government was to create the greatest happiness for the greatest number. In the books Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood‚ the government’s use all of their power to achieve this goal. They control almost every aspect of their citizens lives in order to create their perfect version of control‚ happiness and sameness. They are able to control what the people wear‚ how they treat each other‚ their social and physical habits‚ among many
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1949‚ Eric Arthur Blair‚ under pseudonym George Orwell‚ penned an oppressive totalitarian society where unorthodox thoughts and rebellion were silenced by cyclical violence and torture. Each approach to the divisiveness presented in Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 could not be further apart. Huxley’s novel features future citizens molded from prebirth inside containers‚ undergoing biological programming in ‘hatcheries’ to obey the whims and orders of leader Mustapha Mond.
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Legitimate roles of government Eddie Kirchoff Like in 1984‚ Brave new world shows the dangers of letting the government take too much control over our daily lives. Where a good government will leave its citizens alone to live their own lives. What makes the New World Sate different from brutal totalitarian regimes like those in our history and in 1984 is that the government feeds on the weaknesses of human nature. This makes citizens give away their freedom for a false sense of happiness and security
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Jacob Martinez Mrs. Malott English 12 19 August 2013 The Brave New World Writing Prompt: Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Brave New World is a book in which several morally ambiguous characters play a pivotal role. Eventually‚ you will write an essay (for now‚ a detailed outline) in which you explain how one character from this novel can be viewed
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Brave New World takes place in a sterile and controlled futuristic society that is referred as the “World State.” The book opens in Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre where the director is of the Hatchery and another character‚ Henry Foster‚ are showing a tour to a group of boys and explaining how reproduction works since women do not give birth anymore. This factory produces embryos and then conditions them to belong to one of the five castes: Alpha‚ Beta‚ Gamma‚ Delta‚ or Epsilon.
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In the book Brave New World there is this constant presence of this perfect drug known as soma. Soma is the drug in which the society uses it for depression‚ stress‚ etc. Huxley uses this drug in the novel as a form of happiness to the state and as a form of controlling. The scary thing about Huxley’s prediction about this perfect drug soma is scary due to the fact of its relevancy in today’s society with marijuana. The two drugs are very similar in the way they are used recreationally‚ how they
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‘’An Marxist study of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley” Alisha Ghosh QD Leavis’ essay mentions a statistic‚ “The investigation made in 1924 into the stocks and issues of urban libraries revealed that while they had 63% of non-fiction works on an average to 37% of fiction‚ only 22% of non-fiction is issued in comparison 78% of fiction.” This clearly ascertains the fact that a commodity that is in demand at a particular point of time is determined by the class or group that is ‘ruling’ or is in
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estimated that 64‚000 people die of drug overdoses per year. Huxley’s society “The World State” is a dystopian society‚ yes the men and women that don’t partake in controlling the society seem to be happy in what they consider a utopia‚ but the people who do control “The World State” like the world controller Mustapha Mond and people like John The Savage‚ are victims of the true nature of reality. In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley‚ some of the fantasies that are now a reality in our society
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Brave New World – Manufactured Happiness Chris Lim Be it resolved that the Brave New World is a utopia because everyone in the World State is truly happy. First of all‚ it is believed that one must suffer unhappiness to truly know and appreciate happiness. However‚ that concept is incompatible with a utopia‚ as the point of a utopia is to be without sadness‚ pain and suffering. In that respect‚ the World State is a utopia. Secondly‚ the concept of knowing unhappiness to know happiness
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Bernard Marx is the Brave New World’s favorite outcast. He doesn’t "fit in" because of his "smallness”. He’s isolated by his status as an outcast‚ and his alienation leads him to be a critic of the Brave New World rather than a proponent of it. He wishes he could fit in and be "happy." Bernard’s critique of society stems from his frustrated desire to "fit in" and not from any logical or rational problem he has with it. We learn that he has a "reputation" for being "anti-social" and that he’s an outcast
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