Essays on Brave New World

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World creates a perfectly happy society, built on a platform of efficiency, pleasure, and stability. Negative emotions, such as pain, grief, and anger, are an obstacle to these goals, and have been conditioned out of each person to maximize their pleasure....

“Community, Identity, and Stability”. It maintains the society. It maintains the world and above all, it maintains stability. It is the prevalent motto throughout the novel. Enforcing these morals enables the World State to achieve the primary goals of its utopia. The technological powers of...

In Chapter 3, Huxley combines three conversations to inform (drill) the perspective and lifestyle of Brave New World into the reader’s minds. The first conversation arises between Mustapha Mond, the Director, and the students of the reproductive center. The scene begins with the boys being...

It would be impossible to refer to all the utopian examples of work, but utopia began with the myth of Eden and the first thought refers back to Plato whose Republic is considered one of the first utopian works (Russell 2005). The idea of a...

Happiness is often sought through external stimuli and we are no strangers to fuelling our dopamine levels with artificial sources to achieve the satisfaction of desire. We have all depended on something or someone as a source to uphold our idea of happiness. We freely...

Since primitive times, humans have depended on storytelling as a means of sharing crucial information that may be lifesaving and is thus a connection for cause and effect. It is a narrative that can relay messages and warnings, act as a portrayal of what the...

Social status is not always determined by the money that somebody has. Sometimes, it may be determined by the ability somebody has to adapt to what they are given. Other times, it can refer to what type of person a specific human may actually be....