Freedom In Brave New World

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a scenario where the government has control over the people and their ideas. Throughout the novel, we are shown the different methods and techniques the leaders utilize to control the lives of the people. After reading the story, we can point out similarities of government control from our world and the book. Huxley has a message for us about government power and what it could do to us.

Cursed to a life of isolation because of his appearance, values, and outrageous thoughts, John was alienated mentally, emotionally, and physically in both the Savage Culture and the World State Culture. Torn between keeping true to his virtues and conforming to society, the treatment of John highlights the values of both cultures in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, like most satires, addresses several issues within society. Huxley accomplishes this by using satirical tools such as parody, irony, allusion. He does this in order to address issues such as human impulses, drugs, and religion. These issues contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole by pointing out the disadvantages of having too much control within society.

Since the beginning of modern civilization, people have fantasized about a world without conflict, disease, aging, and violence. In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, the protagonist John the Savage travels from the Savage Reservations to a completely new society in which people are being controlled by the government. Once there, he realizes that he cannot exist in this strange place because the people lack humanity and genuine happiness. In the novel, Huxley reveals that true happiness depends upon the ability to confront and experience a wide range of emotions, both adverse and favorable.

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.

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

Once Lenina learns that they share the same feelings towards each other, she takes it as a physical desire rather than an emotional desire, which John ends up loathing.

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

Thesis: In Brave New World the world state controls their citizens with extreme measures, but some of those measures tackle conflicts that still exist in our society, creating a dystopian world where they attempt to solve their problems and not worry so much of their guilt, creating a new set of problems. The world state controls everyone by putting ideas in baby's head and letting them take this drug taking over their emotions. In Brave new world Aldous Huxley makes the world state to be in command of the people and putting them in special groups, and not letting them believe in religion, and they let them not worry about nothing by give them a drug for no feel of anytype of emotion or feeling. ¨The government takes control by making their

He later fell in love with Lenina after her and Bernards relationship had ended. With his passion of Shakespeare he compared himself to Romeo and Lenina to Juliet. He sees is as that he and Lenina are doomed, just as Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers. Toward the end of the novel John could not get through to Lenina about how he truly felt about her because Lenina followed all the social norms and never had true feelings or emotions that John felt because she relied on the drug soma which is a drug that sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from realizing that there's actually something very wrong—namely, that the citizens of the World State are enslaved. Soma creates this artificial happiness and joy for the citizens and without out it they could realize their lives are just meaningless and that they are truly unhappy.

The three characters central to the plot of Huxley’s novel Brave New World all have different interpretations of what it means to be free. The ideas of Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are impacted in different ways from those of John the Savage due to their different cultures and upbringings. Despite having similar lives, Marx’s perspective of freedom comes from insecurity, while Watson’s vision of freedom comes from an excess of security; being too perfect. Looking cumulatively at their idea and the societies that shaped them, their ideas lead one to question the state of freedom today, and what influences might affect a person’s thinking. Together, their three perspectives of freedom illuminate both the themes and warnings of the novel

With detailed reference to the novel, how do you view this in relation to individual freedom?

The formative years of the 1900’s, suffered from communism, fascism, and capitalism. The author of the Brave New World, Mr. Aldous Huxley lived in a social order in which he had been exposed to all three of these systems. In the society of the Brave New World, which is set 600 years into the future, individuality is not condoned and the special motto “Community, Identity, Stability” frames the structure of the Totalitarian Government.

Aldous Huxley wrote, in his novel Brave New World, of a society whose quixotic ambitions created a skeletal civilization that functioned in the absence of freedom. Now, almost a century later, the issues of that fictional society are significantly more relevant to contemporary society as we see the crusade for social stability trample over the notion of individual freedoms modern political discourse and conduct.