Term Papers on Brave New World

Term Paper Title	Brave New World
# of Words	649
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.6

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is apparently a perfect world. At
first
inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is care free, problem free and depression free. All aspects of
the
population are controlled: both as to number, social class, and mental ability. Even history is controlled and
re-written to meet the needs of the party. Solidity must be maintained at all costs.

In the new world which Huxley creates, if there were even a hint of anger, the wonder drug Soma is
prescribed
to remedy the problem. A colleague, noticing your depression, would chime in with the chant, "one cubic
centimetre of soma cures ten gloomy." This slogan was taught to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
Unhappiness, intellectual curiosity, disagreement, suffering- none of these feelings is allowed in the world
which Huxley envisioned Soma, (the predecessor of the modern day Prozac) would be prescribed
immediately
Emotions of all types were strictly controlled

Another of the panaceas of society was that everyone enjoyed his or her work because he or she was
"made"
or trained for it when they were young. In Brave New World, society was strictly stratified. All births are
completely planned and monitored. There were different classes of people with different intelligence and
different "career plans." The social order was divided into the most highly educated, the Alpha+, and then
in descending intelligence, the following divisions: Alpha, Beta, Beta -, Gamma, Delta ,and Epsilon with
the last
comprising those citizens of the lowest intelligence.

Another of the problems with the society which Huxley depicts was that the people did not have
individuality.
They were all conditioned by subliminal messages and artificial stimuli to respond the same way. (This is
similar
to the kind of subliminal suggestion which advertisers use today.) Although all people were meant to
respond
identically without thinking, a few were made 'imperfectly’ and did have personalities. These people
violated the
principl...

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