Brave new world

Notes and Queries, 2014

"Traditional gender roles cast men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive; they cast women as emotional (irrational), weak, nurturing, and submissive. These gender roles have been used very successfully to justify inequities, which still occur today, such as excluding women from equal access to leadership and decision-making positions (in the family as well as in politics, academia, and the corporate world), paying men higher wages than women for doing the same job (if women are even able to obtain the job), and convincing women that they are not fit for careers in such areas as mathematics and engineering,"(Tyson 85).

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism, 2019

Peercite Journal, 2024

Males think horizontally. It means that they travel on the surface and look ahead, keeping the goal in the centre of their attention at all times. Their approach is narrow-minded, gain focused and competitive. In the process, they lose sight of their surroundings and the effects of their actions. However, the focus gives them patience. It also keeps them captive without the possibility to experience or learn. Their mindset rarely alters. They are Earth bounded. Opportunities that cultivate emotions have a hard time to filter into their horizon. While females choose the vertical path. They dig deep, research well, find intricate but valuable details, sometimes even get lost in them, while detaching from the focus of the original aim. Although they are more open-minded, females tend to value traditions and belief systems without questioning. They get entangled in the action passionately, and lose interest in the outcome. This passion produces fire that would make them impatient and great advocates of their beliefs regardless the quality.

Dystopia is a genre often used as a means to comment on diverse sociopolitical issues and to criticise existing political systems. One of the many dystopian novels is particularly worth noting, especially for its relevance to modern societal evolution. This essay examines how elements of control in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World are a reflection of social, economic and cultural changes in the early 20th Century. This essay identifies the most prominent elements of control in the novel, examines how these elements are presented and developed, and analyses the purpose of these elements with reference to the author’s socio-political context. The novel itself is the primary document on which this essay relies, but secondary sources are also used to explore the historical setting of the work. The analysis asserts in conclusion that Huxley, marked by his study of the sociopolitical trends in 20th Century Europe, twists the expectation we have of controlled dominance into a society in which people are in a state of artificial contentment with the system and with themselves. The author highlights the increasing capabilities of technology and the tendencies towards a disregard for matters of historical or cultural importance, and towards the idealisation of uniformity and orthodoxy. Through the depiction of elements of control regarding information and social development, Huxley warns against the negative effects of Europe’s rapidly industrialising society on its more traditional elements. Among others, he emphasises the abandonment of orthodox social and religious values and the resulting increase in materialism and consumerism. By means of extensive juxtaposition of structure and character, Huxley draws attention to the evolution of culture in modern society, the change of media roles and the loss of privacy, as well as the effects of a social mentality centred on technological progress and efficiency.

Extrapolation, 1992

• Technology is old, older than science, yet there has been greater technological advance this century than in all of previously recorded history. According to Aldous Huxley, this phenomenon is remarkable also for its lack of impact on twentieth-century literature. Some of his own works are exceptions, particularly the utopian Brave New World (l932)-now a byword for nightmarish technocracy-and the other alternative worlds of Ape and Essence (1949) and Island (1962). But just how alternative are these worlds? In order to determine this, I shall examine Huxley's portrayal, not only of the impact of technology on the social body as a whole, but also its impact on the female citizen in particular in each of these texts. To utopianize is to clear a space, to examine fundamentals, and, in making a selection of what is most vital in an autonomously constructed society, what the author omits is often as interesting as what is included; so it is with Huxley on female status. Technology, on the other hand, has been an important part of the utopian tradition since Francis Bacon. Yet Huxley was not one who thought technology alone would usher in the New Jerusalem, and one of the reasons he wrote Brave New World was to respond to the high-tech, steel paradises associated with H. G. Wells.' In Brave New World, which began as a parody of Wells's Men Like Gods (Plimpton 198), Huxley has a good deal of fun with technological innovations and anticipates several trends. Here technology underpins the whole of society and is worshiped in the name of Ford.? In detailing its various manifestations, Huxley approaches the technological fetishism of science fiction, yet there is not enough hard science for his accuracy

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research, 2023

This paper is an attempt to draw an outline of similitude by analyzing and comparing one of the critically acclaimed dystopian novels, Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, with the contemporary society. Although on surface Huxley's novel depicts an ideal fictional society, on delving deeper it is ascertained that it is a dystopia disguised under the garb of utopia. It explores the themes of genetic engineering, Pavlovian conditioning, consumerism, dissipation of science and sexual promiscuity while reflecting over the shifting concerns and angst of contemporary society. The novel prompts the readers to consider their own morals, convictions, and decisions in light of the fictitious social settings that Huxley has created. The crux of this paper is to trace the affinity between Huxley's Brave New World and the contemporary world that has seen various forms of advancements in technology and behavioral modulations and has undergone numerous changes. Our journey towards Brave New World doesn't seem like a far cry. Huxley broods over the fundamental issues hovering over mankind.

—Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) is a nightmarish depiction of a post-human world where human beings are mass-produced to serve production and consumption. In this paper, I discuss the manipulations of minds and bodies with reference to Foucault's biopower and disciplinary systems that make the citizens of the world state more profitable and productive. I argue that Brave New World depicts a dystopian systematic control of mind and body through eugenic engineering, biological conditioning, hypnopaedia, sexual satisfaction, and drugs so as to keep the worldians completely controlled, collectivized and contented in a totalitarian society. The world state eradicates love, religion, art and history and deploys language devoid of any emotions and thoughts to control the mind that judges and decides. I argue that Brave New World anticipates the Foucauldian paradigm of resistance, subversion and containment, ending in eliminating the forces that pose a challenge to the ideology of the world state.