After reading the novel Brave New World by Aldus Huxley it is easily realized
that it is not like any other classic story. It predicts a future overpowered by
technology and where the people have no religion. The plot of the story made me
think if this would be a perfect place to live or a terrible place to live. It is hard to
distinguish where the line is drawn between making life simpler and losing the meaning
of life. Although some may look upon this type of life with envy I personally would
rather have to work harder than to lose myself.
The first think that made me dislike the ideas is this book was the fact that the
government overpowered the world, causing the loss of freedom. Never having to
worry about a job is something most people would appreciate, but at the same time it
is not worth losing all freedoms. Freedom is more important to happiness than having
needs automatically satisfied. I also feel that religion plays an important role in
people's lives. It represents our principles and values. Religion guides us, gives us
something to believe in and a set of rules to live by. Mustapha Mond when referring to
the Holy Bible says that "they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not
about God Now" (Huxley 237). Mustapha Mond is saying that with the evolution of
time the need for religion has disappeared and has been replaced by the worship of
another God who is Ford. It is stated that they basically live a fulfilled life, according to
a strict set of rules and then they die. But is that really a fulfilled life? Also thanks to
their conditioning they do not fear death but accept it as a way of life. That alone is a
task that our world still has not been able to accomplish, but if the loss of a life means
nothing, wouldn't that reflect that the life itself meant nothing? In this civilization, the
people are isolated from one another, divided into fi...