Technology In Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley depicts a future world that has mechanized and removed all sense of life to being human. In this world, people work for the common good of the community and are conditioned to dislike what, today, we would consider common and healthy relationships with people and environments. The story follows a man, John, not born into the culture and his struggle with the unfamiliarity with the “Brave New World”. Published in 1932, Brave New World often leaves roots back to the world Aldous was in when he was writing the novel. I believe the genius of Huxley’s writing was his ability to effectively select the traits of 1930’s society that would later become a staple for Americanism in the coming century and, in time, allowing for a relatable story to the modern day while giving us warning to the future.

After reading the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley I realized that this is no ordinary story. It predicts a future overpowered by technology and government and where the people have no true freedom of choice. This book made me think about whether the utopia depicted in the novel would be a perfect place to live or a terrible place to live. It is hard to distinguish where the line is drawn between making life simpler and losing the meaning of life. Although some may look upon this type of life with envy I personally would rather have to work hard and earn my living than to lose the chance to make my own destiny.

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

From reproductive rights, morality, and drugs, Huxley develops a futuristic approach to mankind. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley serves as a cautionary tale about contemporary American culture by illustrating the technological and scientific advancements within a society to establish power and the affects it may have on mankind.

Huxley’s Brave New World centers around a society far from modern day. In this warped

In his novel, “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley portrays a society in which the government has full control. At the time of the books writing America was striving for this status quo of complacent pleasantry, censorship was an issue, and things that were extreme or painful were being removed. As man has progressed through the years, societies have tried to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But after reading Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World,” one comes to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human being really longs for. Huxley’s intended audience seems to be people that have the vision of a perfect society. He wrote the book as a dark satire. It's meant to mock (in a serious manner) the concept of a perfect society being possible. Huxley successfully made the point that there is more to life than stability and complacent happiness by utilizing a number of rhetorical strategies.

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.

Today, one 's perceptions of happiness are more often than not associated with material achievements, advancements, or perhaps, love. In Brave New World, however, happiness is based upon the pursuit of stability and emotional equilibrium Aldous Huxley 's dystopian novel, Brave New World serves as a warning of the ominous. Set in London, the totalitarian regime instills the motto of "stability, community, [and] identity"(Huxley.1.1) in its citizens. Huxley 's dystopia attempts to find the greatest amount of happiness for the largest sum of people. The simple, less complex characters of the novel seek to achieve happiness through means of scientific conditioning, thus, leaving one

In Brave New World, Huxley utilizes characterization, motifs, and symbols to show that the pursuit of “success” as a whole comes with consequences because there is no value placed upon being an individual. The World State does what it sees as best for society to function in a systematic manner and achieve collective “success”; however, their effort to achieve this utopia fails.

Huxley’s Brave New World is actually becoming more relevant to today’s society as time passes on. Today, we live in a society where we can get prescription drugs for literally everything such as depression. Today, we live in a society where relationships are very hard to have. Marriages break up easily and married couples soon divorce. Today, we live in a society that is obsessed with money and looking young. This is shockingly similar to the Huxley’s Brave New World. As the people in the World State can get soma everyday. There are no marriages in the World State and this is similar to today’s society because marriage doesn’t last long. And in the World State, people do not get old or they die before they do and this is similar to today society

The society that we see portrayed in Brave New World had the same goal. The objective was to build a nation that is superior to the common people. Brave New World portrays common people as being disgusting savages with no refinement. Just as during the Holocaust the Nazis wanted one greater, more beautiful and more refined society; so in Brave New World we also see them pursuing this goal. We can see that seeds of the society, conceived by Huxley, were sown in the 20th century during the Holocaust.

As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs

Technology, like any tool created by human imagination is put into place to help in the ways that nature cannot, to the point where a prominent definition is, “an application of science to solve a problem.” (Ramey, 2013). Huxley’s rendition of a utopia is in answer to this problem common to the race of man, the error of human nature. In this novel technology is the cure to which the virus of humanity has inject upon the world, and it is this negative relationship between creator and creation that drives the plot of the story. The reader is then put into a position of caution towards the advancement of science, Huxley’s words become a warning to protect against a future fight for the traits that define humanity. A Brave New World shows that there is no correlation between technology and humanity because they exist in two different worlds, the utopia created leading to the deterioration in the link to the basis of humanity because of the corruption of individuality, the loss of freedom, and a more importantly a lack of chaos.

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley shows how hidden desires and the unconscious mind can be difficult to understand and or cope with; they can eventually lead to one’s downfall. The perfect society consists of distinctive classes for each person (upper, middle, lower), everyone has the same values, everyone is happy because they are told they are, worries of finding a true love are non existent as well as the heartache that can come with it, challenges are never a problem because they don’t exist, and youth is sustained. Sounds splendid, right? According to the creators of this world, this society is utopian because it has an ideal perfection in laws, government, and social conditions, but when you take a good look on what is happening,

In the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley creates a utopia world, where people live in a society with the motto of community, identity, and stability. In this novel, human are created in test-tubes. Taking soma to fix human problems and having multiple sexual relationship with different partners are considered as progress of civilization. From my opinion, throughout this novel, there are various contradictions among the characters. Huxley creates many characters who stuggle from their own values and the World States ' values.