Religion In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Conformity is a form of social influence, when we conform we act and think like members of our group. Often people even alter or change their personal beliefs to match those around them. When we conform we feel pressured to fit in with others, to be a part of the majority. While we may still have contradicting beliefs towards things, we change our behaviors and actions to match what everybody else is

“Living in society, we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality to the will of the majority, the school, the workplace, the family, etc.” (Feys, P.6). Logan Feys, the author of “The Sociology of Leopard Man”, states that society is persistently under pressure to change our individual likings, personality, change the way we look, etc. to feel accepted and approved by society. The desire to fit in and not be an outsider with social groups causes people to feel pressured and change themselves to fit in. Fey’s statement is correct that people conform with society to not be an outsider or avoid the fear of possibly being an outsider.

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

You can carry at least half your mortality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is” (Huxley 238). The idea of soma being Christianity without tears simply means that it provides happiness without the pain and struggles that life may bring. Which also explains why any form of religion has been replaced by this drug. The controllers understand that followers of a religion will most often adhere to the

Because humans crave attention of others, they live their life and conform to whatever the majority of the people around them says. Asch’s Conformity Experiment, which was when they hired eight actors and one test subject and gave them all a test and told the eight actors to say the wrong answer, they found that the test subject would usually conform to the majority vote even if it was wrong. This showed us that people would usually conform to the majority answer on a test, even if it was wrong. Even in high school, students conform to make themselves look cool and conform to things even if they know it’s wrong. Asch’s experiment and american high schools prove to us that humans don’t want to stand out and we just want to fit in and get attention.

The thesis of Brave New World is a warning of the state's control over society. This is shown by presenting the ways in which the state controls their citizens throughout the novel. The state is able to control reproduction, and medical intervention. Both of which allow them to create a caste system. This power allows them to take away personal freedoms and livelihood, the state artificially makes the people happy through the use of the drug soma and by doing so makes them content to follow along with society's expectations.

Second, society teaches us to conform by not thinking for ourselves. We are simply told how to solve a problem or accomplish a task. We are never taught why

The novel, Brave New World written by, Aldous Huxley effectively demonstrates what can transpire in a society that targets their own citizens as subjects to conditioning. The novel depicts a dystopia where citizens are biologically engineered by the ‘World State’ in order to conform to society and lose all means of individuality. The world state has 3 values which help form the foundation of society, Community, Identity, and Stability. (“The primal and the ultimate need. Stability.

But in this case religion is outright restricted from ever being noticed by anyone. When Mond stated that religion does not connect to happiness, he meant that if it is something that has something to do with some time of negative aspect, it can’t possibly be good for this world, thus Mond removed it. But what Mond does not understand is that for a lot of individuals, religion could be a major factor in happiness. This shows the ignorance in Mond’s beliefs that personal freedom threatens a productive society. Taking a closer look into religion in Brave New World, God and the Ten Commandments were replaced by Ford, a pioneer of technology and the creator of the “pure” happiness drug called soma which is “Christianity without tears.”

“We do not wish to imply that conformity itself is something bad. This is one of human properties which facilitate social life” (Efros, Pg. 2). To a certain extent I do agree with this idea. Conformity is natural and something that cannot be completely abolished. It is normal to feel a sense of pressure for being different, but I want to argue that it is not okay.

In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, identity and emotion is destroyed to keep the World State under control. Many techniques are used to shape the society. Cloning, for example, is used to mass produce citizens to work for the community. Censorship is used to shroud them from unorthodox ideas. With traits out of the way, people can be easily manipulated to do what the Director trains them to do.

Conformity is a vital part of developing a collective identity. While some might debate that conformity restricts a lot of social liberty within individuals; the other perspective views conformity as an integral instrument

Many people in the world live joyless lives. Sadly, a lot of those people are Christian. The ever present threat of losing a primary source of income, possibility of contracting terminal illness, the presumed deterioration of the societal norms to which have come accustomed, produces fear, doubt and anxiety. None of this is made better by the constant barrage of information via the 24-hour news cycle, feeding images and rhetoric to incite panic as means of boosting ratings and advertising dollars. For non-believers, there is no relief. Per the statistics from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Anxiety disorders affect 40 million people in the US , about 18% of the population, accounting for 33% of total amount of money

Conformity is something that we were born with, is like we was born to stay in groups.

There are three main types of conformity that people in our society frequently fall into: compliance, identification, and internalization. According to SOURCE, compliance is when an individual agrees with a belief publicly under social pressures, yet secretly disagrees, identification is a short-term change of internal views, while in the presence of the group who thinks another way, lastly internalization is an actual change of inner beliefs that match the majority of people. In today’s world, we compel ourselves to conform to society in order to feel accepted. Comparable to Brave New World’s reasoning expressed in Chapter eight, “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely." The idea that we must be the same as one another steers both societies. The World State separates people into castes depending on social and