Civilization In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Lenina, a character in Brave New World, helps portray the author’s message of a dystopia by being used as a hidden outsider. Lenina has many similar habbits and traits as her friend Franny, however Lenina helps highlight the unorthodox of many situations and opinions that Franny and the society think are

Modern Americans base almost their entire lives on money; middle school prepares students for high school, which prepares teens for college, which prepares young adults for their careers, or sources of income. Salary determines a person’s class, which people commonly use as a label to identify a stereotype within a person. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World addresses social class as a flaw and centrifugal force in the society of twentieth-century America.

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. The story takes place in London six hundred years in the future. Humans are hatched in laboratories where ageing is eradicated and people are predestined to live in specific castes. John the Savage is the protagonist and Lenina Crowne is one of the main characters. John is raised on the Reservation and returns to the civilized world with Lenina. People at the Reservation are not a part of the World State and not subjected to the hatching and conditioning of the World State. John and Lenina are attracted to each other but their relationship develops into a disaster. “The strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust.” (BNW, 169). John gives himself a reason to resist Lenina by using a quote from Shakespeare. Why does John push Lenina away even though he loves her? This essay will compare Lenina and John the Savage and discuss the reasons why their relationship is a failure.

Books often depict characters caught between colliding cultures, because of national, regional, ethnic, religious and institutional differences. In Brave New World author Aldous Huxley, an often critical writer of social norms and ideals, introduces the reader to both a utopian society and an uncivilized one rooted with indian customs. John, a habitant of the indian society, is caught between the culture of a progressive civilization and his savage customs, which cause him to become desperate and eventually commit suicide.

She has no emotions, some words she learned from sleep teaching. Lenina is like everyone else because she sleeps with many mans in the lift. She is a popular girl. She called herself, “meat”, that she is one. In the text, “everyone belong to everyone else.” (Huxley 28) on the helicopter, Lenina repeated some from sleep teaching, usually see sunlight but first time sees storm. Bernard wants her to be free, but Lenina was crying. In text it states, “as though I were more me, if you see what I mean more of my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not a cell in the social body.” (Huxley

In my opinion the most integral theme in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley was the theme of Individuality. In a world where conformity and perfection take precedence over all other things individuality is seen as taboo, and those who think outside of the proverbial box are therefore outcasted. Although the leaders of The World State took it upon themselves to condition every iota of singular thought out of each individual there were still a few people who were very different than their ideal.

She recites her caste conditioning on many occasions, proving that her conditioning has been effective in shaping the way she thinks. To the reader, this may prove something else. Although Lenina is theoretically perfect, she still passionately feels for John. She wants to only be with him and is sad when he isn’t around. In a society where monogamy is banned, it still found its way in.

True happiness cannot be manufactured through artificial means. In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, artificial happiness is used as a means of control over the world state through the use of “soma”. Citizens use this drug regularly as a form of artificial happiness to satisfy their superficial need for pleasure hence keeping them controlled, satisfied and ignorant. Considering this, they lack passions in both love and personal interest. Furthermore, they lack endeavors and are thus bound to their everyday lives. Lastly, as the citizens do not experience negative emotions, they will never know what true happiness is due to their lack of contrast. The character Lenina Crowne is conflicted by her lack passions in her relationships

“He caught her by her shoulders and shook her. “Whore!” he shouted. “Whore!”” (Huxley 194). In this quote we see John shouting at Lenina, after she tries to have an intimate moment with him. Where John is from it is not ok for people to have more than one partner so he is very upset when Lenina tries to do this. In our everyday society many many people would frown upon this, it is not exactly socially acceptable. John proceeds to get very mad and Lenina has no idea why because to her it is a very normal thing to do.

The book Brave New World written by Huxley is about the World State, a society with a unique system. Huxley indicated several ways of how the World State works in which shares some similarities and several differences to our world. It is very different from our world in terms of how people are born, educated, and segregated in social classes. However in some circumstances it also shares some similarities on how people are taught and how people are divided in social classes in our world.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an extremely eye opening novel that I believe everyone should read. The novel explores the dangers of technology and what it may do to our world. Initially, Huxley begins to hit us with the obscene customs and lifestyle of his characters. For example, the very first chapter features The Director of Hatcheries touring with a group of students. He shows them the process of fertilizing, nurturing, and hatching babies in countless lab created wombs called bottles. Humans are no longer viviparous. They do not have families or lovers or children; no one is significant anymore. This is Huxley’s first appalling blow to his readers; his second comes soon after with conditioning the infants. Starting from young ages,

The character that I targeted my ad towards is Lenina. She is overall sexy, mentally and physically pneumatic and promiscuous. On page 118, Huxley wrote, “‘Lenina Crowne?’ said Henry Foster...‘Oh, she’s a splendid girl. Wonderfully pneumatic. I’m surprised you haven’t had her.’ ‘I can’t think how it is I haven’t,’ said the Assistant Predestinator.” This conversation supports that Lenina is promiscuous and physically pneumatic because the two men are surprised that the Predestinator didn’t have her yet and Henry Foster describes her as being “Wonderfully pneumatic.” Since pneumatic means full of air and they were talking about sex, I can infer that Henry was talking about Lenina’s physical, not mental attributes. Lenina is later proven mentally pneumatic when she cannot grasp that John wishes to be married. On page 191, after Lenina asks John why he would, “‘...like to undergo something nobly...’” (Huxley 190), John says, “‘Why? But for you, for you. Just to show that I’ …’To show how much’...’How much I love you, Lenina’...’in Malpais people get married’...’For always. They make a promise to live together for always.’” (Huxley) After Lenina hears this, she says it’s a horrible idea and begins to undress.The fact that Lenina, after hearing John say that he wants to get married, still undresses proves she is mentally pneumatic, because if John’s only interest in her was sexual then he wouldn’t have proposed marriage. From Lenina’s actions throughout Brave New World, I have

It is not difficult to understand that the society in Brave New World regards sexual actions between everybody as normal. “Every one belongs to every one else,” is the mantra everyone in the society follow. Even the children partake in sexual play, as described by the garden scene. The society believes sexual purity ludicrous, and those refuse to practice this are viewed as different and strange and an outcast. People are treated as objects. Even the words “mother” and “father” are deemed as vulgar, disgusting words. Huxley uses this to show that this could someday be our future, that we would be prisoners to a society that deems sexual purity laughable. We will no longer be able to hold a special connection with a certain person in the

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is evaluated as one of the most effective dystopian

Mustapha Mond paused in his typing, as he once again cast his gaze upon the plain cream folder that sits precariously upon the corner of his desk. It’s insignificant, really, compared to the rest of the organised clutter that covers every other square inch of the desk. No one would guess the horror that lies inside, of a man driven by blind grief and rage to not only hang himself but to whip a poor young lady to death beforehand. Lenina Crowne.