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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, and according to Karl Marx’s philosophy, individuals serve the community according to their respective ability and, in return, the society fulfills the needs of the people to reach social stability. Marx’s philosophy, also known as Marxism, was developed during the industrial revolution and was created to apply to the workers of his time. Long after Marx was Huxley’s Brave New World, which was constructed as a satirical imitation of Marx’s idealism of communism, and Huxley’s contemporary values and current society. For Marx, he believed that the need of the society was more important than our own individual need and, in Huxley’s World State, individualism, science, and self-expression …show more content…

The lower castes of the World State are conditioned to enjoy their personal burdens and accept their statuses; they are not miserable. The World State ensures social stability through a binary process. First, a predestined caste system, where the lower castes are full of twins that come from the same single ovary. Second, conditioning, where babies’ caretakers work to eliminate babies’ emotions and interests in forbidden subject matters by administering a mild electric shock when babies crawl toward books and flowers. This twofold process is designed to fit the lower caste humans in well with society by removing their curiosity and erasing their individuality to prevent social differentiation from occurring. This dual process of Huxley’s Brave New World’s, World State, exaggerates Marx’s communist perspective of equality by constructing humans through decanting and conditioning. Despite Huxley’s parodying of equality, erasing individuality in the lower caste connects with Marx’s idealism of communism because Marx believed in a society where everyone is more similar than …show more content…

The reason for the five castes is that everyone is organized/designed to fulfill a particular need of the society. The higher castes, Alphas and Betas, work managerial jobs, whereas the lower castes take care of the manual labor. This depicts the inner workings of the society of Huxley’s time period. The five castes are chronologically decanted in a peculiar, yet, well-thought-out way: Although Marx believed in a classless society, the World State’s caste system’s concept that each individual created in the lab is born with the ability to fulfill certain roles ultimately leads to the only priority, social efficacy. Marx is unmistakably in favor of the society as a whole and social efficacy. In addition, The D.H.C. (Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning) administrates the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, hence, his name. The D.H.C. is in charge of Bokanovsky’s Process, which is the World State’s equivalent to the modern-day biotechnology. Bokanovsky’s Process for the lower castes, is a long-established duplication

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