In The Society Of Brave New World, There Are Only Five

Set at the end of the Cold War in East Germany, the movie Goodbye Lenin is the story of a young man, Alex, trying to protect his mother, Christiane, who just spent the last eight months in a coma. Christiane is a personification of the values and ideology of socialism. She carries them out in her interactions with society, and is very hopeful towards the success of the regime. During her absence, the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the German Democratic Republic leads to a radical and turbulent change in society: the fall of socialism and the triumph of capitalism. Because of the shocking effect of such information and the danger of another heart attack, Alex creates for Christiane an ideological form of socialism. Fundamental themes in the movie are the difference between ideal and reality of socialism, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the transition to free market capitalism. Such themes are carried out through a juxtaposition of an ideal society and its reality in the form of a constructed reality of socialism. This idealized version of socialism served as an oasis from the chaotic transition from a problematic socialist regime to free market capitalism.

Bernard, Lenina, and Linda all have unique characteristics that set them apart from the regular citizens of the World State Society. However, all three of them have unknowingly fallen into the conformities of the state’s maladaptive rules, preferably choosing to emanate the state’s values that do not fit their own characteristics. The World State’s guidelines and regulations pull all the citizens of the World State, including Bernard, Lenina, and Linda, into one lifestyle of living through a domino effect of conformity: the more people that conform, the more harder it is to resist the urge to conform with them. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, human beings have been engineered and conditioned to have detailed traits and castes in society; however, the birthing methods of the world state seem virtually full proof, some characters in the novel deviate from this standard. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson both alpha plus males; share a dislike for the world state. Bernard abhors it because of his physical defect, Helmholtz because of his psychological surplus.

Through this process, ninety-six copies are made using the same embryo. This results in people in the New World being exactly the same or almost identical to others from the same caste. Ideally, stability is attempted to minimize conflict and differences between the individualizes in the World State. Bernard thinks less of himself and believes that he is treated different than the other Alphas because of his height and “the mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects”( Huxley 65). Bernard Marx treats the three lower castes unfairly because he feels inferior to other Alphas and wants to assert his

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

In the Brave New World, the people can not live their life to the fullest. One way they are limited is that they are predestined at birth. “We also predestined and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” (Huxley 13). No one is allowed to grow beyond what the government decides is their rank. There is no competition among people and no one is trying

The line “Your eyes are dust, dirt porn magazines” represents the way how John believes Lenina thinks because all the World State citizen think about is having someone and have sexual intercourse with them. Another line, “You’re lazy, selfish but you were raised that way”, describes another characteristic of the World State citizens. They seemed very lazy and selfish due to how simple their life is in the World State compared to John’s life back in the Reservation. In the novel, John is willing to sweep the floors for Lenina, but she responded, “We’ve got vacuum cleaners”, calling it Epsilon Semi-Moron work. John is trying to impress her by doing ‘nobly’ jobs but Lenina just do not understand the concept of working.

The characters Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” live their lives being brainwashed. The two novels demonstrate corrupted societies that have taken away freedom, the ability to be unique, and the ability to express opinions due to the government. The people of both these societies have to act a certain way and cannot show any form of individuality. Both novels include the theme of viewing society as more important than the people. That is how the characters are raised, including the protagonists. The protagonists in both stories begin to express their uniqueness and stand out from others, which leads them to creating their own society.

Lenina is supportive of the way matters are handled in her society. She repeats hypnopaedic sayings with pride and refuses to hear about anyone’s unhappiness with societal matters. The totalitarian rule of the world state is similar to communism and Lenina’s name is alike that of Vladimir Lenin, a famous communist ruler. Huxley alludes to this man to illustrate the ideology of the people in this time. They are all supportive of the state of the government, but they do not realize that this is only the case due to their brainwashing. If they could understand how their lives are all pretend, there would be massive consequences for those in power. In addition to this, Shakespeare is referenced frequently throughout the novel by John. Near the end of the story, John and Helmholtz suggest bringing some of Shakespeare’s works back. The Controller denies this request because the return of his tragedies would bring back social instability. He feels that the stories would only bring unhappiness and other feelings which could lead to a loss of power. When people do not know exactly what they are missing, they are unable to fight for it, resulting in more power for those in

The only thing Lenina has to feed off of is the brave new world society. The reader sees Lenina’s inability to tune into her emotions when she meets John the Savage; A character from

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

I picked this quote because I thought it was odd that Lenina didn't understand or like that fact that Bernard wanted to hang out alone with her and just talk without being in a big group or crowd of people because that's how it works with us in our society. I also think it is weird how when people go on dates in this book they don't care about getting to know someone they only do it because they were toast it was the natural thing to date as many people as possible and not really getting too attached to one person. (102)

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley constructs satire in order to warn the reader of utopian or a perfect world society who are controlled by government, technology, and conditioning. First, in Brave New World each caste is confined to what the government wishes them to think or do. Gaydosik displayed information about how the government set up the system for society, "divided by brainpower into five classes, these scientifically create humans arrive in adulthood already trained to do their assigned tasks" (Gaydosik). Each caste gets the job, according to their level where they have no freedom to choose what job to do, which class they belong to. Secondly, the world state uses conditioning as a way to pressure children to perform a certain

When confronted by the idea of suffering, Lenina is only able to produce the single response of resorting to soma for happiness, while John who was raised outside of the World State embraces suffering as a part of being human, demonstrating how the World State has annihilated the people of the state’s ability to see things from other perspectives apart from the World State’s, resulting in a lack of individuality.

This novel takes place in the year 632 A.F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. In the very beginning there are students being given a guided party line tour through the London Hatcheries. Two employees that work there are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne, they have been dating each other too much and are discouraged by the state. So Lenina’s best friend, Fanny, picks on her because of this. Lenina then meets Bernard Marx, and grows to like him so much that she agrees to go on a vacation with him to a New Mexican