A Perfect Society In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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A perfect society
People look around the United States of America and see many ideas. The first idea people would associate with the United States of America would be the idea of equality. That every man is created equal, an idea that our founding fathers have put forth upon this nation. With every year passing equality becomes a bigger problem. People say that they need to be equal, which involves equal pay, equal rights, and equal status. On the other hand many females in the United States of America are concerned with how they look rather than how equal they are to the male gender. They look at each other and call each other fat or not pretty enough. Everyone wants a solution to the ever growing problem. One solution would be to give everyone …show more content…

If The United States of America made every man and women equal in both status and looks would the country become like the society in Brave New World? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian society, where every person has their own caste one fits into. Some people are Alpha’s, the best of the best; some are betas; the second most important people; and then there is the rest of the world, where they are hundreds of copies of a person running around everywhere. In the book society has taught it’s citizens that a body is something that everyone owns, up until a certain age when it becomes socially acceptable to have only one partner in life. In some ways society today has become the Brave New World society. For example, the American society is teaching females that they all have to be the same. Stick thin and wearing makeup all the time. The Americans society is teaching people that everyone is equal and nobody is …show more content…

Therefore with equality not being present in American society, people are starting to riot when others are wrongfully killed or accused of something they did not do. For example, in American society a big topic in the news today is the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement is an equality movement for black Americans which started because of some “murders” that were ethnically questionable. It was reported by Juliana Menasce and Gretchen Livingston from the Pew Research Center that every four out of ten American citizens will support the movement. The research is proving that among white citizens only four percent support the movement from the Republican Party and twenty-nine percent of citizens from the Democratic Party support the movement (Horowitz & Livingston, 2016). This shows that equality within the United States of America is becoming the Brave New World society because children from a young age are taught that everyone is equal and that everyone fits into a way of living, which is what Brave New World citizens are being taught. Granted the United States citizens are getting tired of the inequality and are now rising up to change the equality

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