Utopian Society In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

The concepts of the Utopian society placed in Aldous Huxley’s novel, A Brave New World, reflect the fearful thoughts of the future of our society and mirror certain components of the present. Certain concepts of the great society in the novel are severe and do not apply to our society, but components of these ideas are increasingly being dispersively observed throughout our present society. The warnings developed by Huxley are reflected in the present through the intellectual castes of the workforce, the concept of sex being less based on marriage, and the mind being enslaved by conditioning. In the novel, Huxley displays a world where there is a certain amount of intelligence and conditioning given to a group of people for one specific job.

Linda only has the information the great society has allowed her to obtain; this includes one of the only books she obtains, a book for Beta embryo–store workers. Linda tells John, “‘I’m afraid you won’t find it very exciting,’ she said. ‘But it’s the only thing I have’” (Huxley 129). From the time she was originally conditioned in her bottle to when she started her job, all she was ever taught was how to be a Beta embryo-store worker. Explained in the literary critic by Noel Slobodan, the government bans books that to not pertain to a specific person in order to keep a stable society. In society today, there are people who get most of their intelligence from the information that is associated with their lifestyle, which influences them to go into a certain field of the workforce. For example, a farmer’s son in our society who has lived on a farm his whole life and was raised learning how to upkeep a farm, will most likely not prosper to become an accountant. The farmer’s son will be encouraged to continue

“Having everyone” is a conditioned moral given to the people of the great society. “’Yes, every one belongs to every one else,’ Lenina repeated slowly” (43). Through this statement Lenina arrays the every day idea about having sex and the people who should partake in it. Our society is becoming increasingly similar in our ideas pertaining to sex. Part of our society does not frown upon people whom have multiple partners before actually getting married, and they actually see it as abnormal to not have at least experienced “having someone” before marriage. Displayed in the conversation between John and Lenina, marriage is not even a word the people in the novel can comprehend due to how unorthodox the idea of marriage is in the great society. “‘Not until…Listen, Lenina; in Malpais people get married.’ ‘Get what?’’ (Huxley 191). In the literary article written by Ricky Gehlhaus he explains the emotional engineering the government uses to make the loss of love a favorable point for the society. Huxley develops the idea of sex without marriage as a normal act among the people in order to demonstrate the increasing commonness of sex in our society today. A majority of our generation do not identify sex as a sacred activity that should only be partaken in if married under oath. An example of this is prostitution problems