26 April 2006 Brave New World: Utopia? When one envisions a utopian society‚ religion‚ the prevailing presence of social class segregation‚ and abusive drug use are not typically part of such a surreal picture. These attributes of society‚ which are generally the leading causes of discontent among its members‚ are more so the flaws an idealist would stray from in concocting such hypothesis for a more "perfect" world; not so for Aldous Huxley. In his novel‚ Brave New World‚ these ideals are the
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independent beliefs and mindsets- to be human. The most honored of all creation‚ yet the most rebellious. As human life is deprecated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ the human life is equated to nothing more than the dirt from which it came. Huxley parallels himself‚ an aristocratic pedigree‚ to the upper class inhabitants of the brave new world that sought the meaning of human life above the accepted pretense of society. Aldous Huxley depicts the social isolation of the upper class through over-intellectual
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10/11/12 Journal Entry #5: HTRLLAP Concepts The concept of “vampires” is present in Brave New World because the men and women don’t respect each other in the area of romance. Men like Henry Foster just use girls like Lenina for sex. But having sex with multiple people is socially accepted in the World State. In Brave New World‚ symbolic vampirism is used because the men and women use each other to get what they want which is sex. They do not care about what the other person wants. An example
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(including insects and spiders). Some characteristics are shared among the groups; most New World monkeys have prehensile tails while Old World monkeys have non-prehensile tails or no visible tail at all. Some have trichromatic colour vision like that of humans‚ others are dichromats or monochromats. Although both the New and Old World monkeys‚ like the apes‚ have forward facing eyes‚ the faces of Old World and New World monkeys look very different‚ though again‚ each group shares some features such as
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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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In Brave New World Aldous Huxley wrote about many issues in his time period. Some of these issues still face us today. Examples of this would be the role of women in society‚ the use of soma‚ and conditioning. Aldous Huxley did not fully explain what soma was but we can infer that it was some sort of drug used to make people happy. Aldous Huxley wrote about many topics that still face this this world today even if it is unnoticed. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley gave many clues throughout
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In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley expresses that being human is about having the right to be unhappy and striving for greater struggles in life by defining the structures in his world that prevent freedoms. Starting from creation‚ the entire population of this “Brave New World”(139) is groomed to be who society wants them to be. Engineers are groomed to be engineers‚ doctors are groomed to be doctors‚ but the more important aspect of their education is everyone is instilled with the belief that
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timing may have been different‚ the goals of the European powers were very similar. The Europeans ventured to the new world with a hope of spreading Christianity and in search of gold and spices. According to the historian Robert Mackenna‚ a big factor of European expansion between 1415 and 1715 was Charles V‘s call for expansion of Christendom by converting the Natives of the new world. Many explorers also served as missionaries. While with the native people of the Americas‚ men on voyages would
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1. Mother‚ monogamy‚ romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love‚ my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily‚ didn’t allow them to be sane‚ virtuous‚ happy. What with mothers and lovers‚ what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey‚ what with the temptations and the lonely remorses‚ what with all the diseases and the endless isolating
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Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley the role of race shows that segregation is not born within the subconscious of our minds. It is rather a concept that is bestowed upon our minds. This can be seen in the need to implement hypnopedia in order to create continuous judgment‚ the need to separate Savages from World State‚ and the need to physically and mentally lower a portion of the population so that the feeling of superiority manifests among its leaders. To begin with‚ all the citizens of World State
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