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Imagine a world where even the simplest things like dressing yourself, your friends, or even your job are chosen for you. We would have a completely different outlook on life. In fact, we would not even have our own ideas to express our individuality. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley exists a society where individual identity is eliminated specific aspects like age, intelligence, opinions, hobbies, and more have been removed for the sake of common good. Age is essential in a persons life because with the coming of age comes maturity bringing understanding and perspective. Society in Brave New World eliminates individual identity because by removing age the society is able to treat everyone the same. If we were to take this part of our
What if there was a place where you did not have to, or rather, you could not think for yourself? A place where one's happiness was controlled and rationed? How would you adapt with no freedom of thought, speech, or happiness in general? In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, there are many different attitudes portrayed with the purpose to make the reader think of the possible changes in our society and how they could affect its people.
The first way Aldous Huxley shows the art of happiness is through the World State’s motto, “community, identity, and stability”. Being oneself is the best person one can be. Bernard says “I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly” (Huxley 89). Bernard gets mocked for being short but he does not want be anybody else, he wants to be himself. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if we were all the same? Lenina says “everybody belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 26). This is a powerful quote by Lenina and describes the World State society accurately how the D.H.C
Being unique is a necessary part of life. People are told from being children to adults that they need to be themselves. They are told to do what they love and love what they do. What if the world didn’t allow this? Kurt Vonnegut ponders the idea of a life in which the government enforces complete equality. “Harrison Bergeron” takes place in a future society that hinders people with skills to make everyone equal. This society makes everyone worse instead of better. People having skills and differences is key to life. Equality should be for all in the eyes of the law, however people must be allowed to be unique and have different skills.
The novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley and the Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, both warn that the over reliance on technology can take over independent thinking and lead to the loss of emotions required to make wise decisions. This is demonstrated through the lack of freedom, the usage of drugs and the absence of family bonds. Firstly, lack of freedom is prominent in both articles, showing that reliance on technology removes independent thinking among citizens. Firstly, In Brave New World, Bernard understands that his view on the community is very different and feels imprisoned because he cannot act without restrictions.
A “utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality,” said the famous French novelist Albert Camus in his collection of essays, Between Hell and Reason. History shows us that seemingly exemplary ideals in practice have led to the collapse of societies. Just examine the two most prominent attempts at a utopia: Hitler’s attempt to socialize all of Europe and create the “perfect” Aryan race coupled with Karl Marx’s beliefs to instate communism into society. The final result was the destruction of their perspective visionary worlds. There was one major facet that prevented these two from creating their paradigms: utopias take away individual freedom and identity and therefore society cannot exist. Aldous Huxley’s science fiction novel Brave New World examines the large disconnect between the future and present day societies, showing how several aspects of this dystopian world lead to the downfall of the individual identity, most prominently exemplified by the death of John Savage.
In Huxley’s Brave New World, the lack of freedom is apparent in all aspects of society. “There was something called liberalism. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole” connotes, through the analogy of ‘a round peg’, that freedom is a disruption to the social equilibrium; it is “inefficient and miserable”. This is ironic as the preconditioned happiness provided to the individuals is ‘miserable’ as evident in “the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday”. In addition, “what would it be like if I could, if I were free—not enslaved by my conditioning?” subverts, through the rhetorical question combined with the personal pronoun of ‘I’, the ideals of the government and their intent to control the masses.
As the story begins, Savage is attempting to free the Deltas by freeing them of their drug addiction. To Savage freedom includes the ability to make rational decisions but the Deltas have no ability to rationalize due to their genetic make-up. As Savage is throwing a way the drugs one of his friends, an Alpha who is capable of reason, approaches him but is stopped by reason. Reason prevents him from helping his friend due to indecision and the inability to calculate the action that will create the best outcome. The angry mob of Deltas are subdued with drugs and anger is replaced with happiness. This example demonstrates that without knowing the consequences of one's action, the original action cannot take place. Members of Huxley's Utopian society have been conditioned to believe in an exaggerated utilitarian ethic. Savage is taken to see The Controller who explains why Utopia has no practical use for the goods of a high culture. Art, science, and religion are not as important as simple pleasure when the end goal is happiness. The Controller has found a perfect recipe for happiness and he argues that the elimination of objective truths and aesthetic beauty were necessary to achieve a quiet peaceful life for everyone. Only, the Alphas have the ability to reason and if it is discovered that they are against the utilitarian regime they are immediately removed from society, to eliminate any possibility of social unrest. (Huxley).
Being unique is a necessary part of life. People are told starting as children that they need to be themselves. They are told to do what they love and love what they do. What if the world didn’t allow this? Kurt Vonnegut ponders the idea of a life in which the government enforces complete equality. “Harrison Bergeron” takes place in a future society that hinders people with skills to make everyone equal. This society makes everyone worse instead of better. Complete equality has too many issues for it to be viable. Equality should be for all in the eyes of the law. However, complete equality should not be pursued because taking away the differences between people is a clear mistake.
“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow”. Imagine everything the world being like heaven , no violence and there is stability and identity. This are the identity on the novel of Brave New World a dystopia by English author Aldous Huxley . Brave New World is high in technology and and very futuristic comparing it to our present world. In Brave New World science is used in order to maintain stability and identity , and society is divided by five groups which they go from weakest to strongest , they consisting of deltas epsilons(lowest),gammas, betas,alphas(highest). In the Brave New World, Aldous Huxley shows how society commission, people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the novel. Brave New World,
“[C]ommunity, identity, stability” is the society’s motto in Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, where he places great emphasis on the collective identity within society rather than that of individual identity. His writing poses some interesting questions to me as the reader like, what clear difference is there between the collective identity and mind, compared to an individual’s? How does the society deal with individuals? “Everyone belongs to everyone else,” is a powerful statement from the novel that starts to answer both of these questions. It also shows the mindset of the people, there is no exclusive friendship or relationship for anyone.
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley deftly creates a society that is indeed quite stable. Although they are being mentally manipulated, the members of this world are content with their lives, and the presence of serious conflict is minimal, if not nonexistent. For the most part, the members of this society have complete respect and trust in their superiors, and those who don’t are dealt with in a peaceful manner as to keep both society and the heretic happy. Maintained by cultural values, mental conditioning, and segregation, the idea of social stability as demonstrated in Brave New World is, in my opinion, both insightful and intriguing.
David Grayson once said that "Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different". Difference, or individuality, however, may not be possible under a dictatorial government. Aldous Huxley's satirical novel Brave New World shows that a government-controlled society often places restraints upon its citizens, which results in a loss of social and mental freedom. These methods of limiting human behavior are carried out by the conditioning of the citizens, the categorical division of society, and the censorship of art and religion.
The 20th Century and late 19th Century were periods of great turbulence. Aldous Huxley’s writing of Brave New World, a fictional story about a dystopian society managed by drugs, conditioning, and suppression, was greatly influenced by these turmoils and movements. Occurrences such as World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the second Scientific Revolution, the Great Depression, Modernism, the Industrial Revolution, Henry Ford, and many others had a significant impact upon Huxley’s thoughts, expressed through Brave New World.
There were quite a few changes made from Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World to turn it into a “made for TV” movie. The first major change most people noticed was Bernard Marx’s attitude. In the book he was very shy and timid toward the opposite sex, he was also very cynical about their utopian lifestyle. In the movie Bernard was a regular Casanova. He had no shyness towards anyone. A second major deviation the movie made form the book was when Bernard exposed the existing director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, Bernard himself was moved up to this position. In the book the author doesn’t even mention who takes over the position. The biggest change between the two was Lenina, Bernard’s girlfriend becomes pregnant and has the baby. The screenwriters must have made this up because the author doesn’t even mention it. The differences between the book and the movie both helped it and hurt it.
play a large part in our health and our developmental status. The role of age