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Brave New World

The purpose of a Utopian society is to create an environment where everyone is happy, disease does not exist, and anger and sadness are extinct. Only happiness and joy exist. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World leads to the realization that this is not what the human soul really craves. Brave New World was published during a time when socialism and dictatorship were the key concepts of the day. These governments believed that having total power would engender a perfect society. Throughout the novel, it is demonstrated that a government that completely controls a nation will fail. Many of the ideas that the governments thought would contribute to success were the cause of their failure. Although the government’s control over and use of technological advances, conformity, and lack of personal freedom contribute to the success of a Utopian society, these aspects are also the reason for its ultimate downfall.

The advancement of technology has enabled this “Utopian Society” to not only create human life, but to also to control almost all aspects of it. First of all, babies are created in laboratories using highly advanced technology and under the direction of humans, causing mistakes to be made: “The


Most dominantly, control is gained by the government by eliminating all forms of freedom from the inhabitants. To begin with, each person in this society has a predestined future because they all develop in their fetal stages inside a jar, where they are provided with their needs and are vaccinated against all known diseases. Special treatments are performed to aid in the mental growth (or standstill) of the individual after 'birth', according to their future occupation:

The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundredth metre mark on Rack 3. A special mechanism kept their containers in constant rotation. `To improve their sense of balance,' Mr Foster explained. `Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in mid air is a ticklish job. We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down. They learn to associate topsy- turvydom with well being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads." (32)

Moreover, the population of people is separated into five distinct castes, and cannot rise out of the circumstances given to them and earn a better position in life but only accept the existence that has been assigned to them. The controllers of the Utopia are concerned only with keeping a stable economy, government, and emotional tranq

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