Personal Freedom In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

The color of the groups uniform determined how intelligent and skillful the people were mentally. A certain color(grey) determined if you were clever, an Alpha, and another color(green) determined if you were vapid, an Epsilon. More specifically, every individual was made to believe this in their sleep. As Huxley states, “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki… Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid”(Huxley 27/28). Huxley is stating that brain washing begins since one is born and occurs when an individual is not aware of what is going on in their surroundings.

How would you feel if you were exiled? Most would say this would be a terrible experience. However, several theorists have many different views on the impact of being exiled. American theorist Edward Said claimed, “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.” But on another note, he said it is “a potent, even enriching.” Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, expands on this idea of exilation. Throughout the novel, several characters are faced with being exiled, whether it be from their home or community. In particular, a man by the name of John seems to experience the bulk of it. John’s experiences show that being exiled is

According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, bravery is “possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance” (Agnes 178). Oftentimes, people are commended for acts of bravery they complete in the heat of a moment or overcoming a life-changing obstacle. Rarely one is commended for simply living a brave life, facing challenges they do not even understand. The characters in the Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World live a peculiar lifestyle demonstrating bravery for just breathing. Although Huxley’s ideas are surfacing today, the dystopia he creates is unrelatable . The genetic make-up of these men and women is different, creating a human lacking basic function of life. In Western Europe an individual forms in a laboratory, “one egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress” (Huxley 6). The dystopian way of reproduction rarely involves a man impregnating a woman. Huxley’s characters are born in a laboratory. These class divided people are manipulated to be personality less , sex-driven, dumb-downed, assembly line workers. Brainwashing from birth conditions them to go through the motions without doubting their purpose. Government controllers are not looking out for the egg at all, simply manufacturing them to keep the

Dystopias are a way to view our world from a different perspective. These dystopian stories can attract people in different ways, and for those who read these stories to engage them into a deeper thought about the lack of emotions in today’s society; coincide with the similarity among dystopian stories that illustrate repressed emotions, which can create a sense of insecurity, give different ideas of interactions, and mind opening overall.

One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda...." Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and the use of drugs to control emotions, Huxley bitterly satirized the society in which we live.

Mustapha Mond (the world controller) hides the concepts and ideas of religion from its citizens for the reason that a God or gods are able to “manifests himself in different ways to different men” (236). Mustapha Mond explains that if the citizens of the World State were to have the freedom to believe or follow any religion that they want that each person could take the ideas and the beliefs of the religion in different ways and that could cause problems for the “perfect” society. Religion is a main cause of many wars and feuds, but would you rather have that or the right to believe your own

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the leaders believe that God is obsolete. Morality does not come from religion in the novel it comes from brainwashing. The leaders do not visualize religion as a necessity in a world where science is the basis of everything. If a society has no evident religion, somehow someone will find a form of religion or a Christ figure to praise and believe in. Real societies cannot survive without religion or science. Regardless of what the leaders in Brave New World promote, there is room for both science and religion in society; it’s a necessity.

Real societies, such as ours, can’t survive without religion. Regardless of what the leaders in Brave New World promote, there is room for both science and religion in today’s world which is causing us to get closer and closer to Aldous Huxley’s version of the Brave New World. If a civilization has no specific religion, what is moral and what is immoral? What is right and what is wrong? Religion stabilizes the difference between what is wrong and what is right.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World introduces us to a futuristic technological world where monogamy is shunned, science is used in order to maintain stability, and society is divided by 5 castes consisting of alphas(highest), betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons(lowest). In the Brave New World, the author demonstrates how society mandates people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the novel.

Societies depend on the presence of religion to unite, control and maintain its population. The scientifically directed and methodical modern cultures rely on the role of religion despite their scientific theories and advances. Groups of people have the tendency to seek shared beliefs and to support each other, as also provided by religion. Religion provides the answers to the meaning of existence life. People fear death, which furthers entrances religion as it often promises eternal life. Religion is a prominent focus within many cultures as it can act as a governing influence. They regulate what is acceptable and determine what is wrong. Aldous Huxley demonstrates the extensive role of religion in cultures throughout his novel Brave New

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley illustrates what is actually happening in modern society. The novel is a satire of a totalitarian government and although it is fantasy, there are early traces of it occurring in modern day. It is hard to imagine a government that is solely based on the ideals of the people when there is an elected government body who makes decisions. The government’s goal is to have stability and prosperity and that, at times, is accomplished at the expense of the individuals who are governed. Accordingly, there is danger in having an all-powerful state because personal freedoms are lost. More so, there is power in having knowledge that others do not possess because it is a gateway for the government to control the public

Utopia: more like uNOPEia Brave New World has a worrying fusion of technology and humanity, which creates a society where individuality is non existent. This story describes a world where consumerism takes away freedom and sense any of community. This world is growing more similar to our own, but in many ways contemporary society is far superior to the dystopian state presented in Huxley’s tale. Starting in A.F. 632, Brave New World presents the reader with a society based around “Community, Identity, Stability”(Huxley 15). Community is warped in this world, as people are part of one before they take their first step.

Imagine a world, a world where everything is perfect, everyone is happy. Recently I read a book, written in 1932, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, A Brave New World. The book depicts a seemingly perfect society nearly six hundred years into the future where human life has been industrialised and controlled by the top of the World State. Using clever genetic engineering, brainwashing, drugs and recreational sex where ‘everyone belongs to everyone’. Yet all the members of this controlled society are happy consumers. But you wouldn’t really think our society could be like that, right? Whilst reading A Brave New World I started to question, “What world do we live in?” or “What will our world become in the future?” This made me realise that this book serves as a warning sign for future generations. Certain themes throughout the novel have prompted me to inquire into what values and beliefs our society is based on. Looking at our freedom of speech around the world certain ideologies are restricted from free speech. My question to you is are we free to voice our opinions? Our pursuit of happiness in our society is relentless. We are consumed by technology, creating ways to escape modern reality to immerse ourselves in our perceived utopia. After I finished reading the book one main thought stuck with me… What if the world we are heading towards is A Brave New World?

The New World, a man-made Utopia, governed by its motto, Community, Identity, Stability (Huxley 3). A man-made world in every way. Human beings fertilized in bottles. Identity, gender, intelligence, position in society, all predestined. Human beings classified in the order of precedence: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Every one conditioned to be a certain way. Every one works for every one else (Huxley, 74). All man-made to ensure social stability. Is society in the New World truly better than in the 2000s? Are people in the New World truly happier than we are in the 2000s? Do we in the 2000s have any thing in common with the New World? Are there significant sociological differences between

Religion in the world has always been considered a rather important aspect of society. Although this is true, there are still people that question the existence of God. A survey done among 1000 people showed that 65 percent of Americans believe that religion is losing its influence on American life (Sheler, 8). Even so, Belief in a God is necessary for a moral society because since the beginning of history man has always made up some sort of role model to explain events and situations that seem inexplicable, God gives people a sense of comfort and hope to know they aren’t alone, and when a society believes in a God, there is a religion behind it that gives ethics and values that they must