Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Huxley’s Brave New World could be considered almost prophetic by many people today. It is alarmingly obvious how modern society is eerily similar to Huxley’s novel with the constant demand for instant gratification encouraging unnatural changes. Neil Postman, a contemporary social critic, seems to have noticed this similarity as he has made very bold, very valid statements regarding the text and its relevance to our world today. This statement is strongly in support of those statements and will provide both support and counterargument in an effort to thoroughly explain why.

Huxley’s imaginative examples of how we prioritize superficial desires illustrate to the audience that our society needs to care more about our lives and the lives of those around us, instead of looks and drugs. For years we have used our technological and scientific improvements for our shallow desires, not for the health of our society. The parallels between Huxley’s society and ours exist because his brave new world represents an exaggerated version of our world, he meant his novel to display the faults of sophisticated

Promiscuity was satirized in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and as much as we would like to believe our society is not nearing the vulgar actions of the New World State, we should not believe in such unrealistic concepts. Some of the same struggles that were faced in the book are being seen more and more in our world today. Even though there is some uncertainty and minute resilience in the novel, promiscuity is an ongoing battle in the New World State and on the Reservation; likewise, current society is showing that the intimacy shared between two people could be replaced by a rising acceptance of promiscuity.

By repressing desire, the Party engineers sexuality into “hysteria… desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship” (Orwell 132-3). Julia similarly speculates that one reason

In Brave New World, the community is given priority above the individual; and although this priority may seem like a sort of devotion, the way in which Huxley illustrates it strips a person of any form of individuality. William Matter sees that in Huxley’s Brave New World, “individuality must be repressed because it invites a malleable social structure” (Matter 95). This elimination of individuality causes no depth of feeling, no creativity and no intellectual excitement. What makes a person an individual is to have a sense of himself as being separate, distinct, and unique. This sense of self includes both the joys and sorrows of one’s life.

The government in Brave New World strived to take away each person's individuality by filling their heads with what they wanted them to know, making them depend on soma, and forcing them to attend solidarity services. Making each person drug dependent was the easiest way to manipulate the people without them asking questions. Therefore, as mentioned above the government created a free universal drug called soma to keep them from speaking out against the political values the country had. Each person was told to take soma, this was a way to make them lose their inner self and conform to how the government wanted them to be at the Solidarity Service. Twelve of them ready to be made one, waiting to come together, to be fused, to lose their twelve separate identities, Huxley included this quote so the reader could see how brainwashed the people truly are. They are aware that society is taking away their individuality, but do not care. However, they are not aware that the soma is shortening their lives with each dosage. The way the service is described gives the reader symbolism to their form of “ religion,” by how they sing hymns, meet up on a designated day, and worship Ford. After the service they all have orgy-porgy and they feel like that’s completely normal because the political values of the nation led them to believe that. Huxley allowed the reader to see how the

the book. These literary elements help to reveal that Huxley views the social and political aspects

Brave New World is based around characters who gave up the right of freedom for happiness; characters who ignored the truth so that they could live in a utopian civilization. The deceiving happiness was a constant reminder throughout the book. Almost every character in Brave New World did whatever they could to avoid facing the truth about their own situations. In this society, happiness is not compatible with the truth because the World State believes that happiness was at the expense of the truth. Aldous Huxley was a man ahead of his time in respect to his development and discussion of the incompatibility of happiness and truth in his 1932 novel, Brave New World.

Laprade 10 Brave New World Versus Today?s Society Brave New World is a shocking story that tells of a utopian society placed hundreds of years in the future. It challenges the human race as a whole to see if it can overcome the sudden sweep of vast improvements in science and technology, and if humans can learn how to use their inventions with dignity and respectfully on mankind. In Brave New World, Huxley does not try to accurately describe what the future will hold, rather he predicts a future in which humans have succumb to the awe of science and the power that comes with it.

The issue of morality is a touchy one. Morality is defined as the values of a person or society of what is right and what is wrong. Each person’s sense of morality guides them in their actions and making decisions. Morals are very important because the actions of each individual can lead to consequences that can affect other people. Only by living by our morals can we maintain our sense of humanity and compassion for others, and be happy in ourselves.

Brave New World is an unsettling, loveless and even sinister place. This is because Huxley endows his "ideal" society with features calculated to alienate his audience. Typically, reading Brave New World elicits the very same disturbing feelings in the reader which the society it depicts has

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

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…..

The purpose of presenting this type of world it to show that to achieve a “perfect society” for people who subscribe to utilitarianism, the total and utter breakdown of all of our modern morals, liberties, rights, and most importantly, our humanity, must be enacted. By doing this, Aldous Huxley is attempting to make the reader a skeptic of philosophies that present themselves as a

Someone having sexual relations with only one single person is unheard of in Brave New World. For example, a character named Lenina is seen having a casual conversation about a guy friend of hers, named Henry, with a girl named Fanny. Lenina explains to Fanny how she is going to see Henry again that night. Fanny is immediately in shock that Lenina is still going out with the same guy. Lenina says she has only been with Henry for four months. Fanny sternly reminds Lenina how the Director is against what she is doing with Henry, and she explains four months is an unacceptable length of time to be with him. Fanny tells Lenina that she needs to be more promiscuous, after all, they have been taught, “everyone belongs to everyone else”. The purpose of the statement, “everyone belongs to everyone else,” is simple—it is to allow human desire to be unrestricted. If human desire is unrestricted, people are able to have everything they want at any given time. When the duration of time between the desire and when the desires are obtained is shortened, the belief of the Controller is that emotion can be rid of all together. This philosophy is used in Brave New World surrounding the idea of mindless, emotionless sex. Mindless, emotionless sex is a similarity to modern society in respect to the younger, rambunctious generation of high school and college-aged people. In relation to Brave New World,