The Dystopian Society of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

If a society is somehow all content and happy with the way things are, then most modern day problems would be solved. If there were some way to achieve this dream of a community, political conflict would become a thing of the past. The desired goal is a utopian society. A utopia is a place or stat gcxhe of order in which everything is perfect. The more that we fight for this dream, the more apparent it becomes that such a society is impossible. When government tries to create a utopia, the image of a perfect life could evolve. The result of this could be a dystopia. A dystopia is when the opposite of a utopia is established when trying to create a utopia. In The Maze Runner, a group of teenage boys are trapped in the center of one giant maze. An exemplary dystopian effect is given within the book when one of the boys states: “If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human”(Dashner 9). The author really helps the reader engage in how it really felt to be trapped and scared. No matter

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Albert Einstein). Although the future remains difficult to predict, some ideas develop the undeniable fate of society. Throughout Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explains predictions for the future of society. The story begins by introducing Bernard Marx and his discovery of John, and his mother Linda on the reservation. This unfolds into John realizing the degree to which society has stripped their humanity. The emotionless society that Huxley displays depicts the nearing future of society. Although the future will introduce many useful tools for society, the damage done to society and personality is inevitable. Huxley’s predictions about the future focus mainly on the dealing with suffering, questioning true freedom, and perversion of spirituality.

The modern world still deals with racism and dehumanization, but nothing could compare to how people were treated way back in the olden days. To be living in a utopia, it is described to be “A place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions” (“Utopia”). Meanwhile, the opposite of that society is called a dystopia, which is “A society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (“dystopia”). It is believed that any utopian society does not remain one, for there is no possible way every person in a community thinks the same way about what a perfect society looks like. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, there is a broad known fact that the Party creates an illusion of a

Imagine not being able to control a single aspect of life. Every single decision regarding life is made by the government to ensure society stays controllable. Living in a society where one has no control over anything in their personal life would not be a pleasant place to live. The World State controls its citizens by conditioning them, drugging them, and not allowing them to think freely. If the World State gave liberties like finding happiness, free thinking, and love to its citizens, then it could possibly be a utopian state. Since the World State controls all of those aspects of personal life, it is very clearly a dystopian society. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the society that is seen is a dystopia because it lacks individuality,

In both novels, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the impacts of living under radical levels of censorship and control are highlighted and indirectly scrutinized, in an allegorical manner. Written about are what these two authors believed could have become a possibility if humanity were to take a wrong turn and gives power to the wrong party and the negative influence it would have. The two books have many common ideas pertaining the methods of government that could lead to society’s demise such as the limitation of knowledge, manipulation of emotion and prompt elimination of any kind of rebels. Proven by the pair, is the ineffectiveness and possible downfall as a result of these irrational control tactics.

In today’s society, there are many distractions keeping people from acknowledging issues or topics they’d rather avoid. In the novel Brave New World, written in 1936, author Aldous Huxley constructs a dystopian society based upon distraction. Similarly, in 1948, author George Orwell created his own dystopia in the novel, 1984. Through both novels, the authors express their fears for the future. Social critic Neil Postman differentiates their visions and claims that Huxley’s vision of the future is more relevant than Orwell’s. Postman’s assertion is extremely accurate, considering that in Brave New World, the society Huxley created is full of distraction; from an obsession with sex to the constant use of drugs, these coping mechanisms are still very relevant in today’s society.

Aldous Huxley believed the world to be in a moral decline, that eventually, he predicted, would result in the dystopian world he wrote about: An irreversible world in which morals are dictated by the controllers not out of reasoning. Seen in the passage above, the government controls the rights and wrongs of mere infants through loud noises and electric shock therapy. Right and wrong no longer comes from religion or learning, but stems from state conditioning such as brain washing and sleep teaching. From these lessons, children learn to embrace ideas that, previously, had been seen as immoral and immodest acts of sin. Lust is condoned to the point where “everyone belongs to every one else.” (Huxley Ch. 7). Sex, as was stated previously, is

Before we begin, let us gain a further understanding of the novel Brave New World. If we look at the definition of dystopia, we can see it means, “An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad”. This proves very interesting because if we now look at the definition of the derived word, “utopia,” we can see that it means, “An imagined place or state in which everything is perfect.”

Dystopia literally translates as "not-good place" and, paradoxically “No place”. It is a literacy concept describing a society characterised by undesirability defined by general human interpretation. In such societies, responsibility is almost universally placed on an oppressive and inexorable state, denaturing what defines one as human. This can be applied to both the settings of ‘Brave New World and ‘1984’. However, both authors approach their respective dystopian visions in different ways. Orwell envisioned INGSOC, a state based on security and repressive surveillance, utilising totalitarianism forms of control. Whilst Huxley depicted a society held captive by profligate consumption forcing its citizens to embrace their own oppression whilst being made blissfully ignorant by entertainment, spectacle and most importantly technology.

The story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian future that anticipates new technology and a different way to live. It takes place in London in the year 632 A.F. or A.D. 2540. A.F. stands for “After Ford”, which is an arbitrary term for their label of years. Ford is considered London’s “god”. They do not believe in religion. This science and utopian fiction novel alternates between a couple settings. The setting shapes the mood, tone, time, theme, and place of the story. There is the World State, the Savage Reservation, and the factory area. These settings differ greatly. Brave New World is about a futuristic society in which people are made nearly identical and are conditioned to remove strong desires, strong emotions, and

Governments in this world always tried to make society a perfect place to live in for its citizens but some of its attempts lead society into becoming a dystopian society, as the concept of perfection is different in every individual’s eye. The novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is an excellent example of how government attempts of creating a utopian society lead it to becoming a dystopian society that values its stability and happiness over the personal freedom and the thinking of its citizens.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian society where there are no relationships and people live in castes. In the new world people are mass produced in factories and their whole lives are planned out for them. There is a saying in the new world, “everyone belongs to everyone else”. This saying indicates that it is okay to sleep around with many people. This kind of behavior isn’t stigmatized in the new world as it is in our world. The book tells the story of many characters but specifically of John, a boy from the Savage Reservation. He is brought to the World State, along with his mother Linda, by Bernard, and alpha that has some physical defects. In the book we see John’s views change about the World State once he actually begins living there. Some other important characters are Lenina Crowne, a girl from the World State who plays the “love” interest of both Bernard and John at different times, and the Director, he doesn’t actually have a name but runs the Hatchery, the place where people are made. Brave New World is an appropriate book to read

Throughout the novel, Brave New World, events, the features of the dystopian life are illustrated. The world Aldous Huxley creates in it seems to be scientifically-graded, controlled, comfortable and stable and the characters and their psychological analysis help in portraying its motto, but these perfect characteristics lead to the ideal dystopian society instead.

In the first six chapters of Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, readers are introduced to a dystopian society where characters live and breathe for the motto “Community, Identity, Stability”(7). There are three main characteristics that identify London AF 632 as a dystopian society. First, the society created is an illusion of a perfect world, or Utopia. Second, information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted. Lastly, the citizens conform to uniform expectations where individuality and dissent are bad. The characters, or most of them, in Brave New World, live under these conditions and believe in them because society is controlled by the philosophical ideology of the government in the name of stability.

Webster defines dystopia as, “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives”, The antonym of dystopia is utopia which essentially has the opposite definition of dystopia, in other words, utopia is an ideal society. Brave New World at first will seem like Utopian literature but, it is not like that. Brave New World is set in the future where humans do not worry about having to find someone to spend their rest of their life. Also, Brave New World introduces a new concept, no more parents. The World State government found a way to