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Huxley Brave New World Analysis

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In the book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, Huxley predicted what the future would be like. There are many similarities and differences compared to the modern world, particularly the concepts of over-population, over-organization and propaganda under a dictatorship. To begin, Huxley was correct when it comes to his thoughts on over-population. In his chapter on over-population, Huxley states, “As the twentieth century wears on, as the new billions are added to the existing billions (there will be more than five and a half billion of us by the time my granddaughter is fifty.)” [Huxley, Population]. In many countries today the population has rapidly increased, causing the government to get involved in the lives of citizens. Later on …show more content…

It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the uniqueness of particular events, concentrating on what they have in common and finally abstracting some kind of 'law...” [Huxley, Organization] In my generation, teens are focused on what everybody else has and what brand it is, instead of the quality of the item, they just want it because they think just because its name brand and everybody else has it, it's meant for them also. Not only did Huxley state that, but he also quoted Dr.Erich Fromm, “Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual, it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure.” [Fromm,Organization] Not all people are truly happy in our society today, some walk around with a fake smile on their face, which leads to low self-esteem, depression, and/or

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