Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: A Summary
Brave New World essay
Imagine a world without wars, famine, old-age or diseases, where everybody is happy with what they have and where people don’t complain. Imagine this place, where people do not discriminate each other for their skin colour or because of their religion. This is the situation of the Brave New World, the people there are divided into ranks, from Alpha Plus to Epsilon. But they don’t care about the classes, their mentality is simple; without the other classes, life wouldn’t be possible. The classes each have their colour, jobs etcetera. The people are never unhappy or discontent.
But not everything in this world is perfect; such as not having your own identity, or living in a world based on lies.
So this perfect world isn’t as perfect as it looked like at first. The people that live there don’t know any better, it has been that for as long as they can remember. But for an outsider, such as John, it is really hard to live in such a world. He sees them as people who live their lives, only to end up dying. The people aren’t born naturally, they aren’t raised by parents or have an actual home. They don’t know the concept of love, freedom of choices, or grief. When they do feel miserable, or just unhappy they only take their soma and they enter a state of no-thinking, which they experience as happiness and recreation.
Huxley deliberately chose to exchange universal joy and stability for the concepts of love, motherhood, freedom, family and so on. This would make us realise that every advantage has its disadvantage and the other way around. Also, he makes clear that there is no such thing as the perfect world. This essay will explain how each of the characters slowly expose the awfulness of the Brave New World.
First of all, Aldous Huxley introduces John the Savage to the reader. He actually uses John to show how the Brave New World is looked upon by an outsider. Like the reader, John thinks of the perfect world. But nothing can be more wrong,
Imagine a world without wars, famine, old-age or diseases, where everybody is happy with what they have and where people don’t complain. Imagine this place, where people do not discriminate each other for their skin colour or because of their religion. This is the situation of the Brave New World, the people there are divided into ranks, from Alpha Plus to Epsilon. But they don’t care about the classes, their mentality is simple; without the other classes, life wouldn’t be possible. The classes each have their colour, jobs etcetera. The people are never unhappy or discontent.
But not everything in this world is perfect; such as not having your own identity, or living in a world based on lies.
So this perfect world isn’t as perfect as it looked like at first. The people that live there don’t know any better, it has been that for as long as they can remember. But for an outsider, such as John, it is really hard to live in such a world. He sees them as people who live their lives, only to end up dying. The people aren’t born naturally, they aren’t raised by parents or have an actual home. They don’t know the concept of love, freedom of choices, or grief. When they do feel miserable, or just unhappy they only take their soma and they enter a state of no-thinking, which they experience as happiness and recreation.
Huxley deliberately chose to exchange universal joy and stability for the concepts of love, motherhood, freedom, family and so on. This would make us realise that every advantage has its disadvantage and the other way around. Also, he makes clear that there is no such thing as the perfect world. This essay will explain how each of the characters slowly expose the awfulness of the Brave New World.
First of all, Aldous Huxley introduces John the Savage to the reader. He actually uses John to show how the Brave New World is looked upon by an outsider. Like the reader, John thinks of the perfect world. But nothing can be more wrong,