Brave New World Paola Padilla By: Aldous Huxley Honors English 10 Genre: Science Fiction/ Dystopian August 30‚ 2013 Reading Response Journal “Stability‚” said the Controller‚ “stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” (Huxley‚ 42) We are reading the
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it is a process whereby one hears a recording during the period of time when he/she is asleep and is able to repeat it word by word‚ as though memorised‚ the next day‚ without having to actually be conscious or awake while listening to it. In Brave New World‚ it is also described as ‘sleep-teaching’‚ and is focused on drilling moral values into the children’s minds. “You can’t learn a science unless you know what it’s all about‚” thus hypnopaedia is not used on intellectual education in this community
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The society of a Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ is closer to the idealized interpretation of a utopia than current society‚ but modern society is preferable. People being conditioned to be falsely content with their society‚ and the lack individual thought‚ are examples of why the World State is corrupt. Although there are many faults in modern society‚ people have free will‚ and are able to control their own lives. The common belief of the people in A Brave New World is that The stability of
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The novella‚ “Brave New World‚” by Aldous Huxley‚ introduces a futuristic world in which there are different social classes in order to keep a happy society and taught nothing else other than what the people of the world need to know. The world is meant to keep people all over happy and create no issues. The author throughout the book connects this with Marxist theory. This can be shown through the different social classes that there are in the book. There are significant differences between the
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In Brave New World it shows many different advances and beliefs than what we’re used to. I will be stating a few of these examples such as the differences in technology and how different they live‚ and what they believe in. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a well-developed‚ example of a society lacking morality‚ compassion‚ and individualism. In the beginning of the novel it starts by taking the reader through a series of events that led up to how they produce identical cloned human beings. They
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What is totalitarianism? Totalitarianism is a form of government in which the government completely reminisced one’s individuality and freedom. In Aldous Huxley’s novel‚ “Brave New World‚” totalitarianism is perfectly demonstrated in which humans are scientifically made and have no control over their desired purpose on earth. Totalitarianism is also seen in George Orwell’s novel‚ “1984‚” where the government has eyes on everything. This means there is no privacy what so ever. The uncontrolled power
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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a work of science fiction‚ but it is not a work about the dangers of science. Huxley himself says in the forward to the novel that "the theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals" (Huxley xi). In the novel‚ Huxley shows that science itself is dangerous and that the true goal of the World State’s research is to advance consumer technology—the aspect of science that directly
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BNW Rough Draft Morally‚ the novel: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is not acceptable to me. The plot‚ suggestive actions‚ and even the overall standards in the book do not appeal to me as a reader. One example that demonstrates my dislike for the book‚ Brave New World‚ is on (pg 19-20): “’Bokanovsky’s Process‚’ … One egg‚ one embryo‚ one adult – normality. … A Bokanovskified egg will bud‚ will proliferate‚ will divide.” This instance from chapter one‚ personally as a reader‚ makes me dislike
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In the novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both about dystopian societies where the government is corrupted. Both novels are similar due to both conveying the government as corrupted in a satirical way. Also‚ both books purposes are to portray the possibility‚ to what might happen to a society where a government has too much power‚ and how far the government will go to maintain total control and totalitarianism. Both novels also convey gender roles where women are
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