Brave New World
Customs and conventions force people into a mold *form*. In this way, human beings are prevented from enjoying personal fulfillment in their lives. However, is the lack of personal freedom justified if the mold people are forced into creates social stability? A social stability that creates personal fulfillment, however, is as artifical as the people that enjoy it. In Brave New World the people, for the most part, are robots made of flesh and blood. These are not people enjoying fulfillment but are drones, high on soma, playing their role in the puppet show of the World Controllers *Mustapha Mond*. At first, someone will dismiss the notions, ideas and predictions of this book as a ridiculous fiction and the result of Huxley's crazy imagination. However, one must look at his development of his Brave New World more closely to see its feasibility. As Mustapha Mond stated, technology and life sciences were making rapid advancements, as they are in the present day today. These advancements in Huxley's society caused gaps in countries, religious and various groups of people because of the moral, political and scientific values they epresented. Eventually, one comes to the 9 Years War in A.F. (after Ford) 1
Forcing people into a mold because of the need for social stability does take away personal fulfillment. There is no freedom or individuals to think, so they can't comprehend personal fulfillment. They do achieve the artificial fulfillment left in its place by those who manipulate them, but it might as well be given to them through hypnopaedia because it serves no individual purpose. It does fill a gap or emotion but does not have the true purpose of what fulfillment really is. However, that character will be limited by those in power to a few small islands around the world where threats to social stability are sent. The creation of social stability, as achieved in Brave New World, is not something the world should try to accomplish. For without art, Shakespeare, culture, history, God and individuals this Brave New World is no better than the old one. There is Helmholts, the only person in the world who Bernard can talk that understands him. Helmoholtz is not satisfied with things as they are and is extremely intelligent. He knows that there is something more to life because, along with Bernard, he realizes that he is an individual. He knows that there is something that he is missing but can't quite express it no matter how well he writes. When Helmholtz meets the Savage, it is as if another door was opened inside of him. Suddenly, all of the things he knew were there, but could not be defined, had names. Helmholtz was searching for the freedom of expression that John had picked from Shakespeare and history. Helmholtz is a fascinating character who is the biggest threat to the social stability of the region. He has found personal freedom and has the power to express it which could cause the downfall of his new society. This danger is recognized by Mustapha Mand, who at one point was just like Helmholtz. Mustapha gave up his ideas of freedom to serve as a World Controller. This is his personal fulfillment because even though he gave up his quest, he is now keeping order trying to make other's lives better. Helmholtz's personal fulfillment is genuine because he has risen above society. 1. The ability to produce Bokanovsky groups allowed for up to 96 identical twins to be decanted from one egg. The advancements of genetics to so great in this time period that during the decanting process, one can control the intelligence, stature, looks and any other trait of a person. They could make anything from a super genius Alpha Plus for managing the hatchery and conditioning center to a semi-moron Epsilons for
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