Brave New World Critical Analysis

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.

Ever since the beginning of time humans have made interpretations of how the world will appear and function in the future. Sometimes these interpretations can be correct, but can also be very incorrect at the same time. The period of time in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is similar to today's society regarding the lack of social skills, and the growing addiction to technology, although some may say that technology is different today because it is an efficient way to access a broad amount of information.

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 the conversation between Mustapha Mond and John, it is explained that different concepts become neglected by the World State to sustain its social stability. The World Controller indicates the removal of poetry and literature that Shakespeare created for the purpose of preventing people from feeling emotions that disrupt society. However, John expresses “ the right to be unhappy,” indicating that an extreme amount of control and restraint depletes any attempt to think individually. The author indicates as well, that a book on biology is rejected by Mond as he deems it could potentially cause social instability. This restriction of knowledge that Mustapha Mond converses about entices the idea that limitation is fallacious for the reason that there will never be new reforms nor ideas. Perhaps, if one was inspired by Shakespeare or the biology book, it is possible that a new method on how to govern the people properly could be created. However, this will cease to occur as the World State deters  these events by the elimination of literature pieces that pose a threat to its rein. The presence of poetry and religion is outlawed to the point where there remains an extreme fear of the concepts by officials, as seen with Mond responding “It's all right, Director,’ he said in a tone of faint derision, "I won't corrupt them,"to calm the D.H.C about the World Controller's possession of the Bible.” The Director is clearly afraid of the fact that if people comprehend the religious text, then the World State is doomed because people will revolt and create a naturally favored, political government. After reading the novel, the reader can acknowledge the historical allusion warning of a power that a dictatorship encompasses as during the time it was written,

As described in the Leviathan by 17th century political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, humans are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" (Hobbes). Hobbes believed that humans are inherently flawed, and will naturally create anarchy amongst themselves due to their nature. In the novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1931, the world controller of the state, Mustapha Mond, manifests this idea through the rhetorical question, "What 's the point of truth or beauty of knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you"(Huxley 228)? As science was explored unrestrictedly, citizens of the World State began to fight each other. Although Mond 's argument ultimately leads to the sacrifice of

"I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it" (Bradbury). The world illustrated in Fahrenheit 451 isn 't that far off from our own. Technology has become a very influential part of everyone 's lives, and has control over people’s actions and thoughts. Ray Bradbury uses the themes mass media, conformity vs. individuality, and censorship in his dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, to capture a futuristic world in which books are illegal and technology is consuming society.

On June 2th, 2007, the world was changed forever. Steve Jobs had just released the very first iPhone, while the average business man was clicking away on their Blackberry’s; unaware of how our daily lives would change. In the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World, the society is the embodiment

In todays society drug use is strongly discouraged, but in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has shown otherwise. Aldous Huxley wrote what he thought was a new and better life then what we’re living now. The Brave New World is a society in which people are separated by social classes and everyone and everything is controlled. The people would use a drug called soma as another way to control the people. The drug can also be seen as a symbol of the powerful influence science has on the society. Soma is highly encouraged when one is having feelings that aren’t suppose to exist in the world. The drug can also be used as a safe concoction for the people. Also the people take soma to help them deal with what they’re going through. Additionally, the drug can be a solution that a lot of the people go to avoid their problems. Since the drug is completely it doesn’t cause any conflict. In The Brave New World, Aldous Huxley shows the positive effects of drug use.

In Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, he argues that the old print-based culture's precision and complexity overwhelm the present focus on TV's simplicity and speed. Postman organizes his book chronologically, so the reader first sees the positives of the print era then the negatives of the transition into a world of visual screens. Through this sequence, he illustrates the difference between the abundant product information in the 1800s with the entertainment of television commercials. He compares the focused, favorable audience of the past with the current hyperactive television viewers, which the politicians notice and replace complex plans with single sentence quips. Towards the end of the book, he deeply analyzes the adverse futures

People living in the world today surrender themselves to the effects of drugs and alcohol. In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the drug soma is used to satirize people who allow stimulants to suppress their problems and create happiness, but true happiness can only be obtained through control over one’s own mind. With the drug soma, the citizens are able to provide their own superficial happiness and instability is prevented. It allows each part of society to work in perfect order. With the help of soma, all of the people are happy and satisfied with their manufactured lifestyles. “In Brave New World, soma stands for alienation, dehumanization and superficial mind-numbing pleasure.” (Schermer 119). Some characters depend on soma, while others abstain from it because they want to know what true happiness feels like. The characters who maintain their own control have the ability to threaten the stability because the people won’t be perfectly conformed to the ways of the

Wendell Berry once said, “as industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong in history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.” The meaning and truth of this quote is accurately depicted in Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, Fahrenheit 451, as well as in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Fahrenheit 451 tells a story of a man who struggles to live happily as an outcast in his society of brainwashed, technology fanatics and strict restrictions from living a traditional lifestyle. Similarly, 1984 is a story of a man living

In spite of desperate efforts to keep everyone under control through deep conditioning and soma, there is always the one person, the one individual who simply can not fit in, the one person on whom this inhumanity cannot rub off on. Afflicted by the news of getting sent to Iceland Bernard is ironically being liberated, being set free from his captivity where “his punishment is really a reward”. He will get to meet people who, like him, were too much of an individual to settle for less than what they really knew they deserved. Huxley warns of the dangers of enslavement without one’s consent, the ones that may seem harmless such as soma was in this case but in reality causing the greatest damage to the individual. In today’s society, one may

Contemporary society is a variety of all things good and bad that one might misinterpret as perfect

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.

The novel A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley he analyzes the dangers of losing one 's individualism in an advanced society. Huxley also shows what can happen when a society changes to rapidly much like the society we live in today. Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894 and he died November 22, 1963. Huxley also write some short stories, poetry, travelogues and even film scripts. In his novels and essays Aldous Huxley would always play the role of a critical observer of accepted traditions, customs, social norms and ideals. Importantly, he would be concerned in his writings with the potentially harmful applications of so-called