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    Right from the start of the book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy hits you with a foreshadowing of how small you are compared to community with the example of the demolition of Arthur Dent’s house. It shows how powerless Arthur Dent is to stopping the destruction of his house and how high and mighty humans feel by controlling what gets destroyed and what does not. Earth is treated just like Arthur Dent’s house‚ useless and in the way for something better. The Vogans address Earth as nothing more

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    Aldous Huxley wrote the book Brave New World in hoping to create an alternate society showing that utopia’s can have dystopia aspects. One of those aspects are class distinction where people are classed before they are born and are labeled as specific and robot-like people. Another aspect is the use of drugs and how it is oftenly used to persuade people into thinking the way the government thinks and a third aspect is consumerism where people are constantly consuming products and rules and the way

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    “Community‚ Identity‚ Stability” ( Huxley 1). The dystopian society of the future lives by this motto in everything it does. One of the first things Huxley mentions in his novel is this hypocritical slogan. Community and identity are controlled by the apparent stability that the government has created. There is no true identity or community when the free will of each person is being suppressed. In Aldous Huxley’s novel‚ Brave New World‚ the author uses John’s life into the tribe and sudden submergence

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    Frederick Lewis Donaldson once said that one of “The Seven Social Sins” is “Science without Humanity.” Science‚ by it’s very nature‚ can be immoral due to its need for objectiveness. Objectiveness that can make people overlook their humanity‚ an essential element in allowing individuals to have the ability to live moral lives. In Aldous Huxley’s‚ Brave New World‚ science’s negative effect on individuals is the main theme because science replaces the family unit‚ takes the place of religion‚ and controls

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    Aldous Huxley grew up under difficult circumstances‚ losing his mother and eyesight at a young age made his life very challenging. After overcoming his near blindness and gaining a perspective on life not many have‚ Huxley became disillusioned with the war while studying at Oxford. Due to his blindness Huxley was a very shy man‚ which had a negative effect on his social life. This lead him to quit his position as a teacher and become an editor and ultimately a novelist. Huxley visited the United

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    Malek Baker Jordan Research Paper Brave New World In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ his utilitarian society seeks the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of the people (Brandt‚ “Utilitarianism and Moral Rights”). The ways they achieve this are through genetic engineering‚ selective breeding‚ artificial selection‚ also having the masses us hallucinogenic and antidepressant drugs. The happiness of the society does not come from what most would think like achievements‚ advancements

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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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    <center><b>With reference to the text‚ discuss Mustafa Mond’s statement: " The secret to happiness is liking what you have to do."</b></center> <br> <br>Mustafa Mond is presented to us as one of the Ten World Controllers in Brave New World‚ of that Utopian‚ communal and stabilized world‚ set six hundred years into future. This new world that contradicts the world we live in today‚ eliminated the Freedoms that we depend on: the freedom of choice‚ the freedom of thought‚ religion and being. They have

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    Brave New World Explore the ways in which Huxley explores the idea of escapism and pleasure. Support your answer with details from the novel. In the "old world" people had to deal with melancholy and abuse‚ and pleasure was received in different ways than in that of the new world. Huxley depicts this in his novel‚ Brave New World by establishing the idea of escapism and pleasure. He portrays some people as wanting to decamp from reality and explains that people in this utopian society get their

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    In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World there is a widely apparent stark contrast between the Utopian Society in London and apparent dystopia of Malpais(the Savage Reservation)‚ that provides a meaningful impact both on how the story unfolds‚ and on the overall meaning of the book. The divergences between the two places become extremely relevant to not only the plotline of the novel‚ but also to the themes revealed throughout the book. Without a detailed effort to showcase the distinctive qualities

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