Perversion of Society
In today's society a person is shaped by family, friends, and past events, but in Aldous Huxley's classic novel, Brave New World, there is no such thing as family, history and "true" friends. The government controls every aspect of an individual from their creation in the hatcheries to their conditioning for their thoughts and careers. In this brave new world the ideas of stability and community reign supreme, and the concept of individualism is foreign and suppressed, "Everyone belongs to everyone else, after all," (47). Huxley perverses contemporary morals and concepts in Brave New World, thus distorting the ideas of materialistic pleasures, savagery versus society, and human relationships. These distortions contribute to the effectiveness of Brave New World, consequently creating a novel that leaves the reader questioning how and why. In the year A.F. 632 no pleasure is denied to the populous. Hypnopaedia is used as a device to form the moral education of children. What is taught through this method is not true ethics, but warped actions trained by words. An illustration of this is in the teaching of Elementary Sex to children. The society that Huxley created was one where having sex often an
John had proposed the question to Bernard about his and Lenina's status, asking if they were married. When he first saw a Bokanovsky group he became physically ill, and uttered Shakespeare's quote again, but this time with malice in his voice. After Linda's passing he became enraged, and quoted Shakespeare yet again, but this time as a challenge. " The world that Bernard lived in their was no such thing as a marriage. The more he found out about their culture, though, the less he civilized he considered them to be. John explains to Bernard that being married means you are with someone forever, and that the relationship cannot be broken. When John later tells Lenina he loves her, she reacts not by declaring her love back to him, but by taking off her clothes to sleep with him. A person does not have to lust for someone they merely set up a time and place for them to meet and have sex, and it is completely accepted by everyone. Anyone who did not have multiple partners, such as Lenina or Bernard, were considered a blight to society. Huxley used this warped view on what today's society deems morally right and wrong to reveal how shallow the citizens of the brave new world truly are. Any relationship between two people in Brave New World that showed any type of intimacy, other than sexual, was considered bad and immoral. Huxley uses this part of the plot to show the twisted views of what appears to be civilized culture versus a savage culture. John is considered a savage in Brave New World, and is brought back into society because it was of scientific interest to his fordship Mustapha Mond. When John arrived in this brave new world he was accepted by its people, and even though he was more of a freak show to them he wanted to be around them. The distorted view that people who are civilized are more human than those considered savage is shown in Brave New World.
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