Views of the Future Portrayed in A Brave New World
Views of the Future Portrayed in A Brave New World
Brave New World presents a startling view of the future, which on the surface appears almost comical. Yet humor was not the intention of Aldous Huxley, when he wrote the book in the early 1930's. It is written very creatively for our vivid imaginations to foresight the unthinkable. It tells us about a society, which uses new and powerful technologies and medical intervention to control reproduction and cognition of human beings. The government controls the population of Utopia with "Community, Identity, Stability".
There are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. It is important to understand that the novel is not simply a warning about what could happen to society if things go wrong but it also an irony of the society in which Huxley, the author existed, and which still exists today. This novel not only talks about the advancement of science nonetheless of how it affects human beings. A story where, the triumphs of physics, chemistry and engineering are taken for granted. The use of technology to control society, the incompatibility of happiness and truth; characters who do everything they can to avoid facing the truth about their own situations all sum up to be the main theme of this novel. The use of the drug “soma” is probably the most pervasive example of such intentional self-denial used as a symbol to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
Indeed Huxley’s real message is very dark. The behaviors and attitudes of the World State citizens at first do appear odd, cruel, or shocking. Nevertheless many clues also point to the conclusion of the World State simply being a rare but logically developed interpretation of our society's economic values, where individual happiness is described as the ability to meet our needs, and success as a society is balanced with economic growth and achievement. His idea that in centuries to come, a one-world government will rise to power, stripping people’s freedom, is not new. In fact there are hosts of books dedicated to this topic. Although philosophically the main theme of the novel portraits as the future that can interest us only if its predictions look as though they might possibly come true. Soma clouds the realities of...