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Isolation In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Nick Klug Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a future world in which natural feelings of emotion and connection are set aside and all individuals work for a common goal. Despite everyone having a set place in society, a common theme in this novel is loneliness and the effects of being isolated. The effects of isolation are seen the savage reservation in the character John. John is rejected by the savages because he is the son of two Londoners. He believed life would be much better in the new world because of the stories his mother had told him. Upon arrival to London John learns that it is not what he expected. He quickly finds that he does not agree with some of the practices in the New World. Bernard
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London did not live up to John’s high expectations, leaving him to believe that he would never be inside a community, even within his dreams. The behavior of the civilized people ran counter to all of his philosophies and morals. John articulated his frustration with this difference in one telling conversation, “’ But you always came before, John.’ ‘That’s precisely why I don’t want to come again.’”

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The author, Aldous Huxley, develops this world with a warning to society now to not let our world become like the one in Brave New

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But once Johns true character, rebel, is revealed Bernard is suddenly not with the rebelling. Showing his true characteristics; a

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By using Shakespeare and an antiquated form of thinking, he incorrectly assumes things about the world. Lenina Crowne comes onto John and she promotes promiscuous behavior like the rest of the people in the World State. John calls her a strumpet and thinks she should not display this behavior because Shakespeare did not describe behavior this way. When John says “O Brave New World” for the first time he

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(MIP-3) In addition, this dissociation extends to the society one lives in. (SIP-A) As a result of their cultivated, materialistic lives, characters in Bradbury’s novel are isolated from their own society. (STEWE-1)

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In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley warns of a world, free from individualism with the entire culture contingent on instant gratification and asphyxiating happiness. Looking around in the world today fragments of the dystopian future described by Aldous Huxley exist, slowly changing society into its next evolution. In the novel, one character in particular stands out amongst the identical crowd. John the Savage personifies human values and intellectualism, in a world deprived of both. Looking at the current world conditions in 1931, Aldous Huxley created a horrifying future, a dramatization showing the power of a slippery slope.

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Brave New World is a novel that is very carefully planned and put together. It opens in the year 632 A.F. All of civilization as we know it, no longer existed. Citizens are divided into five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. Alpha as the highest castes enjoy superior tasks, while the lower ones perform menial roles. Ten Controllers controlled these citizen by conditioning infant minds and by soothing adults with the tranquilizer, soma.

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Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, encompasses many reactions from its readers. Opinions and reactions may vary, but most understand its dystopian nature. The World State is centered around total employment and mass consumerism. The controllers of the World State have manipulated their citizens into dependency. In addition to that, they will avoid isolation at all costs.

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Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, introduces to readers an innovative technological world where science is used in order to uphold stability, and society is divided into five castes consisting of alphas, betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons. John, a savage, has never been able to fit into society back at the reservation, so coming into an educated world is extremely difficult. Moving through two contradicting societies, John is unable to conform to the differences in the civilized society. transition. He struggles to find meaning in the superficial world surrounding him.

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this rejection, he entered the literary world while he was at Oxford, meeting writers such as Bertrand Russell and becoming close friends with D. H. Lawrence. Professionally, Huxley excelled as a writer. While in college, he wrote and published a collection of poems. Five years after, he published his first novel Crome Yellow.

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In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, individual freedom is controlled by the use of recreational drugs, genetic manipulation and the encouragement of promiscuous sexual conduct, creating the ideal society whose inhabitants are in a constant happy unchanging utopia. In sharp contrast, Seamus Heaney’s poetry allows for the exploration of individual freedom through his symbolic use of nature and this is emphasised even further by people’s expression of religion, which prevails over the horrors of warfare. Huxley’s incorporation of the totalitarian ruler Mustapha Mond exemplifies the power that World State officials have over individuals within this envisioned society. “Almost nobody.

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This is greatly shown through John the savage as he comes from living in a world full of culture and moves in a world of sexual desire and drugs. As John is entering and learning everything about this fascinating city he says the words “O brave new world” (Huxley 139). This is showing how fascinated John is with this great new place, during this part he still retains his innocence because he does not know the downfalls of this place yet. John slowly learns more about the new world he has been introduced to until he finds out about a drug called soma. He learns about this through his mother who is an addict to it.

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Aldous Huxley develops the character of John in Brave New World through exile from the World State in order to elucidate the theme of not being able to escape the corruption that is society. After all the hardships John has been through, such as growing up on the Reservation with his mother, whose death also drove him to desperate actions such as starting a riot among some Deltas at the hospital, John was not able to properly cope with his “new life” in the World State. HIs positive view of what the “Other World” would be like was crushed when he realized how horrible and corrupt the people were there, all conditioned in uniformity to create stability. His disgust was only furthered by his exposure to the World State’s use of soma and sexual pleasure to keep people happily occupied. Everything that the people were conditioned and taught to do went against John’s beliefs, so he was understandably upset about it.

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At some point in everyone’s life, people are taught certain things in order to behave or think a certain way. People come into the world with zero knowledge. They do not know how to speak, feed themselves, or cleanse themselves. What is "normal" in one culture may seem alien-like in another. Actions that are considered "acceptable" may be observed from parents, peers, and even our society.

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Brave New World is both, utopia and dystopia. The author Aldous Huxley intended to depict an imagined new world after Ford, an industrial era, where all people would be happy and extremely satisfied or as content as the ideal society would let them be. Yet, to determine utopia and dystopia in Brave New World, we have to look at the new world from our own time and from the time before Ford, seen through the eyes of John the Savage, our predecessor. The world we observe herein reflects a futuristic world, a world that is to come, and a happy world we can imagine with an amount of disbelief. People of our world, the world which is happier than the savages' world, still not as happy as the Ford's world, will have to consider all the facts that make the new world look happy and brave.

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