A Summary of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Brave New World Essay
What would you do for the chance to live in an ideal world? Well, curiosity killed the cat, unless readers heard of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, a utopian future. In the story, the readers are given a satiric vision of a utopia by a third person, omniscient narrator. In order to create an ideal world, humans are genetically bred, hypnopedia is used, and the society follows
“the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (pg.1). However, readers soon are given an appalling insight of the utopia by World State citizens’ and even an outsider. Through its pessimistic view of human nature, Huxley’s elaborates on the methods of achieving a utopia, depicting a future horror in reality. Using the artificially implanted ideas caused by hypnopedia, community is achieved when “everyone works for everyone else” (pg.91) in order to achieve maximum happiness for the whole society. One of the methods to achieve community is citizens practice a certain way of life that follows the rule that “everyone belongs to everyone else” (pg.43), meaning it encourages citizens to have multiple sex partners, or participate in many sexual orgy in order to reach solidarity. Also, the World State believes erotic play between children and adolescents as normal and moral. Next, the social caste system is a high priority to community, since each of the five castes’, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilons, conditioning is deluded into feeling as if they are part of the society and not a social outcast. With hypnopedia, each caste is thought to appreciate higher classes and conform to the caste one’s put in due to repetitive teachings such as, “Alpha children wear gray. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard.” (pg.27) The last method used is World State citizens’ are required to attend strictly regulated, scheduled social activities, such
What would you do for the chance to live in an ideal world? Well, curiosity killed the cat, unless readers heard of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, a utopian future. In the story, the readers are given a satiric vision of a utopia by a third person, omniscient narrator. In order to create an ideal world, humans are genetically bred, hypnopedia is used, and the society follows
“the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (pg.1). However, readers soon are given an appalling insight of the utopia by World State citizens’ and even an outsider. Through its pessimistic view of human nature, Huxley’s elaborates on the methods of achieving a utopia, depicting a future horror in reality. Using the artificially implanted ideas caused by hypnopedia, community is achieved when “everyone works for everyone else” (pg.91) in order to achieve maximum happiness for the whole society. One of the methods to achieve community is citizens practice a certain way of life that follows the rule that “everyone belongs to everyone else” (pg.43), meaning it encourages citizens to have multiple sex partners, or participate in many sexual orgy in order to reach solidarity. Also, the World State believes erotic play between children and adolescents as normal and moral. Next, the social caste system is a high priority to community, since each of the five castes’, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilons, conditioning is deluded into feeling as if they are part of the society and not a social outcast. With hypnopedia, each caste is thought to appreciate higher classes and conform to the caste one’s put in due to repetitive teachings such as, “Alpha children wear gray. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard.” (pg.27) The last method used is World State citizens’ are required to attend strictly regulated, scheduled social activities, such