Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel that shows the dangers of letting scientific progress take over society while also exemplifying the fear of many people that science and progress will eventually remove humanity’s individualism and free will‚ although individuals will remain and rise up to make a difference. This is Huxley’s most famous novel‚ and for the right reasons. Huxley demonstrates his ability to create a world not unlike one that could happen in real life. Many critics
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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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The Writing Style of Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century. His intelligence is obvious to anyone who has ever read his work and seriously considered the concepts contained within them. Aldous Huxley has written everything from poetry to intellectual essays‚ fiction‚ non-fiction‚ scientific papers‚ and even accounts of psychedelic experiences. Aldous Huxley is most famous for writing Brave New World. Other prominent works include The Doors of Perception
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Explain how Huxley creates an ‘elaborate and nuanced setting’ for Brave New World‚ and discuss its effectiveness in conveying the themes of the novel. Aldous Huxley explores the implications and uses immense detail along with new concepts to create the very intricate setting of Brave New World. The social‚ political‚ and technological implications of the novel set the basis of Huxley’s setting and helps to portray the idea of a World State and how it might function. The detail that Huxley uses throughout
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Brendan Frayre Ms. Stringer English 10 December 4‚ 2012 Huxley writes about the usage of drugs to say that drugs should not be used to cope with your emotions‚ and they come with consequences. The people in the BNW society use soma to cope with their problems. In the book it states‚ “…felt in her pocket for her soma… Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais.” (Huxley 111) The people in the Brave New World society take soma whenever they get a bad feeling like its nothing instead of learning
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Aliya � PAGE �1� Aliya � PAGE �7� Morality‚ Meet Brave New World "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."1 Concerning Aldous Huxley ’s dystopian novel‚ Brave New World‚ readers find themselves thinking the theme of the novel is not of proper conduct and it would not take place in their current world. Brave New World follows a futuristic society‚ the World State‚ where citizens are mass-produced and conditioned to suit the ways of the government and
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Aldous Huxley both wrote the own predictions of what the future will be for Americans by writing fiction novels that satirize what the future was going to be. When 1984 arrived and people saw that George Orwells prediction that democracy was still in tact in America and that Huxleys’s prediction tht technology would deprive us of the care for knowledge. Both Orwell and Huxley’s opinion on the future can be summed up by what Neil Postman said “Orwell feared that people would ban books‚ and Huxley feared
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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 characters that see beyond the superficiality of society‚ thus magnifying the
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identity‚ stability (Huxley‚ 3).” Juxtaposed to a Savage Reservation‚ this “Brave New World” eventually reveals itself as being anything but a Utopia‚ because nothing is perfect. Set in the year 2540 in London‚ Huxley presents a society that promotes happiness through technological advances‚ promiscuous sex and drug use. There is no more war and poverty‚ there is only happiness. From the very beginning of the novel‚ we are introduced to a cold and inhumane setting. Huxley uses the metaphor “The
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In‚ “Meditation on the Moon”‚ Aldous Huxley emphasizes the importance of viewing the world through multiple perspectives. In the first paragraph‚ Huxley makes it quite evident he does not like the phrase‚”nothing‚ but‚” He believes a better phrase would be‚” not only‚ but also”‚ and uses it throughout the passage. Huxley states in the second paragraph that the night is‚ “struggling to wake”‚ and ‚” the blinded garden dreams so vividly of its lost colours.” The use of personification throughout the
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