Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

It's hard to imagine yet somehow so extremely close to us is the

possibility of a world of ideal perfection where there is no room or

acceptance of individuality. Yet, as we strive towards the growth of

technology and improvement of our daily living we come closer to closing

the gap between the freedom of emotions, self understanding, and of speech

and the devastation of a dystopia. A utopia, or perfect world, gone awry

is displayed in Aldous Huxley's provocative novel Brave New World.

Dystopia is drawn on "political and emotional events, anchoring its vision

of a nightmarish future in contemporary fears of totalitarian ideology and

uncontrolled advances in technology and science" (Baker 22). It is the

situation that costs a piece of an unhealthy environment for human beings,

is the theme of the novel. The dystopian setting is brought about by

technology and by higher authorities. As technology increases, the use for

human beings in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of

depression among humans. Therefore, a way to continue the production of

technological findings is by bringing up humans from day one to accept

their unhappiness as normal. By "breeding" human beings to accept the fact

that they are born to do a specific group. Higher authorities know the

illimination of humans' emotions is useful to stabilize what they think to

be a utopian society. Huxley portrays a "perfect dystopia" where

scientists "breed people to order" in a specific class (Baker 2). The

purpose of this paper is to shows that Aldous Huxley clearly introduces a

river of cases and incidences, which adds to the dystopia in his science

fiction novel Brave New World.

Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in England into a family of

novelists and scientists. Leonard Huxley, Aldous's father, was an essayist

and an editor who also was a respected, leading biologist in the time of

Darwinism. Both his brother and half-brother worked in the science field.

Huxley received an extensive training in both medicine and in the arts and

sciences. Huxley was described by V.S. Pritchett as "that rare being-the

prodigy, the educable young man, the peremial asker of unusual questions"

(Introduction to Aldous Huxley 1).

Huxley wrote a series of novels and essays as his career progressed.

Two of his best known novels are Brave New World and Island. These two

novels depict a world of dystopia. In Brave New World it's author "shifts

his mildly satiric observations of a limited group of people to a broader

and more ironic satire of a utopian society" (Introduction to Aldous Huxley