How Did Aldous Huxley's Influence On Brave New World

Huxley’s novel takes place in the future, one in which it is acceptable to condition citizens to maximize the overall efficiency of the entire society as opposed to the efficiency of the individual. This future’s biological engineering reaches an all time high level; people are no longer born “naturally”, children are now “decanted” in bottles and pre-natal conditioning is not only acceptable but necessary as a means to limit human behavior. The theme of dehumanized life is a central one in the novel, perhaps the most important one, but one critic argues that although it is evident that this theme dominates the pages of Brave New World, the characters of this novel prove to be more human-like than one might have thought at a first glace. Peter Edgerly Firchow of the Bucknell University Press argues that:

How would you feel if you were exiled? Most would say this would be a terrible experience. However, several theorists have many different views on the impact of being exiled. American theorist Edward Said claimed, “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.” But on another note, he said it is “a potent, even enriching.” Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, expands on this idea of exilation. Throughout the novel, several characters are faced with being exiled, whether it be from their home or community. In particular, a man by the name of John seems to experience the bulk of it. John’s experiences show that being exiled is

Aldous Huxley and Ursula Le Guin to understand why Brave New World and The Ones Who

Pieper describes work and leisure from a unique perspective. He believes that work is a necessary part of life, but one that should not consume our every waking moment. Piper challenges our modern definition of work to show us that time away can be beneficial. The leisure that he references is not a period of just not doing anything. He argues that our time not consumed by our work should be devoted to philosophy and theology that enriches our lives. What the modern world uses as leisure, which is not thinking at all, is what Pieper would call being sloth. The time away from work is meant for personal and spiritual growth. Idleness robs our time as much as work, but leisure allows us to expand our horizons. Comparing Huxley's Brave NEw World

Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England. He had keratitis punctate, which left him blind for 18 months and prevented him from being a scientist or fight in World War I. He ended up becoming a writer. In the 1930’s Aldous Leonard Huxley wrote the science fiction novel, A Brave New World. This except from A Brave New World shows the dramatic dialogue between two main characters in the novel. I will be identifying literary elements and techniques used in this excerpt and what message the author intended the audience to understand.

In his text Brave New World Aldous Huxley imagines a society genetically engineered and socially conditioned to be a fully functioning society where everyone appears to be truly happy. This society is created with each person being assigned a social status from birth, much like caste system in modern society or the social or the social strata applied to everyday society. Huxley shows the issues of class struggle from the marxist perspective when he says the structure of society in relation to its major classes, and the struggle between them as the engine change its major classes. Huxley describes a perfect society created through genetic engineering where each individual is assigned a class from the time of being . In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley it states “Why not? Bernard’s an Alpha Plus. Besides, he asked me to go to one of the savage reservations with him. I’ve always wanted to see a savage reservation. But his reputation?”(Huxley 123). Clearly the social interactions of the upper castes are a little more nuanced than a simple matter of agreed caste status.

The way that Huxley develops he's view of the new world and our is by showing how controlled the new world is compared to our. For example in page 18 "Community, Identity, Stability", which means that where they control the eggs, hatches the babies and educate them to do and what not to do. He's showing how this new environment has changed that we as human being cant have babies on our own, that now it's controlled by hatching them in a laboratory, which our work we don't do because that's something nature. Also, how they divide there people which is stated in page 23 " we decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilon...", which the Alphas and Epsilon are the upper class people, that are intelligent like knows how to read

With this Huxley makes us think about how the world would be if we were all totally detached from our emotions and thoughts and were controlled by a system that promotes sex, seduction and drugs. Where “being sober is a rare condition” (bravenewworld.wikidot). Lastly an influence that played a key role in the coming of Brave New World was the previous work of Huxley. One piece in particular that was seen to have some impact on the idea of the new book was one called Crome Yellow in this was some foreshadowing that ultimately played out into Brave New World.

Aldous Huxley was born into a family of acclaimed scientists. His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley who is the most famous, controversial naturalist of his time, and with two brothers becoming eminent biologists, his family was no short of brilliance in the scientific field. Huxley himself was on the path to become a scientist until he contracted Keratitis Punctate and couldn’t properly conduct his experiments ("Aldous Huxley - Biography"). While his later writings may have not been as dry as a lab report, remnants of his scientific endeavors and influences are woven throughout. For example, Huxley writes, “preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity” (A. Huxley 5). His scientific knowledge that is woven into Brave New World creates a general image of the future, but in certain areas, such as the passage above, Aldous Huxley uses his scientific knowledge to create a dry diction that gives off a sense of fear and disgust in the rapid advancement of technology. Huxley’s diction of towering scientific terms brings many aspects of this society to life, such as when Huxley talks about genetic engineering and

Huxley is accusing modern society of dehumanizing people and making people seem as if their lives are chosen for them this happens because of people set in a specific group of people one is born into, and because of the background of parents one might have. In Brave New World, the story starts off with the director telling a group of students how babies are grown in test tubes. the types of babies was alphas or epsilons, gammas, and deltas. Being put into one of these groups would determine what their life was going to be like “as alphas or epsilons as future sewage workers of future… he was going to say future world controllers but he corrected himself and said “ future directors of hatcheries”.

Neil Postman claims that between the two books, 1984, written by George Orwell, and Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the world we live in today is closer to the one in Brave New World. While I agree with Postman that “Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us,” (Postman, 19-20) and Postman’s overall point of our world being closer to the one portrayed in Brave New World, I disagree that what “Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book for there would be no one who wanted to read one.” (Postman, 19-20) Mankind in Brave New World did not simply stop wanting to read books, but they were pushed by the world and forced to hate books. According to Postman, “Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us,” and what

Aldous Huxley is a revered 20th century author most famous for his novel Brave New World, a show of a potential fate for humankind in which humans are genetically bred and placed into a strict caste system. Born into a prominent English family in 1894, he had many significant intellectual family members, such as his grandfather, Thomas Huxley, who aided in the development of the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin. At the age of 14, Huxley lost his mother to cancer. Disaster then struck again at 16, when keratitis, an eye illness, left him partially blind. However, he was able to recover enough to still attend Balliol College at Oxford University, although he had to abandon his early dreams of becoming a scientist. Though, as seen in Brave New World as well as a few of his other works, Huxley still remained interested in the scientific

In Huxley’s Brave New World, after struggling to fit into New London, John runs away to live in the lighthouse in isolation. In Boyle’s Trainspotting, Mark fights his heroin addiction in order to break free from drugs and his friend group to rejoin society along with the duffel bag. The lighthouse in Brave New World and the duffel bag in Trainspotting, suggest that after one is isolated from a society, he can only rejoin that society by being willing to conform to its values.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World introduces us to a futuristic technological world where monogamy is shunned, science is used in order to maintain stability, and society is divided by 5 castes consisting of alphas(highest), betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons(lowest). In the Brave New World, the author demonstrates how society mandates people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the novel.

In the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley creates a utopia world, where people live in a society with the motto of community, identity, and stability. In this novel, human are created in test-tubes. Taking soma to fix human problems and having multiple sexual relationship with different partners are considered as progress of civilization. From my opinion, throughout this novel, there are various contradictions among the characters. Huxley creates many characters who stuggle from their own values and the World States ' values.