Brave New World - Is it a warning
Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930s. He made many future predictions and many or most of them have already come true but not to the extent that he writes about. The society in Brave New World is significantly different to the present one, and to the society in Huxley's time. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World not as a warning, but as something to look forward to.The people in Brave New World are everything we, as a society, want to be. Mustapha Mond sums up the perfections of the society in Brave New World with an explanation he gave John: "The world's perfect now. People are happy; they get what they want and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about . . . And if anything should go wrong, there's soma." (p. 177) In Brave New World's society, everyone has a place to be. There are no people out of work, there are no homeless people, no one struggles financially and they haven't a family nor a singular person that they have feelings for to worry about. They are all specially skille
These people have all the freedom that they desire. Conditioning may control them, but this however is the key to their freedom. Any restrictions they may have are not seen as restrictions but are seen as a way of life, therefore the people feel they have control over their lives, hence having freedom. We may not see this type of freedom as being good, but they are happy and have no problems or worries at all, consequently they are better off than we are. We cannot say they have no freedom, for we are not free ourselves. Schools, governments, and society control us, however we do not see ourselves as not having freedom as we see this as our way of life. The people in the society of Brave New World may not be as "free" as we are in our view, but they are better off, and feel they are free just as much as we feel we're free. d to fit a specific job therefore they are always needed, and people cannot survive without each other. 'Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone.' (p. 67) As the director pointed out, everyone is specially made for a particular job: "Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines . . . You really know where you are. For the first time in history." (p. 18) The society in Brave New World is perfect; there is no need to be afraid of anything. There are no causes of harm except for freak accidents like a helicopter crashing. No one is in fear of being murdered, there is no rape, there are no burglars, there aren't any prostitutes nor rapists, there are rarely any brawls, and if there happens to be one, it is easily controlled with soma. It is not known for a person to be violent in that society as shown when
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