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    Brave New World Essay The concept of freedom is always changing and is often open to interpretation. What‚ exactly‚ is freedom? and why is it so important that we be free? In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley leaves the reader in continuous suspense over which character is truly free or has freedom. The citizens of the World State do not possess any notion of freedom‚ they are unable to control the way they think

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    the concept of science being a way of life rather than an interest and where individuality‚ love and affection is frowned upon. The society mentioned in this book is “World State” and the people live by the motto “Community. Identity. Stability.” which suggests that the population depend on factories and science labs to create new life and use for employment. The infrastructure in the area is modern and similar to what we have today which is suggested by the line “A squat grey building of only thirty-four

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    Some believe it ’s possible to have a Utopia while others believe there is no way that it can. Plato‚ More‚ Hobbes‚ and Locke are some that have a high idea of Utopias. A Brave New World‚ indirectly supported and refuted some of the ideas of these philosophers in different ways.  A philosopher that can support Brave New World is Plato. Plato was against families‚ and he thought no child should know their parents. This was a very obvious in the book. In the story‚ natural reproduction was not used

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    The final section of Brave New World achieves the ultimate impact that people see the world differently. At the end‚ while Mustapha Mond and John are having a conversation‚ the reader can see that not everyone can handle one man’s opinion of a perfect society. In Ford’s society people have different classes‚ any night time partner they wish to have‚ a set job‚ all the leisure they want‚ no worries‚ no parents‚ no kids‚ and soma. What they don’t have is attraction‚ old things‚ religion‚ poetry‚ a

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    Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a work of science fiction‚ but it is not a work about the dangers of science. Huxley himself says in the forward to the novel that "the theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals" (Huxley xi). In the novel‚ Huxley shows that science itself is dangerous and that the true goal of the World State’s research is to advance consumer technology—the aspect of science that directly

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    Brave New World: Utopia?

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    26 April 2006 Brave New World: Utopia? When one envisions a utopian society‚ religion‚ the prevailing presence of social class segregation‚ and abusive drug use are not typically part of such a surreal picture. These attributes of society‚ which are generally the leading causes of discontent among its members‚ are more so the flaws an idealist would stray from in concocting such hypothesis for a more "perfect" world; not so for Aldous Huxley. In his novel‚ Brave New World‚ these ideals are the

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    independent beliefs and mindsets- to be human. The most honored of all creation‚ yet the most rebellious. As human life is deprecated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ the human life is equated to nothing more than the dirt from which it came. Huxley parallels himself‚ an aristocratic pedigree‚ to the upper class inhabitants of the brave new world that sought the meaning of human life above the accepted pretense of society. Aldous Huxley depicts the social isolation of the upper class through over-intellectual

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    10/11/12 Journal Entry #5: HTRLLAP Concepts The concept of “vampires” is present in Brave New World because the men and women don’t respect each other in the area of romance. Men like Henry Foster just use girls like Lenina for sex. But having sex with multiple people is socially accepted in the World State. In Brave New World‚ symbolic vampirism is used because the men and women use each other to get what they want which is sex. They do not care about what the other person wants. An example

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    (including insects and spiders). Some characteristics are shared among the groups; most New World monkeys have prehensile tails while Old World monkeys have non-prehensile tails or no visible tail at all. Some have trichromatic colour vision like that of humans‚ others are dichromats or monochromats. Although both the New and Old World monkeys‚ like the apes‚ have forward facing eyes‚ the faces of Old World and New World monkeys look very different‚ though again‚ each group shares some features such as

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    came together when Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. When the Eastern and Western Hemisphere first met. The main influences of the Exchange were animals‚ plants‚ and disease. The establishment of the Old World’s livestock greatly impacted the new worlds culture. Whereas Old World livestock spread immediately‚ environmental changes were drastic. The New world had a variety of things exported back to Europe for the Old World. An example would be the corn‚ was sent back to Europe and tied

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