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Summary Of Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

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In the novel, “Brave New World,” written by Aldous Huxley, the World State upholds a unique set of values to establish a perfect and stable society. Along with the motto “Community, Identity, Stability,” the government uses various techniques to manipulate every individual’s mind. Some are obvious, such as genetic engineering, social conditioning, mind-altering drugs, and several types of entertainment. The primary goal of this artificial world is to maintain happiness in order to prevent conflict and dissatisfaction. To certain criteria, sacrifices that the World State requires of its citizens aren’t a price worth paying to sustain social stability since citizens’ freedom and individuality are abandoned. Excessive consumption of drugs mostly hides people away from letting them experience reality. Once Linda returns to civilization, she spends her days “lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting, without ever being made to feel as you always felt peyolt,… …show more content…

At birth, people are classified into their own caste system and assigned their own social roles. Then, they are taught to perform their designated tasks properly to preserve stability. The World State controller assumes “People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get,... they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave” (pg. 220). Every person is expected to follow the principle of collectivism which generally views themselves as a whole in a community. They ought to have no unique thoughts since satisfaction is generated through communal activities and mind-altering drugs. Consequently, the World State has suppressed its citizens from freely expressing desires and forced them to pursue the norms as humanoid

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In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, a dystopian government called The World State, controls every single asset of life for the citizens living there. Taking place in a futuristic London, the World State conditions its people and ultimately controls every aspect of its caste system: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. With the minority of elite Alphas being ruling at the top and the intellectually-impaired the intellectually-impaired Epsilons representing the majority of the bottom low, the World State guarantees no part of its society is exposed to freedom. Concluding to their motto, “Community, Identity, Stability”, from Identity the lower caste systems are genetically identical and made like that to create Stability, which reduces

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While modern Western society freely criticizes others where there is rampant suffering and unhappiness, it is irrational to believe the society filled with unhappiness and chaos, albeit possessing individual freedoms, to be superior to a society where their lives are restricted but without instability, chaos, or unhappiness. During his debate with Mustapha Mond on the sacrifices, and lack thereof, their respective societies make for the sake of happiness, John states, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy… I claim them all” (Huxley, 163). John claims all that comes along with freedom; the good and the bad. Those living in current society, where there exists a balance of social stability and individual freedoms, would choose their familiar lifestyles over the World State’s, which has no individuality or innate emotional attachments.

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