"If utopia is paradise, dystopia is a paradise lost."
Brave New World, one of the most enchanting and bewitching dystopian works written by Aldous Huxley, back in 1932, takes place in London in the year 2540. Begins in a rigidly controlled society, commonly referred to as the World State, based completely upon pleasure, consumerism and highly enhanced unnatural production. The World State is built on the principles of Henry Ford’s assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods
People are artificially controlled in advanced hatcheries in accordance to the needs of the State and edified into disciplined species through hypnopedia and mob psychology. This dystopian future …show more content…
I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”.
The conformity of the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons (three of the five castes of the State) is achieved by carefully contaminating and producing "sub-humans", capable of work but not of free thought. For such "lower-caste" people, individuality, in any case, is literally impossible.
Happiness is valued over dignity and morality, and feelings are adjusted through the use of the drug, Soma. Pain, stress, grief, sadness, humiliation, disappointment, still occur at times. But the people of Brave New World "solve" their problems by taking an extended soma holiday which removes (read sufficiently masks) the negative feelings and emotions. The society, therefore, motivates everyone to take soma as means of social control of abolishing negativity and conflict. And also, to stop any desire for real knowledge or truth. What you need something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.
"Everyone belongs to everyone else."
In such times, sturdiness lives, but the individuality, the desire and/or ability to be different, is
Brave New World, one of the most enchanting and bewitching dystopian works written by Aldous Huxley, back in 1932, takes place in London in the year 2540. Begins in a rigidly controlled society, commonly referred to as the World State, based completely upon pleasure, consumerism and highly enhanced unnatural production. The World State is built on the principles of Henry Ford’s assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods
People are artificially controlled in advanced hatcheries in accordance to the needs of the State and edified into disciplined species through hypnopedia and mob psychology. This dystopian future …show more content…
I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”.
The conformity of the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons (three of the five castes of the State) is achieved by carefully contaminating and producing "sub-humans", capable of work but not of free thought. For such "lower-caste" people, individuality, in any case, is literally impossible.
Happiness is valued over dignity and morality, and feelings are adjusted through the use of the drug, Soma. Pain, stress, grief, sadness, humiliation, disappointment, still occur at times. But the people of Brave New World "solve" their problems by taking an extended soma holiday which removes (read sufficiently masks) the negative feelings and emotions. The society, therefore, motivates everyone to take soma as means of social control of abolishing negativity and conflict. And also, to stop any desire for real knowledge or truth. What you need something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.
"Everyone belongs to everyone else."
In such times, sturdiness lives, but the individuality, the desire and/or ability to be different, is