Perversion of Society
In today's society a person is shaped by family, friends, and past events, but in Aldous Huxley's classic novel, Brave New World, there is no such thing as family, history and "true" friends. The government controls every aspect of an individual from their creation in the hatcheries to their conditioning for their thoughts and careers. In this brave new world the ideas of stability and community reign supreme, and the concept of individualism is foreign and suppressed, "Everyone belongs to everyone else, after all," (47). Huxley perverses contemporary morals and concepts in Brave New World, thus distorting the ideas of materialistic pleasures, savagery versus society, and human relationships. These distortions contribute to the effectiveness of Brave New World, consequently creating a novel that leaves the reader questioning how and why. In the year A.F. 632 no pleasure is denied to the populous. Hypnopaedia is used as a device to form the moral education of children. What is taught through this method is not true ethics, but warped actions trained by words. An illustration of this is in the teaching of Elementary Sex to children. The society that Huxley created was one where having sex often an
Any relationship between two people in Brave New World that showed any type of intimacy, other than sexual, was considered bad and immoral. Lenina had been dating Henry Foster for four months and seeing no one but him, and it was considered by her friend, Fanny, to be in bad form. Lenina did not share a relationship with Henry where they revealed private details of their life, after all, in this society there is no individual. Lenina and Henry were together to go play games and have sex, nothing more. When John later tells Lenina he loves her, she reacts not by declaring her love back to him, but by taking off her clothes to sleep with him. To John, she was nothing but a whore, but Lenina considered herself to be doing the proper thing in the eyes of society. John had proposed the question to Bernard about his and Lenina's status, asking if they were married. Bernard did not know how to answer this question at first because he had never heard of the word "married." The world that Bernard lived in their was no such thing as a marriage. John explains to Bernard that being married means you are with someone forever, and that the relationship cannot be broken. Bernard laughs at the absurdity of John's question. He had been programmed by the society he rejected to not have a relationship like that, and that he was suppose to have as many partners as possible. Having a faithful bond with any one person in Brave New World was a crime. Huxley used this to his advantage to show how things like marriage, family and abstinence were altered into negative things that caused chaos, while in present times they are far from that. The new world used not having these things as a stabilizing facto
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Approximate Word count = 1148
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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