Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”

Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” represents the most perfect social system with maximum madness. The system itself is chaos, the society is based off drugs and sex. All of the science is considered to be the basic powers controlling the system, the progress of the system was illustrated in the beginning of the story, all laid out. However, the most essential scientific goals in the novel that are mostly focused on the implementation of total control over the citizens of the World State, and also overall spheres of their lives.

Yet, they leave only small amounts of people outside of the state to themselves, the reservations that contain tribes that are more ‘free’. Science in Huxley’s novel promoted the establishment of society, class systems from top to bottom, all classes had different experiences. The class system was by the introduction of the process of ectogenesis, which allowed the production of humans to be synthesized, and postnatal human development to be brought under control. The top created class was the Alphas, given the most ‘affection’, while the bottom, forced to be brainless workers. As a result, all the necessary behavioral and thinking patterns being in the State’s best interest were put into people’s minds. This control is a possible source of madness. The characters that displayed irrational behavior within the novel were Bernard and John.

Bernard Marx is an alpha of society, but he is an abomination to the other, bothered by the cultural values that he was supposed to follow. Which emphasized young sex, consumption of SOMA(a drug), and thought control. Bernard saw society as madness. The madness lies in its depiction of human beings as machines and continuously watched for quality of life. According to Donald Watt, the characters were a problem. Watt had concluded that Huxley first wanted to make Bernard rebellious against the system but then changed their mind making him a protagonist. Bernard is an anti-hero depicted by Huxley.

John is a new story, initially seems to be a solid human, contrasts with the society of the World State. However, Huxley undermines the ideas, John has been socially conditioned by the State, but also that his conditioning make Consum John go spiralling down hill quickly. Though, John seems to represents a noble ‘savage’. The savage, a human being, who is inhabited in the wild, so he is able to inherit some kind of mortality, but those flow from him after he connects with the people.. John’s nickname, “the Savage,” gives the idea off seamlessly, portraying societies corrupt influences, rather. This idea is also invoked in 1984, with Winston, go also gave into the societies influences. These character often go against the cultural arrogance of the people, just as John fights the World State’s Crucially, Huxley made John, not a native Indian, only lost from the State. In this way, is directly different from the other characters: Bernard, Lenina, and others. He was the definition of madness, he ended up ending his life, he wanted to end the life he lived after finding out what the society really was, only to find out he hated it. So his irrational mind brought him to death, to what he thought would be peace from the State.

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