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Dystopia In A Brave New World

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A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a fictional novel, intended to criticize societies optimistic perspective on utopia. The novel commences with the establishment of the World State, a fictional government attempting to obtain paradise through technological advancements. By contradicting the World State’s motto, “community, identity, stability”, Huxley elucidates the inability for a utopian society to exist. The implementation of paradoxical ideas allows Huxley to accentuate the flaws existing within the fictional society ultimately to belabor the impossibility for the existence of an utopian society. Huxley first attempts to convey the dystopian nature of the society by contradicting the ‘community’ aspect of the World State’s motto. Huxley …show more content…

The Bokanovskified process allows the hatchery to mass produce humans through one egg, “One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, wil proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.” (Page 17). This process counters the ‘identity’ portion of the motto, because each social class would be present with identical individuals stemming from the same egg. It also eliminates the necessity for parents, stripping them of their humanity. In addition to this, the World State anticipates their members to participate/enjoy being involved in group activities. This is shown clearly when a nurse informs the Director that, “‘this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erodic erotic play. I’d noticed it once or twice before...I’m taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. Just to see if anything's at all abnormal’” (The nurse, Page 38). The World State is concerned about the little boy expressing his individuality, yet gets disciplined for obeying the State’s core ideology. This paradoxical ideology that exists within the society ensures the absence of paradise in this civilization. The creation of the Bokanovskified process allows for Huxley to identify another flaw within the community, thus expressing his perspective on its true dystopian

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