Marxism In Brave New World Essay
The World State is a seemingly perfect place. There people are “decanted” and then conditioned to fit perfectly into a preselected social caste. Because of the conditioning they are put through, everyone is happy in the caste they are put in. The feelings of despair and suffering are absent from this world, at the price of religion, art, and open scientific discoveries. While from the surface the World State seems like an utopia in the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley expresses his clear distaste for the state through the character John as he criticizes the ways of the World State’s society once he’s introduced to the different aspects of it, Bernard Marx as he criticizes the World State as he doesn’t fit in in it, and Helmholtz as he struggles
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Because of his mother who was conditioned to love the World State, John was expecting a grand new world that resembled a heaven on Earth. Once he actually leaves the savage reservation and goes to London John is hit with the reality of the World State, which is one not nearly close to perfection. His argument against the state is obvious during his, Bernard’s, and Helmholtz’s conversation with Mustapha Mond when John says, "Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy" (Huxley, 162). Here John is saying that in the World State life is too simple, too easy, but that isn’t the problem has with it. John is saying that by taking away the struggles in the world, the World State has also taken away the things that are really worth living for, things such as love, because in order to get such things you have to fight for them,
Because of his mother who was conditioned to love the World State, John was expecting a grand new world that resembled a heaven on Earth. Once he actually leaves the savage reservation and goes to London John is hit with the reality of the World State, which is one not nearly close to perfection. His argument against the state is obvious during his, Bernard’s, and Helmholtz’s conversation with Mustapha Mond when John says, "Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy" (Huxley, 162). Here John is saying that in the World State life is too simple, too easy, but that isn’t the problem has with it. John is saying that by taking away the struggles in the world, the World State has also taken away the things that are really worth living for, things such as love, because in order to get such things you have to fight for them,