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    Allusions In Brave New World

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    After the publishing of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, modern literature has changed forever. It is considered a masterpiece and one of the pillars of the dystopian novel. However, both of those affirmations can be called into question. The former based on a subjective opinion of a reader and the latter through compromising its dystopian nature. Similarly to George Orwell’s novels, the main appeal of Brave New World is within the ideas it contains, not within its literary merits. Huxley’s talent

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    Imagine a world where all of your fantasies can become reality. Imagine a world without violence or hate, but just youth, beauty, and sex. Imagine a world of perfect “stability” (42) where “everyone belongs to everyone else” (43), and no one is unhappy or left out. This sounds like the perfect world. But it’s not. Looks can be deceiving as proven in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World. In his novel, he introduces us to a society that strives to satisfy everyone’s wants and needs by inflicting

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    Dystopia In Brave New World

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    World and Matched: the More Preferable Dystopia Introduction A dystopia is a seemingly pleasant world often characterized by totalitarian governments and unjust conditions where citizens are mislead. Two novels, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Ally Condie’s Matched (2010), both explore these phenomena. In a postmodern society, Huxley characterizes the dystopian evolution of technology as cold and unfeeling. His world revolves around the ideas of efficiency and immaculacy, created by extreme

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    Satire In Brave New World

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    Technology and control by the state is a theme constantly touched in Brave New World; states is control of many thing. Many of which would be reproduction in using eugenics; to sterilize women specifically the poor and those of color as what nazi germany did. For the idea that it was possible for one to be genetically born poor not only that but different benefits for different social statuses. Huxley shows this by the concept in status with “Alpha, Beta, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons” picking and

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    Brave New World Essay The society in Brave New World seems very far off from world we live in today, but there’s actually many similarities between our society and the World States’. In the beginning of the book, the Director explains to the students how the caste system works: each class is genetically made to perform specific duties. For example, Alphas only do intellectual work and Epsilons only do terrible jobs and duties. Although we may not literally create humans with preassigned careers

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    The book Brave New World, is exactly what it sounds like. It is about a world that is completely different from our own. Author, Aldous Huxley, describes a world of Utopia where people are better off being immediately happy then with understanding the truth. This way of living is not typical and what we consider “normal” would be horrifying to the characters living in this other world. Throughout the novel, Huxley makes it evident by the way his characters live that instant satisfaction is more

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    Brave New World Essay

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    A smart, scholarly and skillful author named Aldous Huxley once said “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards”. The advancement, improvement and the wrong use of technology has affected the world in a really negative way. When technology first started to improve and become more advanced was during the WW1 and WW2, which caused the most destructive wars in human history. For example the wrong use of technology led the Americans to produce one of

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    Brave New World takes place in a dystopian future, where people have lost their individual freedoms and human characteristics -their rights to creativity, thinking, and argumentation, in exchange for happiness and ‘equality’. The people in this society are not unhappy with the way things are, and those that question the status quo are seen as strange and dangerous. The main character in Brave New World is Bernard, who has begun to question the system, due to the fact that he doesn’t fit into his

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    In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley had some ideas that pretty closely relate to our society now. In our society and the society in Brave New World, youth and good appearance is important. There are a lot of other things that are closely related like the technology and relationships. But there are other topics that do not relate at all. Huxley had the idea of mass producing babies with the hatchery. We can’t mass produce babies the way he had imagined but people have what they call “test tube babies”

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    “Community, Identity, Stability”; three very important things to keep in mind throughout this essay also known as the World State’s Motto. The novel presented was novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1931 which was then published in 1932. A little background information on Henry Ford, Ford was an American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company. Ford also was the creator of the assembly line technique for mass production. He was born on July 30, 1863 and passed away on

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