authors began to recognize the potential threats posed by technological progress. That awareness‚ which‚ to a large extent‚ gave rise to the literary phenomenon of anti-utopia‚ has been expressed by Nicolas Berdiaeff‚ whose statement was adopted by Aldous Huxley as a motto of his book: Les utopies apparaissent comme bien plus réalisables qu’on ne le croyait autrefois. Et nous nous trouvons actuellement devant une question bien autrement angoissente: Comment éviter leur réalisation définitive?
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"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. What is more important‚ however‚ is the capacity to see others as they see themselves." (Aldous Huxley) Aldous Huxley made the previous statement probably with several meanings in mind. He might have thought about the egoic self analysis as well as the impact of knowing oneself and having the capacity to ‘see others as they see themselves’ in interpersonal communication‚ therefore conversation or dialogue. The human ego is very much
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Huxley and Arnold After reading Thomas Henry Huxley’s lecture “Science and Culture” and Matthew Arnold’s response “Literature and Science”‚ I thought critically about what the two men have said and the basis of both arguments. Huxley emphasizes on teaching physical science because it is a necessity for human advancement. Matthew Arnold counter argues Huxley’s lecture with a few key points. The important concept Arnold mentions is that literature is not just acquiring an exquisite lexicon‚ but instead
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human. The most honored of all creation‚ yet the most rebellious. As human life is deprecated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ the human life is equated to nothing more than the dirt from which it came. Huxley parallels himself‚ an aristocratic pedigree‚ to the upper class inhabitants of the brave new world that sought the meaning of human life above the accepted pretense of society. Aldous Huxley depicts the social isolation of the upper class through over-intellectual characters that see beyond
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Comparison of literary elements of Brave New World and Childhood’s End Ever wonder what is awaiting the human race in the future? Aldous Huxley once said‚ “There are things known and there are things unknown‚ and in between are the doors of perception” (“Aldous Huxley”). And the doors of perception are exactly what the readers will walk through while reading these two intricate and imaginative novels. Arthur C. Clarke‚ Childhood’s End‚ and Aldous Huxley‚ Brave New World‚ definitely express their extremely insightful projection of mankind’s future that has
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BRAVE NEW WORLD ESSAY Throughout the dystopian novel Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley paints a portrait of destroyed innocence in a bildungsroman storyline. Huxley’s novel resembles the trials and tribulations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a direct comparison can be made between Juliet and John the [Noble] Savage‚ with their shared innocence destroyed by the undeniable truth of the worlds they reside in. Huxley warns his audience of technology controlling every nuance of a person’s life
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Names and Totalitarianism in Brave New World In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited‚ he writes “There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown” (page 122). This quotation is representative of the theme in his previous book‚ Brave New World‚ regarding totalitarianism and its effects on the scientific community. Huxley manages to show this theme accurately through the usage of his character’s names. The best example of the names’ usages
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society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future‚ but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned‚ in present-day totalitarian states‚ to ministries of propaganda...." Thus‚ through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing)‚ mandatory attendance to community gatherings‚ and the use of drugs to control emotions‚ Huxley bitterly
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Be Pure of Suffer? In the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley many characters go through internal and external conflict. Many of the conflicts occur because of sacrifices‚ suffering and other hardships. These hardships include suffering and harming yourself and others in order to purify yourself and others. Huxley’s theme about suffering is that it is necessary to purify oneself of base desires. Huxley uses internal conflict to show that one needs to free oneself of lust desires in order
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begin college without having read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The book describes a highly disciplined society in which everyone’s happiness is guaranteed by complete submission to science and government. Reading and analyzing Brave New World is critical to teaching students‚ specifically those in Depaul’s Honors Program‚ the significance of free thought and the abstract development of human identity. Conformity‚ a dominant theme in Aldous Huxley’s novel‚ is explored through the elaborate construction
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