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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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    look more like Brave New World than 1984. In the West‚ pleasure and distraction‚ used by those in power‚ control people’s spending‚ political loyalties‚ and even their thoughts. Control through reward poses a greater threat to human freedom because‚ unlike punishment‚ it can be introduced unconsciously and continued indefinitely‚ with the approval and support of the people being controlled. In place of the Nine Years’ War — the calamity that brought the society of Brave New World into being — Huxley

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    text Brave New World of the pitfalls of a society based on classes‚ with those in the upper classes holding more power than those in the lower classes having virtually no power. He describes this system as Alpha‚ Beta‚ Gamma‚ Delta‚ and Epsilon. Gammas‚ Deltas‚ and Epsilons are the lower class‚ they serve the higher classes which are Alpha and Beta. Between Alpha and Beta‚ Alpha is the highest. In Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World he uses many points of Marxist theory. In the novel Brave New

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    like the society in Brave New World. Our society will not be the society in Brave new World because our society has different point of views than the society in Brave New World. The reasons that I think our society will not be like the society in Brave New World is because giving birth to a baby is okay‚ in our society people date one person at a time‚ and in our society people have more freedom the society of Brave New World. Our society will not be the society of Brave New World because our society

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    Brave New World Essay “Everybody’s happy nowadays”‚ says the hypnopaedic suggestion. What is happiness? Happiness in the Brave New World is equivalent to experiencing pleasure‚ comfort and an even temper. Put simply‚ is happiness the experience of pleasure? Respond with reference to Brave New World‚ Robert Nozick’s pleasure machine and Nietzsche’s arguments on what it is to live a good life. The Utopia of the future- something every human seemingly wants‚ but is it worth it to throw away everything

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    was an attitude impressed upon the people of Aldous Huxley’s‚ Brave New World. A society free of disease and suffering was achieved through a technique of conditioning called hynopaedia. "Civilization is sterilization"‚ was a hynopaedic slogan used to achieve the ideal society. This idea was manifested through the anesthetizing people’s emotions‚ the sterilization of humans and the cleanliness of society. <br> <br>The Brave New World sterilized people of emotions through the elimination of families

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    A Brave New World vs. 1984 There are many similarities and differences between Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. With my analysis of both novels‚ I have come to the conclusion that they are not as alike as you would believe. A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of John‚ ‘the savage‚’ who rejects the society of the Brave New World when and discovers that he could never be truly happy there. 1984 is a novel about Winston‚ who finds forbidden love

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    Huxley’s novel Brave New World? In the story the whole society is based around technology. Technology is not only defined as electronics‚ for example it is also defined as gaining and applying scientific knowledge and using that knowledge for progress. Technology plays a huge role in the society in Brave New World because the society is focused mainly on stability‚ growth‚ and societal improvement. The first way that technology plays a key role in the society is industry. In Brave New World the society

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    In the novel A Brave New World there are several things are abnormal and are frowned upon here on Earth‚ while these things are abnormal here in the novel these things are completely normal and that is just the way that things are done. One such example is shocking babies to train them‚ while on Earth this idea is taboo and highly frowned upon in the novel this is normal and the way that babies learn about how to do things. A second thing that is strange in A Brave New World would be the sexaphones

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    According to John Wooden‚ "You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one." John Huxley’s novel Brave New World has received a lot of mixed criticism that dismissed this book as one that would stand the test of time. When the novel was first released in 1932‚ critics like John Chamberlain dismissed the novel as being farfetched. He said‚ "The bogy of mass production seems a little overwrought…" (233). Critics in recent times seem to enjoy this novel

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