As I was reading this novel, all I could think of was how much it related to Americas literal drug problem. Everyone in Brave New World seems to need soma to function properly in every day life. Really though, how many Americans are the same way, taking one or multiple pills per day in the […]
In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the World State suppresses science, art, and religion in order to maintain a stable, albeit childlike society. One of the rationales behind the suppression of science, religion, and art is the idea that these three things can potentially breed conflict amongst the denizens of the World State. Self-expression […]
On our last day discussing Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, we talked a little bit about cloning and made some comparisons to other universes that incorporate cloning (including Star Wars and Aeon Flux, for example). I don’t remember who it was, but someone in class asked something along the lines of, “How do the clones tell each […]
One of the most frightening aspects of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World is the Brokanovsky Process that allows the leaders of the World State to customize their population and workforce. No longer dependent on male/female reproduction, the World State fertilizes ova produced from surgically removed ovaries and incubates babies in bottles. The Brokanovsky Process […]
While reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, it’s clear that the society functions best when everyone follows the same routines and guidelines. Diversity is not appreciated in this novel and anyone not considered “normal” is looked down upon. Take the little boy in the gardens for instance. All of the children were playing their erotic […]
In Aldous Huxley’s novel, BraveNew World, the entire World State is a supposed utopia that achieves stability by allowing mankind to slake its biological drives. In a sense, the World State is Sigmund Freud’s concept of the id run amok. In the World State, the citizens (with the exceptions of Bernard and Helmholtz) eschew the “traditional” […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the world we see in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World reminds me strikingly of the world we actually live in right now. It doesn’t look like it at all at first, considering (among other things/observations) the averse reactions we had during Day 1’s discussion regarding the encouragement of children […]
While rereading this novel I was noticed how similar the circumstances of John the savage and Julian West are. They are both men who are removed from their own place in the world only to fine themselves in a place that is supposed to be better. John is not technically a man out of time […]
While reading Aldous Huxley’s novel, “Brave New World”, our class had the stimulating discussion concerning the stereotypical thinking most people exhibit towards a person’s interior and exterior qualities. I have found that most people equate someone’s exterior with a stereotypical interior constructed by society’s ideals and past perceptions of individuals with specific qualities. For example, […]
In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, the people living out of the reservations take soma to relieve themselves of stress and uneasiness. Similarly in today’s world, medication represents something along those same lines. Now, medication is advertised everywhere in America and everyone is instilled with the thought that everything needs to be fixed at the nearest […]
Reading Brave New World, I’m continually reminded of the book American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. In that . . . gem of a book, the protagonist(?)/antagonist . . . let’s just call him the main character, Pat Bateman, exists [sic] in 1980s New York City as the C.E.O. of a Wall Street company called […]
Media, is a big part of our lives, we are using a type of media right now to teach the public, but the public likes trashy media at times. Different types of media: news, celebrity (beiber) social, etc. Each has a different take of media, or narrow description: different take of the public news. Not […]
Reading a Brave New World by Huxley has been very interesting. I actually really enjoyed reading what I have so far even if it is rather terrifying to see how similar to todays society some it seems to be. In this capitalist driven society conditioning and consumerism drives the society. Different levels of society are […]
How much today is our world in the throes of a Brave New World epidemic? Well let’s run down the list of similarities to BNW and the contemporary world, especially the USA. Do we have hypnopaedia? No, but yes. We don’t have an inculcated form of sleep learning while growing up, or sleep anything, but […]
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a scary look into what could be our future. Obviously Huxley created this novel in order to point out the flaws in our society. What’s truly terrifying is the fact that this novel was written in 1932, and in the eighty two years that this novel has been […]
In light of what we’ve been reading for the class, one of the most glaring common themes that I’ve seen is the rejection of nature itself. To me, the theme not only symbolizes the potential future of man as he tries to distance himself from what’s considered “barbaric,” but also the moral, mental, and intellectual […]
Brave New World was, in my opinion, the most interesting book that we had read this semester-and we’ve read some really interesting books. It is also a book that I wish we had more time to discuss the themes of, because they’re a really interesting criticism of our society, and where it’s headed. Aldous Huxley […]
Brave New world by Aldous Huxley is another example of a creepy government takeover. My question that can be applied to almost all the books we have read thought this course is who is the government? Who are the lucky ones? And do those lucky ones get to have feelings or are they just as […]
The last topic of discussion in class today was important and it would have been interesting if we would have had more time to talk about it, so that’s what I would like to do here. It’s interesting to think where our country will be going over the next few decades and I think it […]
What if, in our minds, history itself was quite literally a thing of the past? That is to say, the learning of anything relating to anything of the former simply did not take place. The idea here, of course, stems from Huxley’s similar concept within his dystopian novel’s framework. Within the early pages of “Brave […]
The gaps between the worker class and owner/wealthy upper class in the novels and movie that we watched is getting interesting. Technology may be a factor but what’s standing is the gaps, at first Granville, and Shelly their was just an upper class doing what it wanted with science or telling the future. But now […]
I legitimately can’t stop seeing the Science Fiction novels we’ve been reading as part of one continuous timeline, despite the fact that they were written by different people with different agendas in mind.