Utopian Society In '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.

One of the major themes Mitchell plays with in his novel is the concept of a utopian society, and what it is comprised of. In each story, there is a setup for a ‘perfect’ society, but humanity, or humanity’s spirit got in the way. Each story represents how the interpretation of things can shape a society, depending on how literal they take the events. In the story “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Everythin’ After”, the tales are in place to develop the role of each character. Zachry fights his inner demons, just as Truman Napes does with Old Georgie. Zachry chooses to protect and befriend Meronym, even though it goes against his initial judgement. Meronym fights for the overall good of the people just as the crow does in “Prescient yarnie”. She goes out and lives with the villagers to gather information, and saves Zachry’s sister. She is making diplomatic decisions to take on the risk of changing the course of things by helping her. The function of Zachry and Meronym are to be foils of each other, even the story is told from the biased perspective of Zachry. Meronym is focused on long term goals, and the redevelopment of society, while Zachry is very much focused on the present time, and the folklore that affects his day to day life.

It is astounding how two pieces of literature can be similar but different at the same time, just by how the authors choose to use different literary devices. Two novels, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, portray these differentiated attributes because of the way the two authors vary in these literary techniques. Brave New World portrays a futuristic society in which people are artificially made and their jobs are pre-selected before they are created. All of the emotions and desires of man have been inhibited in these beings to create a so-called “utopian society” in which everyone lives and works harmoniously. The

The process they go through to achieve this, is the Bokanovsky Process. In this process, they take one egg, and bud them together to produce ninety-six identical embryos. But this process is a prime example of a lack of identity in the World State. Everyone looks like each other in this society and no one really has a true identity of who they are. "I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons," she said aloud. "Of course they don't. How can they? They don't know what it's like being anything else. We'd mind, of course. But then we've been differently conditioned. Besides, we start with a different heredity." "I'm glad I'm not an Epsilon," said Lenina, with conviction. "And if you were an Epsilon," said Henry, "your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren't a Beta or an Alpha” (Huxley 168). In this quote, Henry Foster is explaining to Lenina that people in their own society are conditioned to love themselves, and hate to be other castes of society. Lenina is oblivious to this, because she is also conditioned to believe what everyone else believes. This is a prime example of the lack of identity, because everyone in this society is brainwashed to think a certain way about their place in society. The people in these castes think they have a real thought of who they are, and the sad reality is that they really do

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

there is a Utopian society that is ruled by the government, and every decision and action is controlled

In a dystopian society, there is no such thing as “freedom.” The basic rights that human beings are born with are non-existent. Life for the citizens is made unjust, unfair, selfless, and cruel in order to satisfy the needs of the corporate control, also known as the party inside of the novel. In 1984, the depicted world where the party members lives are attracted to the government in every way possible is portrayed , just as a gear would turn a wheel. The strong government power implants lies and false beliefs inside the minds of citizens, making them brainwashed and unable to contain any other substance. In every case their is always a protagonist, or two, itching to escape the tight grip of the mental and physical hold that is placed upon them by the controller. Inside of the powerful novel 1984, propaganda, rigorous laws, and surveillance characterizes the society.

In the past, many authors have predicted what future societies will be like. Many of these authors believe in a world where the government uses technology and emotion to control their population. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the author portrays a society that is controlled by making its citizens feel satisfied. Neil Postman, a contemporary social critic, explains how Brave New World has major implications in our society today. While Postman’s assertion about books is not relevant to today, his assertion that the truth will be drowned in irrelevance and the assertion that we will live in a trivial culture has implication to today’s society.

At first glance, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World feels quite odd and out of place. Reading a story about a “perfect society” where people do not feel or think for themselves does not make for much lighthearted conversation. However, after taking a closer look, deeper meaning begins to seep through this tale. Through Bernard's initial views on his society's leniency towards casual sex, society's use of the drug soma, and Mustapha Mond's explanation as to why God becomes obsolete in a perfect society, this utopian-set story serves as a warning to modern society of what may come to fruition in the future.

Is Huxley’s novel Brave New World, slowly becoming our reality? Are we becoming the individuals in the book, that live their lives oblivious to the fact they are brainwashed by the government? In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, our present society and their world state society share many similar habits, however it is the differences in our two societies that are more visible and clear. The three most obvious topics seen in the novel, was the similarities and differences in reproduction, drugs and family/relationships.

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Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, and George Orwell’s “1984” both portray totalitarian regimes who strive for complete control over their population. The methods that they use to achieve this are almost polar opposites. While one uses war/bombing, thought/relationships, and through the dreaded room 101 as a means of control, the other uses sex/orgies, relationships, and soma to establish order throughout the population.

This novel takes place in the year 632 A.F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. In the very beginning there are students being given a guided party line tour through the London Hatcheries. Two employees that work there are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne, they have been dating each other too much and are discouraged by the state. So Lenina’s best friend, Fanny, picks on her because of this. Lenina then meets Bernard Marx, and grows to like him so much that she agrees to go on a vacation with him to a New Mexican

The novel Brave New World has often been characterized as dystopia rather than utopia. Nevertheless, the superficial overview of the novel implies a utopian society, especially if judging by what the Controller said to John, the Savage: