Conformity In Brave New World
To be born a unique being, one with the freedom of will, one with the ability to form independent beliefs and mindsets- to be human. The most honored of all creation, yet the most rebellious. As human life is deprecated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the human life is equated to nothing more than the dirt from which it came. Huxley parallels himself, an aristocratic pedigree, to the upper class inhabitants of the brave new world that sought the meaning of human life above the accepted pretense of society. Aldous Huxley depicts the social isolation of the upper class through over-intellectual characters that see beyond the superficiality of society, thus magnifying the importance of remaining true to oneself in the midst of conformity.
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Huxley’s introverted nature contradicts itself throughout his novel Brave New World in a purely extroverted society of individuals, for the purpose of implicating the necessity of individual reflection. The intentional absence of, “the inner world of thought and feelings,”among mindless characters that are constantly searching for physical fulfillment to replace their emotional needs, subliminally illustrates Huxley’s view of modern society as mentally unsubstantial to the individual (Cain 10).
Comments on Modern Society. Later, in a letter to his son, Huxley claims that, “the twentieth century was an ‘Age of Noise,’ talk without meaning,” that impedes upon his readers from taking interest in the ideas conveyed primarily through character dialogue within his satirical dystopian novels. Huxley’s lifetime coincides with the rise of the culture of personality, in which individuals are encouraged to conform to extroverted principles, “as a way of outshining the crowd in a newly anonymous and competitive society” (Cain 42). This value of individual gain over social advancement serves as the premises for Huxley’s dystopia, he illustrates the extreme end result of a society dominated purely by extroverts through an emotionally insecure cast of characters that require constant attention, but isolate those don't fit within the society’s accepted standard when the outcasts desire acceptance
Huxley’s introverted nature contradicts itself throughout his novel Brave New World in a purely extroverted society of individuals, for the purpose of implicating the necessity of individual reflection. The intentional absence of, “the inner world of thought and feelings,”among mindless characters that are constantly searching for physical fulfillment to replace their emotional needs, subliminally illustrates Huxley’s view of modern society as mentally unsubstantial to the individual (Cain 10).
Comments on Modern Society. Later, in a letter to his son, Huxley claims that, “the twentieth century was an ‘Age of Noise,’ talk without meaning,” that impedes upon his readers from taking interest in the ideas conveyed primarily through character dialogue within his satirical dystopian novels. Huxley’s lifetime coincides with the rise of the culture of personality, in which individuals are encouraged to conform to extroverted principles, “as a way of outshining the crowd in a newly anonymous and competitive society” (Cain 42). This value of individual gain over social advancement serves as the premises for Huxley’s dystopia, he illustrates the extreme end result of a society dominated purely by extroverts through an emotionally insecure cast of characters that require constant attention, but isolate those don't fit within the society’s accepted standard when the outcasts desire acceptance