Thesis: Dystopia In Aldous Huxleys Brave New World

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Thesis:  Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

     It's hard to imagine yet somehow so extremely close to us is the possibility of a world of ideal perfection where there is no room or acceptance of individuality.  Yet, as we strive towards the growth of technology and improvement of our daily living we come closer to closing the gap between the freedom of emotions, self understanding, and of speech and the devastation of a dystopia.  A utopia, or perfect world, gone awry is displayed in Aldous Huxley's provocative novel Brave New World.  Dystopia is drawn on "political and emotional events, anchoring its vision of a nightmarish future in contemporary fears of totalitarian ideology and uncontrolled advances in technology and science" (Baker 22).  It is the situation that costs a piece of an unhealthy environment for human beings, is the theme of the novel.  The dystopian setting is brought about by technology and by higher authorities.  As technology increases, the use for human beings in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of depression among humans.  Therefore, a way to continue the production of technological findings is by bringing up humans from day one to accept their unhappiness as normal.  By "breeding" human beings to accept the fact that they are born to do a specific group.  Higher authorities know the illimination of humans' emotions is useful to stabilize what they think to be a utopian society.  Huxley portrays a "perfect dystopia" where scientists "breed people to order" in a specific class (Baker 2).  The purpose of this paper is to shows that Aldous Huxley clearly introduces a river of cases and incidences, which adds to the dystopia in his science fiction novel Brave New World.
     Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in England into a family of novelists and scientists.  Leonard Huxley, Aldous's father, was an essayist and an editor who also was a respected, leading biologist in the time of Darwinism.  Both his brother and half-brother worked in the science field.  Huxley received an extensive training in both medicine and in the arts and sciences.  Huxley was described by V.S. Pritchett as "that rare being-the prodigy, the educable young man, the peremial asker of unusual questions" (Introduction to Aldous Huxley 1).
     Huxley wrote a series of novels and essays as his career progressed.  Two of his best known novels are Brave New World and Island.  These two novels depict a world of dystopia.  In Brave New World it's author "shifts his mildly satiric observations of a limited group of people to a broader and more ironic satire of a utopian society" (Introduction to Aldous Huxley 2).  Island is novel of a Utopia which is constructed much in the same principles as Brave New World.  The difference between these two pieces of writing is that Island is an approving form of Utopia while in Brave New World we look at the Utopia as being a harmful way of life.
     Huxley's works after these two novels were volumes of essays.  In his assays, topics expressed were ones that other authors hadn't truly developed before the late 1930s, when Huxley began to write them.  In the essay called Brave New World Revisited that was written in 1950 Aldous Huxley brings forward the issues he had begun to express in the novel in which the essays' name had been derived from.  Overpopulation, mind control, and environmental destruction were the focuses in the novel.  These topics were looked upon by Aldous as problems.  They were dilemmas that Huxley "foretold" of the future.  This essay is interesting because of the many truths that have aroused since it was written such as the fact of overpopulation.  Huxley's life was cut short on November 22, 1963, a few months after he wrote his last essay Literature and Science.  He had spent most of his life in the United States by the time he died in his home in California.
     Brave New World is set in the future A.F. (After Ford) 632 in a society where war, hunger, suffering, disease are illiminated along with the freedom to have your own emotions, will, and...

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