... all determined by the individual. 1984 is a modern classic of "Negative Utopia" an original and taunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last. No on can deny this novels power, its grasp on imaginations of generations. ... day London, in the super country of Oceania. The year is nineteen eighty four. The first character brought to the novel is Winston Smith a 39 year old male employee at the Ministry of truth. "The parties" dictator Big Brother, whose face is everywhere on posters captioned, "Big Brother Is ... against...

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... are people like Bernard Marx, John and Helmholtz Watson. Although containing very different characteristics, these three people cause the same effect to brave new world, and that is unrest. When we first meet Bernard Marx we find that he could be, possibly, the perfect character to cause a revolution ... course, is not going to sympathize with this jealousy; they have been conditioned not to, and have no deficiencies themselves. As one of the citizens notes, "They don't know what it's like being anything else. We"d mind of course. But then we've been differently conditioned If you were ....

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... the Internet. Computers make businesses and industries more efficient. Business transactions occur between countries in seconds. The media can bring information from around the world as it happens. Computer can store much more information and data than ever before. In the early 70's when computers were starting out it was forecasted that our society would ... dinosaurs, the way people spend money has changed. There is a popular commercial that shows a man using a credit card and leaves his presidents (money) at home. The idea of a paperless spending world involves the use of credit car...

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... society is divided up into classes. Which are Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. At birth, babies will be designated their class. In this "utopian" world, there seems to be a darker side to it. When the book introduces John the savage, we find out that he is the only person that was born ... savage needs to understand what all of this is about. So at times of distress, John will turn to Shakespeare. John grew up hearing myths about this "world" just like he heard stories of Shakespeare's characters. If anything, John has finally seen this "other place" with his own eyes. It must...

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... has rid itself of instability through science and politics, as well as the sacrifice of certain cultural values. Although the concept of this new world seems ideal, the author portrays it cynically. His ideas of progress, science and politics are reflected negatively in the novel as their employment ... . We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future- He was going to say future World Controllers, MacLeod2 but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries" instead. (Huxley10). However, there is also a mocking aspect in...

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... who, for whatever reason, just don't fit in. The individual may or may not look unusual, but inside they definitely feel out of place. In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, John "the savage" was one of those unique individuals. John wasn't able to control the influences which made him atypical, but regardless, ... he was forced to live in societies which refused to accept him. It was extremely difficult for John to live in the Brave New World because he was so different from the generic alphas which surrounded him. From the beginning it was obvious that John was unlike the others. Instea...

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... are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. Conditioning is used to make them hate books and flowers and to teach them "ethics-. The World Controller of Western Europe, Mustapha Mond appears and gives the students a lecture about the way things used to be. In former times, people ... system of values. JOHN SAVAGE is the son of Linda, a Beta woman, and the Director of Hatcheries. He has grown up ouside Brave New World in a Reservation. John the Savage is an outsider both on the Reservation - where the ignorant natives still practise marriage, natural birth, family ...

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... would like to discuss how this book relates with society today. Then I will give you 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 ... himself. After hearing what Linda 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 this way a...

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... arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society ... , the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard i...

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... of this book as a ridiculous fiction and the result of Huxley's crazy imagination. However, one must look at his development of his Brave New World more closely to see its feasibility. As Mustapha Mond stated, technology and life sciences were making rapid advancements, as they are in the present day ... opening's of resistance. Savage Reservations were created and instituted to allow some people to live according to the old ways. For this Brave New World to be realized there were 4 major contributing factors: 1. The ability to produce Bokanovsky groups allowed for up to 96 identical twi...

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... part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with his proposed futuristic culture. But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach to life, and refusing to conform ... the modern society but born and raised on the reservation, John learned from his mother the values and the customs of the "civilized" world while living in a culture that had much different values and practices. Though his mother talked of the promiscuity that she had practiced before ... of dru...

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... stature. "The lower the cast, the shorter the oxygen." Even before you are born, your future is already written out for you. In our world, racism and stereotypes are present because people feel threatened by what is different. This conditioning is how the utopian society eliminated the problem. First of all ... Power will not get them any farther in life then what is already written out for them. The only kinds of books in Brave New World accessible to the public are reference books. This discretion is needed because those types of books, opinions and motions are non-existing, because the...

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... a gross representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn't that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries ... step further; they forgot about history altogether. The only people who had access to any knowledge of the past were the ones who had the power: the World Controllers. Thus, they were able to create a society that fit their liking. Since the hypnopaedic ideas in the society were continuously repeated thr...

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... in life and not many people would be willing to risk that. Genetic cloning is one of the main reasons why the views in A Brave New World could never be possible in society. Scientists have been studying the human genome for years and looking for a way to possibly clone a human instead of ... should use them instead of a science lab to create other humans. However, cloning is not the only reason why the views and events in A Brave New World could not be accepted into society. The use of Soma, which is a drug, would never be made legal in society. Soma puts people into a state of ... bo...

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... is written also plays an important role in illustrating what individuals have lost due to the society taking away their uniqueness. The Brave New world shows the harsh results of the development of immense technology and how it can corrupt a society. A example of this form if technology ... bokanoskification process early in the book. "One egg, one embryo, one adult normality. This is playing God with everyone's lives in the Brave new world. Using technology to predetermining everyone's lives before they even get a chance to think of having a choice in it. Randomly choosing high class ...

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... techniques used for manipulation and power over the individual. Hypnotism is not widely promoted in our society as formal education; yet, it lingers on the horizon. In Huxley's Brave New World, hypnopaedia is used to promote economic stability and control emotions of the inhabitants living in England. The economy-oriented society relies on hypnopaedia to keep consumers eager to spend by ... ...

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... "After all, every one works for everyone else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons..." (91). Similar to subliminal messages used by psychologists, advertisements, and television in today's world, hypnopaedia was designed as a method of mass indoctrination including playing a tape to a group over and over, instead of individualized learning. Utopia's children are only taught the quantity and quality of ... information needed to fulfill their designated role in their society. After the end of the Second World War, Huxley added a foreword to "Brave New World", including drastic chang...

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... the perfect escape. Besides the state sponsored drug abuse, mental conditioning is another part of the lives for those who live in the "brave new world". From a young age, citizens are subjected to hypnopaedia, in effect sleep training, where life morals and lessons are taught through unconscious memorization. Lenina ... morrow, the fun you can have today" and other phrases constantly come out of Lenina's mouth - involuntarily triggered by conversation and actions. Today's world sees branding in much the same way. We have been involuntarily conditioned to see things like logotypes and sy...

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... make our lives more convenient. The biggest contributor to making our lives easier would be the computer, which has come a long way since its introduction to the world. Also, computers have the ability to be improved more. They also take away our curiosity, what, with all of the information at our fingertips. Huxley's community ... of Utopian society is designed by genetic engineering, and controlled by neural conditioning with mind-altering drugs. His world and our world seem to becoming one in that our technology of drugs and computers in our lives are being simplified. With this simpl...

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... quote many times throughout the novel. In this first instance John says this almost jokingly and light-hearted, eager to see and experience the brave new world. Later the tone in which he says the quote drastically changes. John was born in the Savage Reservation, in New Mexico, to Linda, who had ... admired him in great curiosity. For the second time in the novel we see John feeling isolated from society. After living the New World, John again says, "O brave new world." This time it was not out of excitement but out of misery and disgust for its restricted citizens and scientific enviro...

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... 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 ... 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...

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... allowing them to create a living copy of a living being. They have identical genetic makeup, and physical traits, this is cloning. In Brave New World cloning is used to mainly done for one thing, social stability. People are cloned repeatedly, to be in the same social class, and to work similar ... jobs. In today's world cloning is a hot subject. Some people believe that it is going to help advance society; others think that it will only destroy individualism and humanity ... that are produced for a single purpose, would make people depend on them for a single purpose, even though it is...

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... eventually a line must be drawn as to what price is worth paying in order to achieve that goal. In The life of Galileo and Brave New World, the goal is a stable society. The essential idea around these sacrifices is that no price is worth paying if it undermines the society. No price ... for a stable society if it undermines the truth because eventually the truth will come out and that same "stable- society, will eventually crumble. In Brave New World, the society is centered on the goal of a complete utopia, or a "perfect- society. Distinct class divisions are determined from birth, peop...

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This book is a horrifying and amazingly keen insight to what and where our society is taking us. Throughout Brave New World, the author, Alduous Huxley, demonstrates the theme of technology being used to replace humanity. This is evident through his usage of symbols such as Somas, the ultimate drug from which ... nothingness of death, but in this society they view religion as detrimental to the overall productiveness of the society and eliminate it. One theme Alduous Huxley displays in Brave New World is Technology replacing humanity. This is demonstrated by several symbols. One of these is ...

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... not worse. However, when is technology going too far? When is making life so controllable that it is pushing the most basic human values? These conflicts surface in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The way the Fordian society controls the kind of humans they are made, not born, is controversial. Even though our society is not as controlled or stable ... take advantage of this technology to create the ultimate human race and shun out anyone who does not fit in, very similar to what the Nazis wanted to do in World War II by exterminating anyone except for the German race. Such a concept ...

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