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    In A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there are many things in the book that are similar to the world that we live in today. From personal relationships to drugs when reading this book it is quite obvious that we are possibly changing into a society just like the one in this very book. There isn’t much proof that the society is changing into the same society as in the book, from what we can tell a lot of it is probably made up, but there are some things that prove how similar our societies are…

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    Although many try to blend in with the rest of the population, the few who break away and think with eccentricity stand out and make a change. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson all use their knowledge and ability to be an individual in order to understand freedom and escape from average society and community. Bernard is very important in the plot of the story because he is the one who first openly shows individuality and freedom, and…

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    Brave New World presents a wide array of warnings and ominous ideas about how our current actions and lifestyles can affect our future those of which can also be seen in the film Gattaca. The seemingly simple concept of having the ability to choose the gender of your child can so rapidly turn into a gateway for much more drastic changes regarding how far the altering of a human is able to go. In the novel Brave new world humans are grown artificially and created to fit into a five class system…

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    Soma In Brave New World

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    Soma The use of the drug soma in Brave New World is very influential to the story line and the world that the story is based on. Soma in the New World is equivalent to the processed food, alcohol and drugs in our world today. The drug is used as a symbol of instant gratification to control the populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society. We can easily see the instant gratification that taking the drug provides. It puts the consumer in a…

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    terror” after John faces her with such a “menacing”, savage-like demeanour, reflecting the fear of the outside world in the World State, which is a key characteristic of a dystopian society. In addition, Huxley describes the manner in which the students “[stare] with the frightened and stupid…

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    Totalitarian Government it affects people ,relationships, and brainwashing. Huxley Totalitarian Government in Brave New World show how many characters are affected. In the book Huxley says “outside the garden it was play time naked in the warm june sunshine six or seven hundred little boys were running over the lawns or playing ball games or squating silently in tubs or threes among the flowing shrubs. In this quote by Huxley Government is contrasted with nature. The children are naked but…

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    Kevin Wang Mrs. Streckenbach Senior English P.7 28 September 2014 In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, people live in a supposedly dystopian society created after all civilization has been destroyed and two great wars. Then the era of ford ushers in, ensuring societal stability through dictatorship. Population is controlled through scientific methods; marriage is forbidden, and children are not born, but produced in an embryo factory. The society depicted in the novel is based on a rigid…

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    Brave There were many easily observable variances between the society shown in this film and the culture the writer is most familiar with, and these differences cover a variety of areas like magic, gender, combat, and customs. When given thought, it seems unsurprising that these variations between the cultures should lead to variations in the psychological factors of this culture from others. Likewise, it seems obvious that there are changes which should be made to the way a professional…

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    during the time frame as well as the impacts of the time period on individuals of society. Many ideas and personal experiences of Aldous Huxley are conveyed to the audience through Brave New World, including his family background, religious views, and imaginations for an ideal society. Huxley reveals aspects of his own life and personal beliefs; in addition to this, Huxley personalizes a few characters in his classic to convey fragments of himself as an individual. A duration…

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    In the fiction novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley imagined a future utopia world, which contains different values and various advanced technologies. In this society, people hold the common views that human happiness and society 's stability are above everything else. Anything that against the common beliefs is considered as deviant. Out of the ordinary, John, the "Savage", was born through natural birth from a mother, which is one of the reasons that caused the alienation between him and the…

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