Category: Brave New World

There is no denying the passivity of the world today. The contemporary society is a society permeated with technology and specifically social media. Social media is a contemporary online society where passivity to real feelings is the order of the day. H.G. Wells The Time Machine and Aldous Huxleys Brave New World may have been…

Social status is not always determined by the money that somebody has. Sometimes, it may be determined by the ability somebody has to adapt to what they are given. Other times, it can refer to what type of person a specific human may actually be. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, social status is…

The dystopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is receiving a lot of attention these days because of the similarities between the society depicted in the book and society today. Huxley presents a society controlled with a drug that induces an artificial state of happiness and that is easily controlled because it has been…

Taking the setting of a world where happiness is readily served for every citizen with the help of technologies we have yet to imagine, Brave New World can be classified instantaneously as a novel of the science fiction and dystopian genre. Science fiction, or sci-fi, is a genre, as perfectly encapsulated in the name, that…

Aldous Huxley, in his lexis and syntax, have proven his proficiency in language through the successful delivering of the layering meanings behind Brave New World. The book, Brave New World, has certainly stood different from other books, especially with the challenging set of vocabulary it requires of the reader to wholly understand its meaning. Worthy…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is known for being one of the most banned or controversial books over the years. The book shows that a society can have sex with anyone and do drugs, whilst being able to openly talk about it, and have the ability to handle the issues casually and publically, with…

Social inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a society. It is a serious problem and happens everywhere and everyday, but its effects are often not solved. Brave New World and Gattaca are two texts where social inequality affects the world heavily. In both texts, inequality…

In Aldous Huxleys Brave New World the controller states, One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. (Page 261). This displays that no one person is individual or has control over their doings, that technology conditions the society to the drastic point of seeming robots. In Brave New World and Andrew Niccols…

Novels based around dystopian societies have become increasingly popular throughout the twenty-first century. People indulge in societies that are so outrageous, it makes their mediocre lives appear marvelous. One of the first blockbuster dystopian societies was the World State in Brave New World.This novel, written in 1931, was influenced by the greatly changing world that…

In the novel Brave New World society is very organized and stable, however, this comes at a cost. The author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, is sending a message to the future through Brave New World, which is that the advanced stability and organization of society comes at a cost. This cost is culture…