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These are just a few examples of how the population is dehumanized and dominated by the World State through the use of technology. Huxley seems to have passed over the ideas of automation so that even the lowest in the caste system have a purpose, including toiling away in factories or working in elevators.

The practices of a collective society such as the one in this book disregard all belief in the individual. By doing this, the society and its leaders brainwash the people into having no personal priority or authority. Everything is done with the betterment of the entire group in mind, no sense of self involvement. Their life is fated in almost every

Aldous Huxley exceptionally brings forth to readers the nature of friendship; this is viewed through the relationships of the characters introduced in his novel “Brave New World”. The relationships share commonalities beyond the general surface. Each character partakes a role of establishing a lack of emotional attachment and empathy towards the other in the friendship. There is also the subtle reoccurrence of character’s inducing comfort in others who share unorthodox values of the society. The reinforcement of the nature of these relationships alludes to through the social conformity between Lenina, Henry, Bernard, John, and Linda.

This analysis have shown me how important is to be faithful to your own principles, even when the world takes you to unknown. The knowledge of the society in which each one has to life is what shows that opposed positions that seem irreconcilable are part of a whole and as Collin’s suggests, each individual has to decide what is right or what is wrong in the society and then take a position and try to change what is wrong. (Hentrhone,

This theme pertains to the possibility that the world may fall into the hands of the government in the name of a “utopian” society, resulting in a robot-like world without any feelings or imaginative thought if the world becomes too technologically dependent. Huxley portrays this theme through many occurrences, such as when the main character, John the Savage, is arguing with the head of the society, Mustapha Mond. John, in response to Mustapha saying that society should be based on efficiency and comfort, states “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin” (Huxley 240). The theme of oppression and restraint of emotion is characterized by Huxley’s decision to give the characters of the novel insight as to what is actually going with this “utopian” society. The absence of diversity among people and the social barriers caused by technology asserts Huxley’s overall theme of the falling of society due to technological advancements. In the society that the characters of the novel are living in, technology has made it so that people are designed to work to create more people, all in a thoughtless, monotonous manner. All in all, Huxley is able to convey a theme of Brave New World which portrays a new world run by technology in which all that

Often individuals choose to conform to society, rather than pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than create a new one. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, this conflict is explored. Huxley starts the story by introducing Bernard Marx, the protagonist of the story, who is unhappy with himself, because of the way he interacts with other members of society. As the story progresses, the author suggests that, like soma, individuals can be kept content with giving them small pleasure over short periods of time. Thus, it is suggested in the book that if individuals would conform to their society’s norms, their lives would become much

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

Having been a somewhat of an outsider in his life, physically and mentally, Aldous Huxley used what others thought as his oddities to create complex works. His large stature and creative individuality is expressed in the characters of his novel, Brave New World. In crafting such characters as Lenina, John, Linda, Bernard, and Helmholtz, not to mention the entire world he created in the text itself, Huxley incorporated some of his humanities into those of his characters. Contrastly, he removed the same humanities from the society as a whole to seem perfect. This, the essence and value of being human, is the great meaning of Brave New World. The presence and lack of human nature in the novel exemplifies the words of literary theorist Edward Said: “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Huxley’s characters reflect the “rift” in their jarred reaction to new environments and lifestyles, as well as the remnant of individuality various characters maintain in a brave new world.

Value and meaning in life has been sought out by humanity since the dawn of time. Two characters that Aldous Huxley uses to explore how humans find value and purpose in life are Bernard, who wants to experience real feelings, and John, who thinks all humans have a basic right to express themselves how they wish. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World explores how humans find value and meaning in life. In the Brave New World, Bernard Marx wants to experience his own real feelings.

have any feeling at all. "In fact', said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'

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

3. Explaining his reasoning behind hindering a fetus 's development to intellectually fit it’s job, Mustapha Mond pronounces “Only an Epsilon can be expected to make Epsilon sacrifices, for the good reason that for him they aren 't sacrifices; they 're the line of least resistance”(Huxley 266-67). Bernard, John, and Helmholtz are receiving this lecture from Mond with mixed reactions, as this remains the first time that Bernard and Helmholtz have openly rebelled against the system, and Ford decides this as a prime time to address their concerns about the society they are victim to. The

Without individuality, there is no humanity as deviations in thought are the essence of mankind. The slight variations in mental capacity differentiate humans from one another, and without these differences, there is no collective human species. Instead, only an overarching static being, incapable of evolution, remains. Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, illustrates a society composed of citizens subservient to their conditioning, a process of molding an individual’s psychological landscape to coincide with rigid social norms. He warns against restrictions on individuality and fears a civilization predicated upon conformity. Through Bernard Marx and John Savage, rebels adrift in a sea of conventionality, Huxley accentuates the inherent flaws of hive mind thinking. Clearly, individuality is the center of human identity, but in the World State, an overbearing government imposes uniformity among the people, preventing Lenina from understanding Bernard’s preference for solitude and rendering John unable to free the Deltas from their addiction to soma.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction novel where artificially created humans’ lives are predetermined using genetic engineering. Throughout the novel, there is a constant struggle between John’s beliefs and the beliefs of the New World. Overall, one of Huxley’s major themes in the novel is tolerance and acceptance of other cultures and ideas, which is apparent when John struggles to conform to the rules of the New World, and the lack of understanding of John’s beliefs, desires, and motivations from the citizens of the New World.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is novel depicting the “utopian society” which is ironically not ideal. The people who live in this brave new world are callous, uniform, and slaves to their government. While it is not as blatant and outrageous as George Orwell’s 1984 that the government closely monitors their people, they watch so their citizens so much that they threaten to send the main character, Bernard Marx, away for having a “boring” sexual life (Huxley 98). The motif of alienation constantly appears throughout the novel and shows how loneliness can affect conformity versus individuality, sexual intercourse versus a true relationship, and depression versus genuine happiness. The motif of alienation relays to readers that appearances can be fallacious and look better than they really are.