Allusions In Brave New World, By Aldous Huxley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel about a scientific utopia, an ideal society in which everyone belongs to everyone and everything is done for the good of the society, where evil things such as wars and poverty cannot exist. However, an issue arises when the technology in the New World fails to fulfill the needs and wants of its members in the society. It fails because of the denial of individuality. “everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley, 47). The expression of individual freedom and human emotions are denied in this New World, and for those individuals that showed those expressions, such as Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson, there are conflicts with their incapability upon individual expression because the

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According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, bravery is “possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance” (Agnes 178). Oftentimes, people are commended for acts of bravery they complete in the heat of a moment or overcoming a life-changing obstacle. Rarely one is commended for simply living a brave life, facing challenges they do not even understand. The characters in the Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World live a peculiar lifestyle demonstrating bravery for just breathing. Although Huxley’s ideas are surfacing today, the dystopia he creates is unrelatable . The genetic make-up of these men and women is different, creating a human lacking basic function of life. In Western Europe an individual forms in a laboratory, “one egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress” (Huxley 6). The dystopian way of reproduction rarely involves a man impregnating a woman. Huxley’s characters are born in a laboratory. These class divided people are manipulated to be personality less , sex-driven, dumb-downed, assembly line workers. Brainwashing from birth conditions them to go through the motions without doubting their purpose. Government controllers are not looking out for the egg at all, simply manufacturing them to keep the

“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.” This quote, by Theodore H. White, shows the struggle between the desire to conform to society or to be one’s own individual. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the theme of power’s tendency to change one’s willingness to conform to society is shown. This is presented through the thoughts and actions of Bernard Marx, Linda, and John.

The media tells us how to live and how to act. When we fall short of these expectations, we can take anti-depressants to make us feel better. In this part of the novel, Huxley’s warns us that individuality happiness must come from within in order for the good of the community. Brave New World is a novel about the impact that technology and psychological conditioning can have on society.

Ever since the 1980s, China had begun a great push toward urban modernization. Unsustainable, however, this push for continued urbanization dramatized an already problematic urban and rural disparity. In turn, this also fed into other major sociopolitical issues. Among them were environmental degradation and many food safety scandals, which threatened China’s consumer confidence.

Literary criticism is a metaphorical shadow that is always present, but only revealed when shining a light upon it. By applying a psychoanalytic lense, readers are able to depict the rational factor behind the evil of the utopian society and the destruction of the humans mind in the characters in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”.

Aldous Leonard Huxley, the writer of my summer reading, was born on July 26, 1894 and dies on November 22, 1963. A British writer who emigrated to the United States. . He wrote his first novel at the age of 17, which was never published. The first published work "Crome Yellow" was a satire work related to social issues. He edited for the magazine "Oxford Poetry", wrote poetry, stories and created scripts for some Hollywood films. In 1911 he suffered from blindness for two or three years. As a result, he do not qualify for service in World War I. Once recovered, he studied English literature at an Oxford College, where he graduated with first-class honors. His novel "Brave New World" appeared in 1932. This novel was cataloged as one of the 100

Many people wonder what it would be like to live in a perfect society; one in which everyone is equal, happy, and virtually living easier lives on a day to day basis. A society is defined as the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. The perfect society would hold a more ordered community, obviously. However, perhaps this utopian dream could carry a society that hides malicious motives in order to keep up appearances. Aldous Huxley illustrates this idea in his timeless work of science-fiction, Brave New World. Huxley illuminates a malicious government that hides its true motives from an unsuspecting society by using

Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley immediately shows the scientific discoveries that are happening in the future. Chapter one starts out with showing amazing ground breaking scientific actions for example human cloning and very fast production of human life. This is all being done in a futuristic government ran factory specifically for creating human life. The human life is made in the factory and are split up into five castes or “groups” which are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and

This essay will be centered on two of the most important characters Linda and Lenina from Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. The novel talks about a world which is completely different from the contemporary world. The world state in the novel is solely ruled by technologies to produce human beings, drugs to control emotions, hypnopaedic education to brainwash people with certain beliefs and thoughts. In the world state human beings are produced in bulk in the hatchery as a method to maintain stability and happiness in the society. And these artificially manufactured human beings are conditioned to perform particular tasks according to their castes in the world state. “The World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (Huxley ch.1).They are even conditioned effectively to achieve happiness in the way the world controller want them to which are through sex and soma. Linda and Lenina both grew up in the world state but Linda spends most of her lifetime in the reservation. To some extent these two characters are quite similar in their lifestyle as they carry the same ideals. Both Linda and Lenina are conditioned by the world state, although they both go against their conditioning later in their life, the control methods used were very effective, and this can be seen in different parts of their life such as pursuit of happiness, relationship values and the ways their emotions are controlled.

Huxley grew up in London, England with family members who pursued careers in the science field. His family was well known for its scientific and intellectual achievements: Huxley’s grandfather and brother were top biologists, and his half brother won a Nobel prize for his work in physiology. For education, he went to Eton college and after, attended Balliol College. Huxley was considered a prodigy, being exceptionally intelligent and creative. He took an interest in writing and wrote books, poems, and short stories (“Brave”). Three themes are central to his works: relations between literature and science, the abuse of power in emerging mass societies, and the potential for science and technology to enrich or corrode human nature (Briggle).

By virtue of his satirical novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley flips morals and the world as people know it today backwards, and by doing so, fabricates a dystopia sustained by the existence of unrestrained pleasure. Gratification remains constant throughout society, and any rare instance of discord is easily resolved through the ingestion of the drug soma, which provides a spiritual experience in a tablet. The existence of God is an absent concept unknown to the citizens of the New World, and Henry Ford is proclaimed as the idol that thanks and praise is given to through orgies that replace worship at church. Due to all people being conditioned to worry neither about death nor what comes afterwards, owing to the absence of religion, everybody lives their meaningless lives blissfully ignorant of anything that is more substantial than themselves. Emotional ties between people are nonexistent, significantly because the ideas of humanity being born from women and being taken care of by parents are repulsive, with any terms associated with family considered expletives inbred within savagery. Through Huxley 's interpretation of a world conserved by consistent contentment, he exhibits artificial rapture brought about by bread and circuses, that family would not only put a dent in universal happiness but would also put obstacles in front of the wheels of the world that steadily turn, and that no man in

Aldous Huxley published a Brave New World in 1932 in which he depicts a society in which babies are born in bottles, the concept of an individual cell does not matter as people do not believe in intimacy, science is used as a form of control, subjugation and conditioning, and drugs as well as sex are forms of escaping the horrors of reality. Or as Laurence Brander (1970) put it, “Affection and loyalty are unnecessary, beauty is a synthetic product, truth is arranged in a test tube, hope is supplied in a pill, which by its action annihilates identity.” By linking science, technology, and politics, Huxley predicted that human individuality would wither away . He believed that his book was not only a “satire on contemporary culture, a prediction of biological advances, a commentary on the social roles of science and scientists” but also “a plan for reforming society” . Influenced by events taking place during his lifetime, he anticipated various developments such as World War II. Additionally, his novel was able to prophesize the major themes and struggles that dominate society even today.

In the first six chapters of Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, readers are introduced to a dystopian society where characters live and breathe for the motto “Community, Identity, Stability”(7). There are three main characteristics that identify London AF 632 as a dystopian society. First, the society created is an illusion of a perfect world, or Utopia. Second, information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted. Lastly, the citizens conform to uniform expectations where individuality and dissent are bad. The characters, or most of them, in Brave New World, live under these conditions and believe in them because society is controlled by the philosophical ideology of the government in the name of stability.