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What Is Brave New World Persuasive Essay

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The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley battles with the tortuous question of whether it is better to be happy or whether it is more important to be free and at what lengths would we go to achieve either. This world is a machine or a living organism that is governed by science not by humanity. The society of Brave New World true to human nature found something within the scientific world to worship. This society claims to be above those who have come before but in the end, there are only humans governing more humans. The Brave New World novel is based on a society that is governed by scientific based ideals; the masses before the individual. This world is one where you are designed with a purpose. Not in a natural, Godly sense but in a sense where people beginning at a young age were broken until they fit into what science claimed they should be. There is no family, no love, no sadness, in this world that is “perfectly” designed. There is only synthetically engineered happiness, known as soma in this novel. In Brave New World it is written, “why you don’t take soma when you have these dreadful …show more content…

From a biblical sense, it is believed that every human is created with the desire to worship and have faith within something. This society in the attempts to diminish that craving only fueled the fire more, it just has been redesigned into something darker. The novel starts off with a scene where it is described how the tops of crosses have been cut off; the most well-known symbol for Christianity. Huxley pens, “religious sentiment is superfluous… God is not compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness,” describing how this society was focused on cutting ties with the spiritual realm so they were able to live with perfect unity as science describes (Huxley, 2005, pg. 210). But do

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