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    Brave new world is a novel in which people just want to be happy rather than being conscious and aware of their real situation. Brave New World is full of characters who do everything they can to avoid facing the truth about their own situations. The people use drug to feel they are having everything although for real they almost have nothing but the drug. The almost universal use of the drug soma is probably the most pervasive example of such willful self-delusion. Soma takes the reality from the

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    The Incompatibility of Happiness and Truth - Dystopia Brave New World is full of characters who do everything they can to avoid facing the truth about their own situations. The almost universal use of the drug soma is probably the most pervasive example of such willful self-delusion. Soma clouds the realities of the present and replaces them with happy hallucinations‚ and is thus a tool for promoting social stability. But even Shakespeare can be used to avoid facing the truth‚ as John demonstrates

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    Absence of Formative Education and Hegemony in the novel Brave New World Education with respect to its definition in the oxford dictionary “as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction‚ especially at a school or university” has been acknowledged as an important tool capable of either propagating cultural hegemony or rebelling against it. Antonio Gramsci‚ the Italian philosopher‚ who exposed the relationship between education and cultural hegemony in his work Prison Notebooks (original

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    author of Brave New World‚ visions together. He had established from Orwell that “what we hate will ruin us” and from Huxley that “what we love will ruin us” (Postman). Both men have opposite views on life‚ Postman seems to agree to Huxley’s view of loving something can destroy a person. He “blames television for most of the problem . . . Internet has more influence than television” (Postman). Postman’s statement is agreeable as today’s world is evolving around the media. Brave New World is strange

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    Research Paper: Love in Utopia‚ Brave New World and 1984 Love is without a doubt one of the most powerful emotions in the world. Most people in the world who have experienced this emotion know that with love‚ almost anything is possible. ¡§When in Love‚ the greater is his/her capacity for suffering‚ or anything else in that matter¡¨ (Miguel de Unamuno‚ The Tragic Sense of Life). The governments in both Brave New World and 1984 understand that eliminating love and loyalty is important in their continual

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    Afghanistan This is very similar to the New World State because all of the alphas in the story are controlled by their love of soma the drug. This fictional drug in the story will make you feel very relaxed and you won’t care what your doing while you are on soma. In Canada we are have a religion and we follow those religion by either eating certain foods or not eating certain foods‚ having different holidays and by going to Church. In the Brave New World they have none of this. Since they are all

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    Imagine living in a world where it is uncommon for babies to be conceived through sex‚ but instead in places called hatcheries. There is ultimately no such thing as “being in love” as everyone belongs to everyone‚ which means its the norm to only have sexual partners. And drugs are formulated and scientifically modified to create euphoria in a state of over exhaustion‚ stress‚ anger‚ etc. the whole purpose of soma is to create give people a distraction so they would not be concerned with living in

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    Task 1: While some may argue the protagonist of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is Bernard Marx‚ the true conflict in the novel surrounds the character John‚ often referred to as the Savage as he was born outside of “civilization” (121). With long‚ pale blonde hair in braids and pale blue eyes‚ the protagonist had striking looks. His skin was white‚ though bronzed by the sun‚ and his overall tall frame had an endearing‚ wild look that caught the eye of many women in this novel. Concerning his character

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    Chapter 10-18“The greater a man’s talents‚ the greater his power to lead astray” Haley page122.-disscuss the ironyIn the brave new world people believe that everyone belongs to someone else. They are born with different caste and appointed jobs. They do not have to or cannot think and worry about anything‚ because the controllers need absolute submit to their orders. In their formats of human‚ human should not have talents and a brain to think. In this case‚ Bernard’s belief‚ habits‚ goals and curiosities

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    Drugs in Today’s Society In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New Worldsoma‚ a drug commonly consumed throughout the New World‚ is abused and enables people’s bad states of emotions to turn good. For every dose of soma “raise[s] a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and [the citizens’] minds” (Huxley 77). The sedative and controlling effect it has on emotions and moods allows for people to be easily controlled. Soma is originally introduced into Huxley’s novel through a conversation

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