... of a person in this society. No one is born because of marriage and conception is considered to be an obscenity. People are created in test tubes and are then conditioned. Everyone only knows what they have been "taught." They stay happy with the little that they know and the little ... a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate" (Huxley, p.46 ) He quickly becomes an outcast and does not get along with the opposite sex. Bernard criticizes the utopian civilization until he discovers John the Savage in the savage reservation and introduces him to society. Bernard then becomes somewha...

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... sought to write about pure utopian societies. Huxley was one of those writers who created this futuristic world in which every person was grown from test tubes, conditioned biologically and psychologically, and then divided by caste. The castes range from highest intelligence levels (Alpha's) to moron intelligence levels (Epsilon ... as opposed to long-term pleasures (striving for big goals). Majority of these basic pleasures are physical; sex is the most used and simple pleasure for the people of the State. Sex to them is just something they do everyday and there is nothing attached to i...

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... and being told where they fit in as a whole. Although, as young children, through music, television, and movies, we have been introduced to the evils of life, such as drugs, sex, and death. In return, the harsh reality that we view at such at a young age will automatically reflect the way we develop as a person. I realized the importance of our freedom ... in order for them to calm down. Instead of facing confrontations and expressing one's feelings, Aldous Huxley avoids real life situations. Unlike today's society, people are encouraged to have promiscuous sex with no commitments, givi...

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... fear will inevitably destroy the stability of the nation. In addition to their methods, the destruction of social relations is something that appears in both texts. In Brave New World, sex is encouraged because it keeps people happy, though love is not. The state does not encourage the people to fall in love with someone because love leads to the want ... that the society is brainwashed and taught at a young age that there is no such thing as love and are trained to think of it as a disgrace. Orwell's novel portrays sex as not beneficial to the government and thus it is illegal, unless ...

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... my opinion on the book and what I thought of it. Brave New World starts you off in a laboratory where they are making artificial babies or what I like to call them test tube babies. Lenina is a woman in this society that sometimes just doesn't understand why they do certain things in her society. Her first attraction is to a guy in her society ... had to say they convinced her and her son to come back to the perfect society with them. John disliked the outside world very much. Lenina tried to engage in sex with John, but John really loved Lenina. He learned how to express himself in thi...

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... , a novel by Aldous Huxley was written at a tine in history when war had ravaged much of the nation, Depression was blanketing society, and people's wills were being put to the test. Science had become an overwhelming force for better or for worse. People had witnessed science saving and preventing millions of lives with vaccinations and such, but on the contrary, had ... like Brave New World, where those factors control society. I wake up each morning and turn on my television and computer. On MTV I see Spring Break with college students all having sex with each other. I go on the Inter...

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... were never allowed to be emotional creatures. Conditioned from birth, they were told that emotions are unpleasant and should be dealt with through soma or ignored with another distraction like sex or a complicated game of electromagnetic golf. John used other quotes of Shakespeare through the novel in response to all highly emotional situations, slowly introducing the reader back into the intensity ... it- (219). The family has turned into an appalling concept, a habit of the past so disgusting it cannot even be mentioned without someone blushing or being offended. When grown in test tu...

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