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False Sense Of Friendship In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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One of the most horrifying parts of Brave New World is slowly starting to become a reality in our real world. Brave New World is a terrifying, written prediction of what would happen to our world that was written in 1932, by one Aldous Huxley. Aldous was afraid of the rapid growth of technology and the road we were headed down. Aldous wrote a disturbing fictional story about a man named Bernard who goes through every role in this new society. In this story, there are many shocking parallels to our world today. In the novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, we see a consistent theme of Bernard having many fake friends that give him the sense as if he has real, true friends. In today’s society, we see this same theme through teenagers …show more content…

John is a man who has lived his whole life thinking the opposite of everyone else in this post ford feature. At the beginning of Brave new world, Bernard is almost spiteful about society and how it works. He hates how no one really has real connections, he shows this discontent while speaking with Lenina, “ “I want to know what passion is,” she heard him saying. “I want to feel something strongly” ”(Huxley 99). This shows that Bernard hates the surface-level fake friendships that are so common in this new reality and that he really wants a deep and meaning full connection with the people around …show more content…

In our world today, we think that the influencers we see online, and the people who like our pictures are our friends. When in reality if I saw these friends on the street they wouldn't even say hello. According to Pew Research Center, It's gotten to the point where 88% of teens agree that people overshare on the internet. This shows that in situations where emotions aren't involved, it’s hard to decipher what real friendship is. This issue is even more severe due to the fact that, “Nowadays, the Internet has become an indispensable part of life. Uncontrolled continuous use of the Internet has begun to lead to addiction” (bla bla). This addiction leads to a parasocial relationship through screens. We don't even know most people on social media and yet we feel that we can share some of the most intimate and private parts of our lives with them. A parasocial relationship is “a one-sided relationship formed when one party extends energy, interest, and time and the other person doesn’t know they exist, according to the National Register of Health Services Psychologists”(blaaaa). We see many parasocial relationships through teens and their social media followers, or influencers and their fanbase. This process of miss trusting and oversharing can lead to delusional

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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a glimpse of the Utopian society that could be. The Utopian society where everyone has a part in society and no one questions their part. Though this society has erased disease and any danger to people, there is no true fulfillment, no true love, no sense of individuality. All of this comes as a conflict to Bernard, who isn't sold to the idea of conformity to this unseasoned society. Throughout the novel, Bernard questions the Utopian society, showing an understanding that there is more to life than what is here in the New World.

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Bernard Marx is first drawn to John as a means of boosting his status within the World State's structure, seeing an opportunity to set himself apart from all his peers. However, as John's power develops, Bernard's objectives become clearer, and the two become increasingly at conflict. When confronted with his shallow interest in John, Bernard concedes, "It's true. I'm envious of you… I'm glad you're an outsider too. We're so conditioned to believe that no one can be happy unless he's… well, ordinary" (Huxley, Chapter 8).

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Conclusion In Chapter 5 of Brave New World, Bernard and Lenina have meaningless sex under the influence of drugs. These events demonstrate Huxley’s depiction of the degrading society that he saw in the Roaring Twenties when he visited the promiscuous United States. By magnifying these concerns in his utopian society, he allows the reader to question the direction of the real world’s values. Bernard acts as Huxley’s voice of reason, he does not believe that someone should take drugs yet he does it to fit in with those around him.

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Once Bernard finds John, he starts taking advantage of John’s uniqueness as an opportunity to fight his internal class struggle. Rather than yearning for change in society as in the beginning of the novel, Bernard is more concerned with impressing others and climbing up the ladder. While there are no monetary stresses in Brave New World, Bernard feels the need to improve his status because of his mistreatment by the lower classes as a result of his physical disabilities. For example, when Bernard is trying to get the lower castes to prepare his helicopter, he has to exert force, even as an Alpha male, to accomplish tasks (Huxley 64). Bernard starts treating John like an object, rather than a person.

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There are many characters in the book Brave New World. One character that significantly stands out from the rest is Bernard Marx. Just like the rest of the citizens in Huxley's book, the process of decanting created Bernard as well. Due to this, he should not be different than anyone else, but somehow his psyche is different from practically all of the other characters/civilians in the novel. Because of the fact that Bernard thinks differently from everyone else, he begins to question the society that he lives in and also starts to say horrific things about himself.

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In Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” the world has fallen into an authoritarian order, of which control is kept through constant distraction and suppression of information. Though through this remains communities of “savages” who reject the new world order and have continued more traditional human life in reservations. It is in one of the these reservations the Aldous Huxley introduces the character John, a foil to the society he is introduced to. This exile from the land and the ideologies of the home John once knew to the “brave new world” allows John to both learn about himself and gives him the ability to see the corruption within the world state. John is introduced in the novel as the protagonist, Bernard Marx, and his female companion,

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He also refused to take soma, by saying, “But I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (Huxley 237). This quote attests to John’s hatred towards superficial emotions. In John’s eyes, authentic emotions are crucial for achieving personal happiness. Bernard Marx, who is a self-conscious alpha, is considerably the best example of a truth-seeker.

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