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    The best opium of the masses might be opium itself. Aldous Huxley’s surreal dystopian novel Brave New World explores the idea that a narcotic can control and pacify massive amounts of people with little repercussions. The substance‚ known as soma‚ produces a calming sensation that the inhabitants of the Brave New World call “Euphoric‚ narcotic‚ pleasantly hallicinant.” (54) The controllers of this world dispense the drug to anyone that uses the narcotic‚ which is practically the entire society. An

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    BRAVE NEW WORLD This novel is about a Utopia‚ an ideal state- a bad ideal state. It is therefore a novel about ideas‚ and its themes are as important as its plot. They will be studied in depth in the chapter-by-chapter discussion of the book. Most are expressed as fundamental principles of the Utopia‚ the brave new world. Some come to light when one character‚ a Savage raised on an Indian reservation‚ confronts that world. As you find the themes‚ try to think not only about what they say about Huxley

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    INTRO In order to become an individual‚ you must embrace challenges and suffering. Those experiences help define who you are. In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley delivers a powerful message/warning of what happens to a society that eliminates individuality. In the story‚ individuality cannot come without pain or suffering‚ a element that the World State Society has taken out of their civilization. Soma is used as a drug to keep everyone in society happy and from feeling any types of hardship or pain

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    The World State is a seemingly perfect place. There people are “decanted” and then conditioned to fit perfectly into a preselected social caste. Because of the conditioning they are put through‚ everyone is happy in the caste they are put in. The feelings of despair and suffering are absent from this world‚ at the price of religion‚ art‚ and open scientific discoveries. While from the surface the World State seems like an utopia in the novel Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley expresses his clear distaste

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    government it is worth so much less‚ at least that is what Aldous Huxley believes. In his novel‚ Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley interprets the value of human life through his society’s reaction to “normal” ideas presented throughout the novel. He uses this evaluation to express the idea that humans are only useful to the government when they function like a well-oiled machine. The government in Brave new world works to remove all emotional connections between people. This begins with the removal of the

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    Behavior conditioning in our world and society today has been blindly shaping our world. Starting from the days in kindergarten throughout our lives whether it be in America or Japan‚ conditioning is world wide phenomenon. Proponents of Behavioral Conditioning in our modern society is the idea to create the “perfect citizen”‚ claiming that it should be used for the good and protection of people‚ like the book Brave New World they live in a world of complete control not having the benefit of a system

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    course. With every one of these stories containing the theme of freedom‚ this could not be possible without some type of restraint or authoritarian regime present in such story. In 1984‚ it is the Party and Big Brother being that restraint; in Brave New World‚ that restraint is The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning; in The Lion‚ The Witch‚ and The Wardrobe‚ that restraint was the White Witch and her reign over Narnia‚ and the list goes on. All of these stories have some reason as to why freedom

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    Evaluate the effectiveness of legal and non-legal measures in resolving conflict and working towards word world order. Introduction World order are the activities and relationship between the world states‚ and other significant non-state global actors‚ that occur within a legal‚ political and economic frame work. The need for world order has arisen due to the past historical conflicts‚ colonialism‚ greater interdependence between nations‚ and the increased impact of the activities of nation states

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    BRAVE NEW WORLD ? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering Brave New World (1932) is one of the most bewitching and insidious works of literature ever written. An exaggeration? Tragically‚ no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure‚ Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction‚ not scientific prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might

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    “Brave New World” utopia or dystopia? The novel Brave New World has often been characterized as dystopia rather than utopia. Nevertheless‚ the superficial overview of the novel implies a utopian society‚ especially if judging by what the Controller said to John‚ the Savage: People are happy; they get what they want‚ and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and

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