Summary: A Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

As for intelligence there have been three capacities and virtues that should be targeted for moral enhancement, which are the sensitivity to the features of situations, thoughtfulness about doing what is moral, and the proper capacity for people to make proper judgments. The continued progress in the modification of learning, cognition, memory, the capabilities of decision-making will help assist the moral enhancement with these tasks. There have also been many neurochemicals that have been used to enhance cognitive abilities, which include increased attention span and cognition span. Drugs like OxyContin have also been used to help with empathy, and to make people feel happier. It may be believed that a drug like soma was only possible in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, but perhaps not. Utilitarian’s have been pushing for human enhancement that uses drugs, genetic engineering and nanotechnology to ensure the maximum amount of happiness possible while attempting to eliminate any pain. Proponents believe that this would reset the brain’s thinking patterns, and allow people to think more positively by keeping our minds engaged, rather than in a constant dull and depressing state. Many anti- depressant drugs are attempting to do just this. It is safe to say that moral enhancement is not just a potential innovation, but a technology that is already beginning.

The citizens are not concerned with themselves as individuals; they have, however, been brainwashed to see the world as a collective and technologically oriented entity, upholding the central theme of the party: "stability, community, identity." (Huxley.1.1) The World Controllers possess their own assembly line to mass-produce humans, highlighting the dangers of how technology can be negatively used. The of the novel laments, " Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par, at seventy per cent oxygen you get dwarfs, less than seventy percent, eyeless monsters!"(Huxley.1.11) The World Controllers have the ability to create humans based upon the needs and wants of society, both augmenting and mutating the child to serve societal needs. Many themes in the novel are based around economic systems. Through technological advancement, the economy has progressed years before its time, leaving a mentality that new is better, and that consumerism is the purpose of life. The consumerist principles can be better delineated with the following quotation, "but old clothes are beastly, ending is better than mending."(Huxley.3.17) Stated more simply, essentially all citizens are conditioned through technology to have the mindset of a consumer. Currently, in modern day religions ', God is believed, by many, to be the creator of all, and that everyone is both a child of and a

The way that Huxley develops he's view of the new world and our is by showing how controlled the new world is compared to our. For example in page 18 "Community, Identity, Stability", which means that where they control the eggs, hatches the babies and educate them to do and what not to do. He's showing how this new environment has changed that we as human being cant have babies on our own, that now it's controlled by hatching them in a laboratory, which our work we don't do because that's something nature. Also, how they divide there people which is stated in page 23 " we decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilon...", which the Alphas and Epsilon are the upper class people, that are intelligent like knows how to read

Aldous Huxley has presented us a compelling story in the 20th-century called a Brave New World. One of the most notable dystopian novels, it calls for a reader to conceptualize a world, in which society and science are synonymous with each other, history had faded far into obscurity, and Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, becomes a deity to many "uniformed" individuals. The book was about how humans are no longer created by the conventional means of mating, rather artificially, through the process of separating the ovaries and the sperm cells, and utilizing certain embryos in a biological process called Bokanovskification, the act of stimulating an embryo to undergo a mitotic process in which the end-result being that up to 96

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself”- Aldous Huxley. Throughout Aldous Huxley’s life he encountered malicious experiences that changed him drastically. He found out that he was a great writer through the dreadful and exceptional events in his life. In the novel Brave New World, Huxley uses conflict and characterization to illustrate how the advancement of technology can potentially cause human destruction and how individual motivation can change the views of others.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World tells of a “utopian” society in which the government has full control over every aspect of daily life. This novel contains themes, although satirical at the time it was written, that have relevance in the world today. One main theme is a society based on consumerism. The World State in this novel is largely based on consumerism, and the government specially trains its citizens to constantly buy things to that they contribute to the economy as much as possible. Citizens of the World State are conditioned from the time they are young to like activities that require money to be spent in order for them to be done. Also, the World State uses hypnopaedia to make people believe that money needs to be spent. This

When you read a book, your learning of what’s going on in the characters society, you’ll get astonished of how they live their life. You might even relate a little, but you’ll never be aware of it completely. Sometime when we read books or watch movies we kind of get used to the idea, so if we do accounted any of those traits we wouldn’t react much or be aware. Especially when it comes to Fantasy, people start off with just imagining things but later on we will build on it to reality. Same goes for Brave New World.

Firstly, Brave New World was much more intriguing to start off. It enveloped you in a completely different world from the very start by giving you new ideas and foreign concepts to work with. With passages like, “’I shall begin at the beginning,” said the D.H.C. and the more zealous students recorded his intention in their notebooks: Begin at the beginning. “These,” he waved his hand, “are the incubators.”’ they were able to keep you on your feet and keep you wondering what could happen and what these things were. This world was completely different from our own, and seemed, to me, much more entertaining. As the novel progressed, key elements of our society were factored into the seemingly disparate world that this took place in. This including

Aldous Huxley was born into a family of renowned scientists in 1894. He lost his mother at age 14, became virtually blind due to illness three years later, and lost his older brother to suicide at age 21. Despite these setbacks, he went back to school after dropping out of Eton and earned a degree in English literature from Oxford. Because of his blindness, he was not able to do the scientific research he had previously wanted to do, and turned to writing. He wrote Brave New World in four months, before Hitler and Stalin came to power, which allowed him to think beyond the confines of the traditional dictatorship. He was also deeply concerned, particularly in his later years, with the prospect of humanity becoming subjugated by drugs, mass media, or technology, which makes a significant appearance in Brave New World. In 1958, he published a collection of essays revisiting Brave New World, which critically examined the implications of overpopulation, excessive bureaucracy, and hypnosis. He became increasingly interested in parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, especially a branch of religious, theological, and philosophical concepts generally called Universalism. He died at the age of 69 in 1963 of laryngeal cancer.

Independance and self-awareness is an important part of our society, without it, people lose sight of who they genuinely are. Today’s society relies on people doing their duty to work together, like another cog in a machine. It is easy to find oneself feeling insignificant in terms of an independent person, and because of this, people have to actively find ways to keep ourselves occupied. Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1984. His father was a scientist that helped to develop the theory of evolution. Science was obviously a large part of his life and was most likely a key source of inspiration for his book. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Individualism is a rarity and society is structured to serve a higher class of people. Society is

The identity of a person is often considered to be synonymous with his culture, whether it be to a distinct nation, race, or way of thought. However, one of the greatest conflicts a person can endure is one with himself, when he is caught between the innate desire to belong and a sense of self and difference from the society that he belongs to. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, such is the case with Bernard Marx. Marx faces the immense dilemma of not fitting in in the greatly socialized and cohesive civilization that he lives in, the “Brave New World.” Despite how much Bernard disdains this world, which he identifies as brainwashed and infantile, he cannot help desiring to belong. Huxley brilliantly contrasts Marx’s hatred of his civilization with his eventual plea to remain a part of it after his exile is sealed in order to highlight the natural desire of man to belong, regardless of how different he may feel from his surroundings.

Aldous Huxley was born to an intelligent family with a long history of credible and influential scientist and biologists in Godalming, England on July 26, 1894. His father, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a noted teacher, biologist, and naturalist who was a supporter and follower of Charles Darwin's work in his theory on evolution. He also assisted in the schooling of the famous writer H. G.Wells. Aldous’ father was a teacher as well as a writer. And his mother, Julia, was a descendant of Matthew Arnold. He was the third son out of four in his family with his two older brothers, Julian and Andrew, both became accomplished biologists. Aldous too want to follow the field of science just like his father before him, yet that wo Later on in life several

The book starts in the beginning with how the process of making human beings is.The

Imagine a world without wars, famine, old-age or diseases, where everybody is happy with what they have and where people don’t complain. Imagine this place, where people do not discriminate each other for their skin colour or because of their religion. This is the situation of the Brave New World, the people there are divided into ranks, from Alpha Plus to Epsilon. But they don’t care about the classes, their mentality is simple; without the other classes, life wouldn’t be possible. The classes each have their colour, jobs etcetera. The people are never unhappy or discontent.

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