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Aldous Huxley. ... Aldous Huxley defies this stereotype, for his controversial
works gained great fame while influencing many people. ...
Aldous Huxley. ... Aldous Huxley defies this stereotype, for his controversial
works gained great fame while influencing many people. ...
Aldous Huxley. ... Aldous Huxley defies this stereotype, for his controversial
works gained great fame while influencing many people. ...
Aldous Huxley. ... Aldous Huxley defies this stereotype, for his controversial
works gained great fame while influencing many people. ...
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Submitted by xosupersamox on March 28, 2005
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When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, nobody imagined that his fairytale story would someday be a reality. It is almost scary to see how accurate Huxley’s far-fetched fantasies came to be. When Huxley wrote about the conformity, drug use and sex and technology of the society, he was almost pinpoint exact to predicting today’s societies. Unfortunately, all of these things haven’t exactly changed our society today for the better.
It is amazing to see how accurately Aldous Huxley was in his predictions to human conformity today. The novel’s classes of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons each have assigned roles. In the novel, each caste is brainwashed into believing that it is crucial and important for the well being of the society as a whole. Since everyone is brainwashed at such an early age, nobody really questions the order or rules. However, there are always those few who refuse to conform. The novel’s John, Helmholtz Watson, and Bernard Marx were all exiled from their society by the World Controller Mustapha Mond. Their actions involving the soma in the hospital were considered far too disruptive to society and they were no longer allowed to co-exist in the preset world of Ford. Our own world is very similar to the world of Ford as we ‘exile’ all who are different. One example of a group whom our society’s majority refuses to accept is the gay population. They could, of course, chose to go against their ways and date the opposite sex just so that they would be accepted, but because they do not, most people refuse to accept that and therefore exile them. The conformity struggle starts as young as elementary school. Popularity is based upon those who conform the best and follow everyone else and unfortunately, those who are different and stand out are usually harassed for their differences.
Drugs are one of the most copious problems that exist today, as we are beginning to see more and more of them in today’s...
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