Individuality In Brave New World

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.

What about the people who do not or refuse to fit in? Well, there are always going to be those who do not wish to “…sandpaper themselves down to fit society’s expectations, and because their behavior or appearance doesn’t quite match the herd, they are pushed further and further to the periphery of a community” (Joanna Cannon para 4). This is exactly what happens with Bernard and John the Savage. As an Alpha, Bernard is to be of a specific build and height, one that he falls short to. He disagrees with a lot of his society’s views; and as a result of being ostracized by his associates, he begins to counter them. He refuses to consume soma, a drug frequently taken by everyone, and would rather spend time alone than with his community. This only causes people to find him stranger which separates him even more. In John’s case, he is so overwhelmed with the oddness of this “brave new world” and chooses himself to push further from the community by moving out to a lighthouse. I have witnessed

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.

Brave New World, acknowledges government control which results in the failure of a society. It is a world created where everything is under control, being observed, and synthetic. The society was manufactured in a test tube therefore, it was factory made. The people were born and developed in the test tubes, so their human nature became adapted so an individual cannot identify or approach it. Every little detail of a person's life is prearranged. These people's lives revolve around their community, their existence, and security; never their individual happiness. They are basically living for their society as a whole. This society was designed to be successful but it failed to give people their individuality. The individuals sacrificed

As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs

Throughout the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, we see the mention of "Everyone belongs to everyone else,” and that leaves no room for individuality but in the novel Lenina Crowne and John the Savage, shows strong display of individuality. Lenina individuality often goes unnoticed by the World State and also by us readers. In a lot of ways Lenina can be considered a protagonist in the novel just like John. Lenina had only been seeing one man for four months and later in the book she became heavily attached to John and at one point fallen in love with him.

The Path Our Society Chooses Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley that describes a dystopia where people are controlled by pleasure and happiness. They are content with their oppression because they are happy with how their lives are. Contemporary social critic Neil Postman points out how our society could very well become similar to that of Brave New World. Our society can be compared to the Brave New World civilization in terms of technology, ego, our thoughts on current events, and how we can be controlled by what we love.

Freedom expressed through actions of Individuality Quotation: “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poverty, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (240). Analysis: Aldous Huxley tells a story of protagonist John the Savage where he is like a fish out of water. He is so individualized that he reacts and responds differently than the plethora of soma-infested youths.

Brave New World acquires its name from Miranda’s speech is Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”. Huxley wrote his most famous book in 1931, but it is set in the year of AF 632 in the dystopian World State City of London. In this world, humans have been engineered artificially. Therefore, words like “mother” and “father’ were non-existent. Each child is born into a predetermined gerrymandered caste based on society’s strict system of need. The upper castes of Alpha and Beta luxuriate in their privileged positions. The castes Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon carry out only the most degrading and menial tasks of society.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley crafts a false utopia that is maintained and enforced through strict conditioning, which shapes the psyche of characters in the civilized world such as Lenina; this conditioning–evident through repetition and conflicting values between the characters and the readers–illustrates Huxley's theme: the messages and values one learns as a youth become the unshakable foundation of one's identity.

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley societies morals are distorted with respect to current society. As an outsider of the world state John provides perspective on the downfalls of the World State; Lenina, as the every person of the brave new world allows us to see how members of the brave new world behave. The novel demonstrates the idea that having a free will is more important than stability and security by showing us that without freedom people in the brave new world struggle to find meaning and they cannot experience many feelings of joy such as love, birth, and marriage, and the brave new world can drive people to their ultimate demise . Many characters in the novel cannot find any meaning in their life because all freedom has been eradicated from the world state.

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.

A Brave New World expresses three important concepts, Aldous Huxley uses literary devices to vocalize these three concepts through three main characters. Bernard Marx expresses pride, Helmholtz Watson expresses the desire for beautiful literature and John expresses his desire for freedom. These three men’s ideals symbolize something much larger than themselves, they symbolize the fundamental infrastructure of society.

In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, it’s mostly about far in the future and hypnopaedia. Most characters in this novel believe in the value of society over themselves. They exist to serve their community. They have their own jobs that will keep the economy cycling. There are two main characters Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx. They’re both different and similar in different things. Helmholtz and Bernard have similarities and differences in character traits, how people treat them and what they think about the society.

On a one-dimensional level, Brave New World is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society; population numbers, social class and intellectual ability. History is controlled and rewritten to suit the needs of the state. All of this is done in the name of social stability. When one looks beneath the surface of this perfect society it becomes evident that it is nothing of the sort.