Brave New World
As the human race progresses, the necessities and customs of its past begin to fade, and are replaced by new, modern ways. Alduous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World addresses the issues with this process. In his world state the people are made with a cold, factory like efficiency inspired by Henry Ford’s assembly line. Their whole lives are governed by this idea of modularity, each person being fit into a specific place, and position in society. The way of life from before Ford, or before the first Model T was produced, had been completely abolished, except for savage reservations. In these reservations the people are allowed to live naturally, the way they would without the new ...
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society. The crosses of the christian religion had their tops cut off, to make a T, representative of the inspiration for the radical new society, the Ford Model T, and its revolutionary production line. The people saw Henry Ford as their religious icon, as he was responsible for their way of living, the way god had been for Pre-Ford people. In the modern world, religious symbols may not be enduring defacing, replacement, or destruction, but they are facing ignorance. The people who were once loyal to their religion and higher power find themselves straying. When they would look to god for answers before, they can now look to technology. The integration of science into the lives of people has made religion nothing but a fairy-tale, where no real support can be found. In the novel, the destruction of religion was purposeful, but today’s people simply cannot find the support that technology gives them, in an all-powerful being, that they can’t interact with. The drugs of the ...
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the novel abuse it and never find its true meaning. The love a child feels from its parents is lost to the hypnopaedic messages of a recorded voice. There is no situation for anyone to feel love, to be loyal is frowned upon, parents are a pornographic term, the idea of love no longer exists. Unfortunately, reality is not far from this stage. Sex becomes more common between those not in love, it is becoming a mechanism solely for pleasure. Parents are less and less present in their children’s lives, they are divorced, working, or purely aloof from their child’s want, and need for love. The reality of love that many accept now is what could quickly become the taboo, extinct idea of Brave ...
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