How Does Huxley Use Social Stratification

In Aldous Huxley’s novel a Brave New World, published in 1931, there are several attacks on society. Throughout this essay it will be seen what these problems were and if they were fixed. If the problems were fixed, it must be determined when they were. The primary focus is to answer whether we have changed for the better, women’s role in society and the social classes. In the end it will be obvious that a perfect society is impossible but we have made improvement.

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 World State Society, individuals believe that "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability" (8). Huxley utilizes the citizens’ appreciation of this Process to emotionally appeal to his readers. Bockanovsky Process’ strays away from the idea of family, something that continues to be an important aspect in the lives of contemporary citizens. This therefore reinforces the idea of detrimental scientific advancements. Furthermore, World State Society strives to “mak[e] people like their unescapable social destiny” through conditioning and harmful substances prior to and after birth” (13). For instance, the controllers of the government condition individuals so that they remain ignorant, yet satisfied of their low status in order to maintain stability. This additionally appeals to audiences emotionally in that in the contemporary era, we are taught that an individual can rise up from poor beginnings

The Huxley introduces Best New World it might throw people off but if you continue reading you might come to find that it is an interesting novel. The Best New World is quite freaky in my opinion because wanting to have everyone exactly the same kind of eliminates the curiosity of a person and how unique someone is. In the Best New World people are categorized as Alphas, Deltas, Betas, Gammas and Epsilons now the way they compare to our world is that we are individually one of these but we weren't born into it we just sort of become who ever we become, although some of us are greater at things than others we don't let that stop us we continue to grow and develop our skills unlike the people in the novel. Another juxtaposition is when they

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley includes allusion, ethos, and pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in the society as a whole. The things that happened in the 1930’s plays a big contribution to the things that go on in the novel. The real world can never be looked at as a perfect place because that isn't possible. In this novel, Huxley informs us on how real life situations look in his eyes in a nonfictional world filled with immoral humans with infantile minds and a sexual based religion.

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.

One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda...." Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and the use of drugs to control emotions, Huxley bitterly satirized the society in which we live.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley introduces the dystopia of a society created on the principle of social stability at all costs. Huxley wrote this book in 1932 hoping to warn future generations of what he feared might happen if society did not do something to stop the inevitable. The leaders of our society today hope for and work towards social stability without taking away primitive rights. Social stability can only be achieved by a society whose beliefs in social and ethical issues are never challenged. So even though modern society hopes for social stability, it is not a practical aspiration because it is obvious that some of the social and ethical

“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” Within Brave New World, a totalitarian government in a utopian world is depicted by a handful of hatchery directors that condition each of their creations and divide them into groups amongst one another based on qualities in order to establish an idealistic stable community depicting the theme of power. Aldous Huxley illustrates social and political worldly conflicts within a newfound society to ridicule the behavior of other upon him and the strictness of his living environment during the 1930’s and surroundings by using figurative language, tone, and detail.

While reading chapters 1-3 of Brave New World, I was shocked, angered, and fascinated by the aspects of the world created by Huxley. I was shocked that the children are taught nothing of the past. In chapter 3, Mustapha Mond says “History is bunk.” He is implying that history is nonsense and that the society flourishes when living in the present rather than bothering to learn the past. I was irritated by the fact that the lower classes are given less oxygen as an embryo to purposefully make them underdeveloped and weak. In particular, the phrase “Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par” made me realize the cruelty underlying in the World State(Huxley 6). Despite these negative feelings, I have to admit that the society fascinates me. The class system is strictly separated by colors, occupations, and intelligence, science has advanced to the point that children are all taught and created in a factory

Being born with your destiny helps a society stay perfect because everyone has a place. And if everyone has a place in the society, then everyone feels like they can contribute. In Brave New World everyone is trained (brainwashed) to feel they must contribute to the society. The brainwashing starts from day one. Babies are zapped if they go and reach for a flowers or books because they are meant to “… grow up with what the [professionals] used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers” (Huxley 22). The brainwashing continues until the person dies. The society’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 1). According to Elke Brown, “the idea of "families" has been abandoned; instead, human beings are produced like cars on an assembly line. From the moment of fertilization on, each citizen has a predetermined fate and abilities according to the caste to which it will belong.” Everyone is made to be the same, since everyone is made of the same embryos. Brown compares the process of fertilization to the assembly line because cars are all made to be the same and so are people. There are five different social classes a person can be born into: Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilons and, Beta; Alpha’s being the highest in the social rankings and Beta’s being the lowest. Different social classes can be defined by a person’s role in society or the career they

In Brave New World Huxley creates a society which is carefully balanced, and the two factors that maintain the balance are reproduction and production. The reproduction aspect comes from the government's control over the creation of people, and breeding them to fulfil particular purposes and

When one reflects on the period during which Huxley’s novel was written and the modern world of his time, the comparison to the socialist world cannot be ignored. The whole idea of a utopia is very similar to socialism. The World State society is under the complete control of the government. Pre-destination department chooses what people will learn, what they will do and how they will look. Each caste wears a different color clothes and does different type of labor. None of these decisions are made by people themselves. In our society, even with the socialism, where government decides what products to produce, in what quantities, and how people will live, people still have a choice and opportunity to be different. Stability and individuality in utopia are reached by taking away the individuality from people. In the World State government controls desires and consumption by creating and destroying the demand for certain objects through the psychological training of infants.

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, applying a psychoanalytic lens to the children’s behavior predicts the downfall of humanity. The most prominent example is in the conditioning of the caste systems. The different castes are conditioned to withstand certain environments to make them ideal for their workplace. Setting up specific lives for the children does not allow individuality between them. “Nothing like a little oxygen shortage or keeping an embryo below par,” (Huxley 14). This quote is important to the psychological theory as a theme through the novel because it portrays the diluting of an embryo to make it withstand their specific lives in the future. The child created will never be allowed the make decisions because the society’s

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