The Poignant Prophet By Aldous Huxley

True freedom is the ability for each person to live as they desire; such a place is described as a utopia. Unfortunately in the dystopian novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the novel portrays a completely controlled society that has absolutely no freedom. Although you do have the few dissatisfied individuals who set out for a form of change. These individuals represent the optimistic part of the novel, despite conditioning, drugs and biological engineering; the human naturally wants more to life than just following orders.

For many people, the term “designer babies” sounds like something that could only exist in the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. But, science has now advanced to the point where faulty genes can now be singled out, discarded, and replaced with more favorable ones. Just like the 16,012 babies manufactured in the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in Brave New World, human embryos can be selected for fertilization based on their genes. This is done through the processes of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This involves removing mature egg cells from a woman and fertilizing it with male sperm outside of the body. The embryos are then analyzed for abnormalities and mutations in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The healthiest embryos are then implanted back into the woman’s uterus for regular gestation (Yount). The development of these techniques originated from the Human Genome Project initiated by the United States government in 1988 (Siegel-Itzkovich). Although established initially with the purpose of selecting healthy embryos free of disease, the same techniques can be applied to select genes that code for traits such as intelligence, strength, and beauty. IVF and PGD are useful techniques but should only be used for medical purposes, not for selecting the embryos of perfect children.

Huxley was brought up in a very wealthy family; his father was one of the biologists who helped create the theory of evolution (Soma). Growing up in such a smart intellectual environment was an open door for Huxley to learn new information. Being in an upper social class allowed him to have more alertness and to explore more of what was around him. Only ever since he was a child, he always stood out and was superior to the kids his age (Soma). For being so advanced it helped him with his creative writing and how he foresaw the future. His alertness and his intelligence out shined all his classmates, allowing him to think creatively and come up with his dystopian novels. The fact that he also had problems with his social standings due to his peers also had an impact on him and his perspective (Soma). Since Huxley was so advanced compared to his peers, he did not always fit in and was socially awkward. He was always more alert to his surroundings and paid attention to what was going on around him. He would notice small details other people would simply ignore. He always paid attention to more of what was around him and was so intelligent just like his father. When Huxley was only 14 years old his mother passed away from cancer (Soma). He spun this loss into a slightly positive outlook making him see the short term happiness humans have. One moment humans can be happy

Aldous Huxley is a revered 20th century author most famous for his novel Brave New World, a show of a potential fate for humankind in which humans are genetically bred and placed into a strict caste system. Born into a prominent English family in 1894, he had many significant intellectual family members, such as his grandfather, Thomas Huxley, who aided in the development of the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin. At the age of 14, Huxley lost his mother to cancer. Disaster then struck again at 16, when keratitis, an eye illness, left him partially blind. However, he was able to recover enough to still attend Balliol College at Oxford University, although he had to abandon his early dreams of becoming a scientist. Though, as seen in Brave New World as well as a few of his other works, Huxley still remained interested in the scientific

knowledge and experiences of the world’s problems during this time of despair to create a

Brave New World shares a variety of similarities and differences with today’s society like drug use, love and marriage, religion, and technology. This novel explains the way at which a government was made to create a perfect society. This society was divided into five different classes. Each class held a different role or responsibility in the government, similar to our government today. Although this “perfect” society was created, it turned out to have many flaws. Some individuals, like Bernard and Helmholtz thought there was a life outside of this society and wanted to be free. Today’s society relates to this in multiple ways.

Numerous connections can be drawn between the film production The Truman Show by Peter Weir and Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. In each media, the society depicted seemed outwardly perfect, and the citizens were content. The individuals remained content through complete government control. With every society’s strength is a weakness, interestingly enough, the Achilles’ heel of both perfect societies is totalitarianism and social conditioning. The fact of the matter is that not everyone will be the standard. The Truman Show is a 24/7 recording of a man’s life that is being recorded without his knowledge and adjusted by the director. The protagonist of Peter Weir’s movie, Truman Burbank, is an insurance salesman living in a quaint island town that is conditioned to have a fear of water in an attempt to keep him from leaving the island town set called Seahaven. Truman is the only person in his world that isn’t a paid actor. He is the only one with genuine emotions. His sincere reactions set him apart from the rest of Seahaven. Brave New World follows characters through their lives in dystopian civilization. The main character of the novel is Bernard Marx, an introvert with a strong will for acceptance, up until he travels to a Savage Reservation. At the Reservation, he meets John. John was rejected by both the people of the soma-inducing World State and savages of the Reservation. He is the greatest example of a pariah. The characters’ inability to be like everyone else

Throughout history, regimes around the world have orchestrated their own social system, influenced by political and economic ideologies. Humans have been victims of corrupt government systems that set a large gap between two distinct social classes: The Proletariat and Bourgeoisie. This system is mostly seen in places where one or many have an excessive amount of power (tyranny). Whether it’s an overpowered ruler who puts himself far beyond everyone else in terms of social class, or a society where the lower class is completely irrelevant to the rich, this has been prevalent throughout the course of humanity. One classic novel that exhibits the ideas and consequences of Marxism within a society is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, Huxley was able to analyze the book through a Marxist lens where there is a major difference in social classes, desire for power, and ideological perspectives within the Bourgeoise and Proletariat.

Imagine a world where complete control is in the hands of the government. Imagine a world where science, literature, religion, and even family, do not exist. Imagine a world where citizens are conditioned to accept this. This is exactly how the world is portrayed in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The focus of the World State is on society as a whole rather than on individuals. Some characters from the novel have a harder time accepting the conditioning. Through these characters, we learn the true cost of a government-dominated society. In Brave New World, Huxley conveys that a totalitarian government will provide happiness and peace by abolishing individuality and free thinking.

The novel, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in my opinion is not the most important piece of dystopian literature from the twentieth century. While my belief that this novel is unworthy of being known as one of the top five dystopian novels of the 20th century is partially based on the fact that I very much so disagree with his writing style and opinions, it is also based on facts found in his writing. Huxley's writing style is incoherent and waits to properly explain items or events, while his characters are immature and negative. The twentieth century also spawned various dystopian based novels such as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Giver which I believe are far better than A Brave New World. The following paragraphs will expand on the

In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World, (titled after Miranda’s line in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest) (Frey 1) everyone works together to keep the Fordian society, as a whole, together, no matter what the cost. Each society member makes many individual sacrifices and this allows them to live a seemingly happy life. The protagonist of the novel, later introduced as John the Savage, played the devil’s advocate to the people of London, trying to help them achieve a truly healthy life. John developed his emotions by reading Shakespeare. Because of this, he could not comprehend the World State and caused much chaos while there.

Everyone is always looking to have the most relationships or to be accepted and popular. However, people often forget the value of having a few strong relationships. Aldous Huxley 's dystopian novel, ¨Brave New World¨, takes place in futuristic London, in a society that values stability and community above all else. Close relationships are seen as dangerous and unstable because strong emotion supposedly leads to misery. To prevent emotion, the government only allows people to have shallow sexual relationships to avoid threatening their happiness. Bernard, one of the main characters, feels isolated because of his physical and mental differences and is lonely because of it. Despite wanting to be popular, his physical and mental differences ensure he never will be. His lack of plentiful relationships causes him to feel miserable and outcast. The main theme that the story highlights is that shallow relationships aren’t worthwhile because the people involved aren’t emotionally invested in the other person enough to stay with them, and if one never experiences a close relationship they will not learn how to make meaningful connections and feel emotions strongly.

Welcome to a world were “Brave” is not just a word; It has a true meaning. This is a story were everything as you know it, doesn’t seem to be right and will completely change your way of thinking. When this story was written, life was very harsh for many people….Mostly for the author who wrote “Brave New World” During this time (1930s) they didn’t have much sexual content Living The Future Of The Past In The Present…..

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel based on a dystopian, futuristic society in which daily life is dictated by the World State through reproductive technology and Pavlovian conditioning to promote the society 's views on persevering and maintaining “community, identity, and stability” through inaugurated happiness which takes away individual freedom. John Savage, the central character, challenges the World State by arguing individualism over collectivism which creates the conflict in the novel. Huxley produces this struggle by having the World State’s totalitarian control over society clash with John Savage’s choice to be an individual. This is shown through John Savage and Bernard 's constant struggle to think and be individuals, the use of soma by the State, and the philosophical conversation between John Savage and Mustapha Mond that stresses the importance of humanity’s personal choice over to live freely or live life through artificial happiness advocated by the World State in the means to maintain the perfect utopia, even if it means abolishing basic unalienable rights.

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.