What Is Brave New World A Dystopia
Brave New World
In what appears to be a perfect world, the World State is displayed as the idealistic program of human existence and cultivation, but hidden beneath the layers is the glance at a scene of a true dystopia, where human conditioning is talking to a higher level then ever seen before. There is no free will. There is no love. A Brave New World is a warning of the power of control as well as the extreme and logically developed society and its bizarre points of what “true” economic value stands to be. To understand the mechanics of a Dystopia (that in which the society of Brave New World entails) we must first know what it is and why it is so harmful to those inhabited by it. “By definition a dystopia is an imaginary place or state …show more content…
There is no war, poverty or crime.
The Dystopia that Brave New World portrays is quite cynical. Brave New World is a Dystopia and a dictatorship for many reasons. The idea that people are genetically altering lives, in a test tube is inhuman in thinking. In Brave New World, there are no feelings, no ideas, and no artistic creativity. Because of the Hatchery Individuality is suppressed. Intellectual excitement and discovery have been abolished. People are conditioned and indoctrinated. The “utopians” are never educated to thinking for themselves.
Soma the drug commonly used and brought up in Brave New World is a control drug used to maintain the general public. Soma represents the powerful influence of science and technology on society, while also representing the use of religion to control society. After taking soma a person begins to drift pleasantly off to a “sleep” like state. Bernard Marx, for example, takes four tablets of soma to pass away a long plane journey to the Reservation in New Mexico. Another example is when Lenina swallows half a gramme of soma during the Warden's lecture, "with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at all". Soma shows the user's sensibilities are numbed rather than heightened. The people in Brave New World resort to soma when they
In what appears to be a perfect world, the World State is displayed as the idealistic program of human existence and cultivation, but hidden beneath the layers is the glance at a scene of a true dystopia, where human conditioning is talking to a higher level then ever seen before. There is no free will. There is no love. A Brave New World is a warning of the power of control as well as the extreme and logically developed society and its bizarre points of what “true” economic value stands to be. To understand the mechanics of a Dystopia (that in which the society of Brave New World entails) we must first know what it is and why it is so harmful to those inhabited by it. “By definition a dystopia is an imaginary place or state …show more content…
There is no war, poverty or crime.
The Dystopia that Brave New World portrays is quite cynical. Brave New World is a Dystopia and a dictatorship for many reasons. The idea that people are genetically altering lives, in a test tube is inhuman in thinking. In Brave New World, there are no feelings, no ideas, and no artistic creativity. Because of the Hatchery Individuality is suppressed. Intellectual excitement and discovery have been abolished. People are conditioned and indoctrinated. The “utopians” are never educated to thinking for themselves.
Soma the drug commonly used and brought up in Brave New World is a control drug used to maintain the general public. Soma represents the powerful influence of science and technology on society, while also representing the use of religion to control society. After taking soma a person begins to drift pleasantly off to a “sleep” like state. Bernard Marx, for example, takes four tablets of soma to pass away a long plane journey to the Reservation in New Mexico. Another example is when Lenina swallows half a gramme of soma during the Warden's lecture, "with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at all". Soma shows the user's sensibilities are numbed rather than heightened. The people in Brave New World resort to soma when they