Analysis of Freedom in A Brave New World
Analysis of Freedom in A Brave New World
‘A Brave New World’ is a distinct possibility in the near future is a disturbing yet a somewhat interesting idea. There are many elements in today’s society that already reflect what goes in Aldous Huxley’s book ‘A Brave New World.’ There are also many elements in our society that would not allow anything like that exist.
In ‘A Brave New World’ it is seen as immoral to want to be by one’s self. I have found that this applies a lot to society today. If someone is found at school not joining in with a group and just being alone they would get harassed by a lot of people who were in groups. If it was found out by teachers that someone was not joining in part of a group they would probably inform the counselor so he could talk over his alleged problems. I think that the classes of people found in ‘A Brave New World’ reflected how students at school could easily be characterized in to the same format. The Alphas and Alpha plusses easily represent the more intelligent students who receive A’s and A+’s. The Betas represent the students who are intelligent but don’t really overachieve. The Pattern follows right down the Epsilon Semi Morons those with little intelligence that don’t really get too far in life. Near the end of “A Brave New World” John Savage, Hemholtz and Bernard are moved to another island for being different to rest. I found this to be very similar to people who fail to conform in today’s society. They are either labeled a ‘freak’ or something along those lines or placed in an institution.
The primary reason why I doubt one day people will ‘exist’ in the way that they do in ‘A Brave New World’ is because of the freedom in today’s society. No President or person in high power would allow the research of this to proceed. This would almost guarantee that this person would not be allowed in power again and once the new person of power was elected they would immediately stop the research of the project to keep voters happy. Research for such a project would be very costly and if the people were against it I’m sure they would take no hesitation in having a violent protest on the area where the research...