Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" wrote in 1932 gives the readers his

opinion on the dangers and major concerns of the future. In this book

he explicitly describes a reality in which humans are mass produced in

test-tubes due to advances in science. This insight into the future is

both detailed and shocking; the warnings it sends out to its readers

are incredibly clear and soon become apparent. In this essay, I aim to

explain, in detail, the warnings, risks and why its subject is still

relevant for the twenty first century reader.

The first episode we see in this book, on the first page, depicts an

image of an empty society, whereby humans are produced not created.

The image Huxley displays is of a distressed society, a dark society

with little enjoyment and even fewer emotions. In Huxley's world all

recreational activities such as schooling or playing have been deleted

from the human upbringing. This means no natural bonding or education,

the form of education that is utilised is a form of hypnopaedia, this

means reciting information to children then requesting their

repetition. However this form of education is very ineffective.

Besides tight lines in education the borders in society itself are

very strict, the groups of humans such as Alphas and Betas are bonding

and reproducing in their groups not with other human forms, contact

with the outside world is strictly regulated and when Lenina has a

relationship with John (someone who was born naturally) the directors

are shocked and appalled by such behaviour. Clearly the directors want

to create a separate world from that of natural living and to enforce

this, as little contact with the outside world as possible is made. In

this respect Brave New World issues a warning in the future whereby

the laws affecting society are as strict as this, and image which

certainly isn't appealing but is very real, border control between

countries at this day is relatively strict so Brave New World depicts

a possible image of the future.

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