Main Characters In Brave New World

Clareson says, "They have sacrificed the past and the future for the pleasure of the moment, shortening that time between desire and consummation to nothing, or escaping time and space with soma" (Clareson 238). They try to forget what has happened with their lives and go on a soma holiday. There is a character in the story name Lenina, who has a problem with soma. She is able to take soma like anybody else in the world. When she goes to the reservation she learns to live without soma. On the reservation she see something that she can’t unseen. She tries to find a way to get her mind off of it and all she is thinking about is the drug that can make the pain and suffering go away. When she is back from the reservation she takes too much soma and puts her into a coma. She is able to release all of the bad things that have happen flied away. According to Medication and Social Control, says, “In fact, soma was such a part of their culture that it was considered unnatural to not require its use to get through the day. For example, in describing Benito Hoover, a popular member of the World State, the narrator commented, “Benito was notoriously good natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma”( Medication and Social Control). There is another character in the story is named John. He tries to tell people to not take their daily ration of soma and instead live without soma which would give the people freedom over the drug (Huxley 219). Obviously, the people of a Brave New World are upset with what John says and they give him treats to his life. A fight breaks out and the police control the mob by soma gas. This scene in the story, makes the realization that soma is more than just a drug. The people of the Huxley Brave New World, find that when they live without the drug for too long, they start to crave it. They also go into a state of where they start

1.Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy

During the 1930s, the times of World War II and the Great Depression, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. There were several issues going on in Huxley’s time that are still present in today's world . Huxley features some of these problems in his book, Brave New World. These problems include drug or medicine usage, women and gender inequality, and traditional marriage/homosexuality. Since this book was written during the times of the Great Depression and World War II, these factors also contributed to some of these issues. Since World War II and the Great Depression are over, these do not affect the problems today. Although some of these problems are still a problem in today's world and society, they are not as much of a problem as they were during Huxley's time.

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.

Both Gattaca and Brave new world have caste systems that are based on your birth. In both stories your life is dependent on genes and how you are born. Both caste systems have groups that all citizens are categorized. “Where the alphas and betas remained until definitely bottled: while the gammas, deltas and epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky’s Process.”(Huxley pg6). The Alphas and betas are left in the incubators longer and they become smarter and their minds develop more, so since they stay

The first chapter of the book Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis, titled “Brave New World,” focuses around the discovery of the continent of North America, the origins of its first inhabitants, and the different ways that the European countries established settlements in America. The voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 were important to the development of America because even though he did not set foot on North America, he let the Europeans know that there was a “New World” and that there were people living there. The first Spanish settlements in the New World helped to change America because most of the settlements still exist today, such as the St. Augustine settlement in Florida. The establishment of the English settlement of Jamestown changed America because it was the spark that started an era of English dominance in North America.

In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses character development to contrast the two different societies present in the novel.He shows the importance of morality, or an increase in wisdom in the character of humankind. The author contrasts a society full of static and flat characters and another society full of round characters. In order to show the importance of life experiences in changing the character of individuals in the society.

Brave New World is a book about a futuristic Earth where people are made by science and trained to do certain tasks, as babies. One of the motifs of the story is divergence. The main characters, Bernard, John, and Helmholtz all show some form of being different from the rest of the population. The books of Shakespeare that John owned, are another motif that is expressed. Shakespeare and the World State are extremely contradicting, while the World State wants to eliminate passion, and love, Shakespeare tries to propel it.

Soma is “the drug sponsored by the state to reduce or eliminate feelings of unhappiness” (Huxley 23). If a drug like Soma were to be created in today’s world it replace all the drugs in the world because there is no side effects. The number of Americans abusing prescription drugs has almost doubled from 7.8 million in 1992 to 15.1 million in 2003 (The Washington Times, 2005), where soma is used worldwide in Brave new world. The drug Soma in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, could easily be described as a modernized prescription drug.

In Brave New World, Huxley utilizes characterization, motifs, and symbols to show that the pursuit of “success” as a whole comes with consequences because there is no value placed upon being an individual. The World State does what it sees as best for society to function in a systematic manner and achieve collective “success”; however, their effort to achieve this utopia fails.

In the book Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley, there are many topics covered about the world, freedom, and men. One of the topics discussed is the theory of evolution. There are many arguments presented about how the world and people evolved. There are different arguments created by creationists and evolutionists. For the creationists, everything is created by a creator such as God and that matter was formed by him to create the earth and even people on earth as well as other creatures in the universe. On the other hand, the evolutionists do not believe in creation, and they argue that everything evolved from their old forms to their new forms now. Another topic presented is the discussion about freedom which evolutionists believed not to exist since matter is not free and it is governed by laws of nature and that includes people and all living things and non-living things in the whole universe. However, creationists would tell otherwise. This proves that evolutionists and creationists have a different perspective in how all things are formed and how they are going to be.

The main character Lenina displays the "practical" use, wherein she used Soma anytime the situation was not perfect. She was not thinking of this as desperate or necessary, it was just common practice. With the drug becoming the center of stability, other former sources come into question. Religion would soon become the topic of debate on necessity.

When Brave New World was written, mass production, popularized by Henry Ford, had begun to gain steam in the industrial world. Factories were now more efficient than ever, at the cost of any uniqueness with the item being produced when compared to someone making items by hand. The world of Brave New World runs a lot like that. Individuality is viewed as heavily shameful, and Bernard Marx is repeatedly reprimanded over the course of the book for trying to be an individual instead of part of society. For instance, he is described as “Pretty harmless, perhaps; but also pretty disquieting” (Huxley 76) for having a fascination with doing things alone on his own time, which is heavily discouraged. Instead, people are encouraged to spend as much time in public as possible, and find comfort and solace in being part of a group rather than being their own person. This message is seen in the motto of the World State, “Community. Identity. Stability” (Huxley 1). With the lack of individualism in Brave New World, there comes a large amount of efficiency. From the moment they are decanted, society in Brave New World tries to shape babies to what is needed. They are separated into castes so that everyone is happy and productive in their job. Henry Foster mentions that “We decant our babies as socialized humans beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future … Directors of Hatcheries.” (Huxley 10) Once they are born, the hypnopaedic conditioning determines everything about their lives in the future, from their likes and interests, to what friends they will have, and to what values and morals they believe in. They are conditioned to consume and purchase as much as possible to feed the economy and satisfy their own wants. Everything in the World State is designed to be as productive as possible, while minimizing discontent to make sure that society works as efficiently as it possibly

Brave New World is greatly dependant upon soma, as in our world where prescribed drugs and drug abuse are prominent. This is evident when Bernard and Lenina return from the Savage Reservation. Lenina is devastated from her experiences, so decides to take soma. It illustrates how like our world when something upsets

Imagine the world in which everyone is happy, there is no pain or suffering, no fear of death, no sadness, everything is good, and the government doles out happy pills, known as Soma, the perfect drug. That society has been created in Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World.” Is everyone truly happy? What do the citizens give up in exchange for living in this utopia and is it worth it? "Brave New World" was published in 1932. Set in a dystopian London six hundred years into the future, the novel follows future citizens through their brave new world. The fact that it was written seventy years ago and so much of it rings true in our world makes it a novel that is captivating. Huxley's story is compelling and terrifying at the same time. It