...Everyone dreams with the ridiculous idea of having a perfect world without problems, without suffer, without greed, and even with immortality, but what if we found what we were looking for, would it still be perfect. Many talented writers attempted to illustrate the opposite idea that people had about a perfect world because it would create sense into a broken society that just needed a little healing. Before it could be too late, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World with dense dystopian characteristics that certainly painted some sort of dark image in the minds of readers about the type of world that they would face in a distant future. Dystopian novels essentially illustrate a futuristic world that seems perfect in the eyes of others, but...
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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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...Brave New World compared to 1984 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 proper scientific enquiry are antithetical to the demands of the Party, and thus real science has been abolished. Orwell posits a certain level of technological advance—the two-way television screens...
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...With Brave New World, Aldous Huxley has written a novel about dangerous tendencies in the society he lives in. In his novel those tendencies became the truth and the society is controlled by the world state, people are produced through biochemical processes and freedom, individualism and relationships are considered as bad. The dangerous tendencies Huxley saw in his society are still existing in our society, but not as threatening as in Brave New World. One of the things Huxley warns about in his novel is a government that completely controlles its citizen. In Brave New World, people are controlled by sorting them into a class system that is build out of five classes. They are not born naturally and the state only produces peolpe who fit into...
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...If you gave someone the choice between getting what they wanted and not getting what they wanted, they'd choose getting what they wanted every time. This satisfaction of desire, the person would believe, would make them happy. In order to maintain its stability, the State in Brave New World ensures that all its citizens get exactly what they want all the time. In other words, the State is designed to make people happy. According to Tom Stewart, this universal "happiness" is achieved in three ways: “The first is, state uses biological science and psychological conditioning to make sure that each citizen is not only suited to its job but actually prefers that role to anything else. Secondly, through the promotion of promiscuous sex as virtuous...
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...In chapter eleven of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, one of the main characters, John the Savage finally gets to visit London after being raised on the Reservation; only to be disappointed by the lack of individuality. John’s initial reaction of London before leaving the reservation is of praise: “O brave new world” (121); however, after viewing the internal employee workings of a small London factory John also says “O brave new world…” (139) but following his statement he vomits. This event highlights and foreshadows the importance of John as a character to show the bad in a supposedly utopian society, and relates to the novel’s overall theme of oppression of individual differences. A close analysis of the incident and the details used by Huxley to describe this event reveals that John’s “violent retching” (139) reaction to the Brave New world indicates the individuality of John allowing Huxley through this character to draw attention to the downfalls of the Utopian society....
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...There are many different predictions of the future by various people which can influence society to have a better understanding of the world and help to create a better future. These predictions are interpreted differently by society, leading to predictions that are more popular than others. Social critic Neil Postman expresses his opinions on both George Orwell and Aldous Huxley’s visions of the future, believing that Huxley’s less popular vision in Brave New World is more realistic and relevant to current society than Orwell’s vision in 1984. Postman’s assertion was correct, and Brave New World is more accurate than 1984 in its predictions of the future, as it provides a better understanding of contemporary society. Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, provides a better prediction of the future because of its assumptions on implosion of society. Rather than portraying the idea of an outside force such as the government taking over America and destroying society, Huxley proclaims that, “no Big Brother is required to deprive the people of their autonomy, maturity, and history.” An external force is not required to destroy...
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...Brave New World is a novel written by Alduous Huxley in 1931. This novel takes place in a New World where humans are made from tubes, separated into castes, and conditioned to fit specific areas of society. There is no such thing as mothers, fathers, children, or family. All of the essential human needs are fabricated through social experiences. The people are used as workers to serve the community. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. The director of the center is giving a tour to young students about how humans are created. The director informs the students that human beings are no longer produce living offspring, instead they are developed from test tubes. This gives the opportunity to start a new system...
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...Both Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 predict similar totalitarian government styles for the near future of mankind. These novels portray excessive control and oppression from the government to their people. The protagonists from these novels, John the Savage (John) and Winston Smith, are outcasts from the totalitarian society. Their contributions to these books offer incredible insight to the horrors and seemingly helpless rebellion against an oppressive world state. John is Huxley’s protagonist who enters the story a little later than in normal stories in Brave New World. John was born in a exiled reserve outside of the mainstream world state. He grew up fully acknowledging that he is an outcast and shows that he wants to embrace...
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...Dystopia: The World Today Introduction Written in 1931 and published a year after, The Brave New World (1932) contradicts the idea of Utopia (perfect world); a type of novel that queries the values of 1931 London using satire to dramatically represent a futuristic world in which occurring fads in British and America have been taken to extremity. People from The World State are living peacefully, free from any kind of war, abhorrence, impecuniousness, illness and physical sufferings. The novel depicts a potentially perfect world, not to mention people can enjoy wealth in terms of material possessions and all form of pleasures. Using high technology, human beings no longer have to conceive. They are created in factories wherein they are being prepared for future lives. The children are raised altogether and minds are controlled through sleep-teaching to further enhance their condition. As they turn to be adults, people are already destined to certain classes. And if one was unfortunately destined to be of the lower class, he would be raised to generally like the kind of life designated to him and be trained not to like nor appreciate - basically to the extent of being manipulated - other roles but theirs. They are subjected to engage or yield themselves in totally harmless entertainment and physical activities as form of leisure. There are several anticipations which were depicted by Huxley in The Brave New World. Although some of them may not be totally proven by this time,...
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...Brave New World: Methods of control Tiffany Yeung All around the world, there are different figures of authority with different methods of control in order to prevent chaos from rising within the society. “Brave New World”, is a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley and in the brave new world society, we witness a futuristic approach to a variety of methods of control in order to maintain stability. In our society today, many countries use fear as a way to manipulate and to control, however in the world state, they take on a different approach and use different methods to suppress rebellion. The world state uses scientific development and technological advances to manipulate human behaviour into making the citizens happy with their predestined roles. Specifically, the use of conditioning, the controlled reproduction and medical labs, and the use of soma is all used as different factors in order to manipulate the citizens and create a society based on science and technology, consumerism and happiness. By having the citizens being manipulated to enjoy their lives and be happy, there is little room for rebellion resulting in maintained stability and order for the world state. The use of classical conditioning is thoroughly described and used in the book and is a major factor that contributes to the manipulation of the citizens. This process was first discovered when a young boy recited an entire broadcast that was played during his sleep...
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...After the year 1984 passed the world breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell’s prophecy of oppression by government or a “big brother” did not come true. In 1985 Neil Postman published Amusing Ourselves to Death in which he describes a takeover of a passive society using Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as the prophecy. Postman describes imminent death by comparing Orwellian fears to those of Huxley’s: “We had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another – slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing…What Orwell feared were those who ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy…In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World they are controlled by inflicting pleasure” (vii). With entertainment and technology surrounding the population everyday...
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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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...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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...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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