Brave New World Essays

Aeschliman, M.D. “Why Shakespeare Was Not a Relativist and Why It Matters Now.” _Journal of Education_ (Boston University) 180.3 (1998): 57-66. In “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley’s increasingly significant orgy satire, he depicted the works of Shakespeare as the last repository of humanity (Aeschliman 57). Today self-reliance in the world …

Without loneliness, how could we appreciate love? Without war, how could we appreciate peace? Binary opposition underlies the essence of our world. It is because of this that the term Utopia, usually meaning a place of utmost perfection, is also used to mean an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to …

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a society is presented in which every aspect of life is tightly controlled and humans are more like lifeless machines. However, in this attempt at a utopian society, glimmers of humanity are shown through several characters in the novel. Though the characters surrounding the …

Every society consists of a group of individuals. Lawyers, garbage workers, fickle teenagers, and even infants all interact and produce a diverse, successful society. Each member of that society contributes in his or her own distinct way. But when individualism is repressed, humanity within the society is lost. The importance …

Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are two novels, both set in the future, which have numerous similarities throughout them. Of all their common factors, those that stand out most would have to be: first, the outlawed reading of books; second, the superficial preservation of beauty and happiness; and third, …

“Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, and in a shield the World State’s motto, Community, Identity, Stability.” (Huxley,1) As Brave New World opens, the ideas of this motto initially seems like a decent idea. As the book develops I found there is no community, …

I believe the way Huxley portrays and treats the female population reflects the inequalities in gender and misogyny in the early 20th century society which the novel was written in. I have read and analysed articles on this matter and have found them to all generally agree with my hypothesis. …