Brave New World Pdf

Humans, as a species, lack stability in their existence due to the variety of freedoms that are available to us. In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, individual freedom has been successfully taken away in order to bring security and happiness, ergo stability into society. Controlled by a single world-governing force, this society is regulated constantly via Eugenics; the study and practice of selective breeding. From birth, humans are scientifically altered to fit their destined path, according to the social class to which they have been assigned. They have extremely limited individual rights, and instead, are given rights according to their given social class. At a young age, children are conditioned to like and dislike certain

In the Brave New World society, the people are taught certain sayings through hypnopaedia, in order to combat depression. If a person has feelings of discontent with anything relating to their life, all they have to remember is that “A gram is better than a damn” (Huxley 89). The world controllers are encouraging the use of soma to avoid negative feelings. In our world, we don’t use soma, and we have high crime and violence. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), “Almost half a million people (437,000) across the world lost their lives in 2012 as a result of intentional homicide” (Davies). That is half a million innocent lives that are extinguished annually as a result of the “free society”. No limits exist on our rights, and that very often intrudes on the rights of others, when we kill and inflict violence. These high mortality rates do not reflect the calm predictability of a stable

In the Brave New World society, the only discrimination is the discrimination against those who are scientifically inferior to others. However, those who are scientifically inferior don’t understand that they are being discriminated against. Their conditioning forces them to “like their unescapable social destiny” (Huxley 16). This alludes to no dissatisfaction in what they do or what social benefits/demerits they are given. It makes for a stable and peaceful society. The movie Gattaca uses the same principle of scientifically inferior classes in its storyline. However, Gattaca isn’t exactly stable because of its treatment of the inferior race of humans who are aggressively aware of their inferiority. This is precisely what the protagonist is trying to fight in saying that “There is no gene for fate” (Gattaca). Vincent’s acknowledgment of the prejudice against him is proof that there is a lot of unrest in the society in which he lives. In a perfectly stable society such as that of Huxley’s, the inferior race would never be made aware of their inferiority. In our society, discrimination is commonplace as we are all not the same. Limiting our freedoms so that we are all equal would reduce