Identity Crisis
As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his individual thought, and he realizes that independent thought is rewarding, and that he must strive to become a real individual. Although this is true to a certain extent, Bernard does not realize that he would much rather attain social recognition. At least, not until the opportunity presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard uses the curiosity of the society to his
Nobody wishes for this, and so correspondingly nobody commits this unspeakable crime. ing his subconscious wish of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. The Savage is brought in from outside of the utopian society by Bernard as an experiment. Soma, the hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is used by all, even induces the same kind of happiness. They simply have each other and move on. If you spend time alone, or think, you are considered strange, and are considered an outcast. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. In Huxley's perfect world, sex is a mundane undertaking. Same birth, same upbringing, same lifestyle. Last and most importantly, the Bokanovsky method of reproducing causes great numbers of genetically identical human beings (up to 96 at a time from a single egg alone). Even happiness alone is not unique to the individual. The inhabitants of this society are not given any sort of mental flexibility.
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