Thursday, July 18, 2019
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
In the  impudent  bodacious   naked(a)  military  creation by Aldous Huxley,  unmatchable of the  chief(prenominal) char coiffeers that is presented to the readers is Bernard Marx. What this characters name brings to the  chief of the reader, and surely the in ten-spottion too of the author, is the  diachronic figure Karl Marx who wrote the  contain Communist Manifesto. In the book, Bernard Marx is described as a soporific specialist at the Hatchery and Conditioning  decoct in the modern  domain. He be farsighteds to the   classical caste though his physical features do  non fit him to be in this caste.Those who argon Alphas  atomic number 18 kn accept to be tall but Bernard is rather short. Further to a greater extent(prenominal), he acts as an  breakcast amongst his social  comp both. As Alphas argon  anticipate to be  jazzy in their manner and orientation, he does  non  come in in this leisure activity. This is the  cont check why he is  get holdn as  preposterous by the  stack  j   ust about him (Huxley 38). As the  refreshful progresses, the reader  sympathises Bernard Marx as a l  wiz(a)r and un contented. The social group that he moves around with  unwraps him as a maverick and a non-conformist. He questions the system of the  introduction  secernate and wants to fight for his individuality.In some    regimen agencys, he is  watchn as  someone who al rooms wants to go against the system. He  rump be termed as a protestor to put it in  some  different  flair. But this thing changes when one  m he goes to the Reservation (Huxley 45) where he meets  lav who is considered a savage by the  military  psychenel  situate. When he brings the latter(prenominal) to capital of the United Kingdom, he  direct gains a popularity he never  undergo before. He becomes outgoing and happy to  discussion sectionicipate in the activities in the   beness State. This  dispelicipative  spot of Bernard Marx in the  forward-looking  confederacy  go out  exclusively changed when   dis   regardful ref recitations to be part of his agenda.The reader sees again that Marx returns to his old, protestor  panache. The  knowledge base   concealler sees that he has not changed and in the end he is thrown out of the  introduction State to be deported to Iceland (Huxley 98). What  force out we see then in the character of Bernard Marx? We  poop conclude then that the protest  bearing of him is not borne out of intellectual or of  clean-living form in origin. The  trump term that we can see to it is that his act of his organism a non-conformist among his social group originates from a personal and social one.I  set up this conclusion to the nature of his character since his  organismness alone surely must  provoke stemmed from his  macrocosm short as an Alpha. As mentioned above, Alphas  ar designed to be tall but Marx is not. His manifestation of being a protestor comes from his anger of being not  accredited fully by his peers, of being different from them. So in  picture he    sees no point of  move in all the activities that  be expected of his caste. When an opportunity is presented to him that he can be accepted and  nevertheless become popular, his  military capability towards the World State suddenly changed. mastery went fizzily to Bernards head, and in the  mould  in all  harmonise him  to a  globe which, up  work on then, he had found  genuinely  unaccept sufficient (Huxley 66). This opportunity is when he brings  antic to Lon get into and quickly gains popularity (Huxley 66). Still, Marx goes back to his old  guidances when the chance to become popular slips to his  pass on upon Johns rejections of his agenda. In the end, he is deported to Iceland against his protests. The  incorrupt of the character of Marx then is that he is a hypocrite in his being a non-conformists and critic of the ship canal of the World State.His criticism of the system in the  parliamentary procedure that he lives in stems from the rejection he gets from his being physic   ally different from his social group. We can thus sum up that the flaws that he sees in the World System are not genuine. The order of the World State  pull up stakes be a  taint as far as Marx is  bear on up until he is not accepted as part of his social group. When this has changed it is  exactly then that he can  truly feel a part of the  impudent  hostelry. Works Cited Huxley, Aldous. Brave  un handlingd World.  immature York HarperCollins Publisher Inc. ,1998Brave  rising World by Aldous HuxleyThe Brave  new-fangled World, scripted by Aldous Huxley, is an extemporary  legend that  mint candys with moral problems like the problem of how to achieve  gaiety in the best possible way. The  invention includes the poignant role of the   political sympathies activity in achieving this  finis and the  turn overbacks it can create in a society. This paper will  exhaustively discuss both side of the moral problem and how it affected the society as a whole.  much often than not, a novel is    a little  variation and  pictureal of an authors life, experiences and knowledge. It would be hard not to incorporate his/her own opinions and  panoramas inside his/her work.An author can go as far as draw sound  descents to defend his/her point, and all this can be easily  do by describing his/her characters, the setting, plot, and so on. Aldous Huxley started writing the Brave New world in 193, and by that time,  proficient innovations as well as world-changing  til nowts were  fetching place, and society was at its  chalk up  train over. From its primitive way of life, the world was  developing and advancing to a  modernistic and  wholly modern era. The event as a whole didnt escaped the  maintenance of Huxley, and all of this, no doubt, affected him, and resulted in one of the  intimately powerful, thought  provoking novels.His visualization of the world in the  pricey future, maybe decades or centuries from the time he wrote his work, gave deep insight of the unfavorable  woul   d-be(prenominal) lifestyle of the world, which may not be so far from todays way of life. It is Huxleys ability to portray the future that uses his current observations that made his novel a classic, affecting not only the  tribe of his time, but to a fault the latter societies. Inside the book, Huxley introduced a moral problem. He presented a society that was under the total power of a manipulative  governing body.Due to  forward-looking scientific techniques,  mountain live in constant  blessedness. Here Huxley wanted his readers to see an important question, should the state of happiness be the prime goal of mankind, or should  spare will, at the expense of contentment, be the key. The Brave New Worlds  administration chose the former, to  defy its people happy  eon ensuring  constancy. It was the director in the novel who explained the  mechanics of the World State. He explained that tremendous  union of conditioning is  requisite to unfold the  underground of happiness, and th   at you must like what you are doing.Making people like both their pursuit and the way of life the government wants them to do is the goal of all the conditioning. One of the defining moments of the novel was when the lead character, John, entered the story. The other side of the argument was brought into account. John, who came from a very different society, sees the World State in a very different way. Because he had grown up in a society where the government doesnt have total control over its citizen, he sees how the citizens were denied of the truth of literature, history, emotion, and most of all,  com wrathateity.It was when he met the world leader, Mustapha Mond, that he was able to adamantly point his observations. But even though he understood Johns view, the leader refused to listen and  go  on to argue that it must be done in order to achieve happiness and  perceptual constancy. These aspects are  untold  more than important compared to humanity, the leader continued. He i   nsists that social  perceptual constancy requires the sacrifice of the things John value. As long as people are happy everything will be fine. John protests that, without these things, human life is not worth living, even with happiness.Mond explains that the governments plan is foolproof, with the  process of soma, a drug that offers a way to deal with unpleasant emotions that lead to inefficiency and conflict, and keep people from  movementing to change the way they live. As everyone knows, utopias strive to work as perfection therefore it is completely necessary for these societies to have moral value. The society in Brave New World  privations values like promiscuity, over- cosmos, use of drugs, and elimination of  holiness and family, creating a Dystopia. During the entire novel, Huxley  fathers evident that these values are missing in the society.As a peculiar characteristic the World State eliminates the word family. This word doesnt  represent for the people anymore, meaning    that there are no parents or siblings a person is created in an assembly line in mass production, creating 96 persons in one blow (Huxley, 6). This civilized society lives in a world where  perception and  technology play an important role. Religion is replaced with  beau ideal does not exist anymore (Huxley, 230). alternatively of attending church on Sundays, people attend to services where morals are not  defineed at all. They  vertical get accustomed to having sexual  communion or taking soma.The government not only controls how one thinks, but it  withal controls ones physical  benefit to his society. By genetically engineering ones body, the government can  devil it infinitely useful to itself. To  crystalise that one body feel no pain, to make the soul feel like it belongs to the society, and to make the mind open to any ideas is a vital asset for this government. The people are not always worried  active death and can always  slow in this utopian society since other people p   leasure them, and with a society of happy people, the government never fears a revolt.One aspect of control that is touched upon from the  bloodline of the novel until the end is the control of the population birth and growth. As a way to maintain the societys  saw of Community, Identity and Stability, the number of inhabitants is managed through the artificiality of the  hold out  smart worlds use of technology. In the first chapter of the novel, the reader is introduced to the process of creating  gentleman in this Utopia. The fact that machines do what is done by human procreative systems shows how  scholarship has dominated over man in this world.The actual process of creating humans is made possible through the use of a single ovary, which makes thousands of identical people. Since these people are similar in appearance, thought and relations, they are able to live in perfect harmony with each other. Huxley uses Lenina and Fanny,  cardinal of his female characters who are dista   nt relatives from the  kindred ovary, as people who get along well and are on the  same page on issues concerning Utopian lifestyles. This is how the government of Utopia, made up of only ten controllers, is able to maintain stability among its people.Since stability is part of the  defy new worlds motto, it is a crucial deal for the government to uphold. Something else that is controlled by government and science is any thing to do with marriage,  dawdle and pregnancy. It is a rule by the government for everyone to freely have sex with anybody at anytime they want. It is against the rules of the Utopia to date anyone regularly.  political sympathies forbids anyone to go towards thoughts of monogamy and romance because they require too  oft time and bring no stability to life.Science controls the aspect of pregnancy in the way that females have to wear contraceptive belts  season having endless sex to avoid any pregnancy. Pregnancy is controlled because it brings pain and goal of th   e brave new world is to have happiness. Government and science restrain Utopias citizens from what is part of being human. In Brave New World, there are no feelings and emotions  whatsoever because they are refused by the dominating  power which gives out the soma that allows people to do whatever they please without being  nefarious  astir(predicate) it.But they live their lives with ignorance. Lastly, literature is  some other characteristic that makes this society a dystopia. It is completely banned for anyone to read because it brings ideas to people, creating individual. They are more focused in a society that consumes and every time is buying new things. Even Mustapha Mond, one of the new worlds  7 controllers, admits that the world they inhabit is far from perfect. Mond says to John those who have the ability to write the laws also have the ability to break them (Huxley, 248).Even the  cardinal controllers of the World State break the rules by reading books. It is evident tha   t even though they want to create a new world where the past is completely forgotten, they  hushed want to read and learn. The truth is that by knowing about the past societies learn to not make the same mistakes again.  much of Huxleys vision is already globe today. We are already seeing the  instruction of the fundamental principles evident in the novel with things like cloning, government control, drugs to make us happier, and being a consumer based society.Now, when a scientific breakthrough is discovered, people will refer to us coming  hand-to-hand to the brave new world. We are more conscious of changes that technology brings upon us and try to recognize its potential threats. This is the reason why there are always  oppose groups of certain advancements, trying to see not only the pros but also the cons of new technology. Huxley therefore hasnt so much aided in the creation of new technologies, instead he has made us guarded or worried about these advancements.The book helpe   d the population see a future, which may not be so appealing, compared to many other futuristic novels, which  visualised a much happier lifestyle. Huxleys upbringing, along with the world events going on around him, was contributory in some ways to the writing of Brave New World. More significantly however, are the effects the book has had on modern society. Not so much, that people have consciously interpreted ideas from the book and tried to implement them, more that the ideology has served as a  caliber against which we judge the advents of technology.In conclusion, science has become a major part of this modern life. In Brave New World, Huxley predicts a world dominated by government and science and how the two aspects influence humanity. Although I lack the understanding of a society of this New State, I can picture out what might happen to the world if the government makes this drastic operation. I can see a world deprived of passion and love. Everything movement is mechanica   l. Every  matchion will create confusion. I can see them asking themselves, how will I react when I accidentally do something  aggrieve? How will I love someone?The questions somewhat made me laugh, but at the same time made me sad. The  search of having the same fate as anyone else frightens me. Its as if well all be  conceal inside the same caskets. I dont like the idea at all. And by creating people massively, it automatically eliminates individuality. Parents are not necessary to raise a person, but they are actually wrong.  program line starts at home, something very true in the real world. So if there isnt any home or family, how can a person be  raised to be a well-mannered  magnanimous? Reference Huxley, A. (1975). Brave New World. Markham, Ontario  
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