Brave New World: Out of Control Essay -- Brave New World

Brave New World  Out of Control          In the 1932 satirical novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes an emotionless, mechanized world of the future, plume mostly in London, in which separateity is eliminated, creativity is stifled, and such(prenominal) institutions as marriage, family, and church are unpleasant artifacts of a world long gone. In this clubhouse, people are mass-produced human eggs are unnaturally engineered by technicians. Happiness is achieved through corporal gratification and peace is safeguarded by the conditioning of youth and by dispensing soma, a tranquilizer. Bernard Marx is the main character and his maverick viewpoints and physical difference from the rest of his caste makes him as an outsider. Bernard and Lenina, his present lady friend, receive permission to visit a Savage Reservation in New Mexico. They return to civilization with a savage, John. There he struggles to guess this so-called utopia and is eventually driven to suicide while Bernard is exiled to an island for his unconventional beliefs. Bernard Marxs corrosive nonconformity comes from his resentment towards the state and its citizens. Dark and small when he should be fair and tall like the Alpha-plus he is mentally, he is a brotherly outcast. He is essentially an opportunist who just wants to be accepted, just wants no more talk of the alcohol in his blood-surrogate, no gibes at his physical appearance(156). Nevertheless, Bernard is the perfect character through which to highlight the utopias moral set or the lack thereof. In Brave New World, Bernard fights against a society that devalues his individuality and thereby lessens his sense of identity and self worth. From birt... ...nt want change. each change is a menace to stability(224-5). The idea of keeping an individual preoccupied with meaningless or unnecessary tasks so that he major power never question his bear individuality is an important one and for ms the carnal on which their society is built. When Bernard criticized this social order in his report to Mond on the Savage, the World Controller vowed to give him a lesson(159), which he ultimately did. Huxley attempts to remove the readers uncritical faith in progress and technology. The novel is a semblance of order and technology and in it he warns us that if we dont solve problems such as overpopulation and overconsumption ourselves now, a police state will do it for us. Without be able to balance progress and human need, and unable to control our own technology, we may be forced to give up more than we imagine.