Reader Response-Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is set in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford‚ who is the god of this New World they are living in). The novel opens to a tour students are receiving from Tomakin‚ the director of the hatcheries‚ where they condition and regulate all new humans born‚ and predetermine their roles in society. Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne are introduced to us as a couple that has been dating for awhile‚ but Bernard Marx‚ also introduced in the
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The common comparisons of surveillance‚ technology use‚ social conditioning‚ totalitarianism‚ and manipulation of language between America and 1984 and Brave New World have an erroneously negative effect on the average American’s perception of the government. Frequently used as political rhetoric‚ correlations between the negative aspects of these dystopian novels allow politicians and political journalists to impose a sense of distrust of the government‚ the fear of an Orwellian or Huxleyan society
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The Government’s Different Ways of Controlling People In both Brave New World and Anthem the underlying themes are very similar. The government controls every aspect of people’s lives‚ everyone is supposed to be perfectly happy with what role they are given‚ and the main character do not fit into what the government was deemed normal. While both books have these very similar traits‚ there are many differences as well; the way the government controls the people‚ as well as the form of government
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Margaret Atwood once stated‚ “Every utopia faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who do not fit in?” In these books: Brave New World‚ The Maze Runner‚ and Blast‚ Corrupt‚ Dismantle‚ Erase they all demonstrate an utopian society in some way or another‚ but the flaws start to show in all of them. While these books try and achieve this perfect world with no crime or worries‚ the books all start to show their own flaws and how they are more to and more like a dystopian society in the
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The government arguably has a tremendous amount of power and authority over its citizens. In V for Vendetta‚ Alan Moore writes‚ “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” From this‚ one may wonder what would happen if the government discovers a way to ensure that their citizens follow everything they want them to. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ the World State’s government controls its citizens in many ways to ensure that no one rebels against
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suffering as when we love” (Sigmund Freud). Love can demolish and make yourself feel vulnerable to the outside world as well as betrayed from the one who loves you if they hurt or do not even feel the same way towards you. It is self-destruction to be letting yourself feel affection towards another being without taking in consideration of what could happen in the future. In another world‚ love between two people is praised through marriage or having children and the desired feeling to have individuality
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Loss of Free Will and Personality in Brave New World The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley is like no other in fantasy or satire. It predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion. With advanced technology and the genetic engineering‚ people live flourishing‚ material lives in their society. This is a society with no love‚ starvation ‚disease‚ coldness‚ wars‚ crimes‚ and artistic creativity .As the World State’s motto declares: “community
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In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ John’s identities are influenced by two opposite societies‚ and even though he tries to prove his manhood and change the framework of brave new world‚ he can’t gain real acceptance from anywhere. John’s mother‚ Linda‚ is from the brave new world but gave birth to him in the savage reservation and her different behaviors based on the framework of the brave new world caused John’s isolation in the savage reservation. John decides to move to the brave new world and
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“In The wild” pertains to the naturally occurring world‚ therefore to be “In The Wild” is to maintain naturally occurring rhythms and process and to uphold a natural state of being. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott explores the consequences of the destruction of a natural lifestyle when the lifestyle of the individual is being dictated by totalitarian power intent on manipulating and controlling the natural environment. The contexts of both texts
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Student Name Professor Class Date More Machine Now than Man: Huxley’s Critique of Mass Culture in Brave New World Laura Frost‚ in her essay “Huxley ’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World‚” states that “Brave New World has typically been read as "the classic denunciation of mass culture in the interwar years"” (Frost 448). This is true to an extent‚ as Frost points out. The novel explores the effects of mass culture and the implementation of eugenics and mass education to serve
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