Brave New World
The topic, 'A Social Issue' is important towards my understanding of the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley as Huxley made his futuristic worls a social experiment involving genetics. This social experiment shows the values around which the future revolves and the main aim of the new world is to obtain 'community, identity, stability', which was the motto for this new society. An example of how the obtained 'community, identity, stability' was to take away the peoples' freedom. One way they did this was through the process of cloning children, and the undergoing of conditioning throughout childhood, that left the people of the Brave New World trained in many things that society found socially acceptable such as sexual games and consumerism. Throughout the novel the reader sees this new scientific experiment as a negative thing, as Huxley portrays a superficial, fake world where people take drugs such as Soma to become artificially happy rather than feeling natural feelings, a statement of freedom. Huxley was portraying this world as negative as he was trying to issue the reader with a warning to be careful of the power we unleash through science. As shown in this social experiment, the possible
It also shows that through this social experiment, the government can have complete control over society and take away their freedom and individuality with conditioning, and no one seems to question it, besides Bernard Marx, who feels there is something wrong but cannot put his finger on it. outcomes are showing a dystopia, a negative future rather than a positive one. The people of the Brave New World are shells with no real meaning to life, such as Lenina who lives on Soma to escape reality, such as the reserve. She has no apparent reason to be in the world except to inject embryo's, which any person could do. Without a reason for life, what is the point of living. This meaningless existance makes the reader feel sympathy for Lenina, as compared to the reader, she has nothing. Although sometimes we feel alone and as though we have nothing, we do; we have friends and family, goals, freedom and emotions, all things taken for granted which the Brave New World possess none of, and therefore are portrayed as empty shells. The people of Brave New World see our civilization as uncivilized brings up the issue of what exactly is civilization? It comes down to values and the reader can see the values of the brave new world are superficial and unemotional. The reader feels sympathy towards the fact that one of their main values is consumerism and they need to be constantly amused, as shown by the games invented. Each
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Approximate Word count = 967
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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