Personal Essay: A Brave New World

I have learned a great many things from playing soccer. It has changed my entire outlook on and attitude toward life. Before my freshman year at Cool high school, I was shy, had low self-esteem and turned away from seemingly impossible challenges. Soccer has altered all of these qualities. On the first day of freshman practice, the team warmed up with a game of soccer. The players were split up and the game began. However, during the game, I noticed that I didn't' t run as hard as I could, nor did I try to evade my defender and get open. The fact of the matter is that I really did not want to receive the ball. I didn't' t want to be the one at fault if the play didn't' t succeed. I did not want the responsibility of helping the team

Close your eyes and imagine a world free of war, suffering and pain; an environment that provides all the necessary luxuries to maintain eternal happiness; one that is stable, friendly, peaceful and enjoyable. In this world, every inconvenience known to man is rid of. We are no longer affected by disease, aging, heartbreak, depression or loneliness; conformity is at hand and stability is achieved. Now envision a world where there is no love, families do not exist, humans are no longer conceived yet created in test tubes, and sexual promiscuity is not only acceptable but enforced. Picture an environment where there is no religion, art or history. The human mind and body is assembled accordingly and we lack the freedom of

Unlimited meaningless sex sounds great right? Life in the Brave New World is entirely different than it is now. We have lost our compassion and our freedom, and now we have been turned into mindless beings. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley teaches us the importance of being human through the portrayal of the necessity of individuality, history and relationships. The lack of individuality is a common theme presented throughout the book.

Brave New World is a book that revolves around the cultural elements of “Community, Identity, Stability” (1). That motto is something that holds true for the many average lives that partake in the New World community and can even apply to the Reservations that are explained throughout the book. However, there is an exception to this motto and that exception is John the Savage. John is truly an outsider in both cultures, for many different, yet similar, ways. He is caught between two extremely different worlds, worlds of which he isn’t accepted as normal. He tends to stick with the identity that he created on the Reservation, which revolves around Shakespeare and the acts of the other Savages, and, when entering the New World, he is truly faced with a cultural collision, which ultimately leads to his demise. John’s responses to this battle between cultural beliefs proves how inhumane the New World truly is, mainly because of conditioning.

The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is a.f. 632 (632 years “after Ford”). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World illustrates a colorful, fantastic universe of sex and emotion, programming and fascism that has a powerful draw in a happy handicap. This reality pause button is called "Soma". "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." ( Huxley 54 ).

The Brave New World has a lot of complexity and topics that are still relevant in the 21st Century. Throughout the novel one of the themes that caught my attention was how the World State uses social programing to structure their society. The society is being taught not to think about change, follow orders, have a sexual life, and be happy by using soma.

In this world where people can acquire anything they need or want, we have to wonder, “Is the government controlling us?” Both the governments in A Brave New World and in the United States of America offer birth control pills and have abortion clinics that are available for everyone, thus making birth control pills and abortion operations very easy to acquire. Although both governments offer birth control pills and abortion clinics, A Brave New World’s government requires everyone to take the pills and immediately get an abortion when pregnant. This in turn shows us that A Brave New World’s government is controlling the population and the development of children. China is one of the few countries that currently have control of the

In Brave New World, I believe that Aldous Huxley incorporated a certain characteristic of a certain person in the characters when he wrote this book. However by having Russia as a source for ideas his characters might resemble many ideas at once.Therefore, many of the characters in Brave New World people that came up with such big ideas. Characters such as Bernard Marx resemble real life people because the real people had an impact on society.

A worldview is a person’s perspective of the world, but at its core, it is a set of basic presuppositions that a person believes through which they filter all other non-basic beliefs. The first question posed is, what is prime reality? What this question is asking is what is real in the world. My personal believe is that the god I believe in is real. Atheist may answer differently. For example, they may say prime reality is matter, the universe, or natural laws. The second question asked is, what is the nature of the world around you? This can be a controversial discussion depending in whether you believe in god or the theory of evolution. People may wonder was the world created if so, by whom? Other people may believe the world already existed or if it is something we create in our mind.

The ideas contained in BNW were not new to Huxley, as evident in an earlier work, Crome Yellow (1922), in which Mr. Scogan speaks of a scientific Utopia: "... An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear. . . ." (Huxley). By the time Huxley started to write Brave New World, the tremendous political, economic, and philosophical changes taking place in Europe and America contributed to his disillusionment, such as the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the dictatorship of Mussolini in Italy, and the Nazi Party movement in Germany. As stated by David Watts in Journey to a Brave

Imagine a world where all of your fantasies can become reality. Imagine a world without violence or hate, but just youth, beauty, and sex. Imagine a world of perfect “stability” (42) where “everyone belongs to everyone else” (43), and no one is unhappy or left out. This sounds like the perfect world. But it’s not. Looks can be deceiving as proven in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World. In his novel, he introduces us to a society that strives to satisfy everyone’s wants and needs by inflicting pleasure in order to bring stability. However, in order to truly

The education system in Brave New World as dreary and cruel as it seems is not far from the education system of our society. Creativity is not really promoted any longer in our society, which is comparable to Brave New World. The strict educational system and heavy gauntlet on creativity is a present day example of conditioning. The Brave New World uses conditioning to train the children of their society into learning specific subjects or forcibly generating a hatred for certain subjects or objects. Both systems condition children to know only what the administrators feel is suited. It is really quite scary to believe that the entire society is potentially being denied important

My worldview has been shaped and expanded over the course of my lifetime by many different influences. My family, friends, coworkers, teachers, and even strangers have made impacts on my life that have in one way or another changed how I view society and the world around me. The three main components that help to form my worldview are Ethics, Human Nature, and God, because they molded my thoughts, experiences, education and life decisions.

The Self Every situation that an individual is exposed to throughout life, helps mold our “self.” As humans we have the ability to see ourselves from the outside, and all through life we try to see what others see and our “self” revolves around the generalized other. We observe how others perceive us and we make conclusions depending on our observations. How we act around others depends on the image we feel they have towards us.