Huxley Predicts In A Brave New World

The character of Linda is very similar to the character of Abby from Blood Simple, who was also portrayed by Frances McDormand. Abby is described as the “woman whose weakness and dissatisfaction set the story in motion. She saves herself against all odds, but this is more of a matter of random good fortune than of either sangfroid or intelligence” (16-17). A similar case could be made for Linda. Linda’s dissatisfaction with her body and need to “reinvent” herself drives the plot as she desperately tries to acquire money to pay for her plastic surgeries. She fails to recognize that the “intel” she thinks she has is completely useless, and she still selfishly pushes onwards coming up with plan after plan, without even realizing the deadly full extent of her actions.

Furthermore, their maternal attitudes balance each other. Lenina is unable to grasp the concept of motherhood because of her “Beta- Mindedness,” a result of her conditioning. Linda, like Lenina, is unable to fully understand being a mother as well. Linda expresses obtrusive attempts at motherly affection. For example, she constantly refers to John as “baby” and says “come and lie down, Baby” (Huxley 111). Linda’s motherly affectation is a result of her being engulfed by shame, and causes her to feel the need to play a caring mother.

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.

Linda Lark was objectively one of the best characters in the book. Left to die by parents who didn’t want the “broken” child, she begins her life of abnormality. The love from the Wishkob’s literally reshaped her into a fully formed person and allowed her to grow up with an almost normal life, complete with sibling rivalries and knowing true parental love. Despite being taken away from and brought back to the Wishkob’s repeatedly, Linda knew who her family was. However, she always felt like there was something, someone else. This presence followed her all her life, unlabeled, until later when her birth mother reached out to her for a kidney that would save her twin’s life. Linda, in thinking the presence was her long-lost brother, felt a strong urge to help and

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.

soma, the drug that citizens take recreationally. People are dependent on it to be happy; when

This has been made possible due to the fact that the World State has developed soma into a drug that every person looks forward to taking from quite a young age. The children understand that soma is going to make them overjoyed and bubbly, so there is no surprise that the announcement of soma distribution grasps their attention away from Linda with ultimate ease. In addition, soma is allowing these citizens to remain unaware of what position they hold in society. Because soma makes everyone happy, no one is troubled with their life and their societal position. This drug is allowing people to be satisfied with being slaves to their government because each person becomes innocent to reality once they take soma.

Mathew Belote Mrs. Lauer 2nd Hour Power of Language 2 March 2016 Title In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, the government tries to prevent its people from speaking freely and thinking by giving them soma, a drug that is available for them at any time of the day whenever they want it. Wouldn’t it be just as easy for our government to give us as citizens access to drugs to manipulate us and control us in our society? Could this prevent people from acting out, or future development in technology

America has long promised a life of ease for all citizens. Today, our technological and scientific developments keep thousands of people, if not happy, then comfortable. Correspondingly, the inhabitants of the World State portrayed in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World live entirely content lifestyles due to their technological and scientific advances. Both the World State and modern American societies share a common background, and while Huxley’s futuristic world may have advanced farther than our society has, America is continually developing into a Brave New World. Parallels of the two worlds exist in abundance within the novel, perhaps the most obvious examples of which lie in the desire to retain youth and the use of drugs in both societies.

The increase in prescription drugs has dramatically increased in the past years. Much like in Brave New World, we have become dependent on the drugs to function. The Lenina visits the reservation and upon returning to the rest house, she felt “entitled, after [a] day of queerness and horror, to a complete [soma] holiday.” After seeing how differently the people from the reservation lived, she needed help to deal with the situation around her. The soma had become a crutch for Lenina.

Citizens of the World State rely on this drug to fix their problem as shown in the book; Lenina has problems such as confronting herself when she doesn’t take Soma. Could you imagine our world like that? I believe that our world is already partly like The World State and are heading towards a Brave New World in the future. The totalitarian Government of the World State supports the use of Soma as it ensures all citizens conform which in turn is the stability of their created world. As the Government wants the World State to be stable, they provide Soma for free to all

In “Brave New World”, written in the 1920’s during the Industrial Revolution, Aldous Huxley explores a hypothetical future of the world. With the World State in complete power, the dystopian society functions as a totalitarian civilization. In this fictional reality, Huxley employs satire in order to exaggerate faults in today’s society to extremes. Some of the broader flaws the author exaggerates within the novel, including divisive social classes, widespread drug use, and extreme consumerism, reflect the undesirable aspects of Huxley’s society during the time in which the novel was published.

The Director described how all he wanted when he lost Linda was soma, so he could forget what happened and just be happy. Along with this, The Director ignored what happened all his life until he was forced to recognize it again. When The Director is united with his family, he runs from it, not accepting the truth, but searching for happiness in other ways, like soma. Aldous Huxley shows that the Director did not accept the truth of his love for Linda when The Director himself says “Don't imagine that I had any indecorous relation with the girl. Nothing emotional, nothing long drawn.

Linda is missing the Soma that is in the World State. It is because of this perfect drug that John’s mother, Linda, wants to come back to the World State. When they arrive, Linda goes a little crazy and has fun with the Soma. Eventually age catches up to her and she is placed in a home for the dying. John receives a call that his mother is dying and is devastated and goes to visit her, “A sudden noise of shrill voices made him open his eyes and, after hastily brushing away the tears, look round.

The drug, soma, in particular is emblematic in its pervasive influence into the World State, of the power of