Persuasive Essay On Brave New World

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The purpose of my paper is to give insight on freedom, dependence on technology, society being one, danger of world leaders, incompatibility of happiness and truth, and separation of people all in the book Brave New World. And why Aldous Huxley found it important to write about something so far into the future (2540 AD). The author pries at what it is that makes us happy and whether we can make people, build them to love one thing and hate the other, feel a certain way towards something, and control all feelings, thoughts, emotions, desires, and sexual partners. All before being born. If it is possible, which he makes a convincing statement with the book that it is, could we let it happen? Throughout the summary think about one thing, could this happen in our society today? If your immediate thought is yes, why? How …show more content…

Once at the Reservation, Lenina forgets her soma and is feeling very weird seeing all the people who are aged (in the World State no body ages) and sick. They meet a man, John, who is mad that he didn’t get to be the one to be whipped in a ritual. John gets to talking with them and tells them that his mom, Linda, comes from the World State too, Bernard puts two and two together and figures out that Linda was the woman the Director had lost. While Bernard planned to bring John and Linda back to the World State, to hopefully change the Directors mind about exiling him, Lenina takes enough soma to knock her out for almost a whole day. Lenina did not take it so well when they found out that Linda was from the World State and had a child, a prospect so ludicrous to her that she was disgusted, who called her mom and hadn’t had soma in such a long time that she is in shock (in the World State there was no such thing as parents for everyone came from a