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Lucy Aronson Mr. Cummings CP 10 19, January, 2018 Brave New World “Brave New World” acquires its names from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. Though written in 1931, “Brave New World” was based during AF 632 at the World State city of London. In this world, humans had been engineered through artificial wombs. Children had been given predetermined castes based on this society’s strict system. The castes Alpha and Beta luxuriate in superior tasks. Consequently, the castes Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon carry out degrading roles. In this culture, giving birth, and saying things like “mother, father, aging, and death” were frowned upon. Ten Controllers hold all the authority in this new world and tranquility was maintained by constraining …show more content…

This organized release of sexual urges, advocates the population to perceive the joy of their society’s unity. John, the savage who is the child to the Director and Linda, has sensitive feelings about love on the account of his upbringing in the savage reservation. Occasionally, individuals experience negative effects of the struggle, their society will not prevent. SOMA is a drug that represents a way to escape any negative feelings and overcome them with positive ones. Therefore, the citizens were encouraged to take SOMA to eliminate the effects of conflict. After John’s own experience of “Orgy-Porgy”, he commits …show more content…

In this culture, giving birth, and saying things like “mother, father, aging, and death” were frowned upon and tranquility was maintained by constraining infant minds and by subduing adults with the tranquilizer, SOMA. Stability flourishes, but individuality is nearly nonviable. Bernard is an alpha that fails to fit in meets an abundance of people like him. People who think and feel differently than the rest of their society. All sexual relations are designed to blur the distinctions among lovers and between emotions and urges, in a ritual called “Orgy-Porgy”. John has sensitive feelings about love on the account of his upbringing in the savage reservation. Both Bernard and John fight against the society's continual efforts to undermine their individuality. All attempts to free themselves failed. Bernard and Helmholtz, bound for exile at the Falkland Islands, and John who commits suicide after experiencing his own “Orgy-Porgy”. The individuals rights may be limited in the modern world, but they must be exercised constantly, or they are

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