Brave New World
The differences between Huxley's World State and the United States today both have varying characteristics. Many people would say that living in Huxley's environment would be a nerve-racking, bottomless life. The people of Huxley's world lived predetermined lives and are free to nothing, not even themselves. This comes to my point of the class and racial prejudice of Brave New World. In Brave New World people are "born" into a class such as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. These classes are structured as they appear. Alpha, possess more leadership skills, and a creative thought process, while the Epsilon class consists of those who are destined to become manual laborers. These classes are manipulated throughout there stages of "birth" through such processes as the Bokanovsky, which is a process which shocks an egg, allowing it to multiply into several other identical embryos. This process is not performed on the Alpha or Beta class however, for this could damage the embryos. This clearly shows the segregation of classes in the World State. Today, in the United States we have applied and written every rule that virtually eliminates the segregation of different people in the world today
. We have no firm classes, although some might argue, and we don't discriminate against each other because of this. We have become a society that does not pass judgment on one's race, beliefs and so forth. To compare the World State and the United States in the form of class and prejudice would be extremely absurd, since they are complete opposites. One allows freedom of choice, while the other is a predetermined life that you have no control of. The United States government in not entirely like the World State, but does have some intervention in today's society. Although we promote the idea of laissez-faire, we must have regulations on which to base our lives. These laws help us operate everyday life, and help us operate in an orderly fashion. If we didn't have these laws, society would be the farthest away from perfect it could ever become. So, though we do have intervention in everyday life, as in World State, we have limitations and are not bogged down to the lowest level of sanity, as in World State. The one person in this book that realizes this actually loses his sanity and hangs himself. Pleasure and self-indulgence in the World State are based on material things. Such things as sex and promiscuity also come with rewards and s certain satisfaction of one's self. The consumers in the World State are satisfied by an overall feeling of economic success. The only one who actually realizes that this society is incorrect is a main character named John
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Approximate Word count = 997
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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