Aldous Huxley's Brave new world

Aldous Huxley's science fiction novel Brave New World was published in 1931. It is concerned with how things could evolve in the future. The book is set in London in the year 2540. It also forecasts the world's changes as a result of the advancement of sleep-learning and reproductive technology. Brave New World is a modernist novel that reflects on the characteristics of an ideal society. All works properly; everyone seems to be healthy and happy; nevertheless, each of these qualities is portrayed in an amusing way. Stability and pleasure are accomplished by manipulating people's thoughts, feelings, and independence. Nonetheless, specific characteristics of oppression and authoritarianism are able to be seen all through the story (Claeys,110). These factors are characteristics of a dystopian society, to imply that, a society in which everything is expected to be stable as well as perfect. However, this perfection results in the formation of a synthetic together with dehumanized society, in which individuals lack self-decision and the will since they are completely controlled by those in highest powers. Similarly, dystopian literature overall likewise comprises of analysis of present political systems and social conditions, either through the critically examining the premises of utopian upon which such systems, as well as conditions, are based or by the inventive expansion of such a system or condition into numerous settings that more clearly disclose their contradictions or imperfections (Buchanan, 78). This paper will focus on how Huxley’s Brave New World portrays features of a dystopian society. In the Brave New World by Huxley, dystopia is portrayed in emotional as well as political events where a frightening future is demonstrated. In the novel, contemporary fears of ideology which is oppressive, authoritarian and totalitarian, along with uncontrolled advances in science and technology have led to a tremendously cost the humanity, who stays in unnatural as well as the unhealthy environment. Citizens are rigidly controlled. In the novel, the setting of dystopia has been guided by both high authorities who are in control of all things and the technology. In the novel, this control is depicted by the application of three dissimilar approaches that include censorship, control of emotions and feelings and conditioning. Various kinds of conditioning are applied to the citizens of Brave New World from the start, that implies to from the time the kids are raised in the laboratories. In the laboratories, children are conditioned socially and emotionally, coached as well as accustomed to the new society through drugs along with technologies. Mr. Foster said "Heat conditioning." To mean that cool tunnels alternated with hot ones. The cool tunnels were fuses to cause distress through hard X-rays. An embryo was to develop a fear of cold by the time it was being transferred. They were destined to acetate steel workers and silk spinners, to be miner and to immigrate to the tropics. "We condition them to thrive on heat," concluded Mr. Foster. "Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it.”(Huxley, 59). Also, conditioning is related to the total control of the economy from the region in the State in which stability is very much chased, the society’s financial system is controlled completely. Being part of the social body in the Brave New World implies working for any other person. Regarding this, hypnopaedia is used to train persons in Brave New World to consider this proverb true: "everyone belongs to everyone else," (Congdon, 100). The emotions and feelings of people in the Huxley’s novel was also being controlled. The strict control exercised over the citizens in the novel result in depression among the human race. Also, the higher authorities together with the scientists choose to condition people from the beginning as a means of continuing with the production and invention of technological discovery, as they were made to understand that their discontent and unhappiness are normal feelings (Buchanan, 78).Censorship and control by higher authorities. This represents a dystopian society in which the few control the majority through the usage of censorship to change and modify the view and the perception of the public. Censorship involves the elimination and controlling a material or information that is undesirable which authorities regard as harmful for the reasons that are pursuit, for instance in the novel; the main aim is to maintain stability. People are prohibited from accessing or even worse read information materials like books, for instance, in the Brave New World, the World State’s women are trained that "you can't consume much if you sit still and read books" (Buchanan, 85). In the novel, the history, as well as books, are forbidden and also hidden as well as forgotten. Huxley depicts a society where those who control the plane greatly oppress the society. Persons are conditioned to divert their interests to other things, for example, the authorities expect them to focus more on their jobs, however, not books. Nature being replaced by technology is also an imperative as well as a central feature of a dystopian society that has likewise been portrayed in the novel. Usually, a dystopian society substitutes the real nature with a simulated world. It is also evident in this novel where, through the usage of the massive knowledge of scientist and technology, pregnancy in women is forbidden since it is entirely against this new world nature (Harris, 80). For his reason, any birth given by any woman in the world depicted by Huxley is regarded to be a sin. Instead, the birth and production of children from a bottle or a test tube as a replacement of natural birth are viewed to be normal and usual. One more factor associated with the replacement of nature portrayed by Brave New World’s society is where the family has been eradicated. In this society, the idea of fathers and mothers is considered obscene being that persons are falsely and scientifically produced (Huxley, 40).Another characteristic of a dystopian society depicted in the Brave New World is a twisted opinion of an "ideal" society where every person ought to be equal. The novel is a representation where humans are pressed through conditioning to admit that they were brought in the world to belong to a particular group or class, those in highest authorities choose to eliminate emotions of humans to gain stability since that is what they are persuaded to be a perfect society (Congdon,95).However, in Brave New World’s society human beings are mass-produced and conceived in a test tube in laboratories in which embryos are genetically produced which have similar features that are definitely regarded as a characteristic of a dystopian society: "Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg” (Claeys, 132).Moreover, Aldous portrays a significant feature of dystopian societies where the ones who order the civilization in particular groups are the scientists. In the Brave New World, this class system is classified into five primary classes that include Epsilons, Deltas, Gammas, Betas and Alphas that are selected even before children are born. In the novel, in the circumstance of the lower-class present, single embryos are bokanovskified that enable them to manufacture approximately ninety-six and eight embryos which are identical (Harris, 56). The concept is to produce people who are similar: “Alpha children wear grey they work much harder than we do because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able” (Parrinder, 20).One more factor to ponder about in the book is individuality. Huxley’s story is incorporated by individuals who have been created, transformed as well as altered in order to correspond to the newly designed world. So as to accomplish this, the higher authorities in the society depicted in the novel offer its citizens commodities and also condition them to be easily controlled and dominated. Constant entertainment: among the central and significant features of a dystopian society is the controlling of the majority that has been accomplished through various methods, for instance through endless entertainments offered by Brave New World’s higher authorities (Parrinder, 17).The constant entertainments are purposed to hold individuals from taking into consideration what they could be missing in the world or their circumstances, and provide people with distractions which assist them to keep them from coming into terms with the reality. In the novel, this is portrayed when television, 'feelies' and cinemas are regarded as main means of entertainment. Also, laboratory kids of the Brave New World are socially and emotionally habituated, trained and conditioned to this new society by use of drugs and technology. Another characteristic of a dystopian society is the distribution of free drugs by the State that utilizes these to regulate individuals who are neither permitted liberty as well as whose movements, emotions and opinions are impeded or strictly limited and use drugs as a way of having fun. Nevertheless, regarding the endless entertainment offered by the State of this dystopian society, in Brave New World where free drugs distribution from part of the central government is a reality that is accepted. This distribution of the drug known as Soma delivered by the government and is free of charge and legal is considered to be ideal drugs, for the reasons known and of interest to highest authorities. Soma is an essential aspect to safeguard the so appreciated as well as significant stability which higher powers in this dystopian society portrayed in the novel strongly pursues. Soma is important since along with conditioning, it enables persons to run away from dangerous feelings, unhappiness as well as the reality that go against an individual, thus achieving social stability (Diken, 160). Sex is one of the sources of entertainment existing in Brave New World as kids advance to maturity and face their adulthood entirely conditioned to be immersed in this new world. Furthermore, predetermined lives of individuals are full of promiscuous and licentious sex that has only one goal that is to entertain and satisfy their inevitable as well as human instinct. Once more, scientists avoid all types of feelings and emotions through conditioning. For instance, love towards the opposite sex: “In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focused attention of scientists' intent on a labor of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game” (Huxley, 94). ConclusionBoth the idea of dystopian and dystopia societies is depicted in the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. To begin with, the control by the highest powers through various ways like emotional control, censorship as well as conditioning depicts a dystopia society in the novel. Secondly, the use of technology in order to accomplish goals like controlling the society. The third indication of a dystopian society in the Huxley’s book is the formation of uniformity rather than individuality and the final evidence is the use of several destructions such as drugs, entertainment together with sex to prevent the individuals from questioning vital topics. In the novel, all things are working correctly, every person appears to stable and happy; although, each and every of these features are depicted in an ironical manner. Stability and happiness are attained through suppressing emotions, feelings and freedom of people. Works CitedBuchanan, Brad. "Oedipus in Dystopia: Freud and Lawrence in Aldous Huxley's" Brave New World"." Journal of Modern Literature 25.3/4 (2002): 75-89.Claeys, Gregory. "The origins of dystopia: Wells, Huxley and Orwell." The Cambridge companion to utopian literature (2010): 107-134.Congdon, Brad. 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