Virtue In Brave New World

The human mind consistently wonders what if, and soon finds itself looking into the future for different possibilities in life. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, the reader finds Huxley exploring a nuance in humanity, creating a dystopia, where science becomes the new focus and humans are mass produced in test tubes. Huxley creates a world which contrasts to some aspects of what the world is today. In this dystopia, the values of people are in the technologies which are developed to speed the process of developing babies. Through Huxley’s effective use of syntax and diction, his use of literary techniques, the structure, and playing of theme, Huxley creates an image of a society that worships technology

On the surface, Brave New World may look like a simple book with insignificant meaning, but when readers dig deeper into the text, it holds dozens of lessons and morals for a “modern” society. The book addresses the problems of removing individuals’ identities and it also acknowledges how happiness often masks deeper problems. This novel discusses the dehumanization of humanity and the idea that technology can control society. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, investigates the consequences of a society where the government grants free will but not freedom.

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley includes allusion, ethos, and pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in the society as a whole. The things that happened in the 1930’s plays a big contribution to the things that go on in the novel. The real world can never be looked at as a perfect place because that isn't possible. In this novel, Huxley informs us on how real life situations look in his eyes in a nonfictional world filled with immoral humans with infantile minds and a sexual based religion.

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.

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy,” This significant quote from Brave New World had moved innumerable readers’ heart, so do I. Exaggeration? No. It’s the satire to the false meaning of the universal happiness, and it’s this quote which made me had rethink what do I really want and the way of living I want to choose. Because the deep influence and rumination brought by the book, I would like to say

Mustapha Mond responds to John Savage’s protest, saying that John has a point, but that in this society, happiness is the greater good and great literature can only come from unhappiness.

John, also known as John the Savage, is the son of Linda and his father, who are both members of Utopia. He was born and raised on the Savage Reservation. John is an outsider both on the Reservation - where the natives still practise marriage, natural birth, family life and religion - and the apparently civilised Brave New World: a totalitarian welfare-state based on principles of stability and happiness, even if it`s a happiness of a superficial and bland nature.

Published in 1866, Crime and Punishment showcases the struggles of a young man attempting to find his place within society as he deals with the immoral judgement and guilt that overcame him when he murdered an older lady. Succeeding that book in 1932 Brave New World also mirrors the attempts of a man trying to find his place within a society that’s full of scientific advancement, unnatural births, hierarchy within social classes, and the use of drugs to serve as a type of happiness and religion. Both of these philosophical novels render a scene of society within their time period and, albeit in different time periods, both have similar underlying scenarios of attempting to find morals and ethical decisions. Brave New World and Crime and Punishment

“Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience...under the pressures of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… in general, the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.” (Freud 44). Risk adversity is an economic idea that states that humans dislike losing more than they enjoy gaining. This can be transferred to Freud’s thought process on suffering. Many people will settle for a lack of suffering before they strive to seek pleasure because of the chance that they will lose that pleasure, making people risk averse when it comes to their own happiness, and that is why many followers find contentment in religion, despite the limitations on one’s moral

History is bunk” (page 34). This quote shows that the advanced and innovative lifestyle has overtaken the simple part of history, which opens up the view of negative feelings beyond happiness. Another example would be, when Mustapha Mond explains that “All advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects” (page 54). This explains

This “utopian” society created by Huxley brainwashes its citizens in every aspect of their lives. Brave New World revoles around an idea of complete government control through the use of science, technology and pleasure to form a submissive society. Huxley, through Brave New World sets a warning for the future of technology, by exposing its power, he attempts to send a message about the dangers of technology. While it can drastically improve our lives, it can become invasive to the point our basic free will. By depending on technology, it has allowed for the replacement of the mind.

The Truth vs Happiness One of the persistent philosophical queries that preoccupy World State voters in Brave New World by writer is whether or not truth is a lot of vital than happiness. Mond, for instance, argues that happiness is a lot of vital than truth. the globe State itself clearly believes that the sole truth that's permissible is that the truth it proclaims and promotes, not individual truth, and not the purportedly soft truth of feeling. By casting the reality and happiness of this utopia 'dystopia' into opposition, however, everybody in World State overlooks the a lot of advanced reality, that is that truth and happiness will co-exist, as will truth and unhappiness. as a result of they're ineffective to measure with this risk, however, they miss the chance to really produce a brave new world.

In Huxley’s satirical novel Brave New World, he shows the horrors of a culturally collectivist, escapist, self-indulgent society. Through a mass-produced society bent on escaping reality, he warns against giving up power over oneself to a government, a drug, or a cultural ideal, despite how appealing it might seem. At the same time, he contrasts the character of John against the odd, childish citizens of the World State to show how reasonable and necessary high art, individualism, and even instability are, because they are indicative of freedom. Behind the culture shock of what many would see as a backwards society, Huxley makes the argument for the individual, even at the price of a perfect society.

K. Overberg in religion, Discipleship and the moral life--introduction to catholic morality: Foundations of Catholic morality, and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World develop an idea that morality is shaped by culture. Morality is distinguishing between right and wrong- it is something that is taught through religion and culture. While it may be confusing and at times difficult, it is what keeps the future from corruption. John refuses to conform with the rules of society beginning with his proposal to Lenina to then denying her completely to stand behind his religious morals. John protests Lenina's actions “retreating in terror” and “pushing her away ” as he realizes what her intentions truly are (Huxley 192-193).

The formative years of the 1900’s, suffered from communism, fascism, and capitalism. The author of the Brave New World, Mr. Aldous Huxley lived in a social order in which he had been exposed to all three of these systems. In the society of the Brave New World, which is set 600 years into the future, individuality is not condoned and the special motto “Community, Identity, Stability” frames the structure of the Totalitarian Government.