Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World depicts an unknown world based on the events of Henry Ford. Huxley formed a society in which regular people were separated according to the genetic modifications they were given at hatch. Although this society was intended to be “perfect,” many issues persisted, such as alcoholism, women’s roles in society, and a type of mind control referred to as “conditioning.” Because of the mass of people affected and the efforts to amend them, those issues remain plausible alongside other issues worldwide. Alcoholism (also known as soma distribution) was a problem of Huxley’s society that is relative, but less severe nowadays.
Another huge part is the idea of obtaining happiness artificially for, the citizens would take a daily dose of soma to maintain their mental levels and they would say, “A gramme in time saves nine,” (89) which would justify their usage. The fact that people have to use a synthetic drug to keep them functioning normally is horrible for we are losing the human touch of ourselves. This also leads to the fact that our world is leaning toward the idea that the community is more important than the individual, and caring for a person is not a top priority. Huxley had introduced the idea that preached, “ When the individual feels, the community reels.” (94) Society as a whole is mainly focused on and the individual is just seen as another statistic or number.
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.
Aldous Huxley, by incorporating symbolism, reveals the dangers of prioritizing technological and national advancement over individuality in the science fiction novel Brave New World. In order to prevent distractions, such as conflict, from derailing technological and national advancements,
Santiago Posso Mr.linton English 11-A October/4/2017 Hypocrisy is the act of criticizing something only to become what we once disapproved, Trump 's bigotry over Obama 's administration and Stalin blasting capitalism for overworking men only to enslave his own men and exploit them, high school kids who say they hate the popular only to join their group the first chance they get, these are only a few examples where this verb is shown throughout history. This type of mockery then is a tricky situation because one day we can develop into what we hated most. Huxley observes how dreadful this action is seen in the real world and portrays how atrocious it looks in the novel A Brave New World In the story A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries
For example, in the beginning of the novel, the narrator describes the Hatcheries and Conditioning Centers where humans are produced and primed for their predetermined roles in the restrictive society, detailing the way in which “the principle of mass production [was] at last applied to biology” (Huxley 7). The implementation of the assembly also leads to the dehumanization of reproduction. During the children tour of the facility, the Director explains the “embryo's troublesome tendency to anæmia, to the massive doses of hog's stomach extract and foetal foal's liver with which, in consequence, it had to be supplied” (Huxley 12). Because humanity was removed for the process, it was necessary to take nutrients from the organs of animals. In both a literal and metaphorical sense, human reproduction had become a process that no longer needed humans.
Huxley recalls his childhood and what he did with himself from experiencing it. He also takes into perspective all the hard work he has done up unto this point of time. He became friends with other authors and perhaps shared ideas with him. He kept up with the family name and even have a few others his last. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him” (Web).
The Brave New World is based on the concept of totalitarianism and seems to decipher a futuristic world where science and pleasure form a feudalistic society. The book explores the negatives of a so called successful world where all are happy with what they have but the satisfaction is achieved by sacrificing freedom and responsibility. The book explores the risk of using science and technology to there own advantage to make the perfect new world. The society has paid a high price for being happy because they are all the same, they do the same things and they work the same. The science and technology they used in there Utopian world made the citizens fake and they weren't expecting to end up all the same.
In both the story and our modern day society technology has been dangerous when it comes to the government 's. It is mostly used for “our benefit” but what we don’t realize is that higher power sometimes does take advantage of it. For example wire-tapping or surveillance cameras in our society, and in the brave new world 's society it is used to make who the people are such as their looks and personality. It might not be exactly the same, but our society could one day end up like theirs when it comes to the use of technology. Lastly is Huxley 's idea that “everyone belongs to everyone”. In the brave new world, relationships are nonexistent.
In the novel, Brave New World, the characters discuss about how in their “new world,” the authorities want to ban books. Huxley thinks there should be no reason to ban reading for those who wanted to read. For some people it’s difficult to learn how to read and know how to process it into learning how to cook, create, draw, sing, etc. Without reading how will you know how to do a task, or how to solve a problem. Therefore, Reading has a big impact in people’s daily lives.
In modern Western civilization, based on Aldous Huxley’s personal views, he implied warnings about the future of modern society throughout Brave New World. Huxley implied the dangers of technology, a big government, degrading humanity and its implication; therefore, modern citizens should be consequently thinking those dangers and how it still applies to modern civilization. If Huxley observed the daily life of modern students in western civilization, he would point out how life in Brave New World is similar to life today through technology, consumption, and how we see each other. Consumerism makes the community and economy stable, which is the goal of the society in Brave New World. In the novel, the buying and selling of goods and services are important to them in their consumer economy.
The exponential population growth of the human species has created mass debate for centuries. There is a great speculation that involves the sustainability of the human species, along with other species, into the distant future. Over the years, as the numbers steadily rise the governments of several countries have made attempts to limit the exponential growth of the human race. Some scientists believe that the world will inevitably make the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, a living reality. This is concerning because if the government dictates how the population increases, it will also dictate all other actions as well, stripping society of its individuality.
Social media has a major effect on today’s society. People are being manipulated, influenced, and even brainwashed from apps and websites they use every day. Social media is used to hold social interactions, promote events or products, and keep people up to date on all kinds of news. Because social media can do so much for its users, it basically controls every aspect of their lives. In Aldous Huxley’s, “Brave New World”, social media wasn’t controlling their society, but other technologies like the Bokonovsky’s Process, the Feelies, and Soma were.
Huxley accurately depicts how the later industrial revolution left many questioning the rules of modesty and privacy in a newly interconnected world. He portrays how an expansion of transportation and communication, a new sense of openness regarding sexualty, and an onset of socialism led to this moral revolution. The expansion of transportation and communication in the early 20th Century, made affordable through mass production, brought revolutionary changes as distances grew shorter and privacy rarer. Huxley narrates, “God isn’t compatible with machines and science and universal happiness.
In the novel, “Brave New World,” written by Aldous Huxley, the World State upholds a unique set of values to establish a perfect and stable society. Along with the motto “Community, Identity, Stability,” the government uses various techniques to manipulate every individual’s mind. Some are obvious, such as genetic engineering, social conditioning, mind-altering drugs, and several types of entertainment. The primary goal of this artificial world is to maintain happiness in order to prevent conflict and dissatisfaction. To certain criteria, sacrifices that the World State requires of its citizens aren’t a price worth paying to sustain social stability since citizens’ freedom and individuality are abandoned.
