Isolation In Brave New World

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. They have been conditioned to despise being alone, avoiding any time to contemplate the true suffering within their society. These citizens give up all of their freedom in order for happiness, which is the main idea that Huxley wanted to show. This world that he has created is shockingly similar to the modern world. Smartphones and hookup culture provide instant gratification

Some liken this danger to our modern world. Every person in the World State is completely dependent on the government. They have no option, but to conform because they couldn’t survive without it. The citizens of the World State are strongly encouraged to never spend time alone, because solitude leads to introspection. This lack of solitude ensures permanent visibility of all citizens (Keisman). Even the idea of enjoying solitude is considered taboo. People go to parties every night, in order to avoid spending any time alone (Hendricks). Huxley showed concern for the alienation of individuals from an inner life and demonstrated this in the World State. The World State is particularly designed so that people dislike solitude. They are never given the opportunity to reflect on their society. They never have time to think about their lives introspectively, to then realize the total governmental control over their lives

As observed within the nuclear family, a man and a wife are supposed to be wed and to procreate within their marriage. Huxley didn’t like the idea of the nuclear family, but he also expressed concern about the sexual revolution and how some characteristics of our lives would be lost within it. Brave New World demonstrates unrelenting promiscuity, which shows the lack of love within their society. This loss of love between two individuals demonstrates Huxley’s concern for the future (Gittos). Having meaningless relations with several individuals is again demonstrative of the lack of meaning in any of the citizens’ lives (Jones). Promiscuity is thought to be superior over committed, monogamous relationships (Taibi). This is another example of how the government is manipulating their citizens into the lives that will best serve the state. There is no connection between love and sexual relations in the minds of people that live in this society. The government uses these relations as a mechanism to dehumanize the masses