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Nineteen Eighty Four Anti Sex League
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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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Brave New World Mores Utopia
1,746 wordsThe vision of one century is often the reality of the next (Nelson 108). Throughout time, great minds have constructed their own visions of utopia. Through the study of utopias, one finds that these perfect societies have many flaws. For example, most utopias tend to have an authoritarian nature (Manuel 3). Also, another obvious imperfection found in the majority of utopias is that of a faulty social class system (Thomas 94). But one must realized that the flaws found in utopian societies serve ...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
660 wordsA Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's prediction for six hundred years in the future. In this surreal land everyone belongs to everyone else, and in theory everyone is happy. When any character is unhappy or feeling upset about something they are encouraged to take a drug called Soma. This drug can be compared to modern-day drugs such as Prozac, and the controlled substance methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), better knows as Ecstasy. Soma is a wonder pill from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World th...
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Nihilistic Themes And Characters In Literature
1,815 wordsNihilistic Themes and Characters in Literature The philosophy of Nihilism was born out of an individuals discontent. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Nihilism is a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless. The roots of Nihilism come from a dissatisfied individual, maintaining a view that nothing in the world has a real existence. Nihilism, from the Latin Nihil or nothing, was first used to describe Christian heretics during the...
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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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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
4,448 wordsA society is, by definition, a group of people with similar interests, beliefs, and ways of life, residing and perpetuating in a specific area. Societies include people, who are organized into families, tight-knit groups of friends, and acquaintances. Individuals within a society possess certain religious affiliations, and are associated with specific institutions and workplaces. This idea of a community allows human beings to act upon their social predispositions, while still submitting to lead...
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737 wordsWhat is a utopia? Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines utopia as an imaginary and indefinitely remote place; a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, gov-ernment, and social conditions; an impractical scheme for social improvement. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley creates a dystopia (which Webster defines as an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives) by predicting a pos-sible utopia after many generations. Aldous Huxley analyzes how the utopia dege...
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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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Aldous Huxley Lysergic Acid
1,626 wordsAldous Huxley, English novelist, established himself as one of the premiere fiction writers of the twentieth century. Such works as Brave New World and Doors of Perception sparked positive reviews from critics and readers across the globe. He was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England. Ever since he was very young, Huxley's peers and family considered him to be different. This was not necessarily a bad thing to anyone. Aldous brother considered this to be a form of superiority. It ...
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Brave New World 1984 And Brave New World Society
586 wordsArchimedes, Sophocles, Hitler, Peter, and Orwell are just some of the few men in history that have tried to predict the future, with may of them predicting the downfall of civilization. But, although many of these great thinkers have come startlingly close to the stark reality in which we live. Many have argued the opinion that our culture most resembles that of Orwell's creation, but I disagree for a number of very important and relevant reasons. First, Orwell feared that censorship would be ra...
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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 Field Of Medicine
1,097 wordsIn Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to convey the belief that every invention or improvement for the, so called, betterment of mankind is only an instrument for his ultimate destruction. 'We are, '; he said, 'on the horns of an ethical dilemma and to find the middle way will require all out intelligence and all out good will. '; This goes for all fields of life, medical, technical, social, etc. Not only in the book, but also in real life, one can see that this belief is evidently true. A fir...
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Brave New World Big Brother
1,226 wordsDescription: Compare B N W to 1984 Body of Essay: Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, the works books though they deal with similar topics, are more dissimilar than alike. A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his society when he discovers that he is not truly happy. 1984 is the story of Winston who finds forbidden love within the hypocrisy of his society. In both cases, the mai...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Brave New World
2,396 wordsA Comparison Contrast of A Brave New World and 1984 Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, the works books though they deal with similar topics, are more dissimilar than alike. A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his society when he discovers that he is not truly happy. 1984 is the story of Winston who finds forbidden love within the hypocrisy of his society. In both cases, the m...
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Brave New World Point Of View
2,492 wordsBRAVE NEW WORLDI) Author: About Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his work. When Huxley was 16 and a student at the prestigious school Eton, an eye illness made him nearly blind. He recovered enough vision to go on to Oxfor...
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Brave New World Rest Of Their Lives
402 wordsBrave New World Aldous Huxley's Brave New World portrays a society in which science has clearly taken over. This was an idea of what the future could hold for humankind. Is it true that Huxley's prediction may be correct? Although there are many examples of Huxley's theories in our society, there is reason to believe that his predictions will not hold true for the future of society. One of the biggest changes occurring in Brave New World was that babies were not being born to parents, but rather...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
790 wordsemail: Brave New World Brave New World takes place in the year 632 A. F. (After Ford). After a few very long wars, a dictatorship gained control, beginning the era of Our Ford. The society is kept stable by controlling population, types of people and by strongly regulating supply and demand. There are five artificially created castes of people. The alphas are the highest, ruling caste. They are permitted to think freely (within the guidelines of utopia). The epsilons are the lowest class; they a...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Anti Sex League
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