...Brave New World Brave New World is a form of utopian literature. It’s an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. The novel takes place in 632 A.F. (After Ford, the god of the New World). It takes place in a time where man is desperate for beliefs (and structures also a relief from pain.). All civilization has been destroyed by a great war. Then there is another war, the Nine Years War, which begins the era of Ford, ensuring stability through dictatorship. The society in Brave new world is based on a strict caste system. The highest of the five castes enjoy easier and better tasks, while the lower ones perform unskilled and all the dirty jobs. Ten Controllers hold all the power in this new world and peace is maintained by training infant minds and by dulling down adults with the tranquilizer, “soma.” The population is further controlled through scientific methods; marriage is forbidden, and children are not born but produced in an embryo factory THEME: Science and its influences on humanity is the major theme of Brave New World. The novel depicts a new society where human beings have been stripped of individual freedom, programmed to certain types of behavior, and conditioned to respond in scientific ways to specific stimulants. All traces of the old order have been eliminated. No longer are human emotions or relationships important. Infants are created in...
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...America is a land of conformists because of how we act socially, how our current education system is set up, and how we the people exercise constitutional rights. In our current society we are pressured by ourselves to fit in. When you are a new student, usually you hope to: “fit in.” Fitting in can consist of following the crowd, doing things to fit into a group. This is the new normal within this country. People believe that if they don't, they will lose reputation and other made up thoughts. Anthem is the same kind of society, in the way they act socially. In Anthem you...
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...words are the 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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...the time. It was controversial through some literature authors who were against such text. Brave New World is set in future-London 632 A.F. (After Henry Ford). The society is set as utopian times. Humans are produced in assembly lines and are manipulated right away after being born. They develop a hatred for books and flowers or anything that is ordinary in our world that brings...
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...addictions including shopping, exercise, gambling, internet, abusive relationships, and many others often do not take the spotlight and are also unhealthy. With the increased awareness about addictions in our world today, its effects are a growing concern for future generations. The word ‘addiction’ does not only apply to substance and alcohol abuse. Recently the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D.S.M.), the standard reference work for psychiatric illnesses, announced [in the last decade] updated definitions of substance abuse and addiction, including a new category of behavioral addictions (Markel).'' Although substance addictions are accompanied by a variety of...
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...Scientism and Technocracy in Brave New World Introduction Brave New World is well recognized as a dystopian novel, in which Aldous Huxley satirically criticized scientism and technocracy. In this new world, science and technology was paramount. It dominated all aspects of human life. Humans were mass produced in laboratory and factories; human moral value were moulded by sleeping teaching; human emotions were controlled by soma. The overuse of science and technology reduced humans to one-dimensional man without individuality and the ability of critical thinking. Human beings were used as tools for political and economic purposes. The thesis is to study scientism and technocracy, the "improper application of science to human life", from two aspects: the interference with human physical life and the elimination of human spiritual life. Scientism and Technocracy Scientism, according to Zhu Wang, is "an excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and technology to solve all human problems including spiritual crisis" (194). It is "the authority of natural sciences, dominating all aspects of human life and rejecting religion, philosophy, art, and literature" (194). In Brave New World, Huxley depicted a dystopian society to condemn the excessive use of science and technology which eliminated human individuality and civilization. He pointed out in his Complete Essays Vol.6 that science was "the reduction of multiplicity to unity….the theoretical reduction...
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...In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley expresses how being cut off from your family, home, and birthplace, can be both enriching and alienating to a person, contributing to the theme of happiness over the truth. Huxley utilizes the character John, also known as the savage, in order to magnify the repercussions of being cut off from your family and to express how being separated from his mother augmented John into a stronger person. Throughout the novel, many characters are shown to choose their happiness, in the form of soma, over the truth of the world. However, because John was different from everyone else, he chose the truth of his suffering over the possibility of false happiness. John’s home was found in his mother and him growing apart from her left him feeling that his life was now hopeless and without meaning. However, unlike his mother and all of London, he chose not to fix this suffering with soma. Instead, John lived in seclusion in his room, mourning what he once had with his mother and imagining what could have been. This estrangement hurt John because he lost the only relationship he ever had, the only home...
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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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...In the opening paragraph of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley conveys a coldly scientific detachment in his use of capitalization, syntax, and detail. The paragraph begins with two fragments, and the word “SQUAT” which conveys, like the fragments, something clipped, squelched, or subdued. What is squelched seems to be the humanity and individuality of human beings. The capitalization of words like “CENTRAL,” “CONDITIONING,” “CENTER,” and “STABILITY,” following a reference to the “World State,” connote a homogeny, conformity, and uniformity that seem to be devoid of human variety. In a like manner, the use of capitalization standardizes the language. Huxley’s word choice also contributes to the lack of human warmth and feeling conveyed in...
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...Richard Bach The novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a very fantastic novel. I have judged this novel very wrongly because I really thought that’s it’s all just about a dump of boring seagulls that search for enlightenment and predictably ends finding it. But it wasn’t! It suddenly became one of my favorite novels of all time. Living in this world full of people, pretending to be something they’re not, I realized that every one of us is trying to fit in. For me, this novel will really help out those people who fear to be uncovered and I should know. This novel is all about creativity and individuality. To stand up for something you strongly believe in is really brave indeed. Creativity, I should say, makes us smarter. Routine living dulls our mind. Creative expression gives our brain a workout, activating new circuits in our grey matter. Creativity does not necessarily require an act of will or sweat on the brow. It’s about getting beyond logic and to see more than meets the eye. Creativity asks us to change the way we live our lives, to turn away from the “normal” way of doing things and express individuality. Conformity isn’t creative. Neither is routine. Jonathan did exactly the same. He turned away from the norm and started up all on his own as an outcast. Later, he found out the true meaning of life which is to touch perfection and show it forth. All this he learned in a very dramatic way. He meets this powerful seagull, Chiang, and gained friends who became...
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...The novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a very fantastic novel. I have judged this novel very wrongly because I really thought that’s it’s all just about a dump of boring seagulls that search for enlightenment and predictably ends finding it. But it wasn’t! It suddenly became one of my favorite novels of all time. Living in this world full of people, pretending to be something they’re not, I realized that every one of us is trying to fit in. For me, this novel will really help out those people who fear to be uncovered and I should know. This novel is all about creativity and individuality. To stand up for something you strongly believe in is really brave indeed. Creativity, I should say, makes us smarter. Routine living dulls our mind. Creative expression gives our brain a workout, activating new circuits in our grey matter. Creativity does not necessarily require an act of will or sweat on the brow. It’s about getting beyond logic and to see more than meets the eye. Creativity asks us to change the way we live our lives, to turn away from the “normal” way of doing things and express individuality. Conformity isn’t creative. Neither is routine. Jonathan did exactly the same. He turned away from the norm and started up all on his own as an outcast. Later, he found out the true meaning of life which is to touch perfection and show it forth. All this he learned in a very dramatic way. He meets this powerful seagull, Chiang, and gained friends who became his great teachers...
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...“God, glory, and gold” –Europeans broke away from the area they confined themselves in for the almost a millennium in search for these. Although the Europeans never really lost touch which the outside world, their contact with non-European civilization stayed limited. Europeans soon embarked on many overseas journeys and found what was known as the “New World.” Many explorers such as Christopher Columbus found native people in the “New World.” Despite the differences from Europeans, the natives flourished in their own way; however, that all changed when Europeans flooded the land. The exploration and colonization on the native peoples in the fifteenth century by explorers such as Columbus and Cortés killed much of the population due to foreign...
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...he or she have at their disposal. Power can be defined as a overbearing control over a population or individual. People who are affected by power can be individual or a whole family can be manipulated. Power can cause a person to follow out of fear or out of trust, but the ultimate goal of welding power is the outcome can be the betterment of everyone involved or just the advancement of those in power. One form of power that can be welded over people is conformity. Conformity is the action of doing what the majority states is appropriate in order to be accepted. That means the majority of the group makes the rules and everyone follows the rules or get discarded. There is acceptable and unacceptable practice that leads to good and bad penalty. For example society which is the majority of the people agree that stealing is wrong, therefore a law was made to inform people stealing is wrong. If a person is caught stealing there are consequences that are set in place such as jail time which is enforced by the police. Conformity is not the only tool used by society to persuade its people to follow the demands and standards. Social perception and social cognition also play a significant role in getting people to follow the rules. Social perception works in three steps. The first step is the observer will watch the behavior or the observed and make assumptions. The second step is the assumptions will be connected to possible motivation or intention of the observed person. The third...
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...Richard Bach The novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a very fantastic novel. I have judged this novel very wrongly because I really thought that’s it’s all just about a dump of boring seagulls that search for enlightenment and predictably ends finding it. But it wasn’t! It suddenly became one of my favorite novels of all time. Living in this world full of people, pretending to be something they’re not, I realized that every one of us is trying to fit in. For me, this novel will really help out those people who fear to be uncovered and I should know. This novel is all about creativity and individuality. To stand up for something you strongly believe in is really brave indeed. Creativity, I should say, makes us smarter. Routine living dulls our mind. Creative expression gives our brain a workout, activating new circuits in our grey matter. Creativity does not necessarily require an act of will or sweat on the brow. It’s about getting beyond logic and to see more than meets the eye. Creativity asks us to change the way we live our lives, to turn away from the “normal” way of doing things and express individuality. Conformity isn’t creative. Neither is routine. Jonathan did exactly the same. He turned away from the norm and started up all on his own as an outcast. Later, he found out the true meaning of life which is to touch perfection and show it forth. All this he learned in a very dramatic way. He meets this powerful seagull, Chiang, and gained friends who became...
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...In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx’s character is established as an individual seeking social acceptance, yet one who is also confined by society’s expectations. Though he resists society initially, underlying his strained unorthodox ways and perceived rejection of social norms is a man who ultimately needs to be accepted. Huxley shows readers the multifaceted sides of Bernard’s journey towards acceptance, while also creating a utopia-like world. Initially, Bernard is a character who is dissatisfied with himself. It was being rejected that forged Bernard’s resentment towards society - this is apparent in his hypocrisy at the Solidarity Service and how he goes out of his way to unorthodox in chapter seven, when they arrive at...
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