A Brave New World Literary Analysis

Community, Identity, Stability. These are the ideas that are thrown at you from the very beginning of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. However, it is quite ironic that this is the motto chosen to represent the world state. Community is understood to be a group of diverse individuals coming together as one, yet in brave new world they predestine their citizens and sort them into different castes. Identity is understood to show individualism, yet the caste system limits anyone’s capability to be an individual. With community and identity, stability is supposed to be achieved, but the novel makes you question if stability is an actual thing that can happen in society. In Brave New World, many things are done to ensure stability, three of them being the tyranny of happiness, drugging the population, and the mass production of children. With these three factors, it is eerie how close Aldous Huxley came to predicting the impact of these in the future of society.

In the Brave New World, a book written by Aldous Huxley,, he writes about a utopian future where humans are genetically created and pharmaceutically anthesized. Huxley introduces three ideals which become the world's state motto. The motto that is driven into their dystopian society is “Community, Identity and Stability.” These are qualities that are set to structure the Brave New World. Yet, happen to contradict themselves throughout the story. Some of the characteristics of the Brave New World include citizens being conditioned to their social groups, they are conditioned to fear the outside world, are deprived of human qualities, are under constant surveillance and in this case, the figurehead worshiped in the Brave New World is Henry Ford.

Huxley has a theory of entertainment as control and we can see it throughout his book Brave New World. The fact that his vision was made years ago, makes this vision even more interesting, because knowing that entertainment has a big impact into our society for the book reveals similar forms of entertainment to control it’s people. The ways that the book was created has brought to conclusion that our society is controlled by entertainment. Our society has become a trivial culture preoccupied with entertainment.

Truth and happiness are two things people desire, and in the novel, an impressive view of this dystopia’s two issues is described. In this society, people are created through cloning. The “World State” controls every aspect of the citizens lives to eliminate unhappiness. Happiness and truth are contradictory and incompatible, and this is another theme that is discussed in “Brave New World” (Huxley 131). In the world regulated by the government, its citizens have lost their freedom; instead, they are presented with pleasure and happiness in exchange. People can’t know the truth; they are conditioned from birth never to know the truth. The majority of the citizens do not seek to know the truth, as ignorance is bliss. By taking Soma,

This demonstrates the extent to which propaganda exists in order to brainwash innocent citizens within democratic and totalitarian societies. For modern readers, the extent of restriction and invasion of privacy illustrated within ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is less shocking than for traditional readers, as Edward Snowden’s exposure of the American National Security Agencies unauthorised surveillance of the masses, is similar to the conduct of the Party. Modern readers are used to being watched through CCTV. However, contemporary readers would have been aware of the power of dictators in Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Russia, and would have noticed the publication year of the novel, coincided with the establishment of the Communist Party rule in China, in 1949. These governments restricted their populations, suppressed their freedoms and strictly controlled their actions. If the government has an effective monopoly on the dissemination of facts, healthy public discourse cannot exist. The citizens become dependent on the government as the sole source of news. This prevents outsiders such as those with anti-establishment world views from gaining power and

The utopian society in the Brave New World can be compared and contrasted between our contemporary society using individualism, community and the human experience. The fictional novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, is about a utopian society where people focus stability and community over individuality and freedom, but an outsider is introduced to intervene with the operation of the utopian state. In the contemporary world, people need to show individuality in their communities in order to survive, and to be human, one must show emotion, which is the opposite in the Brave New World.

In "Brave New World", conditioning is the biggest form of censorship. "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."(Huxley, page ##) This quote shows that by conditioning all of society, no one can really be their own person and they just accept everything the way it is because there was never another way of thinking. You can find the same issue in North Korea, where people have propaganda forced into their daily lives and aren 't allowed to have any individuality. One way the World State uses propaganda in the book is with hypnopaedia. This can be compared to the

Freedom is an idea that can be identified and interpreted in a variety of ways. It can be thought of as equality or the simple ability to roam freely. In the grand scheme of things, however, freedom is the idea that anyone can live without doubt that no force is holding them back in any way, shape, or form. In some cases, the idea that people are free can be manipulated, as their perception of freedom may change to suit the likes of others with the ability of manipulation. In the novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explores the concept of freedom and how people can be misled into believing they are free using certain tactics. These tactics include the use of technology to breach true emotions and feelings, the abolishment of truth, and the limitation of the use of literature.

A world of suppressed beliefs sparks the most defiant and innovative ideas. In the book, 1984 by George Orwell, the dystopian super state Oceania attempts to stifle any unorthodox ideas of their citizens with the use of spies, cameras, and most notably a new language called Newspeak. With Newspeak, the government plans to create a language in which the speaker will not have a way to express any thoughts or ideas deemed unorthodox. There are some characters in the book that realize what the government is trying to do, which the reader comes to find out that knowing too much becomes a considerable mistake. All power lies in the government, so no one dares to question anything, even when a comrade disappears. In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith, Julia, and O’Brien are all considered unorthodox characters, but each character expresses their unorthodox qualities in different ways.

Ignorance is bliss. Often people hide behind what they wish to believe. The truth demands discomfort and people prefer comfort to truth.(Compound) In this world of conditioning, the Controllers keep any kind of truth from the people. Regardless, very few actually attempt to discover the truth. In the novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley provides several examples of the truths individuals refuse in order to live in ignorance and bliss.

Huxley’s main argument in Brave New World is if the human race continues to allow science, technology, and material objects control our lives, society will lose a reasonable and moral lifestyle. Huxley’s argument is well-presented because Huxley executes the creation of a dystopian world in which tyrannical leaders are able to control the consumption, emotions, and fears of the entire population through the use of technology. In the novel World State uses technology to make citizens simple-minded and controls every aspect of their lives. To readers the practices of World State might be unjust but many aspects of the novel relate to the real world.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, individual freedom is controlled by the use of recreational drugs, genetic manipulation and the encouragement of promiscuous sexual conduct, creating the ideal society whose inhabitants are in a constant happy unchanging utopia. In sharp contrast, Seamus Heaney’s poetry allows for the exploration of individual freedom through his symbolic use of nature and this is emphasised even further by people’s expression of religion, which prevails over the horrors of warfare.

Lying has become a new language in the post-truth era. It has become a solution for comfort and for others, it is to protect their loved ones from the harm it may cause. We now live in a society where political issues are getting bigger and bigger and getting recognized once again, as these things happen in real life. The topic will be brought up once again and people will voice their opinions and there will always be two sides, those who agree and those who disagree. Daniel J. Levitin has written a book called Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era, which is about how we use lies as weapons and how we should be able to tell the difference between the truth and a lie. Also, how we can be easily deceived to believe everything the liar is

In this novel Big brother has too much control, and uses his power to create a world where no one can have their own opinions or even be themselves. The technology in Oceania is constantly being updated and changed, and this is allowing Big Brother to increase the level of surveillance on the people in the town. The people of Oceania are also constantly given something to hate so that they can be distracted from the truth and what’s going on right in front of them. They are stripped of their own language and forced to speak a totally different language, which is a version of

The citizens in Brave New World are under total control since everything is censored from what they read, to what they see, and how they react.(Ch.2 Pgs. 28-36) Unlike the people in Brave New World, today's people are told we have the rights to basic things such as our bill of right’s which highlights key things that America needs in order for it to have it’s freedom and help us not get to the point we’ve seen in Brave New World. The American people unlike the people in Brave New World aren’t taught in their sleep through the process of hynopædia,(Pg. 33-36) leaving their people not able to think for themselves or think for themselves. Without a doubt the people in today’s society are still regulated by they’re still granted the ability to do whatever their hearts to desire unlike the new Londoners which can only work, indulge in soma, play obstacle golf, and if you’re very important visit the savage reservation. Just as what Lenina said “Than what’s time for?”(88) since the people are regulated on what they can and cannot do. American’s are granted this freedom to do as they wish but other countries such as North Korea does not have this privilege since everything they do has to be approved by the Supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jung