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Their world is full of beauty and danger: the wild lushness of the Tasmanian forest, the rolling power of the sea. In the opening chapter, Harry has an
almost shamanistic sense of oneness with the natural world that surrounds him: he feels the sea to be part of him; he empathises with a lone cormorant
as his brothers surf. He finds an ancient shell midden on the beach and is overcome with a strong sense of mortality and connection with the long–gone
first people of the
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Essay on Brave New World: Sacrifising Free Will
Aldous Huxley created a literary masterpiece which shows a possible, dismal future produced by the misuse of science and technology. In his book,
Brave New World, the World Controllers use various scientific methods to dehumanize the population in order to control them. The advanced use of
biotechnology has allowed the government to completely eliminate family and have the population physically engineered to fit specific specifications
according to the needs of society. They also use different methods of brainwashing in order to ensure the population properly conforms to their outline
of civilization. Through the use of primitive conditioning techniques combined with current ones, everything the people think, like, and dislike is...show
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Bokonavosky's Process is used to turn one fertilized egg into as many as ninety six embryos using, "a series of arrests in development," such as X–ray
treatment, freezing and thawing, and alcohol poisoning (Huxley 6). This process does significantly weaken the embryos which is why it is only used
on the lower classes. Through this process, identical twins are created, "by scores at a time" (Huxley 7). This, combined with the Podsnaps Technique
which causes egg cells to rapidly be produced, can turn out an average of about eleven thousand people from just one ovary (Huxley 6–8).
Occasionally, the embryos are even further conditioned by methods such as depriving them of oxygen in order to lower their intelligence (Huxley
14). These assorted biotechnologies play a major role in dehumanizing the population. The World Controllers predetermine what role their people
will play in society and they often condition them for that role. The people never get a chance to find their own place in the world based on their
personal desires, wishes, and dreams. The government has completely taken away their free will to choose what they want to do with their lives. This
decision is one of the greatest personal choices a person can make and the fact that the government does not even acknowledge it shows a terrible
disrespect towards the general population. Leon R. Kass, who once advised President George W. Bush on bioethical issues, stated that
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Brave New World Introduction Essays
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Introduction
This novel was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932.
It is a fable about a world state in the 7th century A.F. (after Ford), where social stability is based on a scientific caste system. Human beings, graded
from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries, learn by methodical conditioning
to accept they social destiny. The action of the story develops round Bernard Marx, and an unorthodox and therefore unhappy alpha– plus ( something
had presumably gone wrong with his antenatal treatment), who vivits a new Mexican Reservetion and brings a savage back to London. The savage is
at first fascinated by the New World, but finally revolted, and his...show more content...
Different chasses exist– Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and so on– but their relations to each other and to society as awhole are stabilized by the painless
technique of "sleep teaching" that demonstrates to each individual the manifest rightness of his or her place in the world.
Huxley,Leonard Aldous
Tall, witty, charismatic, conspicuosly handsome, a polymath,Aldous Huxley was an intellectual lighthouse for more than forty years. He wrote poetry
; drama ; screenplays ; journalism ; biography ; social, scientific and intellectual history ; he was a distinguished essayist, but above all else, he was a
novelist. Judged early by critics and by a large popular audience as an original lamp of modern fiction, HuxleyВґs work is now best undestoos as a
mirror that creatively distorts and reshapes two lines of the narrative tradition.
He was born in Godalming 1894,Surrey,and studied in Eton and Oxford University. He worked in various neewspaper and published four books of
poems before appers his first published fictoin, Limbo (1920), which includes six stories and a brief play.In 1921 Huxley wrote his first novel, Crome
Yellow. For the next 8 years Huxley published three novels. Each was followed by a collection of stories : Antic hay (1923), by Little Mexican
(1924).The novel confirmed HuxleyВґs relationship with the postwae generation ; Those BarrenLeaves (1925) by Two or Three Graces (1926) ;
(1930). and Point
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Essay on Brave New World
Brave New World In the past 100 years, the world has completely turned around. The technological and computer revolutions have completely changed
the way the world works. Henry Ford revolutionized factorial production through the creation of the assembly line. It increased efficiency and a basic
standard of conformity among products, therefore making the company a lot more successful. The rest of the industry creating a nation–wide
revolution based on efficiency adopted this new innovation. Following the innovation of the assembly line, a new era of development came into
existence. In the 1970's, computers were first introduced. Although they were as large as a room and could only play tic tac toe, they were the start of the
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It is the belief that happiness causes stability, and stability causes efficiency. People like their jobs and are happy with their social status due to their
chemical conditioning and the constant implementing of subconscious ideas. Since people are happy with their jobs and position in society, they are
not compelled to rebel or challenge authority; stability. On the central hatchery and conditioning center in London is "the World State's motto,
COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY,"(Huxley 3).
Community is the value of this society that everything is for the greater good, and not for the individual. It can be questioned what is meant of identity
here. A possibility is that Huxley is mocking the lack of individuality among society. It also may refer to the identity that the "Brave New World" has as
a whole, rejecting the identity of individuals. Through the predestination of people, Stability is achieved, alas the word stability on the building:
"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings,"(13). Not only are individuals programmed for a certain job
and social position, the idea of conformity is taken to an extreme. Bokanovsky's Process is a method in which one embryo divides many times,
creating dozens of basically the same person: "Bokanovsky's Process is
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Essay on Brave New World
Back in the 1930's when "Brave New World" was published, no body dreamt that world of science fiction would ever come into reality. Surely there
must have been a time though when a machine that could wash clothes too, seemed like science fiction. That machine has come into reality though.
With today's technology and already seeing how far we've advanced scientifically, who's to say we
couldn't push further. For that reason, it's believable that the "Brave New World" could come into reality.
One scientific advancement our world has begun studying and mastering, that brings us closer to realizing a B N W reality, is cloning. This process
is very much like the Bokanovsky process in "Brave New World." In the B N W The Director of...show more content...
This is just one piece of evidence that shows how this world is coming closer to paralleling the B N W.
Not all proof that we are coming into this reality is scientific, some of it is emotional. People in this day are becoming very aware of the feelings of
their fellow man. No one in this world or the B N W wants to offend anyone or make anyone feel any pain, if they can avoid it. People of this world
avoid it by not saying offensive things and being politically correct. The people of the B N W avoided this pain by taking Soma, a mood altering
drug that constantly makes you feel happy. Another method they used was to ban anything, like books, that made them think and alter they state
of happiness. Mustapha Mond, one of the ten World Controllers, basically said that to be happy the world had to make sacrifices. This sacrifice
referring to banning books and people no longer having people be free thinkers. In the B N W reality, the savage said to the world controller; "You
seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness." Which is true, in our reality that would be a huge sacrafice but, we have not gone to an
extreme and made sacrafices of not allowing people to be free thinkers, we do want people to be aware of their fellow man. In this way also, we are
realizing the B N W as a reality.
The final piece of evidence, that our reality is similar to that of the B N W, is both scientific and emotional. This
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Summer Reading Report: Brave New World
Summer Reading Report: Brave New World
The book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley conflicts Christian Beliefs. It conflicts Christian beliefs by how they are genetically engineering
humans and cloning humans. So basically it is science vs religion. They also took religion away from society and not one normal person in utopia
knows about God or religion which is a major conflict to Christian beliefs. They took church away and replaced it with a soma orgy. In some
religions they don't like sex for just fun, but for a creating new life. But in this the have sex for fun which is also a conflict. They also say that
religion causes wars and violence and that's why sex and soma has made people turn away from God. Soma and sex are like churches that...show more
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Science made abortions available which is made a conflict and made people do it. The big bang which some turn people away from God. Genetic
engineering which made people change instead of staying the same. Human cloning which gave man not born but made. There's always a constant war
between science and religion and that someday science could eventually ruin religion. In the book science has taken over society. A Christian might say
that science is always against religion and is true that it is happening slowly.
The book also shows that the World State Government has eliminated religion and takes away all religion in there society. This shows what atheists
would do if they had as much power as the World State. In the book the World State Government has taken away Churches, Religion, and God.
Christian would say that this is slowly happening and that atheists are trying to destroy a whole religion and change the whole world by doing that.
The book also shows that sex and soma has changed the world. It made better success than religion. But sex which should be after marriage and soma
which are drugs that just make you happy are sin. In the book they say that soma and ogres will make everyone happy and makes them have a better
connection with each other. A Christian would say that church has a way better way to make people connect and make people
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Brave New World Research Paper
In my opinion, our society is getting closer and closer to the society in Brave New World. We are the same because people are treating each other
poorly and being more disrespectful than ever. They are not allowed to have families. All the females have to be on "birth control" so that they do not
get pregnant. We are like the Brave New Worldin so many ways that no one has realized. How much closer are we going to get to being like Brave
New World before things take a turn for the better, or maybe even the worse? In the book, they are programed to believe that everyone belongs to
everyone else (Huxley). That is not vocally said that way in our world but it is coming more apparent that people are thinking that way. They do not
have relationships
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Brave New World Theme Analysis Essay
"'God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.'" So says Mustapha Mond, the World Controller for Western
Europe in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In doing so, he highlights a major theme in this story of a Utopian society. Although the people
in this modernized world enjoy no disease, effects of old age, war, poverty, social unrest, or any other infirmities or discomforts, Huxley asks 'is the
price they pay really worth the benefits?' This novel shows that when you must give up religion, high art, true science, and other foundations of modern
life in place of a sort of unending happiness, it is not worth the sacrifice.
True, the citizens of this "brave new world" do enjoy many...show more content...
One might be led to believe that this society is a perfect place to live, since all the inhabitants are eternally happy. There are no wars, pain, or suffering,
all definite pluses, yet readers must not judge too quickly.
Everything comes at a price, and the price that is paid for the new order is sadly high, costing the Utopians the benefits of high art, true religion,
real science, and family life, which all have been removed to promote stability. "'Othello's better than those feelies.' 'Of course it isВ…But that's the
price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We
have the feelies and the scent organ instead.' 'But they don't mean anything,'" (Huxley 226) This conversation shows one of the tradeoffs made.
Stories like Othello are inspired by strong emotions, and Utopia has done away with them. Now, there is nothing to write about, and if something was
written along the lines of Othello it might cause people to think, causing instability. The movies people see are idiotic and plotless, based solely on
sensations. Religion as we know it has been done away with also, as Mustapha Mond showed by his comments quoted at the beginning of this paper.
Religion usually involves self–denial, and that is contrary to everything the new society is based on. With instant gratification
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Argumentative Essay On Brave New World
Mustapha Mond, the World Controller believed that, "family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness a narrow channeling of impulse and
energy"(40). In World State we're not supposed to have any emotional attachment to another person and it's strictly prohibited. But in Our Society,
we're taught that we're a social creature where we can't live without each other. We need each other to live our life. We are living in groups with
others and relying on each other. But, as today's technology advances more and more people relied on their smartphone or social media as a passive
instrument to deepen relationship with others. We could observe when we're on dinner we always on our phone and when we have family meeting we
always our phone by our side. The straight talk face–to–face replaced by messaging on our phone and as times goes by the number of friends that we
usually have social interaction with became decreasing....show more content...
But contrary to our society, World State society were told to be independent to each other but just relies on the government that will fulfill everything
that they need. Brave New World creates a society where everyone is happy even without bonds with one another to achieve stability as one of their
motto. In other words, World State's citizens are conditioned to living separately, without any social bonds to other human
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Essay on Brave New World
Brave New World
It seems clear that most people in the World State are happy and contented. There are no longer problems such as disease, war, poverty, or
unemployment in this society. Why then, do Bernard Helmholtz and
John criticise the quality of their lives? What is wrong with World
State Society?
600 hundred years into the future has advanced the new World State technologically, and perhaps also in the way of life for its citizens.
Some might even go so far as to say it is an improvement. At least, in the physical aspects of their lifestyle. Happiness and contentment seemingly
prevail.
What price though, has had to be paid for that happiness and contentment? Nothing comes for free after all. The question is – was that price too...show
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Meanwhile, John's dissatisfaction with the World State, and with the civilised world is in part to do with the fact that he had not been conditioned to
accept it. Hypnopaedia, or sleep teaching, is an essential part of World State life. If it were not for hypnopaedia, the world would not have been as
stable as it was. The countless lessons drummed into the citizen's brains are the very reason for people believing what they do. In Brave New World, the
belief that
"repeating something several times does not make it true" is challenged. One is forced to consider the question – what is true? In the World State
society at least the answer is clear. What Society deems as truth will be held as truth. John never had the repetitions, or the conditioning. His education
had come from a society whose morals were completely different to those practiced in the World
State, and because of that, not only did he feel out of place, but he regarded the Brave New World as more or less a living hell. The truth of the World
State was not truth to John, but immorality.
The price that has been paid for the comfort and happiness in the
World State was the death of science, of art, religion, freedom, and love. " ' One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.
You're paying for it, Mr Watson– paying because you happen to be too interested in beauty. I was much too interested in truth; I paid too.' " P. 208.
This price was
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Literary Analysis of Brave New World Essay
Literary analysis of "Brave New World."
In the Sci–fi futuristic novel "Brave New World", published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through
technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in
attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste
system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how
Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the "Brave New World", Control of society is used to enforce...show more content...
When one reflects on the period during which Huxley's novel was written and the modern world of his time, the comparison to the socialist world
cannot be ignored. The whole idea of a utopia is very similar to socialism. The World State society is under the complete control of the government.
Pre–destination department chooses what people will learn, what they will do and how they will look. Each caste wears a different color clothes and
does different type of labor. None of these decisions are made by people themselves. In our society, even with the socialism, where government decides
what products to produce, in what quantities, and how people will live, people still have a choice and opportunity to be different. Stability and
individuality in utopia are reached by taking away the individuality from people. In the World State government controls desires and consumption by
creating and destroying the demand for certain objects through the psychological training of infants.
Our society is more regulated than controlled by the government. We consciously vote for the government officials in hope for new regulations that
would make our lives better. There are laws that are meant to prevent people in our society from harmful actions. We might not do certain things in fear
of being arrested, but in the utopia people do not even think about those things simply, because they are
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Brave New World Essay
Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard
of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior
race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as
being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective
type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's
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The society that we see portrayed in Brave New World had the same goal. The objective was to build a nation that is superior to the common
people. Brave New World portrays common people as being disgusting savages with no refinement. Just as during the Holocaust the Nazis wanted
one greater, more beautiful and more refined society; so in Brave New World we also see them pursuing this goal. We can see that seeds of the
society, conceived by Huxley, were sown in the20th century during the Holocaust. Totalitarianism alsogrew during the 20th century. A totalitarian
government is one in which a single party rules over the entire state and has complete control. The people in a totalitarian society have no say in
anything. This was the type of society that Hitler controlled. Everyone under Hitler was controlled by his rules and power. When Hitler rose into
power, the Germans were still recovering from the aftermath of World War 1. Hitler promised the people radical changes and an end to all their
sufferings and before long they came to love him. As a cause for all their sufferings, Hitler blamed the Jews and thus the Holocaust began. Hitler made
many promises and told the people whatever he knew they wanted to hear. Before long, the people were brainwashed by him and started to submit to
whatever Hitler told them to do. Germany quickly became a totalitarian state. The people were made to think
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Essay on Brave New World
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 pleasure in order to bring stability. However, in order to truly achieve this stability, old world ideas
relating to art, history, and religion are abolished, and are replaced by new age technology. As a result, the people of the Brave New World
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Without them, we are not humans: we are simply mechanical clones. For instance, take the people of the Brave New World. Their rationality does
not come from their hearts or their own minds, but from a machine that feeds them pointless, repetitive rhetoric to keep them happy, under control,
and unaware. It is because of this that the people of the Brave New World are shallow, cold, and have no compassion for anyone else, but themselves
because they are "conditioned" (40) to be that way. This is clearly evident with the way they react to death. They do not mourn the dead or conduct a
funeral like we would. Instead, they burn and destroy the bodies the same way they try to destroy their past. They purposely forget people to prevent
individuality. They live in a society that "objects to anything intense or long–drawn" (40), and they believe that "ending is better than mending" (52). It
is for these reasons why marriages, parents, and natural births no longer exist in their world. In turn, the people have become completely self–centered
and egotistical. What kind of person in their right mind would want to live like this? Clearly, individuality is not worth stability because it's our
emotions, whether they're good or bad, and our freedom to chose what we want to believe that separates us from machines, and makes us human.
Furthermore, as technology advances, we are gradually losing control of
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Brave New World- Literary Analysis Essay
A look into Brave New World Many times there is an underlying topic to a novel and what it truly means. For Brave New World, there are many
underlying ideas as to the makeup of Aldous Huxley's novel. For example, themes like science, sex, power, freedom and confinement, drugs and
alcohol, society and class, and dissatisfaction as different themes that Huxley produces in the novel. Also there could be many symbols in the novel
including, bottles and Ford. Not only are these themes and symbols throughout the novel, but there also could be a direct tie to Brave New Worldwith
Freud. Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World is about a futuristic society where humans are made from bottles that go through a brainwashing after
their growth in...show more content...
In Brave New World, sex is a major focus in the community's day–to–day activities, no one gets married, and everyone can "have" everyone. There are
no direct ties to each other, and there is no problem of over population because of all the babies being made in bottles on the assembly line. This
creates a power in the makers' ability, because the babies are made to their specification. Power is another theme in Brave New World. In the novel,
the citizens are brainwashed to be happy with the laws and not to "fight the man" when it comes to changing the laws because they have been
programmed to love the laws and their entirety. This power is bolstered by the endless supply of drugs, the ability to be promiscus, the denial of
history or future as any alternative to the present, and with the brainwashing at a young age. This is directly influenced by the freedom and
confinement theme within the novel. Citizens are always in a state of imprisonment, but because they have been conditioned to love their servitude, no
one seems to have any problems with it. This also creates the theme of dissatisfaction. This society leaves something to be wanted, mostly
individuality, passion and love because individuals have been programed to be happy, those who do feel this dissatisfaction are confused by it and
completely unsure of how to act. Most of the individuals that are experiencing dissatisfaction are often
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Persuasive Essay On Brave New World
"Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most." This quote, by Ivan Panin, relates to all of mankind. For centuries, people have
been worried about what's next. Even today people wonder what will become of America. Will it turn into a utopia full of happiness like the one in
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? A society such as the one in Brave New World may be on the horizon because of rising divorce rates, drug and
alcohol use, and advances in science.
The rising divorce rates in America are no secret, with 50% of children in America going through the divorce of their parents. There is a huge weight
on these children's shoulders, the weight of dragging their bags from one home to the other and seeing their parents barely...show more content...
Michael Jackson is on the charts, "The Breakfast Club" just hit the theaters and home computers are on the rise. Now, fast forward to the present. The
technology now makes the computers back then look useless. Take one more step into thefuture. Who are we to say that their will not be drugs with no
side effects, scientifically modified fetuses, and everyday helicopters? Even today, most problems can be fixed with science. Depression, broken
bones, and broken cars and all be fixed/improved by science. In the future, science will improve and will be able to fix many other things. Another
scientific improvement in Brave New World, are the feelies. "'Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?' enquired the Assistant Predestinator. 'I hear the
new one at the Alhambra is first–rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most
amazing tactual effects.'" (3.23). In today's world, 4–D animation is the closest we have to the feelies. An example of 4–D could be when if there are
bubbles in a scene, there are real life bubbles in the theater. With every step into a more modern, scientific world, we take a step into the world of
Brave New
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Personal Essay: A Brave New World
Personal Essay "If you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." No one could have said it better than J.R.R.
Tolkien. Often, I get "swept off" to a place called my bedroom where I read too many books too many times. I read stories of adventure in hopes
that one day a wizard in a gray hat will show up at my home and tell me I am needed for the company burglar. Or maybe I find a droid. Maybe this
droid contains an important message that must be delivered to someone so I have to take him to that someone. I do realize life is not an action–packed
adventure like those books portray. However, life is an adventure in itself, just not one filled with mythical creatures and people. When I read, I lose
track of time
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Huxley's Brave New World Essay examples
Huxley's Brave New World
Today, in 21st century United States, people are concerned with the fast pace of new and growing technology, and how these advances should be
used. In the last decade alone we have seen major advancements in technology; in science, cloning has become a reality, newer, more powerful drugs
have been invented and, in communications, the Internet has dominated society. There is a cultural lag due to the fast rate of increasing technology,
and while the governments of the world are trying to keep up their role as censors and lawmakers, we as individuals are trying to comprehend the
effects it has on our lives. Will these advances enhance our lives to an unprecedented level of comfort, or lead to the loss...show more content...
While in the tubes the destiny of any individual has already been set. Through the use of use of oxygen, alcohol and hormones the child?s intelligence
is shaped to fit the level assigned to him, Alpha (as the highest class) to Epilson (the lowest class). After birth the government is constantly conditioning
children so they will know their place in the world. With the loss of mothers and fathers, the children learn all of their norms and values from the same
source, the government. With the destruction of family, the government has prevented the largest source of human emotion: family love. There are no
more emotional ties to anyone, even sex is turned into a purely physical act. This lack of intimacy, or emotional ties to others, is the key ingredient for
stability in Brave New World. Deep emotions of any kind are dangerous in this utopian world because they can?t be regulated or controlled.
If for any reason, in the Brave New World, one starts to feel their individuality, the emptiness of their life, or loneliness, there is always soma. Soma
could be our equivalent to a combination of Prozac and Ecstasy, but with no side affects other than you might sleep in too late. Citizens are
encouraged to take soma whenever they feel out of sync with their world. The idea of giving these drugs to all seems ridiculous, but is in theory quite
common today. In the United States, it
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Brave New World Essay
Brave New World Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a fictitious story about a future utopian society where people are mass
–produced in
laboratories. People have no emotions in this world where drugs and promiscuous sex are greatly encouraged. People are given labels according to
their pre–natal intelligence assignment. These different classes all have specific roles within society and nobody is unhappy with their place. The Brave
New World he was a fictitious story that sets up a symbolic mirror to our world that shows the reader what our world is slowly evolving to.
As young children, the utopians are conditioned to practice certain rituals, to later benefit society as a whole through the stability that these...show more
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There are already certain American cities in which the number of divorces is equal to the number of marriages" (Huxley forward).
Huxley is saying that although our society would like to think that it is sexually stable, there is a lack of monogamy among the general population.
Another aspect of the Brave New World culture that is symbolically similar to our own culture, is the very distinct caste system. People of the Brave
New
World are "born" with a specified intelligence level. This level of superiority (or inferiority) is group into different castes. For example, Alphas are the
smart superior individuals, where as the Gammas are among the lower castes that are mass–produced to be almost identical. This is their way of
classifying people according to each individual's biological makeup. Huxley comments on the biological caste system in his forward, "the
equivalents of... the scientific caste system [of the Brave New World] are probably not more than three or four generations away." Looking at our
society today, we can see many ways in which biology determines personal worth. Many of today's highest paying jobs go to those of biological
superiority. Biologically superior supermodels receive millions of dollars because they were born with a pretty face. Athletes get respect and money
for playing sports. Biology helps the football player because it makes him fast. By giving them physical superiority, such as
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Brave New World Vs. Today Essay
Close your eyes and imagine a world free of war, suffering and pain; an environment that provides all the necessary luxuries to maintain eternal
happiness; one that is stable, friendly, peaceful and enjoyable. In this world, every inconvenience known to man is rid of. We are no longer affected
by disease, aging, heartbreak, depression or loneliness; conformity is at hand and stability is achieved. Now envision a world where there is no love,
families do not exist, humans are no longer conceived yet created in test tubes, and sexual promiscuity is not only acceptable but enforced. Picture an
environment where there is no religion, art or history. The human mind and body is assembled accordingly and we lack the freedom of...show more
content...
The novel describes a society in which "fetuses are raised in glass jars and are chemically manipulated to produce humans of distinct classes and
abilities. People are little more than products" (O'Neil). This system, know as Bokanovsky's Process, doesn't seem too far from today's reality; the
reproductive technologies that are currently available are already threatening our own evolution and human procreation. Science has practically taken
over God's role in our lives. Many of the God–less scientific availabilities today share the same immoral and undignified qualities of the Utopia's
advances; such as bottled embryos, surrogate wombs, cloning, genetic screening and genetic manipulation, artificial organs, and computer chip
implants for human brains (Pearce). The Controller, Mustapha Mond, states "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and
universal happiness" (Huxley 205). The Brave New Worldis rid of God and religious beliefs because they have every comfort in the world. God is
needed when there is loneliness, fear of death, unhappiness, and youthful desires. However, in Brave New World, such obscenities do not exist.
Therefore, in a world free from pain and suffering, what need is there to console in a higher being. Interestingly, 26% of Canadians surveyed through
an "immorality poll" believe that it is immoral to be an atheist;
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Summary Of Brave New World

  • 1. Summary Of Brave New World Their world is full of beauty and danger: the wild lushness of the Tasmanian forest, the rolling power of the sea. In the opening chapter, Harry has an almost shamanistic sense of oneness with the natural world that surrounds him: he feels the sea to be part of him; he empathises with a lone cormorant as his brothers surf. He finds an ancient shell midden on the beach and is overcome with a strong sense of mortality and connection with the long–gone first people of the Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Essay on Brave New World: Sacrifising Free Will Aldous Huxley created a literary masterpiece which shows a possible, dismal future produced by the misuse of science and technology. In his book, Brave New World, the World Controllers use various scientific methods to dehumanize the population in order to control them. The advanced use of biotechnology has allowed the government to completely eliminate family and have the population physically engineered to fit specific specifications according to the needs of society. They also use different methods of brainwashing in order to ensure the population properly conforms to their outline of civilization. Through the use of primitive conditioning techniques combined with current ones, everything the people think, like, and dislike is...show more content... Bokonavosky's Process is used to turn one fertilized egg into as many as ninety six embryos using, "a series of arrests in development," such as X–ray treatment, freezing and thawing, and alcohol poisoning (Huxley 6). This process does significantly weaken the embryos which is why it is only used on the lower classes. Through this process, identical twins are created, "by scores at a time" (Huxley 7). This, combined with the Podsnaps Technique which causes egg cells to rapidly be produced, can turn out an average of about eleven thousand people from just one ovary (Huxley 6–8). Occasionally, the embryos are even further conditioned by methods such as depriving them of oxygen in order to lower their intelligence (Huxley 14). These assorted biotechnologies play a major role in dehumanizing the population. The World Controllers predetermine what role their people will play in society and they often condition them for that role. The people never get a chance to find their own place in the world based on their personal desires, wishes, and dreams. The government has completely taken away their free will to choose what they want to do with their lives. This decision is one of the greatest personal choices a person can make and the fact that the government does not even acknowledge it shows a terrible disrespect towards the general population. Leon R. Kass, who once advised President George W. Bush on bioethical issues, stated that Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Brave New World Introduction Essays BRAVE NEW WORLD Introduction This novel was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. It is a fable about a world state in the 7th century A.F. (after Ford), where social stability is based on a scientific caste system. Human beings, graded from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries, learn by methodical conditioning to accept they social destiny. The action of the story develops round Bernard Marx, and an unorthodox and therefore unhappy alpha– plus ( something had presumably gone wrong with his antenatal treatment), who vivits a new Mexican Reservetion and brings a savage back to London. The savage is at first fascinated by the New World, but finally revolted, and his...show more content... Different chasses exist– Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and so on– but their relations to each other and to society as awhole are stabilized by the painless technique of "sleep teaching" that demonstrates to each individual the manifest rightness of his or her place in the world. Huxley,Leonard Aldous Tall, witty, charismatic, conspicuosly handsome, a polymath,Aldous Huxley was an intellectual lighthouse for more than forty years. He wrote poetry ; drama ; screenplays ; journalism ; biography ; social, scientific and intellectual history ; he was a distinguished essayist, but above all else, he was a novelist. Judged early by critics and by a large popular audience as an original lamp of modern fiction, HuxleyВґs work is now best undestoos as a mirror that creatively distorts and reshapes two lines of the narrative tradition. He was born in Godalming 1894,Surrey,and studied in Eton and Oxford University. He worked in various neewspaper and published four books of poems before appers his first published fictoin, Limbo (1920), which includes six stories and a brief play.In 1921 Huxley wrote his first novel, Crome Yellow. For the next 8 years Huxley published three novels. Each was followed by a collection of stories : Antic hay (1923), by Little Mexican (1924).The novel confirmed HuxleyВґs relationship with the postwae generation ; Those BarrenLeaves (1925) by Two or Three Graces (1926) ; (1930). and Point
  • 4. Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Essay on Brave New World Brave New World In the past 100 years, the world has completely turned around. The technological and computer revolutions have completely changed the way the world works. Henry Ford revolutionized factorial production through the creation of the assembly line. It increased efficiency and a basic standard of conformity among products, therefore making the company a lot more successful. The rest of the industry creating a nation–wide revolution based on efficiency adopted this new innovation. Following the innovation of the assembly line, a new era of development came into existence. In the 1970's, computers were first introduced. Although they were as large as a room and could only play tic tac toe, they were the start of the ...show more content... It is the belief that happiness causes stability, and stability causes efficiency. People like their jobs and are happy with their social status due to their chemical conditioning and the constant implementing of subconscious ideas. Since people are happy with their jobs and position in society, they are not compelled to rebel or challenge authority; stability. On the central hatchery and conditioning center in London is "the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY,"(Huxley 3). Community is the value of this society that everything is for the greater good, and not for the individual. It can be questioned what is meant of identity here. A possibility is that Huxley is mocking the lack of individuality among society. It also may refer to the identity that the "Brave New World" has as a whole, rejecting the identity of individuals. Through the predestination of people, Stability is achieved, alas the word stability on the building: "We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings,"(13). Not only are individuals programmed for a certain job and social position, the idea of conformity is taken to an extreme. Bokanovsky's Process is a method in which one embryo divides many times, creating dozens of basically the same person: "Bokanovsky's Process is Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. Essay on Brave New World Back in the 1930's when "Brave New World" was published, no body dreamt that world of science fiction would ever come into reality. Surely there must have been a time though when a machine that could wash clothes too, seemed like science fiction. That machine has come into reality though. With today's technology and already seeing how far we've advanced scientifically, who's to say we couldn't push further. For that reason, it's believable that the "Brave New World" could come into reality. One scientific advancement our world has begun studying and mastering, that brings us closer to realizing a B N W reality, is cloning. This process is very much like the Bokanovsky process in "Brave New World." In the B N W The Director of...show more content... This is just one piece of evidence that shows how this world is coming closer to paralleling the B N W. Not all proof that we are coming into this reality is scientific, some of it is emotional. People in this day are becoming very aware of the feelings of their fellow man. No one in this world or the B N W wants to offend anyone or make anyone feel any pain, if they can avoid it. People of this world avoid it by not saying offensive things and being politically correct. The people of the B N W avoided this pain by taking Soma, a mood altering drug that constantly makes you feel happy. Another method they used was to ban anything, like books, that made them think and alter they state of happiness. Mustapha Mond, one of the ten World Controllers, basically said that to be happy the world had to make sacrifices. This sacrifice referring to banning books and people no longer having people be free thinkers. In the B N W reality, the savage said to the world controller; "You seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness." Which is true, in our reality that would be a huge sacrafice but, we have not gone to an extreme and made sacrafices of not allowing people to be free thinkers, we do want people to be aware of their fellow man. In this way also, we are realizing the B N W as a reality. The final piece of evidence, that our reality is similar to that of the B N W, is both scientific and emotional. This Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Summer Reading Report: Brave New World Summer Reading Report: Brave New World The book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley conflicts Christian Beliefs. It conflicts Christian beliefs by how they are genetically engineering humans and cloning humans. So basically it is science vs religion. They also took religion away from society and not one normal person in utopia knows about God or religion which is a major conflict to Christian beliefs. They took church away and replaced it with a soma orgy. In some religions they don't like sex for just fun, but for a creating new life. But in this the have sex for fun which is also a conflict. They also say that religion causes wars and violence and that's why sex and soma has made people turn away from God. Soma and sex are like churches that...show more content... Science made abortions available which is made a conflict and made people do it. The big bang which some turn people away from God. Genetic engineering which made people change instead of staying the same. Human cloning which gave man not born but made. There's always a constant war between science and religion and that someday science could eventually ruin religion. In the book science has taken over society. A Christian might say that science is always against religion and is true that it is happening slowly. The book also shows that the World State Government has eliminated religion and takes away all religion in there society. This shows what atheists would do if they had as much power as the World State. In the book the World State Government has taken away Churches, Religion, and God. Christian would say that this is slowly happening and that atheists are trying to destroy a whole religion and change the whole world by doing that. The book also shows that sex and soma has changed the world. It made better success than religion. But sex which should be after marriage and soma which are drugs that just make you happy are sin. In the book they say that soma and ogres will make everyone happy and makes them have a better connection with each other. A Christian would say that church has a way better way to make people connect and make people Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. Brave New World Research Paper In my opinion, our society is getting closer and closer to the society in Brave New World. We are the same because people are treating each other poorly and being more disrespectful than ever. They are not allowed to have families. All the females have to be on "birth control" so that they do not get pregnant. We are like the Brave New Worldin so many ways that no one has realized. How much closer are we going to get to being like Brave New World before things take a turn for the better, or maybe even the worse? In the book, they are programed to believe that everyone belongs to everyone else (Huxley). That is not vocally said that way in our world but it is coming more apparent that people are thinking that way. They do not have relationships Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. Brave New World Theme Analysis Essay "'God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.'" So says Mustapha Mond, the World Controller for Western Europe in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In doing so, he highlights a major theme in this story of a Utopian society. Although the people in this modernized world enjoy no disease, effects of old age, war, poverty, social unrest, or any other infirmities or discomforts, Huxley asks 'is the price they pay really worth the benefits?' This novel shows that when you must give up religion, high art, true science, and other foundations of modern life in place of a sort of unending happiness, it is not worth the sacrifice. True, the citizens of this "brave new world" do enjoy many...show more content... One might be led to believe that this society is a perfect place to live, since all the inhabitants are eternally happy. There are no wars, pain, or suffering, all definite pluses, yet readers must not judge too quickly. Everything comes at a price, and the price that is paid for the new order is sadly high, costing the Utopians the benefits of high art, true religion, real science, and family life, which all have been removed to promote stability. "'Othello's better than those feelies.' 'Of course it isВ…But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.' 'But they don't mean anything,'" (Huxley 226) This conversation shows one of the tradeoffs made. Stories like Othello are inspired by strong emotions, and Utopia has done away with them. Now, there is nothing to write about, and if something was written along the lines of Othello it might cause people to think, causing instability. The movies people see are idiotic and plotless, based solely on sensations. Religion as we know it has been done away with also, as Mustapha Mond showed by his comments quoted at the beginning of this paper. Religion usually involves self–denial, and that is contrary to everything the new society is based on. With instant gratification Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Argumentative Essay On Brave New World Mustapha Mond, the World Controller believed that, "family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness a narrow channeling of impulse and energy"(40). In World State we're not supposed to have any emotional attachment to another person and it's strictly prohibited. But in Our Society, we're taught that we're a social creature where we can't live without each other. We need each other to live our life. We are living in groups with others and relying on each other. But, as today's technology advances more and more people relied on their smartphone or social media as a passive instrument to deepen relationship with others. We could observe when we're on dinner we always on our phone and when we have family meeting we always our phone by our side. The straight talk face–to–face replaced by messaging on our phone and as times goes by the number of friends that we usually have social interaction with became decreasing....show more content... But contrary to our society, World State society were told to be independent to each other but just relies on the government that will fulfill everything that they need. Brave New World creates a society where everyone is happy even without bonds with one another to achieve stability as one of their motto. In other words, World State's citizens are conditioned to living separately, without any social bonds to other human Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. Essay on Brave New World Brave New World It seems clear that most people in the World State are happy and contented. There are no longer problems such as disease, war, poverty, or unemployment in this society. Why then, do Bernard Helmholtz and John criticise the quality of their lives? What is wrong with World State Society? 600 hundred years into the future has advanced the new World State technologically, and perhaps also in the way of life for its citizens. Some might even go so far as to say it is an improvement. At least, in the physical aspects of their lifestyle. Happiness and contentment seemingly prevail. What price though, has had to be paid for that happiness and contentment? Nothing comes for free after all. The question is – was that price too...show more content... Meanwhile, John's dissatisfaction with the World State, and with the civilised world is in part to do with the fact that he had not been conditioned to accept it. Hypnopaedia, or sleep teaching, is an essential part of World State life. If it were not for hypnopaedia, the world would not have been as stable as it was. The countless lessons drummed into the citizen's brains are the very reason for people believing what they do. In Brave New World, the belief that "repeating something several times does not make it true" is challenged. One is forced to consider the question – what is true? In the World State society at least the answer is clear. What Society deems as truth will be held as truth. John never had the repetitions, or the conditioning. His education had come from a society whose morals were completely different to those practiced in the World State, and because of that, not only did he feel out of place, but he regarded the Brave New World as more or less a living hell. The truth of the World State was not truth to John, but immorality. The price that has been paid for the comfort and happiness in the World State was the death of science, of art, religion, freedom, and love. " ' One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr Watson– paying because you happen to be too interested in beauty. I was much too interested in truth; I paid too.' " P. 208.
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  • 13. Literary Analysis of Brave New World Essay Literary analysis of "Brave New World." In the Sci–fi futuristic novel "Brave New World", published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the "Brave New World", Control of society is used to enforce...show more content... When one reflects on the period during which Huxley's novel was written and the modern world of his time, the comparison to the socialist world cannot be ignored. The whole idea of a utopia is very similar to socialism. The World State society is under the complete control of the government. Pre–destination department chooses what people will learn, what they will do and how they will look. Each caste wears a different color clothes and does different type of labor. None of these decisions are made by people themselves. In our society, even with the socialism, where government decides what products to produce, in what quantities, and how people will live, people still have a choice and opportunity to be different. Stability and individuality in utopia are reached by taking away the individuality from people. In the World State government controls desires and consumption by creating and destroying the demand for certain objects through the psychological training of infants. Our society is more regulated than controlled by the government. We consciously vote for the government officials in hope for new regulations that would make our lives better. There are laws that are meant to prevent people in our society from harmful actions. We might not do certain things in fear of being arrested, but in the utopia people do not even think about those things simply, because they are Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 14. Brave New World Essay Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's ...show more content... The society that we see portrayed in Brave New World had the same goal. The objective was to build a nation that is superior to the common people. Brave New World portrays common people as being disgusting savages with no refinement. Just as during the Holocaust the Nazis wanted one greater, more beautiful and more refined society; so in Brave New World we also see them pursuing this goal. We can see that seeds of the society, conceived by Huxley, were sown in the20th century during the Holocaust. Totalitarianism alsogrew during the 20th century. A totalitarian government is one in which a single party rules over the entire state and has complete control. The people in a totalitarian society have no say in anything. This was the type of society that Hitler controlled. Everyone under Hitler was controlled by his rules and power. When Hitler rose into power, the Germans were still recovering from the aftermath of World War 1. Hitler promised the people radical changes and an end to all their sufferings and before long they came to love him. As a cause for all their sufferings, Hitler blamed the Jews and thus the Holocaust began. Hitler made many promises and told the people whatever he knew they wanted to hear. Before long, the people were brainwashed by him and started to submit to whatever Hitler told them to do. Germany quickly became a totalitarian state. The people were made to think Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Essay on Brave New World 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 pleasure in order to bring stability. However, in order to truly achieve this stability, old world ideas relating to art, history, and religion are abolished, and are replaced by new age technology. As a result, the people of the Brave New World ...show more content... Without them, we are not humans: we are simply mechanical clones. For instance, take the people of the Brave New World. Their rationality does not come from their hearts or their own minds, but from a machine that feeds them pointless, repetitive rhetoric to keep them happy, under control, and unaware. It is because of this that the people of the Brave New World are shallow, cold, and have no compassion for anyone else, but themselves because they are "conditioned" (40) to be that way. This is clearly evident with the way they react to death. They do not mourn the dead or conduct a funeral like we would. Instead, they burn and destroy the bodies the same way they try to destroy their past. They purposely forget people to prevent individuality. They live in a society that "objects to anything intense or long–drawn" (40), and they believe that "ending is better than mending" (52). It is for these reasons why marriages, parents, and natural births no longer exist in their world. In turn, the people have become completely self–centered and egotistical. What kind of person in their right mind would want to live like this? Clearly, individuality is not worth stability because it's our emotions, whether they're good or bad, and our freedom to chose what we want to believe that separates us from machines, and makes us human. Furthermore, as technology advances, we are gradually losing control of Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. Brave New World- Literary Analysis Essay A look into Brave New World Many times there is an underlying topic to a novel and what it truly means. For Brave New World, there are many underlying ideas as to the makeup of Aldous Huxley's novel. For example, themes like science, sex, power, freedom and confinement, drugs and alcohol, society and class, and dissatisfaction as different themes that Huxley produces in the novel. Also there could be many symbols in the novel including, bottles and Ford. Not only are these themes and symbols throughout the novel, but there also could be a direct tie to Brave New Worldwith Freud. Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World is about a futuristic society where humans are made from bottles that go through a brainwashing after their growth in...show more content... In Brave New World, sex is a major focus in the community's day–to–day activities, no one gets married, and everyone can "have" everyone. There are no direct ties to each other, and there is no problem of over population because of all the babies being made in bottles on the assembly line. This creates a power in the makers' ability, because the babies are made to their specification. Power is another theme in Brave New World. In the novel, the citizens are brainwashed to be happy with the laws and not to "fight the man" when it comes to changing the laws because they have been programmed to love the laws and their entirety. This power is bolstered by the endless supply of drugs, the ability to be promiscus, the denial of history or future as any alternative to the present, and with the brainwashing at a young age. This is directly influenced by the freedom and confinement theme within the novel. Citizens are always in a state of imprisonment, but because they have been conditioned to love their servitude, no one seems to have any problems with it. This also creates the theme of dissatisfaction. This society leaves something to be wanted, mostly individuality, passion and love because individuals have been programed to be happy, those who do feel this dissatisfaction are confused by it and completely unsure of how to act. Most of the individuals that are experiencing dissatisfaction are often Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. Persuasive Essay On Brave New World "Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most." This quote, by Ivan Panin, relates to all of mankind. For centuries, people have been worried about what's next. Even today people wonder what will become of America. Will it turn into a utopia full of happiness like the one in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? A society such as the one in Brave New World may be on the horizon because of rising divorce rates, drug and alcohol use, and advances in science. The rising divorce rates in America are no secret, with 50% of children in America going through the divorce of their parents. There is a huge weight on these children's shoulders, the weight of dragging their bags from one home to the other and seeing their parents barely...show more content... Michael Jackson is on the charts, "The Breakfast Club" just hit the theaters and home computers are on the rise. Now, fast forward to the present. The technology now makes the computers back then look useless. Take one more step into thefuture. Who are we to say that their will not be drugs with no side effects, scientifically modified fetuses, and everyday helicopters? Even today, most problems can be fixed with science. Depression, broken bones, and broken cars and all be fixed/improved by science. In the future, science will improve and will be able to fix many other things. Another scientific improvement in Brave New World, are the feelies. "'Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?' enquired the Assistant Predestinator. 'I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first–rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.'" (3.23). In today's world, 4–D animation is the closest we have to the feelies. An example of 4–D could be when if there are bubbles in a scene, there are real life bubbles in the theater. With every step into a more modern, scientific world, we take a step into the world of Brave New Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Personal Essay: A Brave New World Personal Essay "If you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." No one could have said it better than J.R.R. Tolkien. Often, I get "swept off" to a place called my bedroom where I read too many books too many times. I read stories of adventure in hopes that one day a wizard in a gray hat will show up at my home and tell me I am needed for the company burglar. Or maybe I find a droid. Maybe this droid contains an important message that must be delivered to someone so I have to take him to that someone. I do realize life is not an action–packed adventure like those books portray. However, life is an adventure in itself, just not one filled with mythical creatures and people. When I read, I lose track of time Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. Huxley's Brave New World Essay examples Huxley's Brave New World Today, in 21st century United States, people are concerned with the fast pace of new and growing technology, and how these advances should be used. In the last decade alone we have seen major advancements in technology; in science, cloning has become a reality, newer, more powerful drugs have been invented and, in communications, the Internet has dominated society. There is a cultural lag due to the fast rate of increasing technology, and while the governments of the world are trying to keep up their role as censors and lawmakers, we as individuals are trying to comprehend the effects it has on our lives. Will these advances enhance our lives to an unprecedented level of comfort, or lead to the loss...show more content... While in the tubes the destiny of any individual has already been set. Through the use of use of oxygen, alcohol and hormones the child?s intelligence is shaped to fit the level assigned to him, Alpha (as the highest class) to Epilson (the lowest class). After birth the government is constantly conditioning children so they will know their place in the world. With the loss of mothers and fathers, the children learn all of their norms and values from the same source, the government. With the destruction of family, the government has prevented the largest source of human emotion: family love. There are no more emotional ties to anyone, even sex is turned into a purely physical act. This lack of intimacy, or emotional ties to others, is the key ingredient for stability in Brave New World. Deep emotions of any kind are dangerous in this utopian world because they can?t be regulated or controlled. If for any reason, in the Brave New World, one starts to feel their individuality, the emptiness of their life, or loneliness, there is always soma. Soma could be our equivalent to a combination of Prozac and Ecstasy, but with no side affects other than you might sleep in too late. Citizens are encouraged to take soma whenever they feel out of sync with their world. The idea of giving these drugs to all seems ridiculous, but is in theory quite common today. In the United States, it Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 20. Brave New World Essay Brave New World Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a fictitious story about a future utopian society where people are mass –produced in laboratories. People have no emotions in this world where drugs and promiscuous sex are greatly encouraged. People are given labels according to their pre–natal intelligence assignment. These different classes all have specific roles within society and nobody is unhappy with their place. The Brave New World he was a fictitious story that sets up a symbolic mirror to our world that shows the reader what our world is slowly evolving to. As young children, the utopians are conditioned to practice certain rituals, to later benefit society as a whole through the stability that these...show more content... There are already certain American cities in which the number of divorces is equal to the number of marriages" (Huxley forward). Huxley is saying that although our society would like to think that it is sexually stable, there is a lack of monogamy among the general population. Another aspect of the Brave New World culture that is symbolically similar to our own culture, is the very distinct caste system. People of the Brave New World are "born" with a specified intelligence level. This level of superiority (or inferiority) is group into different castes. For example, Alphas are the smart superior individuals, where as the Gammas are among the lower castes that are mass–produced to be almost identical. This is their way of classifying people according to each individual's biological makeup. Huxley comments on the biological caste system in his forward, "the equivalents of... the scientific caste system [of the Brave New World] are probably not more than three or four generations away." Looking at our society today, we can see many ways in which biology determines personal worth. Many of today's highest paying jobs go to those of biological superiority. Biologically superior supermodels receive millions of dollars because they were born with a pretty face. Athletes get respect and money for playing sports. Biology helps the football player because it makes him fast. By giving them physical superiority, such as Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 21. Brave New World Vs. Today Essay Close your eyes and imagine a world free of war, suffering and pain; an environment that provides all the necessary luxuries to maintain eternal happiness; one that is stable, friendly, peaceful and enjoyable. In this world, every inconvenience known to man is rid of. We are no longer affected by disease, aging, heartbreak, depression or loneliness; conformity is at hand and stability is achieved. Now envision a world where there is no love, families do not exist, humans are no longer conceived yet created in test tubes, and sexual promiscuity is not only acceptable but enforced. Picture an environment where there is no religion, art or history. The human mind and body is assembled accordingly and we lack the freedom of...show more content... The novel describes a society in which "fetuses are raised in glass jars and are chemically manipulated to produce humans of distinct classes and abilities. People are little more than products" (O'Neil). This system, know as Bokanovsky's Process, doesn't seem too far from today's reality; the reproductive technologies that are currently available are already threatening our own evolution and human procreation. Science has practically taken over God's role in our lives. Many of the God–less scientific availabilities today share the same immoral and undignified qualities of the Utopia's advances; such as bottled embryos, surrogate wombs, cloning, genetic screening and genetic manipulation, artificial organs, and computer chip implants for human brains (Pearce). The Controller, Mustapha Mond, states "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness" (Huxley 205). The Brave New Worldis rid of God and religious beliefs because they have every comfort in the world. God is needed when there is loneliness, fear of death, unhappiness, and youthful desires. However, in Brave New World, such obscenities do not exist. Therefore, in a world free from pain and suffering, what need is there to console in a higher being. Interestingly, 26% of Canadians surveyed through an "immorality poll" believe that it is immoral to be an atheist; Get more content on HelpWriting.net