Brave New World: Aldous Huxley's Warning

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Warnings from Huxley
History often repeats itself. Many of the world’s problems today could be solved by studying the decisions of leaders in the past. There have been countless warnings and guidelines from our ancestors, founding fathers, and famous authors about the way government should be run to create a happier world. Aldous Huxley was one of these famous authors that put his views on government and science into literary form in order to share his ideas using satire fiction. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World eerily warns us of the dangers of large corporations and government control by including themes such as Henry Ford’s mass production, the caste system, conditioning and conditioning citizens’ behavior in his story.

In the novel, it is unheard of for people to reproduce viviparously. Instead, the population grows by the Bokanovsky’s Process. Human embryo’s are divided again and again, up to 96 time to create identical twins. This process takes place in the Hatchery Centre. …show more content…

It is very important for the government to be supported by its people, so, naturally, the government must try its best to keep radical ideas away from the public’s common knowledge if the government wants to keep running how it likes. In Brave New World, Huxley describes an instance where the D.H.C. is doing just that by trying to demote Bernard Marx to Iceland, where his unorthodox opinions will not be heard by the people of the U.K. The D.H.C. says, “The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted,” (Huxley 148). In saying this, he means that it would be better for the one with unfavorable habits, (Bernard), to be sent away than for other people to start agreeing with his opinions and becoming

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