Beauty In Brave New World
Proponents of a unified culture claim that “beauty” must be taught from as early as birth. However, a more accurate view of this issue is that beauty must be seen as a trait everyone is born with, rather than it being mistaken as an idea that can be conditioned or embedded into human minds. This idea can be heavily seen in Brave New world by Aldous Huxley. For years, society's idea of beauty has been the main factor in determining how people dress, act, and look. Cultures are being morphed into an image that is trying to reflect beauty. Children from a very young age are conditioned r5to see themselves in a certain way. Not only do men and women feel this pressure, but society's overpowering influence on cultures around the world is making
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The book presents ideas of a so-called perfectly formed society that lacks any faults or problems. Every person is genetically designed to be perfect as well as created to live their lives to the fullest in the classes that were created for. Their society is also responsible for creating several drugs which create allusions and sensations to provide the people with an aspect of a perfectly formed culture, leaving hem to believe that there is no problems because everything can be fixed. The setting described in brave new world is the perfect world that most people all across the globe wish to experience. The Strive for beauty is pushing people to act in such a way that the scientifically altered environment in the novel is what humans all around the globe wish to achieve one day. What they fail to realize is that Brave New World produces a fake reality that not only gives false hope, but shows how the altering of human nature and genetics can prove to be self-destructive to human beings, and to the world. In the novel, young babies are conditioned to have “an instinctive hatred of books and flowers” (Huxley) The people of this society must be conditioned to act a certain way instead of being given the opportunity to form an opinion of themselves in the way they wish to chose. This happens “before the child can speak” (Huxley). Unfortunately in some areas of the world, People are already on the track to creating a so-called “perfect reality”. Some people believe in the idea that beauty will go through an “evolution” and that people will be forced to keep up with its changing
The book presents ideas of a so-called perfectly formed society that lacks any faults or problems. Every person is genetically designed to be perfect as well as created to live their lives to the fullest in the classes that were created for. Their society is also responsible for creating several drugs which create allusions and sensations to provide the people with an aspect of a perfectly formed culture, leaving hem to believe that there is no problems because everything can be fixed. The setting described in brave new world is the perfect world that most people all across the globe wish to experience. The Strive for beauty is pushing people to act in such a way that the scientifically altered environment in the novel is what humans all around the globe wish to achieve one day. What they fail to realize is that Brave New World produces a fake reality that not only gives false hope, but shows how the altering of human nature and genetics can prove to be self-destructive to human beings, and to the world. In the novel, young babies are conditioned to have “an instinctive hatred of books and flowers” (Huxley) The people of this society must be conditioned to act a certain way instead of being given the opportunity to form an opinion of themselves in the way they wish to chose. This happens “before the child can speak” (Huxley). Unfortunately in some areas of the world, People are already on the track to creating a so-called “perfect reality”. Some people believe in the idea that beauty will go through an “evolution” and that people will be forced to keep up with its changing