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    "Cleanliness is next to Fordliness"‚ was an attitude impressed upon the people of Aldous Huxley’s‚ Brave New World. A society free of disease and suffering was achieved through a technique of conditioning called hynopaedia. "Civilization is sterilization"‚ was a hynopaedic slogan used to achieve the ideal society. This idea was manifested through the anesthetizing people’s emotions‚ the sterilization of humans and the cleanliness of society. <br> <br>The Brave New World sterilized people of emotions

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    John was alienated mentally‚ emotionally‚ and physically in both the Savage Culture and the World State Culture. Torn between keeping true to his virtues and conforming to society‚ the treatment of John highlights the values of both cultures in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Not looking like the rest of the Indians on the reservation hampered John’s ability to fit in with the Savage society. John wanted more than anything to be a part of the Indian culture‚ to be part of the ritual‚ to give

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    In the last decade we have seen a rise in popularity of unconventional relationships especially polyamorous arrangements. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave new world touches on some of the controversies associated with multiple partner concepts of marriage. As Polyamory becomes more accepted in the mainstream we must question whether or not this is a good thing. Huxley’s society in Brave new world is based on the concept of stability‚ and in order to keep this certain cultural traditions have been envisioned

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    Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World strongly‚ the vast majority of the population is unified under the World State‚ an eternally peaceful‚ stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. Happiness is deprived from mass produced goods such as obstacle golf‚ Centrifugal Bumble-puppy‚ recreational sex and the most common one‚ the use of the drug soma; a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable‚ hangover-free "holidays". We meet the protagonist Bernard‚ who

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    NOTES FROM Brave New World Aldous Huxley Chapter 11 Finally—and this was by far the strongest reason for people’s not wanting to see poor Linda—there was her appearance. Fat; having lost her youth; with bad teeth‚ and a blotched complexion‚ and that figure (Ford!)—you simply couldn’t look at her without feeling sick‚ yes‚ positively sick. Chapter 11 Fat; having lost her youth; with bad teeth‚ and a blotched complexion‚ and that figure (Ford!)—you simply couldn’t look at her without

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    individuality can be found when the director states “From eight to ninety-six buds‚ and every bud will turn into a perfectly formed embryo‚ and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before” (Huxley 6). This shows that they sacrificed their individuality because people aren’t going to be born to be different‚ but be born to look like ninety-six others. This is important because people are sacrificing their individuality to ensure that all their

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    “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an “instinctive” hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned.”(Huxley 22)‚ the previous line explains the theory of why the director has the children undergo this process‚ and with the lower classes going through this electroshock treatment it insures that none surpass them. This process facilitates their status as

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    INTRO In order to become an individual‚ you must embrace challenges and suffering. Those experiences help define who you are. In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley delivers a powerful message/warning of what happens to a society that eliminates individuality. In the story‚ individuality cannot come without pain or suffering‚ a element that the World State Society has taken out of their civilization. Soma is used as a drug to keep everyone in society happy and from feeling any types of hardship or pain

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    I can sort of understand what Mr. Huxley is trying to say about the world in his book "A Brave New World" is sort of what he sees happening in the world that we live in. Through the ways that we raise our children‚ to how we look at things physiologically. To the way things are brought up to this world. He makes it seem in his that we live in a world were an actual God exists. In the end‚ in Mr. Huxley’s perspective‚ he sees our world turning for the worst. First with the way on how we biologically

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    separate thoughts and are individuals unlike the lower castes. The castes are conditioned to think that work is not bad and in fact they like working. I thought it was interesting that‚ “... extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness” (Huxley 224). In real life‚ people are happy when they get time off of work.

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