopia. Although some argue the world today is becoming a utopia, there are numerous examples in the United States alone that point towards the direction of a dystopian society. The world, predominantly the United States, is becoming a dystopia because of offensive terminology, politics, the media, and educators.

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

Brave New World was originally written without a target audience. Huxley first wrote the book to mock the idea that our world could have a perfect society. While now it is mostly used for English essays for high school students such as ourselves, it was originally just intended for a wide audience, and for anyone who believes there can ever be flawless society. As throughout the book, it is believed by Mustapha that it is a perfect world without unhappiness, and expectance of immediate gratification. “Community, Identity, Stability.” The last line of the first paragraph; what one must focus on to live a moderate and stable life. Yet,, despite the stable life the

In my opinion our society is getting closer and closer to the society in Brave New World. We are the same in the way that people are treating each other and being more disrespectful to ourselves and others in the way that we act. They are not allowed to have families. All the females have to be on “birth control” so that they don’t get pregnant. We are like the Brave New World in so many ways that no one has realized. How much closer are we going to get before thing take a turn for the better, or maybe even the worse?

Even though everyone living in utopian societies are supposedly happy, he or she would give up their freedom to attain this. Democracy in the world today would never allow a utopian society to expand past a certain point. Utopias are run by dictators who control every aspect of a citizen’s life. This is why things work so smoothly and there are no conflicts. Even if someone in society disagrees with the dictator, he or she cannot do anything about it because they have no say in what goes on. That is why things run so smoothly because no one questions what is going on. If someone did question it, their idea and they themselves would be repressed and then I think, the society could not be considered a Utopia. The majority of people in North America, Europe and many other countries in different continents, have lived their entire lives in a democratic system.

On a one-dimensional level, Brave New World is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society; population numbers, social class and intellectual ability. History is controlled and rewritten to suit the needs of the state. All of this is done in the name of social stability. When one looks beneath the surface of this perfect society it becomes evident that it is nothing of the sort.

“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline...because you need to be alone to find out anything,” is a quote from Vivienne Westwood concerning the effects of societal interference. Written by Aldous Huxley in 1932, Brave New World depicts a utopian society where one of the main themes is how the government kept the citizens unaware of the logistics in their society through a plethora of activities. For example, one of these activities included sexual relationships, and a proverb that they lived by was “ Every one belongs to every one else,” which relates back to what Westwood said in the sense of never being alone to think for oneself (Huxley [Chp. 3]). However, this novel, even though it was written over eighty years ago, captures the essence of modern-day America in the aspect of keeping citizens ignorant. Two of the obstacles that both countries face in order to keep them unaware is the constant pressure for happiness and everyday teachings (hypnopaedia for the World State, which were repetitions of beliefs that the children of the different classes were taught in their sleep, and the media for America).