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Utilitarianism In Brave New World

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Like machines, they are fully controlled. That is why they cannot act in a different way they are not allowed to. Any disturbance of identity may lead to the breach of the ‘peace’ and stability, it may endanger public security. Such is the truth of the ‘Brave New World’. It represents a disturbing, loveless and even ominous place. It is so because Aldous Huxley provides his ‘ideal’ society with characteristics intended to estrange his readers.
The author decided to exploit the profound worries and anxieties of his readers from all around the world to show that both communism on the east and capitalism on the west spell disaster (huxley.net). Indeed, the penman creates the residents of his ‘brave new world’ by combining the most negative characteristics
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