Brave new world

Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worl
It's hard to imagine yet somehow so extremely close to us is the possibility of a world of ideal perfection where there is no room or acceptance of individuality. Yet, as we strive towards the growth of technology and improvement of our daily living we come closer to closing the gap between the freedom of emotions, self understanding, and of speech and the devastation of a dystopia. A utopia, or perfect world, gone awry is displayed in Aldous Huxley's provocative novel Brave New World. Dystopia is drawn on "political and emotional events, anchoring its vision of a nightmarish future in contemporary fears of totalitarian ideology and

uncontrolled advances in technology and science" (Baker 22). It is the

situation that costs a piece of an unhealthy environment for human beings,

is the theme of the novel. The dystopian setting is brought about by

technology and by higher authorities. As technology increases, the use for

human beings in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of

depression among humans. Therefore, a way to continue the production of

technological findings is by bringing up humans from day one to accept

their unhappiness as normal. By "breeding" human beings to accept the fact

that they are born to do a specific group. Higher authorities know the

illimination of humans' emotions is useful to stabilize what they think to

be a utopian society. Huxley portrays a "perfect dystopia" where

scientists "breed people to order" in a specific class (Baker 2). The

purpose of this paper is to shows that Aldous Huxley clearly introduces a

river of cases and incidences, which adds to the dystopia in his science

fiction novel Brave New World.

Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in England into a family of

novelists and scientists. Leonard Huxley, Aldous's father, was an essayist

and an editor who also was a respected, leading biologist in the time of

Darwinism. Both his brother and half-brother worked in the science field.

Huxley received an extensive training in both medicine and in the arts and

sciences. Huxley was described by V.S. Pritchett as "that rare being-the

prodigy, the educable young man, the peremial asker of unusual questions"

(Introduction to Aldous Huxley 1).

Huxley wrote a series of novels and essays as his career progressed.

Two of his best known novels are Brave New World and Island. These two

novels depict a world of dystopia. In Brave New World it's author "shifts

his mildly satiric observations of a limited group of people to a broader

and more ironic satire of a utopian society" (Introduction to Aldous Huxley

2). Island is novel of a Utopia which is constructed much in the same

principles as Brave New World. The difference between these two pieces of

writing is that Island is an approving form of Utopia while in Brave New

World we look at the Utopia as being a harmful way of life.

Huxley's works after these two novels were volumes of essays. In

his assays, topics expressed were ones that other authors hadn't truly

developed before the late 1930s, when Huxley began to write them. In the

essay called Brave New World Revisited that was written in 1950 Aldous

Huxley brings forward the issues he had begun to express in the novel in

which the essays' name had been derived from. Overpopulation, mind control,

and environmental destruction were the focuses in the novel. These topics

were looked upon by Aldous as problems. They were dilemmas that Huxley

"foretold" of the future. This essay is interesting because of the many

truths that have aroused since it was written such as the fact of

overpopulation. Huxley's life was cut short on November 22, 1963, a few

months after he wrote his last essay Literature and Science. He had spent

most of his life in...

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