Technology In Brave New World
In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a dystopia where technology is used to stabilize a country. Constant conditioning and subconsciously forced beliefs, applied by the World State, are enforced on the youth of the “Brave New World.” Huxley uses multiple literary devices to persuade the reader that truth in a society is more important than happiness. In this novel it seems that people in this society are generally happy. However, it is not considered true happiness because individuals in this society were conditioned to like certain things through their adolescent development. To prove the point of truth being more important than happiness, Huxley uses satire and repetition. This causes the reader to come across unfamiliar
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Truth in a society allows for social awareness, natural human responses, and having the ability to find one’s true purpose in life. The majority of the people in Brave New World are unable to recognizes the values of truth. The theme of technological control over a society also helps set up the idea that truth is more valuable than happiness.
In order for Huxley to present the idea that truth is more important than happiness, he sets up a society where people are ignorant to real human emotion. In this dystopia individuals are created to think and act a certain way. They are conditioned away from their natural habits at a young age. The theme of the book is developed from a concern of technology impacting child development in this society. The World State does this so that the people can conform and belong in the society. One of the main traits that the World State enforces is stability. Without stability there would be war, sadness, and riots against the World State’s views. Mustapha Mond discusses the values of the World State, “The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're bliss- fully ignorant of passion
Truth in a society allows for social awareness, natural human responses, and having the ability to find one’s true purpose in life. The majority of the people in Brave New World are unable to recognizes the values of truth. The theme of technological control over a society also helps set up the idea that truth is more valuable than happiness.
In order for Huxley to present the idea that truth is more important than happiness, he sets up a society where people are ignorant to real human emotion. In this dystopia individuals are created to think and act a certain way. They are conditioned away from their natural habits at a young age. The theme of the book is developed from a concern of technology impacting child development in this society. The World State does this so that the people can conform and belong in the society. One of the main traits that the World State enforces is stability. Without stability there would be war, sadness, and riots against the World State’s views. Mustapha Mond discusses the values of the World State, “The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're bliss- fully ignorant of passion