Freedom In Brave New World

In his journey across the landscape of Mexico, John’s character in the novel begins to transform. He is beginning to move away from that boyish and naive kind of behavior and more towards the middle stage of between being a boy and a man; adolescence. McCarthy spends a great deal in describing John’s adolescent’s stage in this novel. Much of the time that McCarthy describes in this stage is when they are out on the prairie with the horses connecting with nature. This connection allows John to have and a clearer understanding that there is a divine line between men and horses and that you can’t apply the same characteristics that you would apply to a horse to a man.

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.

Aldous Huxley has a humanistic, deep and enlightened view of how society should be, and of what constitutes true happiness. In his novel, Brave New World, he shows his ideas in a very obscure manner. Huxley presents his ideas in a satirical fashion. This sarcastic style of writing helped Huxley show his views in a very captivating and insightful manner. The entire novel describes a dystopia in which intimate relationships, the ability to choose one's destiny, and the importance of family are strictly opposed. In Huxley's mind, however, these three principles are highly regarded as necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling existence.

In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, a new society is created to secure happiness for all the people living in it. By doing this, they sacrifice truth, choice, family, science, and art. The government provides them with everything they need to be happy in life because they agreed to give up complete control of their lives. If I were given the choice, I would live in the world we live in now rather than the Brave New World. Like John, a “Savage” born outside the world and then brought into it, I think, “Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here” (Huxley 179). Even though there would be times when I am uncomfortable, unhappy, in pain, even though I would have to experience loss and disappointment, at least I would be living a full life full of emotion and some purpose.

In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce

Imagine a world where there was no such concept as being unique; a world where the government predetermined not only personalities, but also emotions for each person. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, this is how the citizens of the World State lived. The novel features a futuristic society that has many underlying symbols of happiness and gratification. Characters living in the World State are completely “happy”, but readers are often left wondering if it is true happiness or a government ploy. In fact, the government controls every aspect of life.

As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs

Lenina falls into the stereotypical person from the society. She constantly repeats many of the hypnopædic phrases that she was conditioned to know. For instance, when she is having her conversation with Henry about the Epsilons she states, “I suppose Epsilons don’t really mind being Epsilons…” and then after a bit of explanation, “…Everybody’s happy now,” (74-75). This shows that even though a little thought was put into what she said, Lenina still uses her hypnopædic training as a basis for everything. Another example of this is when she continuously repeats, “A gramme is better than a damn,” (116). This is one of the hypnopædic thoughts that are popular amongst everyone and seem to be a reaction when the word damn is used. So while Lenina can think for herself and make her own ideas about things, the hypnopædic suggestions provide a basis for her actions that she makes throughout the story like taking soma whenever she’s bored and when she wants to get away.

Bernard struggled with fitting in until he began to take soma as regularly as everyone else in the novel. The soma allowed him to be more friendly and easygoing to the people around him. "Bernard also laughed; after two grammes of soma the joke seemed, for some reason, good. Laughed and then, almost immediately, dropped off to sleep,..." (Chapter 6). Bernard is feeling very lighthearted and happy after taking the soma, and a joke he would not normally find funny he labels as good. "By this time the soma had begun to work. Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles. Even Bernard felt himself a little melted” (Chapter 5). After the soma kicks in, everyone is in a good mood, and even Bernard is feeling rather relaxed and happy. The characters in the novel use soma as a way to feel more

One of these problems is the influence of negative emotions such as: sadness, embarrassment, and anger. All of which are dealt with through the consumption of soma as seen when Bernard is on a little rant to which Lenina says, “Why don’t you take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You’d forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you’d be jolly, so jolly” (Huxley, 79), to him. In addition, Henry Foster also tells Bernard that “[he] need[s] a gramme of soma” (Huxley, 46), after telling him that he was glum.

This can be seen when individuals try to feel what true emotions are but never get to because they over use the drug. “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly” (Huxley). Bernard is tired of feeling the same emotions that soma gives when he takes it. He wants to feel something stronger than happiness, instead he wants to feel pain and discomfort. This support the idea that soma is a symbol for control over society. They cannot feel a different emotions because soma is in the way. When those strong emotions comes out they block and diminish it from happening. Characters are constantly searching for new emotions to experience because Soma is forced on them. Huxley displays this when he states, “Why you don’t take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You’d forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you’d be jolly. So jolly,” (Huxley 92). When characters attempt to feel other emotions they are encouraged to take Soma in order to hide in a fake reality or state of happiness. It allows them to step away from their problems when their feeling unpleasant feelings, and Soma as symbol to control its citizens can be observed though Lennie behaviors. Huxley shows us Lennie’s dependency on soma when he states, “One gramme, she decided, would not be enough, hers had been more than one-gramme affliction, but if she took two grammes, she ran the risk of not

This novel suggests that there is more to life than just happiness; Brave New World insinuates that readers should seek freedom, knowledge and love in life. Huxley implies that without these fulfilling emotions and feelings, readers will be subject to a dreary and repetitive life.

She’s a well conditioned Beta who knows realistic joy, but at times does give in and use the soma as well as the rest of the population to get rid unneeded emotions. Lenina goes along with the ways of the world state in this entitled “brave new world” as she agrees with most things but has her arguments at other times. “Everyone works for everyone. We cant do without anyone. Even Epsilons…” (Pg.91)

“Community, Identity, Stability.” -- The motto that shapes and defines the entire civilized world. Civilians like Lenina believe that the motto has given them their individual freedom. “I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays.” (Page 79) Ironically, Huxley was trying to convey the exact opposite message. The motto really speaks of a heavy price paid -- freedom in exchange for collective happiness. Freedom to feel, freedom of identity, and the freedom to know and create. It is too heavy a price, perhaps, because freedom is never dear at any

‘Without sacrifice there can be no freedom, without freedom there is no life’ With reference to this quotation explore representations of freedom in The Road, The Waste Land and Brave New World. Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants. Freedom is a recurring theme in The Road, The Wasteland and Brave New World. However it is represented differently in all three.