Brave New World: A Society Regulated by Complex Social Control Methods and Science
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley who wrote the novel “Brave New World” in they 1932 shows a future society that is regulated by complex social control methods and science. Many have argued that teaching Aldous novel in both inappropriate and immoral as others contend that the novel is both timely and prophetic. In my opinion, I do not support the idea of teaching the Aldous novel especially since it is teaching promiscuity as being a virtue. This novel revolves around utopia which in this case is a bad ideal state and thus it is a novel with a lot of ideas and themes that are significant.
One of the main reasons as to why I would not advocate for the Brave New world novel being taught is because, it is cheapening the act of sexual pleasure. The novel makes being promiscuous as something that is right and a virtue; people have sex with anyone they want to and anyone who wants them. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 121). He clearly indicates that people should not have emotional bonds and so promiscuity is to be encouraged as each person is satisfied through copulation and consumption. He states that erotic experimentations starts at the age of between six and eight years old.
The other reason I would not encourage this novel to be taught is because it supports the use of a drug called Soma for people to be able to find happiness. “Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is”. (Huxley 238). The drug is supposed to calm people down and also get them high however without having any bad side effects or hangovers. In my opinion, this is wrong since using drugs leads to addiction especially for young people such that they cannot survive with out drugs. The Soma drug was apparently worked on by 2000 biochemists and pharmacologists long before the novel was even written and so the drug had been perfected. Huxley had a strong belief of a drug that would be invented that would help people be able to achieves Gods knowledge, escape from themselves. “If ever by
Aldous Huxley who wrote the novel “Brave New World” in they 1932 shows a future society that is regulated by complex social control methods and science. Many have argued that teaching Aldous novel in both inappropriate and immoral as others contend that the novel is both timely and prophetic. In my opinion, I do not support the idea of teaching the Aldous novel especially since it is teaching promiscuity as being a virtue. This novel revolves around utopia which in this case is a bad ideal state and thus it is a novel with a lot of ideas and themes that are significant.
One of the main reasons as to why I would not advocate for the Brave New world novel being taught is because, it is cheapening the act of sexual pleasure. The novel makes being promiscuous as something that is right and a virtue; people have sex with anyone they want to and anyone who wants them. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 121). He clearly indicates that people should not have emotional bonds and so promiscuity is to be encouraged as each person is satisfied through copulation and consumption. He states that erotic experimentations starts at the age of between six and eight years old.
The other reason I would not encourage this novel to be taught is because it supports the use of a drug called Soma for people to be able to find happiness. “Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is”. (Huxley 238). The drug is supposed to calm people down and also get them high however without having any bad side effects or hangovers. In my opinion, this is wrong since using drugs leads to addiction especially for young people such that they cannot survive with out drugs. The Soma drug was apparently worked on by 2000 biochemists and pharmacologists long before the novel was even written and so the drug had been perfected. Huxley had a strong belief of a drug that would be invented that would help people be able to achieves Gods knowledge, escape from themselves. “If ever by
Cited: Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Random House Publishers, 2008. Print.