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    Brave New World Essay In Brave New World‚ John the Savage willfully exiles himself from the reservation‚ where he was born and raised‚ in order to travel to the new world; because of his passion for learning and this twisted idea of becoming happy through his acceptance. Aldous Huxley has written a novel where the main character experiences a type of exile that is tragically unhealable while being beneficial. John’s experiences in the world state were enriching; however‚ they were even more

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    The Tragic hero vs. The Common Man The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both considered to be tragedies‚ although they very different. In the play Macbeth‚ Macbeth is considered to be a tragedy of a tragic hero and in Brave New World‚ John is said to be a tragedy of a common man. John and Macbeth both share many differences according to Aristotle’s view of the tragic hero and Arthur Miller’s view of the common man. These differences

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    the novel‚ A Brave New World‚ the author Aldous Huxley creates a world where the people are ignorant of the truth‚ and are‚ therefore‚ in a state of bliss that they mistake as happiness. The people in the World State are in a world where they don’t know what true happiness is. The way they have lived their lives has blocked out real happiness. Through conditioning and drugging the government has kept the people of the World State ignorant to the truth. The people in the World State believe they are

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    A person who is raised in a religious home is very likely to have different moral standards than to a person who was never taught a religion. The surrounding which a person is grown up in is what shapes and prompts one’s principles. In Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ John’s surroundings shape and change the morals he grew up with in the Reservation and the ones he was prompted by in the civilized London; which shows us the theme of culture prompting morals. Since John was a child he was introduced

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    Throughout the course of our live lifetime‚ we learn‚ experience and explore new things that we aren’t familiar with. And as humans we thrive to do things that are said to be impossible‚ but then proven to not be. Therefore how do humans overcome the obstacles that are challenged through their path to solve these problems? The answer is you have to take substantial risk to understand and if it didn’t work the first time you’d have to take bigger risks the next. In other words you couldn’t understand

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    Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley the role of race shows that segregation is not born within the subconscious of our minds. It is rather a concept that is bestowed upon our minds. This can be seen in the need to implement hypnopedia in order to create continuous judgment‚ the need to separate Savages from World State‚ and the need to physically and mentally lower a portion of the population so that the feeling of superiority manifests among its leaders. To begin with‚ all the citizens of World State

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    The Spanish‚ French and English explored America and left a lasting mark on the New World’s development. Different methods of colonization were used by the Spanish‚ French and English. The Spanish and English had similar ways of colonization‚ and the French had quite a different style. When he Spanish conquered the New World‚ they were the most wealthy and powerful of the three. The Spanish brought epidemic disease that depopulated areas over many years causing civilizations to collapse‚ along with

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    Professor Mohanty European exploration to the Americas had a very substantial affect‚ not only on their own culture‚ but also on the culture of the Native Americans. Many Native American tribes had to adapt and assimilate with the European explorers and settlers as their lives became increasingly disrupted and altered as settlement increased and flourished. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the effect European exploration and trade had on Native groups of people in North America and

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    Huxley’s Brave New World‚ one is immersed deeply into his idea of a perfect world dystopia. The reader is first introduced to the Hatchery and Conditioning centre‚ where the human embryo from birth is modified with biochemical engineering to fit the World State’s rigid caste system. Additionally‚ several of the upper caste characters are introduced and through their conversation one learns of the societal values of this dystopian state such as the emphasis on consumerism and the way the World State‚ the

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    suppressed. In Aldous Huxley’s novel‚ Brave New World‚ the author uses John’s life into the tribe and sudden submergence in the new world to display that natural human instincts will always outweigh the illusion of happiness and stability. From birth‚ John is immediately labeled as an outcast which pushes him to rely on his instincts in order to survive. While

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