Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Theme or Concept Examined in Brave New World
“Brave New World,” is a novel written by Aldous Huxley where he explains that everything is based on a futuristic science which he claimed sprang forth from him because of his experience as “an ordered universe in a world of plan less incoherence” (River 4 1974). People seem to care more about temporal things rather than emotions. Technology also seems to be the most important aspect and everyone is affected by it in one way or another, whether if it is negative or positive. This does not necessarily mean that everyone is fully happy with technology because in a way they are all slaves to it. Another thing discussed in the novel is the lack of freedom. Due to a lot of technological development there exists this division in between people even before their birth that their fate has already been decided where subsist these casts such as Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas e.t.c. They are pushed away from freedom of choice and forced to live in a bubble of their own.
Huxley takes education about technology and its negative impact as one of the major themes in the novel, hence leading to a new technology and education being lost somewhere in the background. Huxley feared that advancement in technology would push people towards a trivial culture (River 31 1974). Being where they would be largely dependent on technology and embedded into a whole new culture would push them to leave their moral values behind and abolish their understanding of what is right and wrong. This would only lead them into certain taboo acts like having orgies and other sexual plays or acts. Huxley presents a perfect and reliable example of techno-poly and shows “transition of Technocracy to a Techno-poly” (Miller 1 par 4...
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...he novel and as well as the current situations of the society we live in today, it is clear that Huxley’s vision is accurate and reliable.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the characters in brave new world are self-centered and unsatisfied. modern society can be viewed as both a gift and curse to our society.
- Analyzes how huxley mentions that the search for utopia is never ending and full of sacrifices. the government sells this dream to the citizens for the price of freedom and consciousness.
- Analyzes how modern society is a reflection of huxley's vision described in the novel brave new world.
- Analyzes how aldous huxley feared that modern technology would brainwash people into thinking that technology is everything and a basic necessity of life, when in reality that is completely false.
- Explains miller's essay on brave new world and the threat of technological growth.
- Analyzes how aldous huxley's "brave new world" explains that everything is based on a futuristic science.
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- Analyzes how aldous huxley's brave new world is a fictional future in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed to achieve complete social stability.
- Analyzes huxley's warning that the new world is not evil because of science, but because power hungry individuals have misused it maliciously.
- Analyzes how huxley focused on the horrors of "utopian" ideals by criticizing scientific discoveries to justify pre-existing prejudices and other social evils.
- Analyzes how the world state uses science to justify and establish a eugenically designed structured society. the structured caste system assures that all produced will be predestined for their social status.
- Analyzes how brave new world dramatizes the conflict between scientific theory and religion. henry ford represents a religion that allows the world state rulers to rob the people of their individuality.
- Explains that the world state is made up of five castes, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon. the bokanovsky process, mass producing thousands of clones, facilitates social stability.
- Analyzes how the world state uses science to stabilize the society by removing any possibility of free will. the bokanovsky process destroys individuality among the casts, turning the lower classes into automatons.
- Analyzes how huxley tries to make people think about the nature of moral choices. the world state solves the problem of social instability by completely removing free will.
- Explains that the citizens are metaphorical slaves form the time of conception and remain children throughout their lives. socialized to have no free will or individual independence, they sacrifice love, family, emotion, and religion all for the sake of "happiness."
- Analyzes how a citizen is constantly under surveillance to ensure the discipline of their bodies and minds to the world state’s moral value system.
- Analyzes how lenina crowne, a character in brave new world, is trying to excuse the world state for things that it is being challenged against.
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- Analyzes how technology is bringing our world closer to matching the world in brave new world. 90% of adults in america have a cell phone; 60% of them have smart phones.
- Analyzes how the brave new world uses hypnopadiac to enforce the idea that "a gram (of soma) is better than a damn".
- Opines that brave new world is about a totally unrealistic world, but that's not the case anymore. our society is proving that it is more like the world that huxley predicted 80+ years ago.
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- Explains that aldous huxley was born in 1894, and died in 1963, the same day jfk was assassinated.
- Analyzes how the theme of brave new world is freedom and how people want it. huxley tells us to be careful with our science or we may end up like the utopians.
- Introduces us to the futuristic world of london and how the babies are "conditioned" and categorized from birth. they then meet bernard and lenina who are both alpha plus status.
- Narrates how bernard develops feelings for lenina and wants to have her for himself but in their society "everyone is everybody's" and therefore love cannot exist.
- Analyzes how john's love for lenina disappears when she rudely offers herself to him. he flees from her in terror and his mother overdoses on'soma'.
- Describes how john whips himself trying to forget his love for lenina and sins he has committed. he is taped and photographed by a hidden reporter in the bushes.
- Narrates how lenina is lowered from a helicopter and urges john to come to her. john in his rage and with the crowd screaming "we want the whip" charges her and beats her to death.
- Explains that john savage is the main character of brave new world. he was born and raised in new mexico. his real father was the director of the central london hatchery and conditioning.
- Analyzes the totalitarian state that rules every aspect of people's lives. it is a state in which people are decided and planned even before they are born in their cloned groups.
- States that the novel is situated around six hundred thirty-two years after ford released the t-model automobile, or around 2535. it is essential to the theme that it be placed in the future because of the advancement in technology and science.
- Opines that aldous huxley's style was good and easy to understand and follow. he used descriptive words when they were needed, giving you the illusion of being in a futuristic world.
- Explains that huxley frequently uses characters to portray his thoughts about the utopian society. the novel is written in 3rd person omniscient.
- Analyzes how bernard marx is an alpha-plus, but he is physically impaired due to a mistake in which alcohol was added to his test tube. he introduces john to the civilized world and wants her for himself.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how huxley's novel is set in the far, far future, but his predictions are coming into view much sooner than that. technology has come a long way, and comforted society so much that society started to depend on it too much.
- Analyzes how huxley's world is based on technology and the people that live there are pretty much dehumanized.
- Analyzes how the community in brave new world don't love each other or show their love like our society today.
- Analyzes how huxley warns that scientific advances can be a threat to society, especially in the fields of biology, technology, and psychology.
- Explains that in huxley's new world, if there is anger, soma is prescribed to cure the problem. emotions of all types are controlled to provide stability and certainty within the population.
- Explains that as medical conditions get worse in today’s world, scientists find cures for them. in brave new world, there are no diseases because they are given special treatments.
- Analyzes how huxley's forewarning of the mechanized of humans reveals the devastating consequences that our misuse of advancing technology can bring upon human beings.
- Explains that in our society today, there are many different religions, such as buddhism, christianity, and islam.
- Explains that technology will keep increasing in our daily lives, but by 2060, life will be very different.
- Predicts that cloning will become more and more common in the future. animals are a big part of american's lives, and it has been used for many years.
- Predicts that people will be beautiful forever with the help of plastic surgery or technology. in the movie surrogate, humans stayed at home controlling their own beautiful robot
- Predicts that by 2060 humans will probably be vacationing in mars. space trips would be more common with regular humans, not just scientists. astonomists will have better telescopes.
- Compares the cars we have today and the ones we had thirty years ago. in fifty years, transportation will not be the same as today.
- Opines that all of these predictions are possible and will most likely happen before or by 2060. the society described in brave new world is to many, a frightening one.
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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.
- Describes the process of in vitro fertilization, which involves placing sperm directly into the uterus instead of outside of the body in a test tube or petri dish.
- Analyzes how aldous huxley describes the in vitro fertilization process in brave new world.
- 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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- Analyzes how aldous huxley's brave new world exemplifies the sacrifice needed to achieve a stable world.
- Explains huxley's motto of "community, identity, stability" in the first chapter of the book.
- Analyzes how lenina demonstrates the importance of community and identity when she says, "everyone works for everyone else. we can't do without anyone."
- Analyzes how huxley introduces many theoretical issues regarding human impulse, sexuality, emotions, and drugs.
- Analyzes how john the savage represents humanity in brave new world and falls in love with a lenina who is part of this society where love does not exist.
- Analyzes how john wanted lenina but wanted the emotions that went with the act of sex. he is disgusted with himself for conforming to the "brave new world."
- Analyzes how communication is a major method of control in the "brave new world" society, where people live reduced, synthetic, and pretentious lives. this society limits individual thought suppressing individuality.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how huxley's vision of the future, portrayed in brave new world, holds far more relevance to present-day society than that of orwell.
- Explains why society praises athletic talent and beauty over intellect, while athletes and entertainers are the most honored members of society.
- Analyzes how the rise of mind-altering substances in our society parallels huxley's prediction of a society controlled by the distribution of drugs.
- Explains why sex has become the symbol of american society, and why people feel greater urges to indulge in sexual pleasures.
- Concludes postman's analysis that huxley’s vision of the future has become more of a reality than that of orwell.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how aldous huxley's novel, a brave new world, shows technology as a harmful thing.
- Analyzes how technology in society can be harmful through the citizens use of soma.
- Analyzes how the bokanovsky process produces ninety-six embryos, while in normality one egg and one embryo produces one human.
- Analyzes how the world state determines social classes by pouring alcohol on the bokanovsky groups to purposely hurt them. the social class system in a brave new world by aldous huxley is harmful to society.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how aldous huxley's novel brave new world shows the readers a dystopian society where ford is worshiped as god, people only live sixty years, and movies where you can feel what is happening.
- Analyzes how the world state deals with the concept of love and marriage in brave new world.
- Analyzes how brave new world contrasts with the real world. the world state portrays death as normal, something not too worry about.
- Analyzes how aldous huxley's brave new world shows the readers a terrible, frightening world where ford is worshiped as god, people only live sixty years, and movies where you can feel what is happening.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how aldous huxley's dystopian vision degenerated from its original intent into a terrible dystopia.
- Analyzes how aldous huxley describes the process of civi-lization in a.f. 632 of decanting children.
- Analyzes how in 'brave new world' almost all troubles are eliminated or dealt with through the wonder-drug _soma_. john the savage gets annoyed by this and cries: "you got rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it."
- Analyzes how the savage's point is that one must experience un-happiness. the inhabitants of this "brave new world" are living a false happiness, which is ultimately superficial.
- Explains that one cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. one gram is better than a damn.
- Opines that aldous huxley's 'brave new world' is a warning to the reader and society that we must be careful of over-organization and propa-ganda.
- Analyzes how winston smith fantasizes about his utopia and dreams about past events. his dreams reveal the truth of the past, enabling him to trust his own instinct.
- Compares winston's dream of the disappearance of his mother and the fact that the party persuades him to think that impulses and feelings are unimportant, robbing him of power.
- Analyzes how winston's memory floated into his mind while sitting in his cell at the ministry of love. he no longer used his memories to guide him.
- Analyzes how winston fantasizes about his utopia, the golden country, which was an old pasture with a path, and elm trees that swayed in the breeze.
- Describes how winston and julia met on their first getaway in the countryside outside london. they acted out their desires, like in winston's fantasy.
- Analyzes how winston bought a glass paperweight from mr. charrington's antique shop and thought of the outside arch as the sky. the symbolism indicates that winston feels protected from the real world, the party.
- Explains that winston's dreams and fantasies allow him to remain in a positive state of mind; it is because of this that the party does not overpower him.
- Analyzes how winston and julia visit o'brien at his home and tell him that they believed that there was a secret organization working against the party.
- Explains that winston began dreaming about the golden country with his mother, julia, and o'brien when he regained his health in the ministry of love.
- Opines that winston gave into the party, but willingly. he knew the truth deep down. we should learn from his example to trust our gut feelings and believe in ourselves.
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