Brave New World vs. Today
Brave New World vs. Today’s Spiritual Crisis Religion is irrational. In both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Erich Fromm’s “Today’s Spiritual Crisis”, the connection is made between some form of religion and the affects on its believers. Huxley’s novel and Fromm’s essay point out the conflicting patters between religious belief systems and the behaviors they conjure. In “Today’s Spiritual Crisis” the contrasts shown between world religions and modern day society and rational parallel the inconsistencies between the “religious” beliefs and conditioning and the subsequent behavior of certain characters. In Huxley’s Brave New World three characters best exemplify the wide range of human beliefs that control the actions of society: Bernard, Lenina, and John. Bernard feels the call to be an individual because of his unique stature. He sets up a belief system contrary to the stability that conditioning and “post-Fordian” culture demands. As youths, each Bokanovsky Group is trained to reject nature and embrace promiscuity. Bernard, in turn, does the opposite. His love of nature appalls Lenina, the typical member of brave new world society: while at the Channel, gazing at the ocean and horizon, he says to her “It mak
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Approximate Word count = 1144
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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