Is the World State a good place to live? The book ⟪Brave New World⟫, written by Aldous Huxley, describes a utopian society which seems to be stable, identical and communal. Citizens living in this society are all produced by Bokanovsky’s Process and are divided into Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon groups. The author satirizes the society by comparing the definition of a utopia and a dystopia which can both be found in the World State. This essay will argue that the World State is a good place to live. The argument is found upon the three satisfying situations that caste system avoids social struggles; soma provides humans with a way to relax and complete openness to sex makes the World State in order. First of all, caste system in …show more content…
When the citizens are satisfied with their food and clothing, they start to find a way to meet human beings’ spiritual demands. The directors in the World State discover that after satisfying all those needs, especially the stimulation of sex, the majority will be glad with the present situation and stop seeking to change. They will be more dependent on this society and more likely to reject the change of the society. “Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, everywhere focusing an interest, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy. ‘But everyone belongs to everyone else,’ he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.” (p34) From this sentence, it is easy to understand the connection between the stability of a society and promiscuity. Meanwhile, with the method of Bokanovsky’s process, the government also avoids the problem of accepting too many new-borns. Since the responsibility and emotional burden of reproducing and breeding are completely removed, every single person living in the World State can devote himself to the gratification of sexual desires without any hesitation. When such believers are strong enough, the power of dissent will be increasingly weak and uncomprehending. Eliminating dissidents from society at this time would have no serious consequences. This is also the malevolent aspect of this approach because citizens will not be sympathetic to those who try to pull themselves out from the endless pleasure. Therefore, the society forms. People who have the same thought on sex live together and make the society stable
In his text Brave New World, Aldous Huxley imagines a society genetically engineered and socially conditioned to be a fully functioning society where everyone appears to be truly happy. This society is created by each person being assigned a social status from both, much like the caste system in modern society or the social strata applied to everyday society. Huxley shows the issues of class struggle from the Marxist perspective when he writes, “Bokanovky’s process is one of the major instruments of social stability”(Director 7). The director demonstrates that the Bokanovky’s process is a way to control and manage the population much easier. The process consists of creating clones for them to control.
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the author depicts a collective society in which everyone has the same values and beliefs. From a young age, the people in the World State’s civilization are conditioned to believe in their motto of “Community, Identity, Stability.” Through hypnopaedia, the citizens of the World State learn their morals, values, and beliefs, which stay with them as they age. However, like any society, there are outsiders who alienate themselves from the rest of the population because they have different values and beliefs. Unfortunately, being an outsider in the World State is not ideal, and therefore there are consequences as a result. One such outsider is John. Brought from the Savage Reservation, John is lead to conform to the beliefs of the World State, thus losing his individuality, which ultimately leads him to commit suicide. Through John and the World State populace as an example, Huxley uses his novel to emphasize his disapproval of conformity over individuality.
By looking at some modern examples, I have shown how human desire can, and often does, override reason and the law even when faced with community imposed consequences or dire punishments. While current society differs greatly from Plato’s Greece, people are still people and human instinct existed then just as it exists today. People who are denied the ability to choose if and with whom they can have sex are liable to become irrational or turn to violent means to reach that end, regardless of the era in which they live. In Plato’s ideal society these unsanctioned actions could have lead to an increased level in the public’s fear for their physical safety. Individuals consistently denied by the rulers to copulate might develop self-worth issues and finally, a pin-prick of imperfection in this utopian society may be discovered by those who are forbidden from enjoying physical relations with those they desire or love.
Imagine a world where everything is controlled by the government. Imagine a world where science, literature, religion, and even family, do not exist. Imagine a world where citizens are conditioned to accept this. This is exactly how the world is portrayed in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The focus of the World State is on society as a whole, rather than on individuals.
“COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY”: this is the World State's motto in a science fiction novel “Brave New World” written by Aldous Leonard Huxley in 1932. Huxley predicts the future world ironically, and I assume everyone hopes his prediction will not come true. Fortunately, Huxley’s brave new world is just a fictional world; no one knows whether Huxley’s brave new world will become a reality or not. However, technology improves rapidly and scares people that their world is gradually approaching to Huxley’s brave new world. So, my question is “Could the brave new world become a reality?” The answer is “yes.” The recent research shows the success of cloning and the prevention of aging in animal experiments, which implies that the technology we have now can actualize some parts of Huxley’s brave new world in the nonhuman animal kingdom. Hence, technology could actualize Huxley’s brave new world at the human level as well. Additionally, the actualized brave new world can be even more extreme because of immortality, and therefore, future scientists and engineers are required to make proper choices in order to prevent an extremely totalitarian community.
Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” highlights the theme of society and individualism. Huxley uses the future world and its inhabitants to represents conflict of how the replacement of stability in place of individualism produces adverse side effects. Each society has individuals ranging from various jobs and occupations and diverse personalities and thoughts. Every member contributes to society in his or her own way. However, when people’s individuality is repressed, the whole concept of humanity is destroyed. In Huxley’s “Brave New World”, the concept of individualism is lost through hyperbolized physical and physiological training, the artificial birth and caste system, and the censorship of religion and literature by a suppressing government.
In the first chapter the World State and its motto of “Community, Identity, Stability” (page1) is introduced. The motto is in a shield that hangs in a sign over the Central London Hatchery and Condition Centre; and this motto encompasses the slogan for this ideal society. Huxley explains that the main goal of this society is for the people to be happy all of the time and for this reason he designed the motto. He demonstrates the idea of a “community”, which is when all the people i...
The novel breaks into the delineation of what a dictatorship would look like, "A new age of society that uses genetics and cloning in order to control and condition individuals living in a world where everyone is to be the ideal of a perfect being." After reading Huxley’s brave new world, I believe he is foreshadowing what our society could possibly end up as if we are to be controlled under one government, to be in one society similar to each other, living in a world of lies, disadvantages, no emotions, and no rights. Huxley’s novel is a perfect utopian society where flaws are hyperbolized and gives the reader the dark side of a new age, a new world state. Society’s focus on perfection, the impact of an individual’s loyalty and fulfillment can cause them to be hurt and disappointed. Such as being created to the standards of a perfect society, born from a factory and conditioned.
In his text Brave New World Aldous Huxley imagines a society genetically engineered and socially conditioned to be a fully functioning society where everyone appears to be truly happy. This society is created by each person being assigned a social status from both, much like the caste system in modern society or the social strata applied to everyday society. Huxley shows the issues of class struggle from the Marxist perspective when he writes, “Bokanovky’s process is one of the major instruments of social stability”(Director 7). The director demonstrates that the Bokanovky’s process is a way to control and manage the population much easier. The process consist of creating clones for them to control.
The members of utopias often represent the most ideal human beings who work together to create the ideal homogeneous society (Tuzzeo 1). Although these perfect societies seem possible, they are generally labeled as imaginary due to their impracticality within the real world and the great amount of effort that is needed to create them. The Greek translation of the word “utopia” means “no place,” further suggesting the fantasy of utopias, to the point that they are nonexistent (Tuzzeo 2). Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a utopia composed of ten World States, each with its own ruler. The utopian World State within Brave New World is defined by the motto, “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 3). The rulers of the World State proclaim the importance of these three aspects but place an emphasis specifically on “stability.” The main objective of the World State rulers is to maintain social stability within their societies to allow for a proper functioning utopia. One of the ten World State rulers, Mustapha Mond, states, “Stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (Huxley 42). Mustapha Mond emphasizes the importance of stability, suggesting that his civilization, or utopia, would fail to exist without it, but more importantly, he narrows the existence of his
The behaviors of the Pokot wives and husbands illustrated in the article “Human sexuality in cross-culture Perspective” show the norms of sexuality behaviors that are different from the U.S norms. The Pokot wives believe that their behaviors are right things to be done or are the appropriate sanctions given to a husband who is not able to sexually satisfy his wife. However, the US perceives these behaviors differently. In the US perspective, it is considered to be a deviance that is against the law within the society. It is considers to be domestic abuse which might lead some individuals involved in this behaviors to be given a negative sanctions like sending them to prison.
In the year A.F. 632 no pleasure is denied to the populous. Hypnopaedia is used as a device to form the moral education of children. What is taught through this method is not true ethics, but warped actions trained by words. An illustration of this is in the teaching of Elementary Sex to children. The society that Huxley created was one where having sex often and with many people was a positive course of action. Anyone who did not have multiple partners, such as Lenina or Bernard, were considered a blight to society. Society as a whole uses the act of having sex as relief from pain and emotions. A person does not have to lust for someone they merely set up a time and place for them to meet and have sex, and it is completely accepted by everyone. When sex is not enough to relieve a person from pain or loneliness they take soma, a drug that stimulates them into happiness. Unlike the drugs of present day there is no set backs from taking soma, no headaches after use, and after all “One cubic centimetre cure ten gloomy,” (60). Finally, there is the concept of feelies, movies that you can feel what the actors are doing. These feelies are nothing more than glamorized porn movies giving the participants quick orgasmic feelings without effort. All these materialistic pleasures are used to substitute an individuals basic emotional needs and to give them a false sense of happiness. Huxley used this warped view on what today’s society deems morally right and wrong to reveal how shallow the citizens of the brave new world truly are.
It has been said that “Society has always defined for us what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman, what a man should be like and what a woman should be like, and these traditional definitions of gender roles have limited and even harmed individuals”. The theme of sexual politics comes to mind for this quote. One can define sexual politics as the relationship of the sexes, male and female regarding power. Society’s definition of this can limit an individual in their gender role and restrain a person to not be themselves.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, portrays a future society where people are no longer individuals but are controlled by the World State. The World State dominates the people by creating citizens that are content with who they are. Brave New World describes how the science of biology and psychology are manipulated so that the government can develop technologies to change the way humans think and act. The World State designs humans from conception for this society. Once the humans are within the society the state ensures all people remain happy. They program these humans to have needs and desires that will sustain a lucrative economy while not thinking of themselves as an individual. Huxley describes the Worlds State’s intent to control their society through medical intervention, happiness, and consumerism which has similarities to modern society.
There is constantly cessation why women and men cohabitate, nurture, desire, and endure. Many shrug the similarities and differences to the side due to the complex nature that is involved in understanding the progression. Since the beginning of time, according to the bible, man was placed as the dominant sex, fending for the families well being. The woman has tended to the important jobs around the homestead as situations arose. Often in society, one will find himself in a battle depending on the views of the receiving recipients. Following is a dialogue explaining a safe and metro sexual view as a general whole.