Perfection In Brave New World

In the novel, “Brave New World”, written by Aldous Huxley he introduces a utopian society where everyone is happy and has a blind eye on what the World State makes them believe. Imagine a society where there are imperfections, “Everyone is the same, Nobody is different”, you live a privileged life and are always happy. The cost is never possessing individuality and gambling where only the top classes enjoy such a lifestyle. Social stability guarantees perfection and everything being under control, where everyone is equal.

Often individuals choose to conform to society, rather than pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than create a new one. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, this conflict is explored. Huxley starts the story by introducing Bernard Marx, the protagonist of the story, who is unhappy with himself, because of the way he interacts with other members of society. As the story progresses, the author suggests that, like soma, individuals can be kept content with giving them small pleasure over short periods of time. Thus, it is suggested in the book that if individuals would conform to their society’s norms, their lives would become much

Often in our society, people stifle their individuality in an attempt to fit in with others. This idea is taken a step further in both “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. These texts demonstrate different ways in which one can surrender their unique traits and how when people lack individuality, they lose aspects of themselves that make them human such as thoughts and emotions. In Vonnegut’s text, people who have talents that exceed others are required to wear handicaps so that everyone is equal. In Huxley’s text, embryos are engineered and trained after birth to be the same in adulthood. In both stories, the authors use description and dialogue to show the reader how individuality is critical to humanity because if everyone is the same eventually they become less human and start acting more like machines.

The novel, The Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, is set as a modern day “perfect” society. All humans are taught before, they are born, how to think, and, as they grow up, that everyone is “everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley) (Page 43). As we ponder the thought of this “perfect” society we realize there are similarities between us and the Brave New World. But along with those differences there are also countless differences such as technology and medical advances.

The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932, presents a very bleak out look of what future society will be like. The novel presents a future of where almost total conformity is a carefully guarded aspect of society. Even before one is "decanted" they are conditioned to fill a specific roll and to act a certain way.

A society in which no real sense of individuality exist, will inevitably succumb into a dystopia in which freedom and curiosity are upstaged by a totalitarian regime. Big Brother and the party controlled every aspect of life, even thought, as seen in the following conversation between Syme and Winston. “Don 't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it” (Orwell, 2010). In “1984” every “out of the box” thought is considered a crime and a threat towards the party. Not only this, but also no sense of individualism existed. There was no hierarchy, Big Brother was on top, and underneath him everyone was the same, belonging to the same caste, so to speak. On the other hand, in “Brave New World” humans were “born” into a determined caste, with certain biological benefits or disadvantages. “"Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands” (Huxley, 2010). Humans are manufactured and customized to meet an specific role in the community. In BNW, Ford is seen as a god because of his revolutionary techniques for mass productions. This symbolizes the lack of identity found in these humans;

As James Stephens stated, “Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect…” Literal perfection can never be achieved due to the fact that life is black and gray; the good things in life always contain its flaws. Although, perfection is a matter of acceptance and perspective.

Crafting a perfect society is always the intention behind the creation of a dystopias. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the dystopia is chillingly achieved through ensuring that every person has a distinct place within the society. Insane control over human reproduction technology removes all passion and likens the next generation to a new batch of products. Individuals are perfectly created for their jobs, and feel no other desires or emotions other than completing their work. Furthermore, the removal of all forms of intellect and morality forced the society to create a drug to appease any idealistic or individualistic emotions.

Ever heard of a society that is perfect from sex and drugs neither have I. In the novel Brave New World it seems that a way a perfect society for humans. With Community, Identity, and Stability three things our society needs. Is the Brave new world society perfect though? In Brave new world society there slogan does not show there unconnected community, No identity, and Instability.

When one reflects on the period during which Huxley’s novel was written and the modern world of his time, the comparison to the socialist world cannot be ignored. The whole idea of a utopia is very similar to socialism. The World State society is under the complete control of the government. Pre-destination department chooses what people will learn, what they will do and how they will look. Each caste wears a different color clothes and does different type of labor. None of these decisions are made by people themselves. In our society, even with the socialism, where government decides what products to produce, in what quantities, and how people will live, people still have a choice and opportunity to be different. Stability and individuality in utopia are reached by taking away the individuality from people. In the World State government controls desires and consumption by creating and destroying the demand for certain objects through the psychological training of infants.

I am a perfectionist and I have a vision of how the world should look to be perfect. However, I am an imperfect person trying to make perfection in an imperfect world. The only person who can make perfection is God. He is the only one with any real control. This is a hard truth for people like me and Orual to swallow.

The impossible search for perfection isn't a new concept for society, especially Americans. Stemming from our founding fathers to modern day man, and fictional characters of American literature chasing and attaining perfection is a goal that can't be achieved but will chased to all ends. Over the course of the second semester our class has studied the writings and philosophies of great American authors which include, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, and Horatio Alger to name a few. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the perfect American character in Jay Gatz or the “Great Gatsby” and portrays him as a man who is searching for perfection but falls short as do the rest of Americans. Ironically millions have read the riveting novel and have grasped the concept that perfection is unattainable but still try to attain it. The sooner it's realized that the concept of a perfect man doesn't exist society will be able to work on its weakness’ and improve all together. Even one of the Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin, sought to achieve moral perfection but came to the conclusion that it didn't exist. Franklin planned to become morally perfect over thirteen weeks practicing a single virtue each week and kept track of his results in a small leaflet. Every Time he made a mistake he marked his leaflet which showed his imperfections. Instead of emulating the 13 week experiment Franklin carried out I decided to only take a segment out of it and perform the single virtue of

Perfect: adj. \ˈpər-fikt\ 1. Entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings, is the first definition you find on dictionary.com for the word (perfect). Is this actually possible to attain? Has anyone actually ever been perfect? Or is it all in the eye of the beholder? These questions are asked by almost every girl, as we dream to one day reach the unattainable. This is especially true at the tender age of fifteen, where nothing seems to be going right with our bodies and everything is changing in us. This poem stresses the fact that as everyone realizes how unrealistic this dream is, the knowledge makes no difference to the wish. Marisa de los Santos comments on this in her poem “Perfect Dress”. The use of verbose imagery,

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

As well as there is people who believe perfection is not attainable, there is also people who believe that it is possible to reach that, when they give everything they have. It is a much divided opinion, which will perhaps never come to one only general conclusion. To succeed in life people must always work hard and sometimes sacrifice some things they think are important, but putting them in front of another type of situations they would not be taken as a priority. The majority of these people who believe in perfection