Analysis Of Aldous Huxley s Brave New World - 1820 Words

Happiness is a state of mind that most people typically urge themselves to achieve, to somehow magically land on, what is inexplicable is the dangerous lengths people will sometimes go through in order to make this a reality. Aldous Huxley attempts to explain the so called â€Å"steps† that are taken to assure the happiness of a â€Å"community† controlled by a totalitarian government and how this government creates a false sense of stability in order to manipulate its citizens’ minds thus creating this Brave New World. The World State lives by the motto, â€Å"Community. Identity. Stability.†, this stability being defined as a time in which there is no visible violence, there is a healthy economic stance and the people are†¦ happy. Its aim is â€Å"universal†¦show more content†¦Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, reveals that when a society, such as the World State, focuses too much on stability, it derails its people’s individuality and freedom and that ultimately avoiding conflict, risk or change doesn’t come free, the cost is individual freedom and it is a great cost to pay for the simple desire of stability. Huxley’s novel takes place in the future, one in which it is acceptable to condition citizens to maximize the overall efficiency of the entire society as opposed to the efficiency of the individual. This future’s biological engineering reaches an all time high level; people are no longer born â€Å"naturally†, children are now â€Å"decanted† in bottles and pre-natal conditioning is not only acceptable but necessary as a means to limit human behavior. The theme of dehumanized life is a central one in the novel, perhaps the most important one, but one critic argues that although it is evident that this theme dominates the pages of Brave New World, the characters of this novel prove to be more human-like than one might have thought at a first glace. Peter Edgerly Firchow of the Bucknell University Press argues that: The characters of Brave New World are not merely made of cardboard and papier-mà ¢chà ©, that they are