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Society In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Introducing Huxley to the twenty first century would bring on a reaction. Huxley would be able to see some similarities and differences in the twenty first century society and the society he created in his novel, Brave New World and would be disgusted by the similarities and delighted that there is some differences. The role that technology plays in present day society is somewhat similar to the society in the novel. For example, in the novel’s society they are constantly surrounded by technology, which is similar to today with television, social media, cell phones, and reality TV. This technology shapes the opinions of our society and is a large influence in how people make decisions. The control that technology has over society in present …show more content…

Drug use is also present in both societies, whether legal or illegal. Today’s society has a large dependence on drugs including the rising rates of opioid addiction as well as more states considering the legalization of marijuana, which can be compared to the novel’s drug, soma. Another similarity in the advancement of technology is, the way that offspring are created. In the twenty first century there is in vitro-fertilization, where the egg is fertilized by the sperm outside the body in a test tube and in the novel offspring are created in bottles and are decanted, instead of born. However, in the twenty first century the embryo is inserted back into the mother or surrogate’s uterus, unlike in the brave new world. One of the major differences between the twenty first century and the brave new world is the family unit that is present in today’s society and is very important. Today’s society still values religion, family, beauty, truth, and science and that is what sets the difference between the brave new world and today. Huxley would be disgusted that the twenty first century turned out to be so alike to the brave new world and may even think that with more innovation today’s society could turn into the brave new world. However he would also be delighted to know that the twenty first century still values religion, family, beauty, science, and truth, which were not present in the brave new world and keep the

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How a Utopia compares to present day In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, we are presented with a society that is abnormal from our own modern day society because of their technological advancements and different life perspectives. Although our society and the “World State” are very different, Huxley relates the two worlds throughout the novel with several meaningful quotes. Social critic Neil Postman, in his “Six Assertions”, talks about many of the topics in Brave New World and whether or not they are relevant in today’s society.

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Huxley, in his novel Brave New World, sets up an entire society that relying on mass production, mass consumption, and instant gratification. This immediacy and efficiencies creates a world of mindless drone humans skating through life

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The grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, a famous biologist, Aldous Huxley was provided with what Milton Birnbaum calls a “genetic inheritance”. With this inheritance, Huxley was heavily emerged in science as well as literature. From a young age, he endured the constant bullying and fighting from boarding school resulting him in becoming “ a delicate child, slow in learning to walk, and uninterested in the kind of violent games” (Thody 11). With the death of his mother, Julia Arnold, and his brother committing suicide, Huxley was left with emotional burden that would later be presented in his writing. He displays his emotions in the tearful scene of Brave New World between John the Savage and his mother.

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Huxley’s References to the Modern World Through Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, depicts a futuristic dystopian society unlike the date it was published. However, despite this futuristic setting, plenty of historical allusions are seen throughout the novel, ranging from Shakespeare to the Bible, which seem to confuse whether the novel could be considered historical, contemporary, or futuristic. Despite the futuristic setting and numerous historical allusions featured in Brave New World, the novel is truly contemporary due to the references of today’s society that it contains, whether it’s people’s heavy reliance on technology, or the desire that people with authority have to control certain aspects of the

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Instant gratification leads to ignorance of one’s values resulting in the attitudes of the characters displayed in the book. The society Huxley pictures is one without morals with no resistance after enough time as all the “savages” will end up ceasing to

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Huxley’s main argument in Brave New World is if the human race continues to allow science, technology, and material objects control our lives, society will lose a reasonable and moral lifestyle. Huxley’s argument is well-presented because Huxley executes the creation of a dystopian world in which tyrannical leaders are able to control the consumption, emotions, and fears of the entire population through the use of technology. In the novel World State uses technology to make citizens simple-minded and controls every aspect of their lives. To readers the practices of World State might be unjust but many aspects of the novel relate to the real world.

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Every society strives to be perfect, but the truth is most cannot make the sacrifices necessary to achieve perfection. Every society contains too much conflict since different people's’ views and emotions are constantly clashing with each other. These conflicts are the reason why a utopian society cannot be created. In order to have a perfect society, everyone in that society has to have similar motives to eliminate conflicting ideals. Societies have to be willing to sacrifice certain traits, such as emotions and the truth to obtain perfection, but first, they must ask themselves, “is it really worth giving up these traits?”

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Aldous Huxley depicts a world in which there seems to be huge advancements in technology. In it includes new ways of teaching, and easier ways of reproduction. The “Bokanovsky Process,” as they call it, can make a total of ninety six viable fetuses from a single egg. Women no longer cook, clean, nor take care of children, but does that indicate that they are equivalent to men? Everything appears to be much more straightforward and equal, but it is nowhere near the truth.

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History has always been a major motivation for our lives today. From pushing ourselves to create a better society then before, or just wanting to create masterpieces that will be remembered for centuries like the the great artists of the past did, humankind has always looked to its past to shape a “perfect” future. In 1516, Thomas More wrote Utopia to justify what life would and should look like in a perfect society. He describes it to be full of scholarly people who work in monasteries (Sargent).

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Huxley's ideas that our society is numbed by things that we love and that everyone is almost happy to be somewhat oppressed is almost too real. It is pretty easy to see and make connections after evaluating our society that we live in. I agree with Neil Postmans assertions claiming that Brave New World is most relevant to our society. One of Postman’s claims that i related to is “people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” this is expressed in the book by the simple quote “community, identity, stability”(1).

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Aldous Huxley wrote many different stories, both fiction and nonfiction. However, his most notable story is Brave New World where he wrote about what he thought the future of humanity held. Many of his predictions came true, but not all. Mass production of goods, consumerism of goods and entertainment, mass education, and genetic engineering are all things Huxley predicted correctly, but there are things he didn’t.

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The utopian society in the Brave New World can be compared and contrasted between our contemporary society using individualism, community and the human experience. The fictional novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, is about a utopian society where people focus stability and community over individuality and freedom, but an outsider is introduced to intervene with the operation of the utopian state. In the contemporary world, people need to show individuality in their communities in order to survive, and to be human, one must show emotion, which is the opposite in the Brave New World. Individualism is very important in the contemporary world, but in the utopian state, individuals are conditioned to be the same as everyone else. They do not know how to be themselves.

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The descriptive imagery and relatable characters make Brave New World a well-written book that illustrates the importance of personal freedom and individuality. Huxley paints the picture of a world that is both beautiful and terrifying with his vivid descriptions of the World and its controlled citizens. Huxley introduces this when Bernard Marx visits a “savage reservation” with Lenina, she is disgusted by the setting thinking, “The dirt, to start with, the piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, the flies.” with “Her face wrinkl[ing] up into a grimace of disgust. h[olding] her handkerchief to her nose”(Huxley 117).

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Huxley also write some short stories, poetry, travelogues and even film scripts. In his novels and essays Aldous Huxley would always play the role of a critical observer of accepted traditions, customs, social norms and ideals. Importantly, he would be concerned in his writings with the potentially harmful applications of so-called

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In both the story and our modern day society technology has been dangerous when it comes to the government 's. It is mostly used for “our benefit” but what we don’t realize is that higher power sometimes does take advantage of it. For example wire-tapping or surveillance cameras in our society, and in the brave new world 's society it is used to make who the people are such as their looks and personality. It might not be exactly the same, but our society could one day end up like theirs when it comes to the use of technology. Lastly is Huxley 's idea that “everyone belongs to everyone”. In the brave new world, relationships are nonexistent.

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