Utilitarianism In Brave New World

Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. In reality that Huxley had created, God is only recognized as science, human-nature is only holding back people from what their true potential and “purpose” truly is. In Huxley’s story, science has improved everything by removing emotions and everything that defines a human, human. The most bizarre aspect of Huxley’s science fictional story, is that the science behind making this story plausible is not something that is out of the reach of humans today.

As Huxley explains, people are no longer born; they are synthetically made. As explained in chapter two, during the process of embryo incubation, various chemicals are introduced to determine the skills and abilities (and therefore class)

The matter-of-fact way he talks about some of the most horrifying aspects of this society is unnerving. The Controllers do not care about individuals; they can simply “hatch” new people. The way one Controller, Mustapha Mond, explains it, “Murder kills only the individual- and, after all what is an individual? It is better one should suffer than many be corrupted.” This Utilitarianism way of living is unsettling to think about because how easily replaceable one life is, and what also is more disturbing is how close our world has become to the world Huxley was trying to warn us about, the world of science as God, of truth being relative, of the “if it feels good, do it” concept. That is why Huxley’s book is so impressive, even though it was written in 1932; Huxley manages to influence the reader into considering that this brave new world could become one of our own. He had no idea what advances in technology we would have in this day-and-age, but the book can still give readers the “what if?” thoughts. It is also easy to see that Huxley wrote this book in the early nineteen hundreds because of the technology that is left out (nuclear power and computers) and focuses on the babies being moved through the process on a conveyor belt. In the early nineteen hundreds, production was all done on an assembly line, but that is what Huxley was trying to portray (a life can be easily made and replaced by the next in