Analysis of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Essay -- Brave New World

Analysis of Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley was published in 1932 after two major(ip)global levelts- World War Two from 1914-1918 and The Great Depressionof 1929-1933. These two events changed the way people saw the gentlemanand made people see the events were beyond the control of individualsand even governments. Also at this time the world was seeing the risein technology and the view that science could help solve any(prenominal) of theproblems. Much of the technology has been developed because of the warand the mass of people had suffered because of it.All problems with society led to a rise in totalitarian regimes suchas those in Russia, Italy and Germany. Huxley uses the novel toquestion the usefulness of the one party state and shows how iteliminates freedom for the individual. Also in his dystopia, he looksat many areas that we have in our own society such as family,relationships, education, social classes and the role of theindividual in so ciety. He shows how far the new world has moved awayfrom constitution- they even condition the children to avoid it. Thereservation is the only place that has nature and spirituality but italso has its own set of problems that come with freedom.ThemesIn The WildIn BNW nature has been eliminated in the civilised world andindividuals are conditioned to avoid it. For example, in chapter 2, wesee babies who crawl towards flowers and books and are conditioned toavoid them by noise, bells and voltaic shocks. The children are beingconditioned because A love of nature keeps no factories busy. We seethe psychological training show its effect in Leninas reaction to anyform of the natural world. For example, her reaction ... ... Sebastian isbrilliant but alone Deckard is alone as is Tyrell who is symbolicallya God and is the most flop man in the film. Even people on thestreet seem hurried and alienated, struggling to survive. Theirattitude to nature is non-existent because for most people the naturalworld doesnt exist anymore. Some individuals, like replicants, carrymemories but nothing real seems to exist.People relationship with and attitudes to nature is complex in bothBNW and BR. In the BNW individuals who live in the city areconditioned to hate nature and this is life long. Those that live onthe Reservation struggle to survive and nature is a complex anddifficult part of their lives. The setting in BR has eliminated thenatural world and consumed all of its resources. The people havelittle or no nature to relate to and these determine their attitude.