Brave New World
"The arid torpor of our inaction will be our demise." In any kind of society, there will always be a struggle for power. The people who have it will do anything possible to keep it, whether that means of holding others back or by annihilating them completely. People around the world have seen it happen since the beginning of mankind. It's a wonder how civilization has made it so far with such atrocities enveloping us. The only answer to that question is resistance. Greg Graffin, Ph.D. of Bad Religion advocates this struggle in every word he writes. For as long as the privileged have been oppressing those beneath them, those beneath them have been fighting back. Without this counteraction, society would not have made it as far as it has come today. However, Aldous Huxley shows us what happens when people stop protesting and give in to the omnipotent world-state. The result is the "utopia" of Brave New World. In this society people are so brainwashed and controlled, they have given up all of their basic human liberties for the security of stability. Through a story of lust, love and longing, on man expressed his fears of what might happen to human beings when they stop rebelling against what they believe to be unjust.
He did genuinely believe that there were things to criticize. (At This moment made John realize that he had to do something about the way things were being done in this world. He knew what he was seeing was wrong and went into action. Soma, the drug that tore every last bit of reality and emotion from a person was what stole his mother away from him, and what stole humanity from the humans with which he lived. So when he heard the call for soma distribution in the hospital, something in him snapped. "Twin, twins . . like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of Linda's death. Maggots, but larger, full grown, they now crawled across his grief and his repentance." Action. To give them feeling, to make them experience the pain and loneliness that surged through him. No more Soma. what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, with all their eyes and their nostrils at the shocking scene that was And that he did. Bernard was unable to choose between acceptance and self-fulfilment. In the end, he was forced to go to an island where people were allowed to think freely for themselves, but was terrified to go. "Oh, please don't send me to Iceland. I promis I'll do what I ought to do. Give me another chance. Please give me another chance." Bernard was so beat down by his society that he didn't have the self-confidence to even believe in his own opinions. The nurse stood irresolute, looking now at the kneeling figure The novel begins with students being led around the hatchery building while they are being taught about the process of making humans. The controller is telling them a few things about how the world used to be. "The Nine Years' War, the great Economic Collapse . There was a choice between World Control and destruction. Between stability and . . . liberalism, of course, was dead of anthrax, but all the same you couldn't do things by force." The world-state pushed its ways on everyone in the world by violence and propaganda. At first, some groups opposed this threat to their rights, however, as they were beaten down, they began to lose the strife that had once kept their society going and they were lost into stormy sea of the world state. To prevent any more disturbances, the state enforced strict reproduction proc
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Approximate Word count = 1554
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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