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  • Savage In Brave New World
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    Perversion of Society In today's society a person is shaped by family, friends, and past events, but in Aldous Huxley's classic novel, Brave New World, there is no such thing as family, history and "true" friends. The government controls every aspect of an individual from their creation in the hatcheries to their conditioning for their thoughts and careers. In this brave new world the ideas of stability and community reign supreme, and the concept of individualism is foreign and suppressed, "Eve...
  • Huxley First Wrote Brave New World
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    The Rocky Horror Picture Show, an instant cult classic from the 70's. Documenting a "Sweet Transvestite's" longing for the perfect lover, with no strings attached. Genetic Engineering along with lighting, a dark castle, and a few unorthodox love scenes made a few laugh, a few cry, and left many disgusted. Yet just how many sweet transvestites could there be in the world; certainly Aldous Huxley's Brave New World's idealized social and sexual interaction could have influenced this Transylvanian u...
  • Brave New World In The Future
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    Brave New World and 1984 As I read Brave New World and 1984, I noticed how some of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell's prophecies are becoming true. As science and technology progresses, we have the opportunity to alter few aspects of our lives, even though our freedom and privacy may be in jeopardy. In Brave New World, science allows babies to be artificially produced in a laboratory. Nowadays, parents who cannot conceive children are also able to artificially produce their children with the help...
  • Brave New World And Nineteen Eighty Four
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    Dystopian Futures in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The existence created by Brave New World is very efficient however it lacks any meaning, humans have no real extremes in feelings, no love, hate, pain and suffering. They are conditioned by technology to accept these things as normal. People are mass-produced to serve the means of the sociality and have no individuality whatsoever, a bleak world eliminating spirit and human nature. Outsiders to this world include Bernard Marx, Helmho...
  • Characters In A Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm each make commentary regarding the governing of society. Each story involves a so called perfect society, or Utopia. The people are given what they want, only to discover it wasn't really what they desired. It seems that both authors are telling us their idea of what's wrong with society, and how extreme these wrongs could become if we government to think for us. The way in which each story gives its warning is different. ...
  • Huxley's Brave New World
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    Ivan Denisovich essay In his 17th century per, "To Althea from Prison", Richard Lovelace tells us that "stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage". Thus Lovelace introduces and makes the reader familiar with the paradoxical nature of freedom. This paradox is raised again when comparing two legitimate visions of the modern world: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich vividly describe...
  • Brave New World
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    Science Run Amuck in Brave New World Brave New World is a novel set hundreds of years into our own future. On Earth, the Nine Years War tore the planet apart in the year A. F 178. Eerily, anthrax bombs dropped from the sky killed scores of people, what we in the post 9/11 world fear the most. When the dust settled, mankind banded together to create a new world called the "World State". Their motto is "Community, Identity, Stability", and it is all too much present as you will see. This future is...
  • Life In Brave New World Change John
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    Brave New World Essay Test Q: How does life in Brave New World change John? A: Life in The Brave New World changes John in an unusual way. Being a child from the savage reservation, John was taught that morality, rather than conditioned by the Controller. John learned his rights and wrongs from his mother, and his own experiences. John knew a personal relationship was valued, and everyone loved one another. He learned that religion was a major part of his morals. Sex was something done with a ma...
  • Huxley's Brave New World
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    Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is a thought provoking novel set in a future of genetically engineered people, amazing technology and a misconstrued system of values. Dubliners, written by James Joyce, is a collection of short stories painting a picture of life in Dublin Ireland, near the turn of the 19th century. Though of two completely different settings and story lines, these two works can and will be compared and contrasted on the basis of the social concerns and issues raised wi...
  • John To The New World
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    Brave New World The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an excellent book. The story accurately depicts the variation between a fictitious 'utopia'; and our present world. His vivid descriptions of the events and rituals of the utopians make the story a very quick read. The story starts out with a group of students learning about the way each member of the population is produced. The DHC explains how each person is predestined for a certain class and job and throughout the fetal growth tim...
  • Death In The Brave New World
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    The Brave New World treated death much as they did birth, this was in contradiction to the way the savage felt death should be Death in the Brave New World is not important, it is simply something that happens to your body when it has got worn out. In chapter 14 the nurse thought that the savage was "Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry as though death were something terrible, as though anyone mattered as much as all that!" Clearly she too had been death con...
  • Enemy In Brave New World
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    Al duos Huxley, in his science fiction novel Brave New World written in 1932, presents a horrifying view of a possible future in which comfort and happiness replace hard work and incentive as society's priorities. Mustapha Mond and John the Savage are the symbolic characters in the book with clashing views. Taking place in a London of the future, the people of Utopia mindlessly enjoy having no individuality. In Brave New World, Huxley's distortion of religion, human relationships and psychologic...
  • Novel Brave New World
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    Embrace misfits? People in today's society tend to be 'normal' and have a place to 'fit' into our society. However, there are those who are 'abnormal' and do not 'fit'. In today's social order, it is 'normal' for those who 'fit' and those who do not 'fit' to co-exist. In the novel Brave New World, those who do not 'fit' are cast out onto an island far away from civilization. Those who are cast out are referred to as misfits. Looking at Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World as a guide, should we ...
  • World Controllers In The Brave New World
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    Allusions to the "Brave New World"1. Ford Henry Ford (1863-1947) revolutionized the automobile industry with the assembly line method of production, which proved very successful for 15 million Model Ts were sold. Humans were similarly produced in the Brave New World where the embryos passed along a conveyor belt while a worker or machine would have a specific task dealing with the specimen. Again, this assembly line method proved very successful. 2. LeninaVladmir Lenin (1870-1924) founded the co...
  • Utopia Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley and his Impossible Utopia Novelist and essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, in the county of Surrey, England which included his father, Leonard Huxley, a prominent literary man and his grandfather was T.H. Huxley, a biologist who led the battle on behalf of the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis. He once almost quit school because of a eye disease but Aldous went and studied at Oxford, lived mainly in Italy in the 1920's, (where he met and befriende...
  • Novel Brave New World
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    The Brave New World: Is it already upon us? Huxley's vision of the future, portrayed in the novel Brave New World, holds many similarities to America's present day society. Huxley's vision was a vision of a trivial society, filled with self-pleasure and ignorance. In society today, knowledge is no longer praised as much as it has been in past generations. This has caused a scarcity in the willingness to learn. Also, mind-altering substances have become more and more common as today's technology ...
  • People Of Huxley's Brave New World
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    Man has long struggled for the perfect happiness. Some have tried to find their paradise through drugs, sexual promiscuity, and worldly possessions. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a paradise on earth through scientific technology. In this world, everyone is happy, employed, and satisfied with his or her place in life. This Utopia, however, is achieved at the cost of humanity, which is defined by individuality, love, and free choice. Individuality becomes taboo. In order to ...
  • Winston From The Novel Nineteen Eighty Four
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    In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, the authoritative figures strive for freedom, peace, and stability for all, to develop a utopian society. The Utopian society strives for a perfect state of well-being for all persons in the community, and over-emphasizes this factor, where no person is exposed to the reality of the world. As each novel progresses we see that neither society possesses family values nor attempts to practice them. Neither are passionate nor creative in...
  • John And Linda Back To The Utopia
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    A Brave Story Imagine a society so different from our own that it is completely shocking. This is the setting for Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The satire takes place in the year 632 A.F., after Ford who has become a deity for this society. Civilization as we know it ended after a very destructive war, which left the human population decimated and exhausted. After another war, a dictatorship took control of the remaining population. This new government was able to bring stability by setting u...
  • Issue Of Use Of Drugs
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    Dear Mr. Huxley During the past few weeks my class and I have been reading your book, ? Brave New World? While reading your book I have discovered a few captivating issues. These issues include the destruction of the family, the use of drugs, and polygamy (obligatory sex). These issues are interesting because of their implications in life today, and the frequent times they are shown in the book. The ways they are used to control people and make their life easier, and the fact that our world seem...

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