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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In the beginning we learn all about this new‚ modern world‚ where this story takes place. A world without emotion. A world where infants are produced in factories. All of this just to control the useless factors and to do what is best for the people. A place where it is acceptable for individuals to escape reality for countless hours. A society where it is nothing but common to engage in innumerable sexual acts. A world very different from the one we live in today. People are divided into classes
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passing Grey Poupon through the window of his Chevy Impala‚ Kendrick mocks the famous 1981 mustard commercial in which one wealthy white man passes another wealthy white man the jar through his car window. Often the subject of satire‚ such as in Wayne’s World (1992)‚ as he passes it to a fellow black rapper‚ Kendrick uses the reference to demonstrate how black people are equal to white people even if society is still in denial. Yet another example of Kendrick’s derisions with pop culture and the way they
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Brave new world by Aldous Huxley In the novel Brave new world by Aldous Huxley‚ the world state makes twins in bunches and conditions them the same‚ making everyone the exact same person. This makes everyone react based on their instincts like animals do. Where is the individuality in that? To make matters worse‚ those who are different are exiled from the world state. This stripes society of individual identity. The Bokanovsky twins are a perfect example of how identity is being taken away.
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Chapter 6 -“Bernard pushed away the proffered glass impatiently.” (page 99) In this example the proffered glass refers to soma. Soma in the new world is taken to relieve stress and forget one’s problems. There are hypnopaedic phrases to make children want to take soma such as “A gram in time saves nine‚” or “One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments‚” (Huxley 99). Although the sayings are pumped into children’s’ ears thousands of times Bernard seems to not have absorbed them. Children
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important theme in Brave New World‚ is when a group of people have complete control over a society‚ that people loose their individuality. In Brave New World‚ they had no control in what they wanted do or be in the future‚ their future is already picked out for them before they are already born. All the people in the World State lose what makes them unique‚ and when somebody does want to do something out of the ordinary‚ they are given a drug to calm them down and keep them quiet. In the World State there
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A year ago today I woke up from an enduring coma‚ which was due to a bullet hitting my frontal lobe in a mass shooting at a concert in Chicago‚ and it brought me to a dull country with no opportunity for advancement . I woke up to a dreary hospital room waiting for someone to come in‚ and I pondered a look around my room which only displayed one machine that kept me alive and a bed. Apparently the government stopped funding hospitals and several other groups because our debt came back to us to bite
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Animal Farm Parallels In the book Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses animals to symbolically represent humans and man’s creation of government and society. Orwell allegorically uses animals and their social groups to criticize Joseph Stalin’s rise to power‚ the overall nature of mankind‚ and the many difficulties that people must face in life. In the story there are many parallels that symbolically represents situations from the Russian Revolution. Some of the parallels are Trotsky to Snowball‚the different ideology and dislike
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In Brave New World‚ the social caste system is similar to the educational ranks we use in the present day. In the real world‚ people organize themselves by the amount of education. However‚ in this story‚ the people are genetically modified to fit the world’s caste system. In the book‚ the people are split into five social classes; the Alphas‚ Betas‚ Gammas‚ Deltas‚ and Epsilons. They all have been genetically modified to fit society’s needs. All the people have been taught and made to think and
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Another form of government control over the society in Brave New World‚ is the exploitation done by the capitalist. For instance‚ class division. Society in Brave New World is divided into five groups‚ in which they have to wear different colors for immediate identification. Those in the upper class are the Alphas who wear grey‚ and the Betas use mulberry. The lower classes are the Deltas who wear khaki‚ Gammas use green‚ and the class that does the dirty work are the Epsilons who wear black. All
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