Brave New World

             Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World out of fear of society's apparent lack of morals and corrupt behavior during the roaring twenties. Huxley believed that the future was doomed to a non-individualistic, conformist society, a society lacking the family unit, religion and human emotions. Throughout the novel, Huxley predicts many events for the future, most of which concentrate on a morally corrupt society. The most important of these predictions include: greater sexual freedom, brain-washing/sleep-teaching, and the use of mind-altering drugs. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World warns of a possible future dystopia, based on social attitudes and medical advancements of his time.
             Huxley's future dystopia is created largely by perverted sexual freedoms, which in turn cause corrupt individuals, entirely lacking ethics and morals. Sexual promiscuity appears to be a much more frequent activity now then it was in the Thirties. Critics blame "...the advent of the pill for declining morality and indiscriminate sexual activity." Many believe that each time medicine reduces the risk of unwanted diseases and pregnancies, society, overall, will increase its sexual activity. Huxley's prediction of promiscuity is based on his iron law of sexuality: "As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." Aldous Huxley's fears of the future caused him to write about sexual freedom and the resulting over-population in Brave New World.
             Brainwashing is suggested by Aldous Huxley in the form of manipulating individuals, rather than the masses. Huxley suggests that teaching under such stressful conditions can also be considered torture. Huxley once wrote, "The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught." Huxley believed that when mentally programming a subject, it is not the principles that matter, but the techniques used to embed these pr
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