Aldous Huxley

“The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur” (A.N Whitehead). Marshall Mcluhan, the author of The Medium is the Massage, would agree to this and add that electronic technology is “reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life” (McLuhan, 8). He would argue that society has always been shaped by the medium of the media affecting everything from government to family, leaving no part of

The destruction of a person of any intoxicating material can result in such beautiful outcomes. The human race has accepted their history and works because it is their own choice by recreational intake, for productivity, and self-medicating that has kept them alive for us to view their own life and such mentality that some may learn from or even follow. Without the self-induced madness and without the people who tried self-treating the psychiatric illnesses, we would not have the colorful history

Both Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and 1984, by George Orwell, are considered cautionary tales due to a targeted aim to warn the reader of future danger. The threat of a totalitarian society is what Huxley and Orwell try to prevent from rooting itself into the heart of today’s society. Brave New World and 1984 contain key parts that are used to establish a totalitarian society in order to portray the dangers of becoming one. Both Brave New World and 1984 societies manipulate family units, especially

Conformity: To Not Be Your True Self In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, Huxley creates a futuristic world governed by conformity and submission to society. Citizens of this World State are conditioned to follow a set lifestyle determined at birth in order to create a stable civilization. However, there is still some form of individuality in each person, specifically in the characters Bernard, Lenina, and Linda. Within each of these characters, their difference in personality does not fit

World State or Anarres in The Dispossessed. The World State and Anarres have controlling governments that monitors all ideas to decide if they are considered dangerous to the society and regulates the opinions of the people.The savage reservation in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is more utopian than both the modern World State and Ursula Le Guin’s communist planet of Anarres from The Dispossessed because it maximizes freedom while minimizing the power

J.M. Barrie once wrote, “You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” Throughout this semester, the most prevalent subject that has continuously risen from conversation is that of sacrifice. Through the three books read in class, A Tale of Two Cities, A Doll’s House, and Brave New World, one can learn that sacrifice is not a selfless thing, but a necessary part of life when attaining something he or she feels is of greater value. In A Tale of Two Cities, written by

Introduction: How’d He Do That? Recognizing patterns can make reading easier by helping me comprehend what it is that I am reading. “Memory. Symbol. Pattern. These are the three items that, more than any other, separate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd.” (Foster xxvii). When I recognize the patterns that the author used when writing, I am able to better understand the structure of the chapter, the plot of the story, the point of view of all the characters and the language used

I quote a man who has been accepted by the general populace to be accurate in his observations of society: “Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work”, Aldous Huxley is known to have said. I know not the purpose of life, but I know of passion, and mine lies in medicine. I moved from New York to an impoverished village in India during my pre-adolescent age. There, my life saw juxtaposition like no other. From air-conditioned

cautionary tales serve to prevent the world from becoming like that of the novel; however, when the message is ignored, these oppressive worlds can become the reality that people must live in. Two works - 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - have created controversy. Many people believe that the world is moving closer and closer to the worlds depicted within these novels. 1984 portrays a world where order is kept through the manipulation of thoughts. Brave New World, on the other

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