Aldous Huxley’s text, Brave New World, will leave you questioning your perspective on life and it’s choices. Within the novel, curious readers can see that government control over all in an attempt to create a utopia, can sometimes have a counter effect, creating a dystopia. Wielding it’s tool of conformity, The World State has forced its ideology into the minds of its people at a young age, in hopes of avoiding rebellion. In many ways this is how our society functions in the real world. The genre of Huxley's text may be fiction, but the society fabricated in Brave New World may not be so fictional after all.
In Brave New World, this character is Bernard Marx, who falls in love with Lenina Huxley before she becomes pregnant with John's child (Brave New World). Meanwhile, Montag rebels against society by reading books that teach him how to read (451). In this essay, we will compare and contrast these characters' portrayals in an explicit manner.
Huxley’s description of Lenina’s reaction to the reservations was satirical because it was not a logical reason to be grossed out. She was disgusted on how the old man looked because he was old. Lenina said, “But it’s terrible... It’s awful. We ought to not to have come here” (Huxley, 111).
(Huxley 5). In this quote, Lenina is recalling the time as a little girl when she woke up during one of the hypnopaedic sessions. She remembers the quote while
Fanny’s hypnotic phrases, dating suggestions, and the idea of chivalry all show the roles of men and women in society and the preference of social stability. Huxley uses Fanny Crowne to symbolize a normal member of the society while the reader tends to focus on the exceptions such as Bernard an examination of Fanny reveals the values of society. For instance, Lenina reveals that she has been considering monogamy with Henry Foster to Fanny. Fanny immediately responds negatively and then reasons with a hypnotic phrase: “after all, every one belongs to every one else” (Huxley 43). Fanny reasons with her hypnotic phrase and connects monogamy with disorder and perceives it as unnatural.
In Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” the world has fallen into an authoritarian order, of which control is kept through constant distraction and suppression of information. Though through this remains communities of “savages” who reject the new world order and have continued more traditional human life in reservations. It is in one of the these reservations the Aldous Huxley introduces the character John, a foil to the society he is introduced to. This exile from the land and the ideologies of the home John once knew to the “brave new world” allows John to both learn about himself and gives him the ability to see the corruption within the world state. John is introduced in the novel as the protagonist, Bernard Marx, and his female companion,
Once at the Reservation, Lenina forgets her soma and is feeling very weird seeing all the people who are aged (in the World State no body ages) and sick. They meet a man, John, who is mad that he didn’t get to be the one to be whipped in a ritual. John gets to talking with them and tells them that his mom, Linda, comes from the World State too, Bernard puts two and two together and figures out that Linda was the woman the Director had lost. While Bernard planned to bring John and Linda back to the World State, to hopefully change the Directors mind about exiling him, Lenina takes enough soma to knock her out for almost a whole day. Lenina did not take it so well when they found out that Linda was from the World State and had a child, a prospect so ludicrous to her that she was disgusted, who called her mom and hadn’t had soma in such a long time that she is in shock (in the World State there was no such thing as parents for everyone came from a
Since the beginning of human civilization, a form of government has been enacted to ensure a nation’s continuity; however, these institutions often become exceedingly powerful over their people. In Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley creates a theme expressing the significant danger that resides in the existence of extreme, administrative control over a populace, as leaders will retain their power continuously and unregulated. At the time when the this narrative was devised, the rise of communism and dictatorships were a threat to human rights. Through the creation of the dystopian society indicated in the novel, people are able to realize the effects of these types of governments. The thematic political issues are developed by utilizing
In this quote Mustapha Mond shows how they could allow the people more free time or reduce their workload, however, this would not benefit the society as a whole. Additionally, it demonstrates the idea that the world state has total control over the lives of its citizens. Bernard is a critic of the lack of freedom in the brave new world when he says, “‘Don’t you wish you were free, Lenina?’” (Huxley, 61). In this conversation between Bernard and Lenina, Bernard wants freedom to do what he wants, however, the world state does not allow this to happen.
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.
In the Brave New World, the people live in a very sin society because in the Savage Reservation no one belongs to everyone. When Bernard and Lenina arrive at the Savage Reservation Lenina is disgusted on what she sees because she
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. First of all, the world state is obsessed with making people “happy”. They want everyone in society to be happy to ensure social stability.
In Aldous Huxley’s dystopia of Brave New World, he clarifies how the government and advances in technology can easily control a society. The World State is a prime example of how societal advancements can be misused for the sake of control and pacification of individuals. Control is a main theme in Brave New World since it capitalizes on the idea of falsified happiness. Mollification strengthens Huxley’s satirical views on the needs for social order and stability. In the first line of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, we are taught the three pillars on which the novels world is allegedly built upon, “Community, Identity, Stability" (Huxley 7).
His beliefs and mindset are vastly different such as his beliefs for self harm in order to better his mentality and thoughts that all of the people’s happiness is just an illusion. He is seen to be mentally stable at first with the ability to hold thoughtful conversations, but quickly declines at the end when he is unable to get society to leave him alone. Conflicts (internal and/or external) that motivate and shape the character He is constantly conflicted with the issue of whether he should let himself be consumed with Lenina and about what he should think of this society he is now a part of. With Lenina, his current self is conflicted with his upbringings where he was taught that he must earn a woman rather than just let them give themselves to him.
Soma is a drug to make the people forget what’s really going on. In our world soma is a symbol for media. Media has more power over the modern people then soma does to the people from the novel. Media has the power to control what we see, what we hear, and even how we think. They expose pointless news and celebrity drama to distract the us and make us ignorant from what really happens in the world.
