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Post Industrial Society A Brave New World
1,315 wordsPost Industrial Society: A Brave New World? Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was born to a very scholarly family, most notably his grandfather T. H. Huxley, a well-known biologist and foremost advocate for Darwin's evolutionary theory. Aldous upbringing was shaped by many diverse influences, from his brother Julian, a notable biologist, to his mothers uncle Matthew Arnold, a well-known English poet and literary critic. This mix of disciplines led to Huxley's eclecti...
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Science And Technology John The Savage
1,389 words... character is constantly mumbling the phrases and propaganda forced on her during her conditioning as a child, reinforcing the ideas of the World State to herself at every turn. She views death as a function of society. She has no original thought and follows her conditioning without question. The only inconsistent element in her life is her tendency towards monogamy, which is odd in the World State as sex is not used for procreation but as an outlet for emotion, and thus promiscuity is encou...
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Brave New World Rules And Regulations
1,558 wordsSince the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, human society has had to struggle to adapt to new technology. There is a shift from traditional society to a modern one. Within the last ten years we have seen tremendous advances in science and technology, and we are becoming more and more socially dependent on it. In the Brave New World, Huxley states that we are moving in the direction of Utopia much more rapidly than anyone had ever anticipated. Its goal is achieving happiness by g...
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Ethics In Frankenstein And Brave New World
1,761 wordsEthics in "Frankenstein" and "Brave New World" For most of human history, the ethical considerations of scientific inquiry would have been a moot point. Outside of the Bible and mythology, there was no thought of creating life from inert matter because scientists would not have felt it was possible to do so. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, in the wake of landmark discoveries in the fields of chemistry, biology, and genetics, the possibility of scientific tampering with the hu...
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Brave New World Freedom To Choose
1,984 words... shows that a government-controlled society often places restraints upon its citizens, which results in a loss of social and mental freedom. These methods of limiting human behaviour are carried out by the conditioning of the citizens, the categorical division of society, and the censorship of art and religion. Conditioning the citizens to like what they have and reject what they do not have is an authoritative governments ideal way of maximizing efficiency. The citizens will consume what the...
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South South West Brave New World
4,586 words... a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well... Or again, if you want a stronger version of 'good', what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like 'excellent' and 'splendid' and all the rest of them? 'Plus good' covers the meaning or doubleplusgood if you want something stronger still... In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words; in reality, only one word (Orwell 45 - 46). In essence, one of the main goals of Newspeak ...
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Brave New World Society And Socio Economic Class
1,070 wordster> Discuss how the society in Brave New World works to ensure that people do not change their socio-economic class. Through Brave New World, Huxley depicts a new, industrialized world, which is financially stable and has prevented poverty and self-destruction. Dictatorial governments are there to ensure stability and maintain perfection of the world. Therefore, just like under any other totalitarian government, social, mental and economic freedoms are abolished in order to retain soc...
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Brave New World Values And Attitudes
1,194 wordsArt is like a fractured mirror that reflects the society in which it was created. This reflection is a mosaic of images constructed by the artists own perceptions which in turn are determined by the values and attitudes, especially the fears and insecurities in his or her own contemporary society. The responder also has to acknowledge his or her own door of perception, as this would affect their interpretation of the art. This is especially evident in texts like Brave New World which are designe...
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Facets Of Russian Communism Within Fictional Utopian Literature
2,464 wordsHistorically, fictional literature has been used to reflect on the life of the time in which it is written. Authors, thrown by the system and displeased by developments, take what they know and use it to make a statement. Over the course of history, authors have jabbed huge incidents such as the French Revolution in Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, missionary invasion and Chinese poverty in Pearl S. Bucks The Good Earth, and Chinese Communism in Anchor Mins Becoming Madame Mao. On the topic...
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Brave New World Erasing Individuality Ruins Happiness
527 wordsThe Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is set in the future, where government controls the people. The world in which they live is called the world state. The government control and program how the people think and act. In this society, problems are avoided by taking a drug called soma. Soma is used universally around the world state and is used to promote stability and happiness in the world state. Huxley shows how the government creates a so-called happiness but in reality takes away the individ...
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The Brave New World Of Technology
1,362 wordsWhen thinking of progress, most people think of advances in the scientific fields, believing that most discoveries and technologies are beneficial to society. Are these advances as beneficial as most people think? Brave New World presents a startling view of the future which on the surface appears almost comical. Yet humor was not the intention of Aldous Huxley when he wrote the book in the early 1930 's. Indeed Huxley's real message is very dark. His idea that in centuries to come, a one-world ...
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Shocking Science Fiction Aldous Huxley Brave New World
1,514 wordsThe brilliant social satirist Aldous Huxley shocked the world in 1932 with the publication of his science fiction masterpiece Brave New World. The novel takes place in the cities of London and New Mexico during the year of 632 A. F. (After Ford). It is a future world of absolute stability and total sterility with one concern- happiness for all (Wright 84). In his foreword to the New Harper edition of Brave New World, Huxley states its theme as "the advancement of science as it affects human indi...
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Brave New World Huxley Wrote
416 wordsAldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931. It is about a futuristic dystopia in which Huxley exposes the corruption and imperfection of the perfect world. It compares to the real world in that it bears similarities to real events in world history. Huxley tries to convey what might happen if the government could have total control over individuals lives. In Brave New World, Huxley deals with the theme of technology and how its advancement contributed to the isolation and moral decay. In fact, t...
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Brave New World World War Ii
1,905 wordsBrave New World Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931. It is about a futuristic dystopia in which Huxley exposes the corruption and imperfection of the perfect world. It compares to the real world in that it bears similarities to real events in world history. Huxley tries to convey what might happen if the government could have total control over individuals lives. In Brave New World, Huxley deals with the theme of technology and how its advancement contributed to the isolation and moral d...
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Brave New World Believed That Man
2,754 wordsOn a superficial level Brave New World is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society: population numbers, social class, and intellectual ability. History is controlled and rewritten to suit the needs of the state. All this is done in the name of social stability. When one looks beneath the surface...
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Brave New World Advancement Of Science
1,557 wordsBrave New World, 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 peoples 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 also witnessed it kill with horrifying factory-like efficiency in WW I (the age of machine guns and chemical warfar...
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Brave New World Soviet Union
1,808 wordsThe theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs to have in order to survive. According to the new world controllers, community is a result of identity and stability, identity is a part of genetic engineering, and stability is what everyone desires to achieve. These themes are represented in the book by the symbolic meaning of the phrase Children are from bottles and the hypnotic phrase Everybo...
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Brave New World Assembly Line
659 wordsScience Run Amuck in Brave New World Brave New World is a novel set hundreds of years into our own future. On Earth, the Nine Years War tore the planet apart in the year A. F 178. Eerily, anthrax bombs dropped from the sky killed scores of people, what we in the post 9 / 11 world fear the most. When the dust settled, mankind banded together to create a new world called the World State. Their motto is Community, Identity, Stability, and it is all too much present as you will see. This future is a...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Brave New World
3,744 wordsCompare And Contrast Dystopian Futures In Brave Compare And Contrast Dystopian Futures In Brave New World And 1984 Dystopian Futures in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The existence created by Brave New World is very efficient however it lacks any meaning, humans have no real extremes in feelings, no love, hate, pain and suffering. They are conditioned by technology to accept these things as normal. People are mass-produced to serve the means of the sociality and have no individuality ...
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Brave New World John The Savage
2,749 wordsPost Industrial Society: A Brave New World? Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was born to a very scholarly family, most notably his grandfather T. H. Huxley, a well-known biologist and foremost advocate for Darwin? s evolutionary theory. Aldous? upbringing was shaped by many diverse influences, from his brother Julian, a notable biologist, to his mother? s uncle Matthew Arnold, a well-known English poet and literary critic. This mix of disciplines led to Huxley? s ec...
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