Eugenics In Brave New World

Brave New World was written in 1932 by Aldous Huxley. While he did become famous with this futuristic novel, Huxley was already known. He was the grandson of Thomas Huxley, a famous biologist who was colleagues and worked hand-in-hand with Charles Darwin (the father of evolution). Brave New World is a novel that is way ahead of its time, scientifically. It’ll most definitely be interesting to see the different perspective from Huxley’s life and his novel. In an essay by Ahmed Farag, he questions whether the decision of a society made by eugenics would be beneficial in the real world. His essays main focus is on enslavement and freedom within the citizens of the World State. He goes on to explain that “It compares between two contrasting worlds: the primitive world, where John the Savage lives and the utopian world, where Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and their fellow-citizens inhabit. The primitive world, in this connection, symbolizes freedom, whereas the utopian world represents enslavement.” While some may say the people living in the Reservation is enslaved and the World State is free, I would contradict with the

As Joanne Woiak described in her scholarly composition, Huxley composed Brave New World during the Depression and eugenics movement in Britain. She goes on to explain that his novel is “satirical and predictive” but beneath that layer there are some rather important opinions about eugenics. She explains that Huxley felt that “his role as an artist and public intellectual was to formulate an evolving outlook on urgent social, scientific, and moral issues”. Woiak digs deeper, she interprets/views and analysis Brave New World as a Huxley’s way of hinting at a serious social reform order. While Huxley did focus on the positive results of eugenics he did take a tangent and talked about dark subjects such as the abolishment of individuality/emotions and a totalitarian