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....

Technology has been assimilated into the functionality of our daily lives. As more profound achievements are made, technology seems unfeasible to avoid. The fear has become a reality: our dependence on technology has grown to be inevitable. Sherry Turkle’s excerpt from “Alone Together” and Aldous...

“Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips. Old, young? Thirty? Fifty? Fifty-five? It was hard to say....

President John F. Kennedy once said, “There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” By this, JFK was alluding to the idea that the long-term ramifications of inaction...

Man is a religious creature by nature, as evident throughout history. But at some point, man has asked: wouldn’t we be better off without it? Religion has always had a role in society and whether that role is good or bad has become a heated...

As Margaret Atwood adds from Aldous Huxley, a description of the utopia in ‘Brave New World’ is simply “a world in which everything is available, but nothing has any meaning”. Such is the relationship between John the Savage and Lenina Crowne in ‘Brave New World’;...