Daniella VidaurretaMr. GamwellEnglish IVResearch paperBrave New WorldBrave New World, a satirical literary piece that sends a false symbol of acquiring universal bliss in a utopian society. Aldous Huxley points out that to achieve a stable utopian society, the absence of individuality, ingestion of drugs, advancement of biotechnology, numbing emotions, and recreational sex is necessary. Following these conditions correctly will produce a world full of joy and cause people to live "happily ever after" or as others may see it... a nightmare. Individuality is a non-existent factor in achieving an ideal society. The act of conceiving children has turned into a factory that produces human beings who are well conditioned physically and chemically and endowed with certain types of traits. Natural reproduction no longer exists and has been replaced by "conditioning centers" where they are dehumanized and robbed of all values where families, mothers and fathers have no role in society. There is a caste system from Alpha being the tallest and most intelligent. Beta who has enough intelligence to become a possible nurse or teacher. Range which are less respected because alcohol is placed in their growth chambers. Delta who are workers in the production of soma and, finally, Epsilon who are almost completely idiots and illiterate. Each is set to a specific color of clothing along with a different role in society. Children are structured to be content with the lack of consummate identity stated by one civilian who said, “We don't want to change. All change is a threat to stability” (Huxley 153). The lack of identity creates problems in the close relationship with people, for the uniqueness... in the middle of the paper... and everything is perfect, yet the literal meaning of utopia is "nowhere". Nowhere will this idea ever be realized, that's why I'm here reading it in a book. For this idea of a utopian society to work, individuality and free will must be eliminated. Huxley's main goal in this novel is to represent his views on today's society by manipulating humans and using technology to recreate them as puppets rather than letting everything happen naturally. Almost every aspect of this society is managed through technology and science along with generous dosages of the drug soma. Huxley points out that instead of remaining dependent on all the advances in technology, we need to focus on all the problems happening around the world. It's time to stop letting technology control us and it's time to start learning how to control our technology.
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