A Brave New World?
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A Brave New World?
In the novel, Brave New World, by Adolous Huxley we are introduced to a world where an all-powerful government dictates the occupation, intelligence, morals, and values of an individual. The government known as the World State controls the entire process of a human, from life to death. The society is based almost solely on an consumer foundation, where making money is the sole goal of the government. Although the society is radical in its nature there are certain aspects of modern ideology that are present in it. For the purpose of this essay only conservatism will be used to analyze the society of the World State. In latter paragraphs you will see the similarities and differences between conservatism and the government of the Brave New World. Though there are very distinct differences, in many ways the conservative ideology supports the World State.
In Huxley's novel the World State controls the past by suppressing it, which goes directly against conservative ideas. In the World State the citizens are kept from thinking about the past. The government does it's best to suppress the past and keep citizens from indulging in knowledge about it. All books from early writers like Shakespeare and the Bible were burned and are now illegal. They are taught that "history is bunk," through conditioning. This conditioning along with the society's negative view on leisure time leaves most citizens without time or the intellect to question the past or the present. On the other hand conservative ideals would lead a citizen to believe that we are products of the past and that we should learn from our ancestors. They believe that our ancestors are more knowledgeable than present citizens. Thus, we should follow their ex...
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...ndardized and bland group of people somewhat like those in the World State.
We are not in the Brave New World, although some features of our society do resemble the World State. I feel that this dystopia is not possible anywhere in the foreseeable future, for the mere fact that no one would voluntarily allow themselves to be completely controlled by the government. We put so much value in things like our relationships, nature, and religion that it would be a long time before anyone would give up these parts of life. I feel that Huxley created the World State so that our society would see similarities between Brave New World and our own world. As long as there are similarities we have a hard time totally disregarding the dystopia that Huxley created. It keeps us on our toes, so that we will watch out for the government and keep our minds open for the future.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that in the novel brave new world, an all-powerful government dictates the occupation, intelligence, morals, and values of an individual.
- Analyzes how huxley's novel the world state controls the past by suppressing it, which goes directly against conservative ideas.
- Analyzes how the hatchery divides embryos into different castes before birth to ensure that there is inequality in the state.
- Explains that society is predestined in its class structure. the poor stay poor because they can't pay for an education, thus becoming garbagemen like their parents.
- Analyzes how the world state keeps religion from playing a major role in society, which is another idea that the conservatives would oppose.
- Argues that emotions are believed to cause revolutions in a conservative society and in huxley's world.
- Opines that society resembles the brave new world because of its conformity to the norm.
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- Analyzes how aldous huxley was more concerned with the scientific aspect of brave new world than with literary techniques and qualities.
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- Analyzes how aldous huxley's "brave new world" is a muti-level factory where people are made, not just the bodies but the minds too.
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- Analyzes how huxley portrayed the revolting way that people viewed sexuality. women are encouraged and almost forced into sexually promiscuous games as children.
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- Analyzes how aldous huxley's novel brave new world depicts what future american society would look like.
- Introduces leonard richard kass, the addie clark harding professor at the university of chicago, who appreciates huxley's vision of the future.
- Analyzes how huxley's brave new world describes the process of how children are made in the world state.
- Explains that technology and science allow people to have kids who cannot have them naturally and without this science might not otherwise have the chance to raise a child.
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- Analyzes how aldous huxley predicted the future when he described breeding farms in his book brave new world. bernard thinks that ivf is wrong.
- Explains that a los angeles clinic offered families the option to choose their child's eye and hair color, which was later shut down by this clinic.
- Analyzes how in brave new world, people are genetically altered to know where they belong in society. they make babies be "alphas or epsilons" by decanting them.
- Describes the bokanovsky process described in brave new world, which sounds like cloning.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how huxley's pessimistic, yet already-fulfilled prophecy illustrates that both the government and ourselves are at fault.
- Opines that the distractions in entertainment are colossal, scandalous, and readily available.
- Opines that america's citizens "no longer care" about the lack of integrity which the american government is showing towards its citizens.
- Analyzes how activist groups and union movements have tried to combat "unreasonable incursions on the liberty of americans" by creating discussions, debates, and sit-ins to prove their point.
- Argues that huxley's belief that indulgence in petty affairs would destroy us has been demonstrated through our desire to both scorn and support our ideals of democracy, freedom, and patriotism.
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- Analyzes how huxley's world state utilizes moral conditioning, eugenics, consumerism, and a new form of religion to protect the citizens from chaos of war.
- Analyzes how congdon describes religious emotion as a biological necessity for humans to seek higher knowledge. the world state forbids the citizens from experiencing any negative emotion for fear of losing control.
- Analyzes how huxley uses satirical comparisons between christianity and fordism to illuminate that today’s government utilizes christianity in a similar way to quell the masses.
- Analyzes how the world state utilizes hypnopaedia, sleep moral conditioning, to insure the citizens follow their preferred rules and maintain stability.
- Analyzes zamyatin's we, george orwell' s 1984, and aldous huxley’s brave new world.
- Analyzes how aldous huxley's brave new world explores a civilization in which citizens have forfeited all personal liberties for government protection and stability.
- Analyzes how huxley employs the government's use of consumerism as a form of control.
- Analyzes how the world state's assembly line approach to child rearing further eliminates the sense of love and familial camaraderie.
- Opines that technology isolates us and makes us stupid. i want no part of your sterile, bloodless brave new world.
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