... world even offers these sittings called "feelies" in which one can watch pornographic material and feel what is going on, simply just for pleasure. Soma, the wide-spread drug of the society is used for pleasure also; mostly everyone uses it to ensure their "happiness" in their lives. Lastly, the Brave New World ... " of life, like strong emotions, knowledge, and striving for big goals. Love, a strong emotion of life, has absolutely no meaning in the Brave New World except for sex. There is no understanding of love, and love is something so dependent and so important in life, that without...

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... , family, freedom, and even love. He points out that happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sport, immoral sex, "the feelies", and a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma. His Brave New World is essentially a caring oligarchy, under the direction of ten world controllers; their spokesman is Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller of Western Europe. He governs 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 gover...

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... of science in both books is extensive and complicated. In 1984, telescreens which are never turned off spy on people. In Brave New World the people watch movies using the "feelies", which adds senses to a movie. Next, there are numerous differences between the two novels. Firstly, sex and hypocrisy is ... perceived differently in both societies. In Brave New World, sex is used as a form of recreation and it is accepted. The drug soma is ... human characteristic that is seen in everyday life. The role of hypocrisy is different in both books because Brave New World brings it to a differe...

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... . He has many interpretations of the Brave New World which cause him to take his own life. Although the Brave New World is thought by its inhabitants to be a utopia, it is actually a loveless and sinister place where happiness is solely derived from mass produced goods, promiscuous sex, "the feelies", and soma- a pleasure drug, and ... 's lives are changed as a result. Bernard is regarded with forged respect and appreciation for his relation to the Savage which everyone in the Brave New World is so bewitched by. Lenina falls into an oblivious love with John. John fancies Lenina, but is pu...

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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 impro...

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... and entertainment to keep them happy with their job. Stability, which in insured by a conformed society, is the ultimate and primal need according to one of the World Controllers. The conformity in Brave New World makes it difficult for the characters to be unique. It is especially difficult when the community is prioritized over the individuals. In Novels for students, John Hochman provides ... such conditions. If one can escape the unwanted emotions of everyday life, then it becomes tough to develop a personal identity. Philo M. Buck Jr. writes in an excerpt that, " "Soma" and "Feelies...

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... a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself." (pg. 148). The government clearly believes that the individual should subordinate to the group for the good of society. The other theme of Brave New World is the cost of such a system is high. There is a good side to this system. There is no war or poverty and a small amount of disease or social unrest. The ... fill us with anguish: How to avoid their becoming definitively real?" (epigraph). The people living in the World State must give up love, family, science, art, religion, and history. A quote that supports this is telling the Savag...

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... approach and being thankful for the fact that in their eyes our society was nothing like that described in Orwell's 1984, that they missed some of the ideas from Huxley's Brave New World. Huxley's Brave New World is more relevant today than Orwell's 1984. According to Postman, a contemporary social critic, "Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture". A trivial culture ... money to go to watch movies based on superficial ideas and lacking in a solid theme. We have on our own, in a way, filled our lives with the equivalents of the fee...

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... that Brave New World criticizes most sharply. It is important to recognize the distinction between science and technology. Whereas the State talks about progress and science, what it really means is the bettering of technology, not increased scientific exploration and experimentation. The state uses science as a means to build technology that can create a seamless, happy, superficial world through things such as the "feelies." ... uses the results of scientific research, inasmuch as they contribute to technologies of control, but does not support science itself. The Consumer Society. It ...

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