... genetic standardization. Both novels exhibit a society where totalitarian regimes control every aspect of their people to maintain stability instead of happiness and humanity. Winston Smith (1984) and John (Brave New World), the protagonists of both novels, oppose to the way their societies are ruled and dehumanized because they use reason to critic their governments. Winston's personal tendency to resist the ... Bokanovsky and Podsnap processes) that allowed to produce thousands of identical human embryos (alpha, beta, gamma, delta and epsilon) was the primary source of creating and mani...

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... 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 ... Huxley's society has a more effective way of using technology. They have full control over the population by using the Bakonovsky process to make humans. Brave New World also uses hypnopaedia to "condition" its populace to accept promiscuity. It's a form of subliminal reinforcement whereby hypnopaedia slogans such a...

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... of identity. The plot explorers the struggle by the protagonist, Bernard Marx, to develop his own identity, which has been suppressed as part of the utopian policies in the Brave New World. The World State has a paradoxical stance on identity; while it outwardly promotes the identity of the community, individual identity is suppressed at extreme costs. This is to avoid conflict and inconsistency ... an incredible development for his individuality. In place of religion, the masses are given the deity Henry Ford to worship. However this "religion" promotes only the values of the Brave New ...

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... accurate prophesy of technology's capacity to dominate society, and how this domination is silently changing the goals, moralities, and values of our culture. The most prevalent themes in Brave New World are centered around the industrial and economic systems in novel, and how technology has brought the advancements of these themes to fruition. The mentality of the society is that ... . Progress, technology, and invention become their God. This transition -as Postman puts it the transition of a Technocracy to a Technopoly- is the transition that has taken place in Brave New World. Technoc...

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... Lenina, John is full of hope for what is yet to come; a glorious land his mother praised and longed for since his birth, one that has beautiful girls like Lenina. "O brave new world O brave new world that has such people in it ,"" (139) John cries out in excitement at the thought of leaving the reservation. His hope soon turns to disgust however upon actually going to ... workers in line for their daily ration of the euphoric, hallucinogenic panacea for all things unpleasant, soma. He cries out to the people with Miranda's mantra echoing in his mind "O brave new world how beauteous mank...

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... , knows nothing more or nothing less than what is presented to you through hypnopaedia, has no voice in society. Everyone and everything is completely controlled. This scenario replicates the World State. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley centers around the unattainable idea of a utopia; however, the society described better reflects a dystopia and was written to convey a warning message to the readers ... in 1932 and future audiences. The World State, the functional society in Brave New World, seems Utopian in theory, but its overarching plan for moral, social, and cultural imp...

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In "Frankenstein" and "Brave New World," there is much debate over who the real monster is in each of these stories. While some readers argue it's the creation and the ... We are all preconditioned to believe such stereotypes that anything against the ordinary should be considered a threat, and that is a concept we must learn to tame. Brave New World also brings up the issue of who is at fault for the discrepancies many characters must face. Once again, the real monster in this novel is the society ... in which these people are "born" into. In both the World State and even the Reservation, ...

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In Huxley's Brave New World the reader is presented with a world where; the governing body, known as the World State has eliminated many of the problems we find in many aspects of our society today. There is no crime, no poverty ... the general populace. Everything is not quite as grand as it would seem however; and the author makes it clear throughout the novel that this new world would not be the ultimate Eutopia that it sounds like it should be. This holds especially true when we compare it with social status quo of ... of whether or not freedom and individuality are worth sacrificing for...

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... our own personal thoughts, feelings, values and memories, we will inevitably become vulnerable to totalitarian governments. The use of technology to control society in Brave New World warns of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies. One illustration of this theme is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the surgical removal of ... it uses the results of scientific research, inasmuch as they contribute to technologies of control, but does not support science itself. The Consumer Society. It is import...

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... to progress technologically. Also, the citizens are forced to live their lives a certain way and conform to the consumer- oriented mentality of the culture. According to Derek Miller's essay, "Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth." Miller suggests that, "The morals and aspirations from society are not of those of our society today- such as family, love, and ... success- but instead are focused around industry, economy, and technological growth and improvement." Miller's theory allows one to understand the way the system works in a dystopian society like the World State...

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