Individuality In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

The modern world is dominated by an astounding amount of humans, yet unfortunately, a significantly lower count of individual people. An individual is someone who sees the world through their own eyes, thinks their own thoughts about it, and disregards any outside attempts to sway their opinions. These innovative people allow society as a whole to progress, and a lack of them dramatically slows change, be it good or bad, leading to a stagnant world in which humanity rejects all change and progress out of fear. This hypothetical is silently creeping into our reality today, as the current societal machine quietly disallows many once open paths

In the second paragraph of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the coldness and hostility of the room that produces humans, the backbone of society, is displayed. In particular, Huxley describes the light that fills the room as “frozen, dead, a ghost”(Huxley). Huxley conveys a sense of sadness and lifelessness by writing this. This quote displays irony as well, as one would expect the birthplace of children as happy, lively, and warm, whereas the room is dead and frozen, Huxley again uses the motif of death when he notes, “The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber” (Huxley). The author intentionally puts the image of death in the readers’ minds multiple times throughout this passage. The nurses

In this memoir, Elie Wiesel uses imagery in order to develop the presence of animal-like behavior on people when they are being dehumanized. At this point of the story, Elie and the other prisoners are in a wagon traveling to a different concentration camp, and they are trying to survive in inhuman conditions. To begin, Wiesel describes, “We were given bread… We threw ourselves on it… Someone had the idea of quenching his thirst by eating snow.”( Wiesel 96). This fact emphasizes the alternatives they have to take just to survive because as animals do, that is the only thing they can look forward to. Later, when the wagon goes through German towns, Wiesel describes, “... a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede, dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs.” (Wiesel 100). Here, their almost hopeless desire to eat comes true, but because of the way the food is given, men have to confront each other, emphasizing that animal behavior by the use of the term “stampede.”After they get some of the

The wild is a savage place that causes young boys to perform crazy, uncivilized actions. In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, and John Steinbeck’s, Of Mice and Men, the common theme of death was foreshadowed through Piggy only being considered useful for his spectacles, and the death of Candy’s dog, the fact that the boys hunt and eat pigs, and the death of the water snake, and the dehumanization of Piggy and Lennie.

Jack London is well-known for his novels on wolves and dogs: The Call of the Wild and White Fang. This essay explores the latter; a hero’s journey adapted to the character of a wolf-dog hybrid. As a canine placed into a traditionally human role, White Fang is an obvious statement on the perception of humanity. Therefore, the following research question arose: How does White Fang’s adaptation as a hero challenge the perception of humanity?

In Brave New World, imagery plays a huge role on the success of the novel. Huxley impacts his novel full of imagery which makes the book easier to visualize. For instance, when Huxley describes Linda, the mother of John, “A very stout blonde squaw stepped across… Lenina noticed with disgust that two of the front teeth were missing. And the colour of the ones that remained. . .It was worse than the old man. So fat. And all the lines in her face, the purplish blotches..and the blanked she wore over her head-ragged and filthy (Huxley 171).” From this, the reader can clearly imagine a older fat woman in ragged clothes standing in a doorway.

In order to address the increasing dependence on technology, Huxley incorporates satirical elements in Brave New World. Huxley uses animal metaphors to illustrate how citizens of

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.

“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, is a narrative about Mr. Sanger Rainsford, a celebrated hunter, who finds himself on a secluded island after falling overboard a yacht. Rainsford locates a large building on the island and meets General Zaroff, who invites him to rest and replenish his health in his home. After Zaroff explains that he also enjoys hunting, he also reveals that he has discovered a new, more dangerous animal to hunt: humans. Zaroff forces Rainsford to become the hunted in order to win his freedom and return to the mainland. Connell’s central idea suggests that instinct does not always yield to reason.

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.

Brave New World, a novel written by Aldous Huxley explores an utopian future where embryos are chemically engineered to fit in a certain class and soma suppresses negative feelings providing its captor with spurts of energy. The people living in this “new world” are born into different castes such as alphas, betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons. The alphas are the highest ranking people in the world state while the epsilons are the lowest ranking members and do all the jobs no one wants to do. This book is relevant today in the society in which we live. From relationships to technology, to economy many of the ideas and struggles in this novel have very much translated into our society today.

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.

Today, it is common to see people glued to their phone or engrossed in their work. This fixation with distractions is largely due to over-organization. Over-organization is defined as being too preoccupied to take leisure time to think or complain. This is shown in Aldous Huxley’s technological satire Brave New World with the quote, “Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labor and then soma rations and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?” (Huxley 224). Huxley’s depiction of a civilization full of distractions is a clear example of over-organization, illustrating the many leisure activities that preoccupy society. Since Huxley’s time, the evolving topic of over-organization has sparked controversy in offices, homes, and classrooms today.

This movement towards love via conflict is both what allows us to know the characters and what jolts the plot forward; and this character and plot development is accomplished through, as mentioned, Hawks ' deft use of editing and sound. In terms of character, we meet Grant 's David Huxley in a rut within his systematic life, involved professional and personal commitments that fail to genuinely enthuse him, or to pay dividends to him. We see him atop a scaffold in his workplace, the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History, contemplating in a 'thinker-like ' pose, where to fit the Brontosaurus skeleton 's lat missing bone. It is as if his position, high from the ground, is his only form of escape form the demands placed on him. When he returns to

In Brave New World, John the Savage frequently alludes to Shakespearean works and values that have become lost in Huxley’s dystopia. This is first evidenced soon after John is introduced, and after Bernard has offered to take him to the Other Place, the World State. In his surprise and glee, John asks Bernard, “Do you remember what Miranda says?” (Huxley 141). The direct reference to Shakespeare’s The Tempest is wasted upon Bernard as he questions, puzzled, “Who’s Miranda?”, but the Savage continues eagerly in direct quotation, “O brave new world that has such people in it. Let’s start at once” (Huxley 141). Huxley manipulates this significant encounter to establish John’s peculiar nature and foreshadow his incompatibility with society, as seen by his incoherence to Bernard. John’s Shakespearean values shine later in the novel when Lenina desires him, but John resists, dutifully quoting, ‘If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite…” (Huxley 195). In Huxley’s dystopia, Shakespeare’s concepts of marriage, commitment, and restraint are obsolete, so Lenina is left frustrated and confused: “For Ford’s sake, John,” she demands, “talk sense. I can’t understand a word you say” (Huxley 195). To her, John’s Shakespearean values are foreign and absurd, later inspiring his violent rejection that ends their brief relationship. Thus, John’s old values confirm his irreconcilable differences with the World State. Likewise, the old values are equally emphasized in Player Piano. The rebellion takes the name Ghost Shirt Society as an allusion to Native Americans in crisis in the late nineteenth century. As Reverend James Lasher, one of the uprising’s leaders, explains, “The world had changed radically for the Indians. It had become a white man’s world, and Indian ways in a white man’s world were irrelevant...” (Vonnegut 288).