Its insidious and disturbing story introduces us to the futuristic World State, in which citizens are genetically modified, molded into a strict social hierarchy, brainwashed into loving their own servitude and forced into a doctored happiness that comes in the form of a government-issued drug. ICTMN Staff.A classic dystopian, science-fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, Brave New World has become a worldwide literary classic and a mainstay in high school English curriculums since its 1932 release.

“Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth.” Student Pulse3.04 (2011). And conversely, if there must be a diversity of physical and mental ability, why devalue those of lower ability if they have no chance to escape. If the technology exists to make people ‘perfect’, then why create ‘lower’ people who must suffer. And in a society that creates people to live in this manor there is no excuse for such behaviour.

Children in the higher castes are taught to have little regard for those below them just because they physically and mentally superior. He is reinforcing that those who are not ‘perfect’ are less, and those who are, by the society’s standards, ‘perfect’ are superior. Their skin is darker and they are both mentally and physically impaired.īy creating a system that rates those in perfect health above those that are disadvantaged and of darker skin, Huxley has created both a racist and abliest society. This ‘accustoms’ them to the life they will be expected to live, but it also has a physically taxes them and leaves them disfigured and different. The foetuses are oxygen deprived, heat treated, cold treated, and sometimes spun and flipped. As a person’s caste level is decided for them upon ‘conception’, their foetus is treated in a way that will land them in their chosen caste. The major indicator of class is appearance. In the society of the All State, wealth does not seem to dictate class, but rather follows from which class you are in. Brave New World is full of examples of these possible disastrous outcomes including the implementation of a caste system.Ĭaste systems are an old concept and there are many reasons they have been set in place including wealth and race. Of course Aldous Huxley meant it to be a warning against the potential disaster that technology can bring if it is misused.

Brave New World is advertised as a utopian world where everyone is happy and problems are taken care of behind the scenes, with the important people being none the wiser.

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