Family Issues In Brave New World

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Modern society is advancing at an alarming rate and the electronics we cherish the most could mean the end to a thriving intellectual community. According to Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, science and entertainment push society closer and closer to the conditions of the world state while family brings out the humanistic qualities in people. The concept of family in modern society is highly valued while in the world state, it is looked down upon as an obscenity. In the hatchery, the director claimed, “For you must remember that in those days of gross viviparous reproduction, children were always brought up by their parents and not in the State Conditioning Centres,” (pg. 15). Citizens of the world state are conditioned to view parents as obscene …show more content…

When everyone is influenced by different people, they will all have different mindsets and personalities, which results in individualism. Mustapha Mond proclaimed, ”The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much,” (pg. 161). The strong emotional tie associated with family disrupts the productivity of an individual which threatens the stability of society. Family issues such as divorce or death of a loved one negatively impacts the quality of work one produces because instead of focusing on the assignment, the person is focusing on their family. On the other hand, modern society views “the family was the most important unit of society…It played an essential role in fulfilling the emotional and physical needs of individuals, which was necessary for the achievement of economic and social development,” (www.un.org). Modern society believes that families are essential to support one another in a difficult situation. When

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