A Brave New World

Utopia means the idyllic express as first used by sir Thomas Moore as the agnomen of his book in 1516 (Brave New gentlemans gentlemans Barrons Notes by Anthony Astrachan).The Utopia achieved by the world-state in Aldous Huxleys A Brave New World had a terribly High price. A price which, I imagine is not worth it. Their citizens live in as oblivious and brute kind of bliss in world that is free of war, fear, violence, disease and all the some other draw-backs of living in the real world (Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley A Biography, 1974, cited in Brave New Worlds Barrons Notes by Anthony Astrachan).The characters from Utopia in the novel do not even know freedom. They atomic number 18 clever and contented in their respective occupations and are satiated by expending their free beat wallowing in pleasure even though they are all alike in each class and behave in much the same way as each other and for a few idiosyncrasies Uniformity is stressed and individuality becomes like a sickness and all characters who had even a minor difference from other citizens in the same class were cruelly crushed into either deference or the final escape of death in Johns case.However, if the price of such comforts would be the ignorance of the existence of freedom, an idea that numerous countless people have died fighting for in the real world, I think Utopia is not worth it.A. Huxley did very well in foreground this point. Johns suicide after seeing that his beloved linked the mob to captivate him suffer is a great point at rejecting the idea of Utopia in the book.Even when John found a place where he could live with all the things that he thought were necessary, including pain, he was followed by a huge crowd which had come to watch him suffer. Seeing Lenina come to watch him whip himself causes him to kill himself.In the novel, Huxley plays with the idea of how technological advances would affect society. In Utopia, man are grown in bottles. No one has a mother. septuple copies of a single soulfulness can be made in one go. This is a very extreme way to highlight the seeds point, completely removing the humanity from humanity to the point that even the trustworthy personal bond of parent and child is removed.The achievement of stability is deliver the goods by keeping everybody in an artificial state of perpetual mirth and contentment. Pain and grief is removed from the realm of human emotion thereby removing all the deep feelings we associate with the feeling of being existently existing.Citizens in Utopia are encouraged to be promiscuous. Anybody can have raise with anybody they want and vice versa. Family life and the formation of intense personal human relationship are obliterated so that these cannot interfere with the stability of society. Love is non-existent. Anybody whod date or have sex with a single person for an extended period is looked on as weird.I think that the author was winning at highlighting his point. His c haracters were only secondary to the ideas that he proposed especially considering the time and context when he propounded them. He makes me feel as if the novels version of Utopia is not far from becoming a truth. Todays culture promotes the culture of almost mindless consumption, too much foolery in pleasure and diminishing of the family.Technology is a result of human endeavor. It allows us to live in a better world with all of our fresh necessities and comforts. In this book however, a different view is illustrated. While it acknowledges the causality to be true, it declares resoundingly that the opposite is possible also. Technology also has the potential drop to wipe out the essence of humanity. It can wipe out genuine happiness, individuality, close personal relationships, deep emotions and family.ReferencesBLTC, Brave New World? A Defence of Paradise-Engineering, Retrieved on April 13, 2008, from http//www.huxley.net/index.htmlBLTC, Brave New Worlds Barrons Notes by Anth ony Astrachan, Retrieved on April 13, 2008, from http//www.huxley.net/studyaid/bnwbarron.htmlBLTC, Braves New Worlds Monarch Notes, Retrieved on April 13, 2008 from http//www.huxley.net/studyaid/index.html