Society In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, and its futuristic London society raises questions about choice and human freedom. Huxley’s answers to these questions have an impact on the novel’s plot and the character development of people such as Lenina, Bernard, and John. These questions also raise further questions about the differences between the central London society of the novel and the society of the twenty-first century. With regards to choice and human freedom, I believe the society of the twenty-first century is more superior to life than the central London society because it leads to a fuller experience of life and its meaning through moral challenges in which free will plays a central role. Concerning the central society of London in the novel, I believe it is not superior to life than the twenty-first-century society

In this present society, people have the ability to choose whether or not to (for example) behave promiscuously, of course within legal boundaries. Current society still gives people freedom and choice more so than in the futuristic London society in Brave New World. However, it is arguable that people in the futuristic London still have freedom and choice, just not as extensive as in the twenty-first-century. For example, characters such as Fanny or Henry Foster can decide who they want to ‘have’ a particular night, regardless of the fact that they are conditioned to always ‘have’ someone new. In addition, they can control how they think and behave, but it still remains that they are conditioned to have limits as to what and how they think (as seen by Fanny disagreeing with Lenina’s lack of promiscuity). Therefore, it appears that the people of the futuristic London society have a diminished freedom and choice, but I argue that the twenty-first-century society is more superior to life because its people have a greater capacity for freedom and