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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Propaganda in Our Age: The Subtle Totalitarianism of Huxley’s Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is often cited as one of the most influential and compelling works of the 20th century. Published in 1932‚ the dystopian novel’s depiction of the use of mass media and propaganda by a massive centralized government is widely considered to be decades ahead of its time. Many of Huxley’s predictions seem eerily accurate and are still frequently brought up today in discussions about the use
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novel “Brave New World”‚ main characters John the Savage and Bernard Marx struggle to fit in a world which has achieved happiness and refuse any form of change. The World State also declines the need to have any other truth than its own. With the use of technology‚ they use a hallucinogenic drug‚ called “soma”‚ it encourages social stability and by conditions citizens avoid the truth. The actions taken by the World State to make society happy‚ produce a more steady and comfortable world but fail
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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World examines numerous issues thriving in his world in an effort to discourage readers from mirroring aspects of the dystopian society similar to the one presented in the novel. Despite Huxley’s cautions based on his relatively accurate predictions of the future‚ key issues from the past still reside today. Since the early twentieth century‚ social classes have separated people based on their role in society‚ women have taken and continue to take strides towards equality
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In Brave New World‚ there is an ongoing conflict between John and society‚ specifically with the people who believe in the status quo. John begins to disgust the “civilized” society as Bernard shows him around London and he sees it as an unnatural place and a world of false happiness. He also despises how addicted his mother becomes to soma‚ taking so much soma that it deteriorates her health and‚ eventually‚ she dies in a state of delusion. At the point of his mother’s death John begins to further
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In the book "Brave New World" the author Aldous Huxley wrote about a world different from our own. This world shows that their is not only one way of functioning in a society‚ in fact the way the World State runs and the way we run are different. For example In their world everyone is bread from labs to be the same and have no unique qualities while in our world we are born from our mothers womb and have individual unique qualities like some are smarter than others or faster than the rest. In their
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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 their beliefs. These methods are similar in nature to the methods that the government in the real world uses to keep its citizens in line with what is socially acceptable. The World State and the real world control their citizens through maintaining a society that rewards the conformed‚ leads by
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In the early part of Brave New World Bernard Marx plays a central role in the novel’s plot. Bernard‚ an Alpha-Plus psychologist‚ is a member of the upper caste of seemingly flawless individuals‚ but due to his physical characteristics such as his short stature‚ he resembles a Delta or Epsilon. This flaw marks him for ridicule as his Alpha-Plus status is undercut by the rumour that alcohol was accidentally given to his blood surrogate‚ chemically linking him to the lower castes. Bernard is painfully
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is a concern to many‚ including Aldous Huxley. Brave New World examines the role of women in society‚ social and economic classes‚ and conditioning; issues that face modern society as well. In the early Twentieth century most women were housewives and did not work. A new image of women‚ for example‚ flappers‚ who smoked‚ danced‚ and wore “clothing more convenient for activity‚” was emerging (BBC). Many people thought flappers represented women’s new freedom because they were overthrowing old rules
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In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World‚” the portrayal of John the Savage is an allusion to Jesus Christ. Huxley attempts to allude John to Christ in all respects. For example‚ John’s introduction depicts him as an outcast for being different. When brought to the World State‚ John is still seen as an outsider because he ideals threaten the stability of the utopian society. John’s isolation from people‚ in general‚ was exhibited by Jesus as well. Similarly to Jesus‚ John abstained from many activities
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