Emotions In Lenina Crowne's A Brave New World

Brave New World is seen as a book written on a utopian society that robot-like humans live in. The time is 632 After Ford, and the city of a utopian England is stabilized by soma. Soma is seen as a substance taken in low dosages to induce pleasant feelings and stimulates social contact. It makes the people happy, relaxed and good-humored. (Schermer, 2007). A substance like soma can be evaluated as what makes the book, Brave New World, a utopian universe. The author sees soma as psychoactive drug that contains human civilization in what really is a dystopian society.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, Huxley creates a futuristic world governed by conformity and submission to society. Citizens of this World State are conditioned to follow a set lifestyle determined at birth in order to create a stable civilization. However, there is still some form of individuality in each person, specifically in the characters Bernard, Lenina, and Linda. Within each of these characters, their difference in personality does not fit the norms of society, and they therefore try to suppress their own traits with unique methods such as soma. In times of sadness and despair, Bernard, Lenina, and Linda each give up a part of their own individuality and ideology, sticking to the

In the short story, “The Moustache”, Mike’s grandmother is a character with a lot of emotions. Mike is a teenager who goes to visit his grandmother, Meg, in a nursing home. When he arrives, his grandmother mistakes him for her husband, whose name happened to be Mike. Tears flowed from Meg’s eyes when she had flashbacks of an accident that happened between her and Mike, her husband. She then asked Mike for forgiveness, which helped to alleviate some of the guilt she was feeling.

Brave New World is a cautionary tale about the crushing effects of an authoritarian regime on human individuality. In this satire, Aldous Huxley offers a critique of totalitarianism by creating a single World State government and society. Although the World State’s motto is “community, identity, and stability,” ironically, the concept of individual identity is all but lost to the citizens of the World State (Huxley). The government controls virtually every aspect of human activity -- from creation to death. In exchange for comfort, happiness, and stability, the people in Huxley’s world give up their free will and sense of self. To make his point, Huxley employs powerful symbols of a mechanical, mind-numbing world where individual identity

Happiness is a choice not a condition, although what if someone found a way to make it a condition. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932, Harper and Brothers) science has found a way to present the general public with false happiness that is determined by premeditated social status and importance. With cloning developed and normal child birth outlawed, the general public has been tricked into thinking that they are living life to the fullest, although they have all fake emotions that force them to fit into a social normality. These fake emotions have kept society clean and won’t let people act out of what they want. Character development is used throughout the story in character Mustapha Mond, Lenina Crowne, and Bernard Marx to embody

Another example of the negative side of advanced technology being depicted by Huxley in Brave New World is in how the World State replaces real emotion and individuality with conditioning and collectiveness. While the assembly line becomes a major way to create human beings, machines and objects replace human emotions, which leads to consumerism and individuality falling to the wayside. The World State is a society in which economics take precedence over emotion. Everyone is needed for their role in society—it is what they are designed for after all—but they all also need everyone else. Whether they are Alphas or Gammas, they are always aware of their own ability. Lenina is a perfect example of a person who used to live in the objects world

Well-being is not and can not be, genetically pre-programmed, but that is what the soma is for. When one of the inhabitants experiences unpleasant thoughts or emotions, which supposedly do not exist anyway, they receive soma: “One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments( ).” Although the people here are allegedly emotionless, it is shown that they are far from it. Bernard is overcome by feelings of non-conformity. He feels that people should be monogamous, he has emotions, he believes in love. Bernard loves Lenina. This is a concept, though, which is too abstract for these inhabitants to fully understand. Bernard realizes that he is not the only one that feels this way when the Director speaks of an occurrence over twenty-five years ago, which is alone, bad manners in this “utopia.” The fact that he still dreams of this occurrence shows that he was more emotion than what is “good for you” in this system.

In Grossman’s article, it was mentioned that the woman was “crucial to the development of the hero’s social and political consciousness” (143). When this is examined in Huxley’s Brave New World, this can be seen in the character of Lenina Crowne. Lenina did not do an action to directly tempt Bernard as it was Bernard who was attracted to her, and because of that attraction, he wanted to be alone with Lenina and felt something that he should not be feeling in the first place. They went to the Savage Reservation. It was his feelings for Lenina that he wanted Lenina to feel the same freedom and feel for herself, so she could also feel the same way for him. Meanwhile, even Bernard already told Lenina she could stay and not be with him in the reservation,

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

This essay will be centered on two of the most important characters Linda and Lenina from Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. The novel talks about a world which is completely different from the contemporary world. The world state in the novel is solely ruled by technologies to produce human beings, drugs to control emotions, hypnopaedic education to brainwash people with certain beliefs and thoughts. In the world state human beings are produced in bulk in the hatchery as a method to maintain stability and happiness in the society. And these artificially manufactured human beings are conditioned to perform particular tasks according to their castes in the world state. “The World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (Huxley ch.1).They are even conditioned effectively to achieve happiness in the way the world controller want them to which are through sex and soma. Linda and Lenina both grew up in the world state but Linda spends most of her lifetime in the reservation. To some extent these two characters are quite similar in their lifestyle as they carry the same ideals. Both Linda and Lenina are conditioned by the world state, although they both go against their conditioning later in their life, the control methods used were very effective, and this can be seen in different parts of their life such as pursuit of happiness, relationship values and the ways their emotions are controlled.

One of the biggest internal conflicts Lenina faces is her struggle to choose between the safety of naivety and following orders, or thinking for herself and listening to Bernard and the Savage talk about concepts of life beyond what she knows. Huxley made Lenina more than just a static Beta worker, as he gives her thoughts and emotions that are just on the verge of being considered unfaithful or unwanted to society, but not enough for her to truly come to any realizations or want to change her life. While she knows there is another world out there to be explored, away from soma and brainwashing, she seems to choose the safety of naivety and the comfort of being part of a society. This internal conflict can be seen when Lenina is distraught over John the Savage not wanting her. She knows she should not want him as she does but she is upset over him, and “...her blue eyes clouded with an unwonted melancholy...with a strange feeling of anxious exultation…” (Huxley 1932: 116). Here the author describes both sides of her conflict: to either fit in and lose her emotions over John, or continue pursuing a feeling she knows is different from the kind of companionship society encourages. On another note, Lenina is aware of the conditioning she has been put through, and remembers waking up in the middle of the night as a child and hearing the voices repeating her training, “...the soft, soft

The world state is not as truthful as it appears to be. The society is forced but the government makes the citizens feels as if they make decisions on their own .An example of this is soma. Soma is a free drug that is given to everyone. By talking soma citizens avoid the truth of their reality. Lenina is a character who takes soma a lot throughout the novel. “Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror… she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma”(Huxley 78). Instead of dealing with uneasiness and fear she covered up the truth by using the soma. Bernard on the other hand did

In social life, emotional labour is continually having required the management of feeling. What is human feeling? Hochschild characterises feelings, like similar to emotion, in a sense, similar to the feeling of knowing about sight. We frequently say that we attempt to feel, but how can we do this, the feeling is not the thing within us, but

The novel Brave New World by Alfred 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 reinforces social norms, however the young woman presents rebellious character traits in her desire to experience romantic feelings prohibited by her society, though the reader might overlook her defiance because of her lethargy and ignorance when it comes to reforming the flaws in the totalitarian system.

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 society, though the reader might overlook her defiance because of her lethargy and ignorance when it comes to reforming the totalitarian system.