Brave New World1

A detailed Summary of Brave New World1

The peak of a writer's career should exhibit their most profound works of literature. In the case of Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is by far his most renowned novel. Aldous Huxley is a European-born writer who, in the midst of his career, moved to the United States and settled in California. While in California, he began to have visions aided by his usage of hallucinatory drugs. His visions were of a utopian society surviving here on earth. In his literature, Huxley wanted to make this utopian society as much a reality as possible. "In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities." This quote, written by Aristotle, perfectly describes Huxley's attitude towards the creation of his imaginary utopia. His only problem was establishing a value system that would not seem too unattainable. Huxley has two novels that have the theme of utopia, Brave New World and Island. Brave New World , which was written before Island , has ideas that are quite far-fetched, but in Huxley's eyes, still close to reality.

Huxley's first portrait of utopia involves having a controlled society of people all being alike. The year is A.F. 632 (After Ford; Ford is the equivalent to Go

Through mass production of people, individualism is lost. In Brave New World, all of the people are products of mass production. "Racks upon racks of numbered test tubes.#", [p. 5] is the only way to describe them before their actual birth. They have no family to give them a background different from anyone else's. They all come from the same green bottles. Even when they are born, all they are given is a name chosen out of a small group of common names. In our world, having a name is one of the millions of ways we use to tell people apart and give them a feature unique to themselves. The frequency of having the same name with so many other people, takes away from a person's individuality. Sometimes, "ninety-six identical twins" [p. 7] are produced. Having ninety-six people looking exactly the same has the same effect as having the same name, but to a much greater extent. In Island, the babies are born the natural way, but the children do not have a single set of parents, they have an "unpredestined and voluntary family", meaning that they are free to roam from family to family. They are urged to pick up the cultures of every family in the town by and by. Individuality is lost in this because one aspect of individualism is the influence of family on a person. If everyone has the same relatives, they are likely to all begin thinking alike. The loss of individualism in Island is not as extreme as in Brave New World, but it is prevalent.

The idea of a utopian society in today's world would seem impossible. It would probably be destroyed just as the island of Pala was because keeping unity of thought amongst billions of free-thinking people is too far-fetched to consider probable or plausible. However, a future utopian society as in Brave New World just might be possible. With the speed of advancing technology, the biological tools needed to mass produce human beings have been made and experimented on as we speak. Scientists can al

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English