Social Stability In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, is a science fiction novel. Brave New world portrays a utopic world, the “World State”, in which society is formed and controlled through genetic and biological engineering and conditioning for the aim of social stability.
The Novel is set in the 25th century or as mentioned in the novel in the year A.F. 632, which indicates the 632th year after the year of Henry Ford, the new “God”. After the Nine Years War the world and the social structures have totally changed. The objective of the World State is to reach a status of stability and happiness of the society according to the World State’s motto “Community, Identity, Stability”. To achieve this goal old social structures, like religion, …show more content…
In these factories human beings are physical and psycologically formed according to their predestined role in the caste system. The higher and intellectual superior castes, Alphas and Betas, have the privilegde to arise out of one single egg with no impairments of the intellect. Consequently, they are destined for responsible and leading positions. The lower castes, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, have depending on their predestined work less intellectual faculties. To create a high number of equal adults of the lower castes, the fertilized eggs undergo the Bokanovski process, which means that the eggs are firstly shocked through X-rays and then through alcohol. In consequence of the treatment, the eggs divide into two to eight similar buds every step. Additional to the Bokanovski process, the fetuses are treated with heat, cold, alcohol and oxygen deprivation in order to reduce the intellect or to generate specific physical properties. After this process of biological engineering the infants undergo a program of conditioning based on hypnopaedia while sleeping and electro shocks and punishments in order to embed …show more content…
In the first two chapters the narrator tells the story from the director’s point of view. The narrator frequently changes from direct speech into indirect speech of the director. A little bit confusing is the fact that the narrator sometimes does not indicate the indirect speech with a phrase like “the director said…”. Due to the describtions of the biological engineering, the language of the first two chapters is partly scientific. Furthermore, sometimes the sentences tend to sound like enumerations and the style is not lengthy. In the third chapter the narrator often changes the point of view. First we are with the director, then with Mustapha Mond, then with Lenina and Fanny and then different conversations alternate between each other. This passage appears a little bit chaotic. During the indirect speech and the descriptions the tense is simple past, but the direct speech is in the simple
The Novel is set in the 25th century or as mentioned in the novel in the year A.F. 632, which indicates the 632th year after the year of Henry Ford, the new “God”. After the Nine Years War the world and the social structures have totally changed. The objective of the World State is to reach a status of stability and happiness of the society according to the World State’s motto “Community, Identity, Stability”. To achieve this goal old social structures, like religion, …show more content…
In these factories human beings are physical and psycologically formed according to their predestined role in the caste system. The higher and intellectual superior castes, Alphas and Betas, have the privilegde to arise out of one single egg with no impairments of the intellect. Consequently, they are destined for responsible and leading positions. The lower castes, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, have depending on their predestined work less intellectual faculties. To create a high number of equal adults of the lower castes, the fertilized eggs undergo the Bokanovski process, which means that the eggs are firstly shocked through X-rays and then through alcohol. In consequence of the treatment, the eggs divide into two to eight similar buds every step. Additional to the Bokanovski process, the fetuses are treated with heat, cold, alcohol and oxygen deprivation in order to reduce the intellect or to generate specific physical properties. After this process of biological engineering the infants undergo a program of conditioning based on hypnopaedia while sleeping and electro shocks and punishments in order to embed …show more content…
In the first two chapters the narrator tells the story from the director’s point of view. The narrator frequently changes from direct speech into indirect speech of the director. A little bit confusing is the fact that the narrator sometimes does not indicate the indirect speech with a phrase like “the director said…”. Due to the describtions of the biological engineering, the language of the first two chapters is partly scientific. Furthermore, sometimes the sentences tend to sound like enumerations and the style is not lengthy. In the third chapter the narrator often changes the point of view. First we are with the director, then with Mustapha Mond, then with Lenina and Fanny and then different conversations alternate between each other. This passage appears a little bit chaotic. During the indirect speech and the descriptions the tense is simple past, but the direct speech is in the simple