The Downside of Technology Exposed in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Adolf Hitler once said, “The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time…until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” The motif of governmental control manipulates the individuals in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Society within Brave New World is conditioned to follow specific guidelines and to possess the same beliefs. The bureaucracy dominates the population of the New World socially, mentally, and physically. The motif of executive authority and domination assists in establishing characters, mood and atmosphere, and the additional theme of using technology to manipulate characters.

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a scenario where the government has control over the people and their ideas. Throughout the novel, we are shown the different methods and techniques the leaders utilize to control the lives of the people. After reading the story, we can point out similarities of government control from our world and the book. Huxley has a message for us about government power and what it could do to us.

Technology, which has brought mankind from the Stone Age to the 21st century, can also ruin the life of peoples. In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley shows us what technology can do if we exercise it too much. From the novel we can see that humans can lose humanity if we rely on technology too much. In the novel, the author sets the world in the future where everything is being controlled by technology. This world seems to be a very perfectly working utopian society that does not have any disease, war, problems, crisis but it is also a sad society with no feelings, emotions or human characteristics. This is a very scary society because everything is being controlled even before someone is born, in test tube, where they

Aldous Huxley’s repeated phrase and title “Brave New World” represents the climax of an unprincipled society in which technological advances changes the lives of many.

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.

If technology is the only thing people are going to use in the future, the world will revolve around it and the government will gain control. Characters in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are being controlled by the government without knowing it. The government believes that the people should be acting like robots in the future. Technology has taken over the people and the government is using it to their advantage. By having the people obey the government and thinking they are superior to the people, they do not have to worry about anyone trying to leave the Reservation. They use different tactics to have them able to be cajoling the people when they are children,

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

Huxley managed to evoke rethinking in social conditioning studies, provide original criticism towards the changing political environment with the emergence of the USSR, and adequately defend his domestic values from anti-traditionalists determined to abolish all known establishments. Brave New World centers all three elements in its development of the World State as a flawed society as Huxley’s grand presentation to an impressionable audience of how their world may be headed in the same direction if they do not take the necessary steps to

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.

It is expected that citizens of the World State carry out their lives in the way that they are premeditated by the government. The author portrays a world where nearly every irregularity has been taken out and people could be considered to be parts of a machine instead of members of a society. In his book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley stresses that those in power have absolute control over the rest of the population, creating a world where people are treated as parts of a machine. Examples from the book that prove this include the measures to combat unorthodox behavior, allowing people to avoid all negativity with soma, and the overall structure the society has.

Imagine a life where the technology is so great that no one ever has to be worried about being sad or bothered by all the day to day stress. In Brave New World published in 1932, Aldous Huxley brings the reader into the future of London to see just what technology can do to a society. As the novel opens, the reader learns about how the futuristic London is a Utopia, what life is like, and all about the great technological advancements. After Bernard is introduced to the reader, he goes to the Reservation and meets John, the Salvage, where he finds out how different life is between the two societies. In the end, the Controller Mustapha Mond sends Bernard and

Huxley captures the dystopian society in Brave New World, which he portrays to have stripped its people of their knowledge through the use of science. A dystopia is a type of civilization where human freedom has been quashed and people are controlled and told what to do seemingly representing a utopian society(). In Brave New World, Huxley portrays a dystopian society that supposedly seems to be a utopian society. The society is set up in a manner that everyone is genetically modified to be similar by the government. This technology decides if one will be highly intelligent or be unintelligent while in a test tube and embryo. Over the use of technology in the society has made it so that knowledge is not needed. In the novel a man by the name of Mr. Foster asserts, “The lower the caste…the shorter the oxygen” (Huxley 21). In the society the people do not have control over their own intelligence. They cannot try their best, nor do more work because their intelligence is predetermined. Also, there is no choice as to whether one will allow technology to think for them, since their intelligence is chosen when one is an embryo. They cannot do anything but only be curious to know what it is like to be able to think for one-self. Technology is also evident in sleep teaching. While one is sleeping, a recording is played over and

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley often repeats how important technology is in society. By using several references to technology, such as high-tech laboratory equipment that create new embryos and different types of helicopters for transportation, throughout the book, he proposes a radical idea that government can take advantage of people and their lifestyles by using technology. Huxley also uses the idea of a utopia in society, which is a place where all things are considered to be perfect or have no flaws. In this Utopia, the government uses a drug called soma to control the World State’s population. These ideas and consumables are considered to be the controlling aspects of society.

Brave New World is a science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. The book tells the story of Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowe, and John. I believe it is a very engrossing book because all aspects of the book were futuristic.

Aldous Huxley created a literary masterpiece which shows a possible, dismal future produced by the misuse of science and technology. In his book, Brave New World, the World Controllers use various scientific methods to dehumanize the population in order to control them. The advanced use of biotechnology has allowed the government to completely eliminate family and have the population physically engineered to fit specific specifications according to the needs of society. They also use different methods of brainwashing in order to ensure the population properly conforms to their outline of civilization. Through the use of primitive conditioning techniques combined with current ones, everything the people think, like, and dislike is