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    that Ford is their God because the society in Brave New World moves away from culture and identity towards total technological efficiency. Ford is the father of modern automobiles and of production technology‚ he represent all things scientific and efficient making him a suitable symbol for them to “worship”. Ford is to their scientific society what God is to a cultural one. I believe Huxley chose Ford to become the closest thing to God in Brave New World because he was made progressive in his developments

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    with a sudden need to boast. I’m taking Lenina Crowne to New Mexico with me‚’ he said in a tone as casual as he could make it."’As seen from this quote Bernard’s only grudge against the New World is his loneliness‚ awkwardness and his weak physique and personality. Given a chance he would enjoy the New World to the fullest as he does during his little moment of popularity.While Bernard Marx is clearly one of the main characters in Brave New World‚ Huxley does not present him as "the hero" or even give

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    Propaganda in Our Age: The Subtle Totalitarianism of Huxley’s Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is often cited as one of the most influential and compelling works of the 20th century. Published in 1932‚ the dystopian novel’s depiction of the use of mass media and propaganda by a massive centralized government is widely considered to be decades ahead of its time. Many of Huxley’s predictions seem eerily accurate and are still frequently brought up today in discussions about the use

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    Brave New World Explore the ways in which Huxley explores the idea of escapism and pleasure. Support your answer with details from the novel. In the "old world" people had to deal with melancholy and abuse‚ and pleasure was received in different ways than in that of the new world. Huxley depicts this in his novel‚ Brave New World by establishing the idea of escapism and pleasure. He portrays some people as wanting to decamp from reality and explains that people in this utopian society get their

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    Observations of Identity in Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World is one of future observations and assumptions. Huxley makes observations about a society that has lost individual identity and replaced it with collective identity. To prove this the following points will be addressed‚ Huxley uses John‚ the savage to demonstrate the loss of identity‚ he uses John because he is an individual and shows the variance between him and those living in Brave New World. When Lenina and Bernard

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    Flowers for Algernon and Brave New World: Science’s Influence on Society "That’s the thing about human life" said author of Flowers for Algernon‚ Daniel Keyes‚ "there is no control group‚ no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed" (Keyes). In two societies where science is used to change the order of the worldBrave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes‚ show the impact of science on society. As one book shows the consequences

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    Religion in the All World State In the following essay the role of religion in the Novel Brave New World is going to be analyzed. Religion is an underlying and important topic in the All World State which is according to the conditioning of the inhabitants. The religion in Brave new World is totally different to the religion we know and practice today. For example as we Christians have God and Jesus as symbols for our faith‚ the people in the All World State (AWS) belief in Henry Ford‚ who partly

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    what so ever in Brave New World. No mother or fathers. Babies are born with no family. No dads‚ moms‚ siblings. They’re on their own. They are brain washed to think that everyone belongs to everyone. They are encouraged to have meaningless sex. In our time we have morals. Most people disagree the idea of pre=marital sex. We think for ourselves. We stick with our families and love them and support them. The huge difference between the family society in Brave New World and our world.... would be that

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    novel “Brave New World”‚ main characters John the Savage and Bernard Marx struggle to fit in a world which has achieved happiness and refuse any form of change. The World State also declines the need to have any other truth than its own. With the use of technology‚ they use a hallucinogenic drug‚ called “soma”‚ it encourages social stability and by conditions citizens avoid the truth. The actions taken by the World State to make society happy‚ produce a more steady and comfortable world but fail

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    In the book Brave New World there is this constant presence of this perfect drug known as soma. Soma is the drug in which the society uses it for depression‚ stress‚ etc. Huxley uses this drug in the novel as a form of happiness to the state and as a form of controlling. The scary thing about Huxley’s prediction about this perfect drug soma is scary due to the fact of its relevancy in today’s society with marijuana. The two drugs are very similar in the way they are used recreationally‚ how they

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