... . Their lives are filled with fun but there are no true feelings or emotions, just superficial enjoyment. Aldous Huxley has written "A Brave new world" to act as a warning. Influenced by Henry Ford's production of the first motor vehicle, Aldous Huxley has a negative vision of the future. He believes that the power of science will kill individuality and imagination and replace it with ... child to do drugs and extreme consummation is considered a bad thing. In "A Brave new world" the people no longer worship God, but Henry Ford. They have gone from a complicated spiritual religion to a s...

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• Grade Level: High School

... methods used to dispose of them. The theme of progress is one fundamental basis of the new culture. The people of London now idolize the belief in Ford rather than a God. In this novel, Ford represents Henry Ford who is a symbol of technological advancement and industrialization. His ideas are reflected in the novel not only in the society's mechanical modernization, such as the use ... philosophy in which they live for the present and have no knowledge of the past. However, there are certain elements in the novel that suggest the presence of a time before Ford. The names of the people ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... with a night of singing, dancing and later the "fusing of 12 people, As the people are being "fused" other members are chanting, as a result of the soma inhibited, "Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release" (Huxley 85). The United States gives the option of living ... a reason or an explanation to almost every question. Religion is virtually non-existent in the World State. The god that they do worship is called Ford. Ford is a made-up god based on Henry Ford, the creator of the Ford car. He is just another exc...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , as Lenina says, "happy now". Rather than having God as their supreme power, they bow to Henry Ford, the inventor of the assembly line. Their time is counted in years after Ford"s death, and instead of the sign of the cross they use the T which represents Ford's T-model. No one gets married or even falls in love, and no one has parents besides the ... ...

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Summary The novel is set in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford). The world is ruled by World Controllers who ensure the stability of society. To do so, a caste system has been created, reaching from intelligent Alpha-Pluses to dwarfed and stupid ... , who work in the hatchery and soon became an outsider. Bernard likes Lenina Crowne and thus asks her to go with him to the Savage Reservations. Lenina has been dating Henry Foster for the past several months, but since long time relationships arenot accepted, she agrees to go with Bernard Marx to the Reservations. Bernard goes to the Director and gets...

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... " (Huxley, p.237). Mustapha Mond is saying that with the evolution of time the need for religion has disappeared and has been replaced by the worship of another God who is Ford. They basically live a fulfilled life and then they die. Also thanks to their conditioning they do not fear death but accept it as a way of life. That alone is a task ... utopian society everyone is raised and conditioned the same way abolishing the bad apples in our society. Monogamy is discouraged by the utopian society and considered improper " Four months of Henry Foster, without having another man --- why, he...

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... 's society caused gaps in countries, religious and various groups of people because of the moral, political and scientific values they epresented. Eventually, one comes to the 9 Years War in A.F. (after Ford) 141 along with the great Economic Collapse. What was left was a choice between world control and destruction. Liberalism was destroyed during the war, but the leaders of the time realized ... slightly different from the beginning. There is the physical differences, but behind the stunted exterior Bernard thinks differently from the rest of society. He is driven to heated rage when H...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , becoming more boring as the plot weakens. The beginning is intriguing because it introduces the reader to a whole new way of life, where monogamy is a thing of the past and Henry Ford is the only deity the citizens know. The first chapter gives you a feel for the community. Then it starts to zoom into specific characters, following them through their daily lives ... ...

• Word Count: 513
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School