...“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity…The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Like that void in the “Brave new world”, history die away, and future never came. What’s left is nothing but few pieces of meat. What’s left is nothing but “vanity”. Yes, that “Brave new world” don’t have any past; they have been destroy in those “necessary” violence. They won’t have any future; they strangle it right in the swaddling clothes with “stability”. They don’t even have “now”, because what’s happening is just an endless void. But our world don’t. We still have something “meaningful’. We have our past, now and future....
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...Sometimes in society it feels as if we are pressured to feel or act a certain way by the government and that we are not in control of ourselves, but they are. The two novels Brave New World and 1984 are both good examples of complete government control but when comparing the two it is evident that the governments have different views on the control of sex and morality. In the novel Brave New World it is obvious that the government is in complete control of its society. Within this government it control the thoughts, actions and fate of all citizens starting from before the human is even born. "We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies and socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewer Workers or future...He was going to say future World Controllers, but correcting himself, said Future Directors of Hatcheries instead" By stating this, the impression is given that the government has ultimate plans for every human, they choose those plans and abide by them for their own benefit. From even before a child is born they are categorized and have a job chosen for them. By choosing these jobs the government in the long run is also controlling the future of their society and their hope was to have many World Controllers also known as Future Directors of Hatcheries, which is a job that will continue the idea of ultimate control. Similarly, in the novel 1984 the government also attempts to have complete control of the minds and bodies of its citizens. One citizen...
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...23 October 12 Breaking a Social Norm In the novel Brave New World, the government is in control of everything. All individuals of a class are expected to act the same. Even though there are four different classes in the society (ADV PHRASE), they are all taught to act like others in their society. Also students in modern high school have a way of acting the same. As an example, the way people are judged when they are pregnant at a young age or any age at all is similar in both examples. Fitting in is a crucial standard for all society’s in today’s world, as well in the Brave New World society. In both Brave New World and high school society, being different is seen as a violation of preconceived expectations. The government in Brave New World (ADV PHRASE) controls how people are raised from the time they are born. Each class is raised a certain way and the people in the class accept who they are and what that means without exception. Becoming part of another class never enters their mind. For example, a women having her own children in the Brave New World society is completely unacceptable. The government makes the children and even though women could have children, the expectation is that they do not. If a student in high school (ADV PHRASE) was going to have a baby, the classmates of that student would judge her negatively just like the people of the World State Society. The connection that is made between these two comparisons is that getting pregnant while you are young...
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...Brave New World and The Time Machine Critically explore the extent to which the personal themes in Well’s THE TIME MACHINE (1895) and Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932) responded to the prevailing ideologies of social class that were present in England at their time of writing Keep in mind Wells wrote/rewrote The Time Machine, on and off, for around 12 years before it saw publication. Brave New World was apparently written in 1931 (and so the sharp change in ideas caused by the Great Depression could have shaped the novel.) Society is defined as “the aggregate of people living together in an ordered community” (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/society). Every nation on this planet is comprised of many societies which all differ in their own ways. As time passes, society itself changes. The morals or beliefs that a society once stood by overtime, radically change to form a newer, revolutionized set of ideas. Fields like science and technology reach their most advanced states. Members of a society can also change. In most cases, members develop according to the new rules or ideals that are of the norm. Some changes are for the betterment of society while others prove to have more negative impacts. These are all changes one can expect when time travelling. Although, one cannot prepare themselves for the societies I have recently seen. Throughout my time travelling I have never come across two societies so strange. Both societies were of terrifying living conditions. One can...
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...“Freedom or Perfection?” Conditioning and technology have become exceedingly common in many first world countries. Most individuals do not realize the effect conditioning and technology has on them and how it shapes them and their future. The world of technology has drastically grown over the past century, allowing mankind to accomplish feats deemed impossible in decades past. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, conditioning and technology play an enormous role in society. In the World State, the state of affairs is preserved through conditioning and technology, causing a lack of humanity to be evident. Technology controls many aspects of one’s life in Brave New World, resulting in limitations of freedoms. Throughout the novel, Huxley displays many situations where the implementation of technology has been used to create stability. The reader is introduced to “Bokanovsky’s Process” at the start of the novel; the process essentially allows 96 babies to be born from one embryo. This procedure produces “[m]illions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology,” (Huxley 5). Mass production is an invention which allows consumer goods to be created faster and sold cheaper. Therefore, consumer goods are easily replaceable, implying that children and the population as a whole is easily replaceable, thus diminishing the value of life. The significance and uniqueness of any one individual is abolished, causing everyone to be viewed as equal before the...
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...Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New world is a dystopian novel written in England in 1931 and published in 1932 during the Modernism literary period. The setting of the novel is in London and New Mexico ruled under an imagined future one-world government called the World State. The World State of Brave New World is a totalitarian dystopia that uses technology to, deceive its citizens into loving their slavery. Dystopia is a society, in this case the World State, that is an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dystopian novel due to the rise of technology and science in the 1930s, focusing on the totalitarianism evils (meaning centralized or dictatorial). Huxley imagined a future of a totalitarian state where there is no such thing as freedom of anything and happiness was forced through manipulation, called conditioning in the novel. When Huxley wrote Brave New World, it was just a little over a decade since World War I. During this time, totalitarian states were popping up in the Soviet Union and Fascist parties were gaining power in Europe. Also, there were advancements in science, technology, and the relationship between the two as the world became more industrialized. Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to a well-known family of scientists, writers, and teachers deeply rooted in England’s literary...
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...described by Huxley in “Brave New World,” and not the world described in Orwell’s “1984.” He does an excellent job proving facts and disturbing anecdotes, but he lacks showing the audience an opposing viewpoint. Despite this he is able to clearly show is agreement, by proving emotion supported by fact. Postman is able to connect with his audience through his credentials. The student feels that Postman shows a dangerous path that American Culture may be on, and is able to provide a warning to those who listen to his speech. Analysis of Neal Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” “What is dangerous about television is not it’s junk. Every culture can absorb a fair amount of junk, and, in any case, we do not judge a culture by its junk but by how it conducts its serious public business. What is happening in America is that television is transforming all serious public business into junk.” (Postman, 1984, p. 2) In his speech, "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman, Columbia University graduate, and one time chair of the Department of Culture and Communication, made the point that American culture is headed for a culture like that described in Adlus Huxley's "Brave New World," and not the culture described in George Orwell's, "1984." He described the world imagined in 1984 as a place where there were no books, and where the people are prisoners to the government that controls them. In contrast, Mr. Postman describes the culture in "Brave New World," by saying that there...
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...these feelings, Huxley wrote one of his best works, Brave New World, in 1931. Brave New World is a dystopian novel that takes place in a futuristic setting where extensive improvements to science and technology has created a world that is foreign to all readers. Throughout Huxley’s adult life, his interpretations of Henry Ford and the...
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...place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives”. Brave New World and The Matrix both take place in scientifically advanced, futuristic, and horribly imperfect worlds that strip people of human individuality. In Brave New World, the World State controls every aspect of human life, all psychological, economic, and social factors. The world that Huxley has created is a place where free thinking has never been a thought, and the freedom to choose can never be chosen. In the Matrix, a technological evolution creates artificial intelligence, that views humanity as a virus that needs to be eliminated. In the movies, people are “programed” before they are born so they can be controlled. The worlds of The Matrix and Brave New World both revolve around societies that are scientifically advanced and controlling of all aspects of human life. The World State system in Brave New World is centered around consumerism. In the novel, society modifies human behaviors so that people will want to consume goods and spend as much money as possible. They are brainwashed to think that they live in the perfect system because they don’t feel pain, discomfort, or recognize injustice but their incomprehensible truth is they don’t live real life. (Read this next sentence dramatically) They're all living a lie because they don’t got no freedom! The person who controls this society is called “The Director”. The citizens of the World State are separated into 5 groups Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gammas...
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...Throughout history, it has struck fear into the American people. Such anxiety can be seen in the film Brave New World (1980), directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. The movie was not only an adoption of the text, but also a social commentary of what was occurring at the time. During this period, the Vietnam War was being fought and the United States thought that if Vietnam were to become a communist country, all of Asia would soon follow. The movie was a manifestation of the terror that was sweeping across the nation as people were uncertain whether or not they would wake up tomorrow and see that they are under the control of the Soviet Union. The film illustrates what was happening at the time, and what would happen if the USSR had won the war and the world had fallen under the rule of communism. In Brave New World, everyone had a function from the Epsilons to the Alphas. This is similar to how in a communist system, everyone has a role and serves a purpose, and if this service were not to be met, then those in power would take...
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...Brave new world & The Time Machine Comparative Essay Society is defined as “the aggregate of people living together in an ordered community” (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/society). Every nation on this planet is comprised of many societies which all differ in their own ways. As time passes, society itself changes. The morals or beliefs that a society once stood by overtime, radically change to form a newer, revolutionized set of ideas. Fields like science and technology reach their most advanced states. Members of a society can also change. In most cases, members develop according to the new rules or ideals that are of the norm. Some changes are for the betterment of society while others prove to have more negative impacts. These are all changes one can expect when time travelling. Although, one cannot prepare themselves for the societies I have recently seen. Throughout my time travelling I have never come across two societies so strange. Both societies were of terrifying living conditions. One can easily draw about similarities to categorize them as dystopias however; the individual societies differ from each other in many ways. The two dystopian societies differ greatly in aspects of individualism, gender relations, and social hierarchy. The two societies hold opposing views on individualism. The first society was known as The World State. This society was one that gave technology a high, almost religious-like importance. The ruling class had all of...
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...The Life and Death of Aldous Huxley Through examining Brave New World, one can infer that Aldous Huxley’s fears of the demise of today’s consumer society, rise in use of technology, and reliance on religion entitled him to express his concerns. From his experiences in Italy under an authoritarian government headed by Mussolini to his late life in California, Mr. Huxley always, “played the role of a critical observer of accepted tradition, customs, social norms, and ideals.”(www.egs.com) Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894 in Godalming in southern England into a very successful and scientific family. His father was a school teacher/writer, two of his three brothers were scientist, and his grandfather had been nicknamed “Darwin’s Bulldog”...
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...Savannah Morris Faris Honors English IV 09 January 2015 A Maggot-Less World A Utopia is an imaginative place that is beautiful in every aspect and is the author’s perspective of a “perfect society”. Aldous Huxley creates this Utopia in his novel, “Island”. He creates a perfect society with limited technology and a union of all people to work together. Huxley creates this Utopia during a time period of corruption and new discoveries. As the nation enters the literary time period of “the beat period”, Huxley's unconscious idea of a Utopian society is displayed uncensored in “Island” as opposed to “Brave New World” and he provides his personal solution to the world’s problems. In “Island” by Aldous Huxley the main character, Will Farnaby,...
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...“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell” (“Aldous Huxley”). The World State, in Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a controlled society where drugs are the center and motivation of religion. The citizens are merely brainwashed picture-perfect clones used to conceal the conspiracies of the impertinent government. Huxley incorporates uncanny mood, concealed context, and spine-chilling foreshadowing in Brave New World to show that an ideal, happy, and well organized society cannot be achieved without the use of drugs and complete control over population, thoughts, and emotions. Throughout the novel, uncanny mood is included in the text to portray the emotional attachments the World State citizens have towards drugs. In the World State,...
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...ones. On August 5, 2010, a small copper mine in northern Chile collapsed trapping inside of it 33 miners. The mining company Minera San Esteban Primera, had to take on the very difficult task of informing families, workers within the company, and media about this fatal accident. These miners were trapped some 300 meters underground, they had limited oxygen supplies, little food, or water for such a catastrophe. The agents chosen by the company to handle these releases took great care in how straightforward and honest information was delivered in order to keep the company’s reputation intact. Once news was leaked of the accident and everyone glued themselves to their television from around the world to watch the story unfold not knowing whether or not these brave men would live to see the sun again. Their fate was unknown for more than two weeks, until the rescuers reached their refuge discovering them alive. After a total of 69 days, the first worker was lifted to the surface. So now we ask ourselves how did the company which had a poor...
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