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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Using the dystopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and the political philosophy that John Locke presents, a good society is one where people are free to express themselves, as long as they do not violate the “property” of others to the extent that it impedes their liberty (Locke). In the Brave New World, a society where government establishes totalitarian control to attain stability, human expression is muted and along with it, progress in society stagnated. Therefore to create a good society, government should chiefly administer laws and execute according punishments that aim to preserve the “property” of the people (Locke). The society in the ‘Brave New World’ is a bad one, because government has through totalitarian control …show more content…

They are brainwashed via. hypnopaedia to make them incapable of freethought; programmed to conform to society to the point “that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave” (BNW 220). Furthermore, they achieve stability by conditioning people at birth to be satisfied with their roles in society and to prefer it over any other. Concreting social stability, but further killing desire to improve. Promiscuity and social interactions are also encouraged, the government goes out of its’ way to “make [people] hate solitude” (BNW 235). They have removed these moments of solitude where people can contemplate meaningful things in life. Through the removal of solitude and the melancholic emotions that come with it, individual expression is muted. Even when people somehow find moments of solitude, the wonder-drug ‘soma’ is always at hand to mollify them. Government has ensured stability at the cost of removing desire for development and also retarding empowering emotions such as sadness and love. Government has created a very stable and peaceful society by making people completely conform to it, but at the cost of closing off human desire and ingenuity; made to function like

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