By not following orthodox views in society‚ Bernard‚ John‚ and Helmholtz have all displayed unorthodox behavior. Unlike most people in society‚ John refuses to take soma to alter his feelings. John says‚ “I don’t believe it’s right” (Huxley‚ 155). John did not like the idea that his mother was was going to be in a long sleep caused by soma. Bernard shows strange behavior by not having a huge interest in ‘having women’. Bernard said to Lenina‚ “I didn’t want it to end with our going to bed...Not
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Throughout the world moral and spiritual corruption is found everywhere. Many fall victim to it but some use it as a learning experience. Both Aldous Huxley and William Shakespeare display the affect corruption has on societies through Brave New World and Hamlet. The want to be welcomed by others around drives characters towards decisions they would not make otherwise. Both authors‚ to show a lack of care and affection to those who need it incorporate pain and suffering. Spiritual corruption
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Brave New World Essay In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ John has incredibly different views from the people in the new world. Soon after John is introduced in the novel it is noticeable to see how he struggles in trying to adjust to his odd lifestyle in the new world. John has many morals and standards that he tries to live by. His morals are unbelievably different from the new world’s views. Compared to John‚ the new world seems to not posses real morals. Both John and the new world have certain
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Book Report Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1. Brief Outline: Protagonist: John the Savage‚ is the protagonist of the novel and the symbol of the old world order‚ where emotion and individualism were important. When he is taken from the Savage Reservation to London‚ he refutes the accepted merits of the "brave‚ new world" and points out its pitfalls. Antagonist: Mustapha Mond is the antagonist of the novel and the symbol of the brave new world. As one of the Controllers of the new society‚ he
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The films “Brave New World” is one of the only films I have enjoyed watching‚ in any class. I found it to be extremely interesting. All of the values and morals we have in our world today are taboo in this movie. The first thing that caught my attention was the view on sex. In our world today‚ we like to think that we should stay “pure” until we get married to the one we love. However‚ in this day and age that is not the case- people do engage in premarital sex. In this movie there is a motto
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teenagers use cell phones and social media as a resort for happiness and to feel good about themselves‚ while movie theaters and movies are a key source of entertainment. In “Brave New World‚” Aldous Huxley expresses this idea through a character named John who had never been to the new world‚ but had heard about it from his mother in stories. When given the chance to go‚ he begins to see all the technology and fascinating things that the new world has to offer. However‚ the longer he stays there he begins
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1949‚ Eric Arthur Blair‚ under pseudonym George Orwell‚ penned an oppressive totalitarian society where unorthodox thoughts and rebellion were silenced by cyclical violence and torture. Each approach to the divisiveness presented in Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 could not be further apart. Huxley’s novel features future citizens molded from prebirth inside containers‚ undergoing biological programming in ‘hatcheries’ to obey the whims and orders of leader Mustapha Mond.
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The first three chapters of Huxley’s Brave New World already show the alarming‚ but all the same mind-blowing differences between our society and the futuristic society that the novel presents. The reader gains knowledge of the orthodox but profoundly strange ways of the fictitious world through a tour given by the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning to new students at the building. In these pages‚ I especially noticed the peculiar way babies are made‚ born‚ nurtured‚ and raised. There are no
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1984 vs. Brave New World Both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote how they envisioned America in the future. While each account gave comparably alarming views‚ Huxley’s thoughts on how the United States would turn out are much more relevant today. Nell Postman‚ a contemporary social critic‚ states this in his passage contrasting Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World. Although Americans had not been affected by the horrors Orwell foresaw‚ they had experienced different‚ perhaps more destructive
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and more of the world. I agree that “everywhere [man] is in chains‚” but on the contrary‚ I believe man is already chained from the start—that man is never free. In the novel‚ Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ babies are “decanted” and conditioned to play out their predestined roles in the World State. As early as the embryonic stage‚ babies-to-be already have their fates determined for them. In addition to conditioning‚ a drug called soma that induces a false sense of happiness dominates these
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