- •Influence of his loss in Brave New World. The Utopians go to great
- •Important to him; his early novels contain scenes that seem ideal
- •In 1946 Huxley wrote a Foreword to Brave New World in which he
- •In the 1950s Huxley became famous for his interest in psychedelic or
- •Islands. He keeps John in England, but John finds a place where he can
- •Voice ideas in words or to embody them in their behavior. John,
- •Is the most dangerous person in Brave New World.
- •Intellectual. A mental giant who is also successful in sports and sex,
- •Is then rescued by Indians, gives birth to John, and lives for 20
- •It is therefore a novel about ideas, and its themes are as important
- •7. The pursuit of happiness through drugs
- •8. The threat of mindless consumption and mindless diversions
- •12. What does such a system cost?
- •Ideal state where everything is done for the good of humanity as a
- •In this way two Utopian traditions developed in English
- •Important person from the way he speaks. He is the Director of
- •1/3 Miles) during the 267 days before decanting. Huxley makes a
- •In this world, a person's class status is biologically and
- •In order to develop the best brains; Epsilons receive the least
- •In which everything happens the way you think it should, countries
- •Instruments of social stability," and how he reminds his students that
- •Infants, color-coded in khaki clothes, crawl naturally toward
- •In proceeding to the next kind of conditioning, the Director gives
- •In the Director's story, little Reuben Rabinovitch discovered
- •In Brave New World Revisited, a book of essays written in 1958, a
- •In the first scene, the Director is upstaged by one of the ten men
- •Individual motherhood and monogamy, which he believes produces
- •It was "horrible" when a girl made him wait nearly four weeks before
- •Idea. Do you think it's true that human beings can live this way?
- •Item is a "Malthusian belt" loaded with contraceptives, rather like
- •In this world because he likes to be alone, and he despises Foster for
- •Is no old age. People remain physiologically young until they reach
- •In this scene, Huxley satirizes both religion and sex, but still
- •Vision or a restful summary. Everybody who is important in London
- •40 Minutes.
- •It's like to make love to a Savage, but she still doesn't know; John
- •In this chapter. John rushes to the Park Lane Hospital for the
- •Imagine the real nature of conditioning.
- •Is proud of.
- •It's old and beautiful, qualities that might make people turn
- •19,000 Of the 22,000 discontented Alphas. The lower castes, he says,
- •19Th-century religious figures in order to conclude that "God isn't
- •Instead, the Savage sets himself up as a hermit in an abandoned
- •Is learning the truth that the Controller recognized in the previous
- •12. The goals of the world state are mentioned in the first
- •15. Huxley says in his 1946 Foreword that the theme of Brave New
- •12. Lenina is an exemplary citizen except for one peculiarity that
- •In which they grow; equivalent of birth.
7. The pursuit of happiness through drugs
Soma is a drug used by everyone in the brave new world. It calms
people and gets them high at the same time, but without hangovers or
nasty side effects. The rulers of the brave new world had put 2000
pharmacologists and biochemists to work long before the action of
the novel begins; in six years they had perfected the drug. Huxley
believed in the possibility of a drug that would enable people to
escape from themselves and help them achieve knowledge of God, but
he made soma a parody and degradation of that possibility.
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8. The threat of mindless consumption and mindless diversions
This society offers its members distractions that they must enjoy in
common- never alone- because solitude breeds instability. Huxley
mentions but never explains sports that use complex equipment whose
manufacture keeps the economy rolling- sports called Obstacle Golf and
Centrifugal Bumble-puppy. But the chief emblem of Brave New World is
the Feelies- movies that feature not only sight and sound but also the
sensation of touch, so that when people watch a couple making love
on a bearskin rug, they can feel every hair of the bear on their own
bodies.
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9. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY
The combination of genetic engineering, bottle-birth, and sexual
promiscuity means there is no monogamy, marriage, or family.
"Mother" and "father" are obscene words that may be used
scientifically on rare, carefully chosen occasions to label ancient
sources of psychological problems.
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10. THE DENIAL OF DEATH
The brave new world insists that death is a natural and not
unpleasant process. There is no old age or visible senility.
Children are conditioned at hospitals for the dying and given sweets
to eat when they hear of death occurring. This conditioning does
not- as it might- prepare people to cope with the death of a loved one
or with their own mortality. It eliminates the painful emotions of
grief and loss, and the spiritual significance of death, which
Huxley made increasingly important in his later novels.
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11. THE OPPRESSION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Some characters in Brave New World differ from the norm. Bernard
is small for an Alpha and fond of solitude; Helmholtz, though
seemingly "every centimetre an Alpha-Plus," knows he is too
intelligent for the work he performs; John the Savage, genetically a
member of the World State, has never been properly conditioned to
become a citizen of it. Even the Controller, Mustapha Mond, stands
apart because of his leadership abilities. Yet in each case these
differences are crushed: Bernard and Helmholtz are exiled; John
commits suicide; and the Mond stifles his own individuality in
exchange for the power he wields as Controller. What does this say
about Huxley's Utopia?
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