A Brafve New World 2003
In a Brave New World it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most important features of our culture: motherhood, home, family, freedom, and even love. He points out that happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sport, immoral sex, "the feelies", and a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma. His Brave New World is essentially a caring oligarchy, under the direction of ten world controllers; their spokesman is Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller of Western Europe. He governs a society where all aspects of an individual's life, from conception and constant reproduction onwards, are determined by the state. The individuality of Brave New World’s two billion inhabitants is concealed. A government bureau, the Predestinators, decides a prospective citizen's role in the hierarchy. Children are raised and conditioned by the state bureaucracy, not brought up by their biological families. Value has been stripped away from the person as an individual human being; respect belongs only to society as a whole. Citizens must not fall in love, marry, or have their own kids. Society has no historical influence. It is interesting that in this perfect
world knowledge of the past is banned to prevent jealous comparisons. One would think that history lessons would be encouraged instead. That way the people could uncover for themselves the horror that once was. What is so frightening is that I think that this is where our society is heading, and even scarier is the fact that I don’t think we can help it. Brave New World wasn’t written intending to evoke just how wonderful our lives could be if the human genome were rewritten, in fact it was nearly the opposite. Everyone learns to respect Alphas who "work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever." But they also learn to take pleasure in not being anyone else. It may seem that what the lower classes are put through is similar to slave labor. But they don’t know any better, and the happiness they derive from their routine-bound lives guarantees stability for society as a whole. Even by its own criteria, Brave New World is not a society where everyone is perfect and happy. There are asylums in Iceland and the Falklands for alpha rebels. Bernard Marx is disillusioned and emotionally insecure. Lenina has problems which when she runs out of soma, she gets sick. Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning was gu
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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