“In Aldous Huxley’s veins flowed the blood of Matthew Arnold and of Thomas Henry Huxley. From both he drew something. Arnold had bequeathed to him a sensitive imagination soaked in the culture of the past, Huxley an adventurous scientific curiosity disciplined by a stern regard for truth” (qtd. in Huxley, Julian 13-14). Combining himself in ...
Carl Jung once said, “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” If you could create a society according to your ideals, what would it look like? There are an abundance of ideas regarding what is right and wrong in modern society and plenty of ...
The novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, portrays a dystopian society that completely limits the citizen’s lifestyle. Like many other dystopian societies, it is under the guise of being utopian. The residents are born into a permanent caste system, all the citizens are at the absolute mercy of 10 World Controllers, and they are ...
In Huxley’s Brave New World, the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, or C.L.H.C.C., misused psychological conditioning. The misuse of psychological conditioning controlled the citizens and kept the world in order, but gave them little freedom. This misuse can be seem through three different ways. One way is the conditioning of young babies. Another is ...
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a novel that, by and large, can draw the ire of many a moral critic. There is a strong preponderance of science in the work but this indeed is not the only element that some moralists may find upsetting; much-exercised sexual freedom, pervasive drug use, dissolution of the family ...
