Freedom In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
For a society to be free is to be rid of all forms of restraint that may oppose the personal rights of an individual. For a society to be stable is to have control over the rights of everyone to prevent conflict and chaos. Across the globe, countries strive to achieve both freedom and stability, but all without great success. Very often, countries favour one principle over the other, as it is difficult to achieve and maintain both. Historically, the United States relentlessly boasts of freedom as its main principle; however, with the new implementation of the Trump administration led by President Donald Trump, stability may outweigh freedom if he keeps his promises to the country. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a futuristic dystopian
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In the novel, a World Controller, Mustapha Mond, explains what happened to the concept of religion after the World State became the sole government in the civil world. Mond recaps the history of the religion in the first days of the World State’s Fordian principle; he clearly recalls “‘All crosses had their tops cut and became T’s. There was also a thing called God.’…. ‘We have the World State now. And Ford’s Day celebrations’…. ‘There was a thing called heaven’.” (Huxley 45). Through Mustapha Mond’s recollection, the similarities between Trump’s initial goal of separating the Muslim population and the eradication of old world religion in the World State surfaces. Both groups believe that religious diversity is a hindrance to the development of social stability. By the principle of the world state, Mond further explains in an abstract tone:
“Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet… What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain… feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?” (Huxley
In the novel, a World Controller, Mustapha Mond, explains what happened to the concept of religion after the World State became the sole government in the civil world. Mond recaps the history of the religion in the first days of the World State’s Fordian principle; he clearly recalls “‘All crosses had their tops cut and became T’s. There was also a thing called God.’…. ‘We have the World State now. And Ford’s Day celebrations’…. ‘There was a thing called heaven’.” (Huxley 45). Through Mustapha Mond’s recollection, the similarities between Trump’s initial goal of separating the Muslim population and the eradication of old world religion in the World State surfaces. Both groups believe that religious diversity is a hindrance to the development of social stability. By the principle of the world state, Mond further explains in an abstract tone:
“Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet… What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain… feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?” (Huxley