...Shakespeare’s plays, especially King Lear, in Brave New World .Often times both authors use Aristotelian conventions like reversal or recognition or they use motifs like those about clothes and God. They use these concepts to inform their respective audiences of the irony in the words “civilization” and “nobility”. They relay to the audience that nobility and baseness are not determined by birth, but rather by action. The writers juxtapose opposing concepts like savagery and civilization or nobility and baseness to allow the audience to understand that these terms are ironic. Similarly, they use techniques like reversal and recognition with motifs like those concerning clothes to express the same message. Initially Huxley uses the motif of nobility to show that his views on nobility are similar to those of Shakespeare, as he believes nobility should be based on ones actions. In King Lear Shakespeare repeatedly refers to Burgundy as “noble Burgundy” (1.1.223). He does this in order to show the irony in calling him noble as Burgundy is noble by birth, but not by action. This is obvious when Burgundy dismisses the idea of marrying Cordelia, once Lear removes her dowry, which in his eyes makes her worthless while in the eyes of France her worth does not change. Huxley uses the same motif to emphasize that there is a lack of nobility in the World State. In Kazi 2 Brave New World John Savage is one of the only people in the World State who has a proper understanding of what...
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...Brave New World Lately there has been a lot of buzz in the media about the oppressive regime that President Obama is running. The government of Brave New World is miles ahead of where our government is at. In Brave New World Huxley drawls a comparison between civilized society and un-civilized society by using themes of God and emotion. This story compares our everyday life to a bran new life where the government has molded people to be exactly what they want. This novel is very interesting but is written in a very harsh and depressing tone. In Brave New World everyday life as we know it is completely changed. humans are taught to hate books, flowers, and the wilderness. Sex is considered a great thing that everyone must do as this quote explains “Everyone belongs to everyone else .” Being exclusive with someone is considered a horrible thing, you must be with more than one person at a time. People are not taught how the world used to be, they have no idea about parents, families, and making your own choices. For this novel alone time is golden time. As disturbing as this novel is could it be reality? Huxley wrote Brave New World how he sees our society to be is real life. He feels our government is too controlling over our everyday life. In this novel I got the impression that Huxley feels our government tells us what to and what not to do or like. In this novel there is only one person who has actually grown up in what our opinion of normal is, and that is the savage...
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...foundation of the dystopian world created by author Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World. In this novel, Huxley creates a society known as the World State in which individuals are created and designed to play a specific role in society. Much of the way the society is built reflects the philosophy of Karl Marx. Huxley creates this new world to ironically mirror the ideas of Marxism in how it can ensure social stability. Or can it? Brave New World was written in 1932 during a time with no economic stability or security and after the Industrial Revolution where most of the workforce consisted of cheap labor within factories. It was a time where wealth was distributed only to those...
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...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 in...
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...Upon entering the “Squat Grey Building” that is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre; you will see the motto of the World State: Community, Identity, and Stability. These three words reflect the ultimate goal of the Utopia that is the World State. “Community” means that everyone within the Utopia must work together to maximize happiness for the society as a whole. “Identity” refers to the five classes of hereditary social groups that are created through genetic engineering. Finally, “Stability” refers to the ultimate goal of the Utopia. By creating similar people and censoring and controlling actions, the society looks to minimize conflict, risk, and overall change. The three goals of the World State are completely controlled through the use of science and technology in Brave New World, which thereby stripped its residents of all social aspects and personal freedoms. By creating the Brave New World Huxley shows the importance of technology and progress to society, which makes us stop and consider how our current progress and advancements in technology have affected our society as a whole. Before looking into how people in the World State are restricted from having any free will, it is important to define what it means to be human. In my opinion, all humans are born with free will. I would define free will as the equal and inalienable rights to be an individual who can make their own choices. The ability to act at one’s own discretion without constraint...
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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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...In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, a dystopian society clouds the minds of its inhabitants. In fact, the entire novel is bustling with characters who are eager to follow the rules of the society because they are forever afraid of the repercussions they would encounter if they do not. This eagerness has gone to the extreme to the point where the individuals are following rules out of lack of knowledge of the truly moral options that are not provided. In dystopian societies like the one in this novel, the detrimental effects of escapism can be widely discussed to show the impact the rules have on the people and eventually the impact the people have on the rules. Once one looks deeper into the complex hierarchy and mechanisms of such a...
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...Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World now reflect current attitudes towards legal drug use? Have we become a society of self-medicating pill poppers desperate to avoid extreme emotions? Ashlie Hodges examines drug use in our society. Huxley’s novel challenges contemporary social values and expectations, while remaining relevant to the 21st century. The classic dystopian novel Brave New World was published in 1932 and is set in the year 2540. The title is a nod to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as the play directly features the words Brave New World. The message of taking legal drugs to avoid mental illness and emotions...
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...Nallely Aguilar Ms. Rogers 18 April 2017 Honors World Literature Brave New World By Aldous Huxley "The principle of mass production at last applied to biology"( chapter 1). In this scene the Director of Hatcheries is leading a group of students on a tour of the facility. The Hatchery biologically mass-produces its citizens to populate the area of Western Europe . The tour starts off in the Fertilizing Room, where eggs donated by women are kept in test tubes until fertilized and divided into five castes—Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. This quote symbolizes that the narrator takes on a satiric tone, as he gives the description of the lower three castes after the Director explains the advantages of the Bokanovsky Process. I feel...
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...If Brave New World was Aldous Huxley's technocratic purgatory, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four describes a hell beyond Huxley's worst fears. Compare and contrast the two novels as visions of a future that has gone dramatically wrong. Brave New World and 1984 were both written by men who had experienced war on the grand scale of the twentieth century. Disillusioned and alarmed by what they saw in society, each author produced a powerful satire and an alarming vision of future possibilities. Although the two books are very different, they address many of the same issues in their contrasting ways. Huxley's novel sets out a world in which society is kept carefully balanced, with the means of reproduction just as closely controlled as the means of production. Human beings and the goods they make are tailored to one another: people are created in order to fulfil particular purposes, and are encouraged to consume so as to maintain the cycle. The society presented in 1984 is less comfortably balanced. The population is kept content with a rather meagre lot because of the constant war, which, as is explicitly stated in the Book, is a convenient means of maintaining the status quo, and the Party keeps a very close watch on those members of society who are deemed capable of disrupting it. Although set in Orwell's future, 1984 does not put great emphasis on technological advance—indeed, within the society of Oceania, there is effectively none any more, because the methods required for...
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...V Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World creates an illusion of a society in which civilians believe they are truly happy. The government uses different methods to alter the mindset of the people in the novel. By removing specific attributes from people’s lives, such as individuality, artistic representation and self-awareness; Huxley demonstrates the psychological hold the government has on civilization. By offering comfort whilst removing individuality it was a perfect tool that the government took advantage of in order to distract the population. Brave New World takes place in a utopian society. In this society it is imperative that the government instills a system in which individuality is nonexistent and the undoing of mother nature must occur. The implementation of these conditions is what is perceived to give people a sense of a “happily ever after” life. This Is done to maintain a sense of stability in society. Stability is the main goal for the leaders in the society, if everybody is the same and stability is maintained it is easier for people to be controlled. In the novel Watts states “…. tragedy does not Daramola 2 arise from...
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...substantial degree than ever, recognized by readers of his novel, Brave New World. This portrays a world centered around scientific progress and control. Huxley brings to light the extremity of influence given to Americans by revolutionary science. In an effort to forever improve, society has conformed to many ways of fixing imperfections. From surgeries and medications for honest sicklings to injections for greedy, pretentious abusers, people as a whole have transformed from the good ole days to the fast-paced, materialistic world. While discoveries in science are often for the benefit of society, is it possible that these newfound treasures are actually a preface for rot and ruin? Since most little girls could remember, the only way it seemed plausible to become successful was by living in the body of Cinderella or Barbie or Miss America. As they began to mature, nothing changed. The image remained as a beautiful bag of bones when media and celebrities were constantly thrown in their face. In the past, if they didn’t have “the look”, they were left hopeless and self-conscious. Thankfully, some idiot decided they would abuse the power of nature and science by providing these girls with an answer to their prayers. Plastic Surgery! What they didn’t account for was the impact. Now, not only were the glamorous allowed to have the image, everyone was-again, reducing the confidence in the female population and encouraging a new friend, bullying. Moreover, it is affecting the mental health...
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..."Mind Control: Orwell, Huxley, and Today's Reality - Zen Gardner." Zen Gardner. N.p., 03 Sept. 2014. Web. 30 Oct. 2015. Zen Gardner a literary journals on “How the World Work” wrote a literary comparison of 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Relating the dystopian novels by showing the comparison of mindcontrol from both novels. This reliable source talks about further on in the article about how today's society is Nothing like the fictional place of Oceania in the ways of how society works. But in the ways of mindcontrol use in orwell's novel is very critical and surveillance is very much like today's society. This sources is very reliable in the ways it is put with facts to back up opinions and the credentials of of the author with a degree from Stanford. This literary journal is a great source with the thesis question I picked for my project. It gives me a different view on mind control in 1984 and how mind control is in today's...
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...Wow! This was first reaction to answer this question. It's probably the oximoron of novel comparisons. Ban books, no reason to read." books. Inflicting pain, inflicting pleasure. There is no grey area here. It's black or white, democrat or republican. Two totally different literary masterpieces. Huxley's "Brave New World" published in 1932, portrayed a world of preiscuous sex, no war, no poverty, no crime, and everybody was using a suposively perfect drug called "Soma." The drug use and unlimted sexual freedom gave them comfort and a false sense of hapiness. Orwell's "1984" was published in 1949 and received immedaite attendtion in England and the United States. Orwell died at age 46 of TB six months after it was published, so he never got to see how his predictions would pan out....
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...'1984' Today." CNN. Cable News Network, 3 Aug. 2013. Web. 01 Nov. 2015. Lewis Beale a CNN journalist wrote a news story on how George Orwell's 1984 is happening now in today's society. Beale goes on to tell on how the government is constantly monitoring citizens through social media and surveillance cameras in public areas. using fear to shape citizens into the civilians the government wants them to be. He compares today's society to the scary futuristic community Orwell imagined. Lewis tells on how today's society is willing to give up freedom and their right to privacy because of fear. That the government uses fear to spy on everyone, he gives the example of the government using terrorism as way to spy on citizens through social media. With this article being opinion based, Beale makes it clear and understandable for the reader to see his viewpoint. It has a easy to read layout with bold titles making it clear on what each paragraph is about. The Fact that the article was published on CNN, makes it...
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