Brave New World by Adious Huxley

A Brave New World by Adious Huxley is a novel that let us as readers cheat and see a world where technology supersedes humanity, a world where we have no control of our feelings, life, or the world around us. This was a very interesting and eye-opening piece of literature. It opens our eyes to imagine the what if's and the possibility of a world without Religion, Love, and Family: A world that takes out the three major components of our "everyday" life, and presents to us a life without choices.

This book opens up in a different time a futuristic time. The setting is A.F 632 which is translated as 632 years after Henry Ford mass production of the model T car: In this era technology controls the world and the people; technology takes the place of religion. Instead of saying Lord, or Jesus Christ citizens of the World State would say Henry Ford, or our Ford. (Citizens of the World State also substituted T's (came from the model T car) for Crosses) They believed in "what man has joined nature is powerless to put asunder (14). In contrast the Bible says "What God has joined together let not man put asunder" (Matt. 19:6 KJV).

Thais civilization was hung up on controlling and conditioning: It was all about mass production. "But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self denial. Self indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics otherwise the wheel stops turning" (161). In the World State they believed happiness came from a worry-free society. They believed love, family, and religion produced stress, sickness, and diseases. This in addition caused death. "The machine turns, turns and must keep turning forever. It is death if it stands still" Mustapha Mond the controller (28). They weeded these things out of their everyday life to try to create a utopian society. If any of those things which they believed was an abomination to their society were to occur they took or were given a drug called Soma. Soma was a drug that gave world State citizens instant gratification. Mustapha Mond "the controller" believed that soma was Christianity without tears (168).

Furthermore in this "utopia" they believed in promiscuity and conditioning. They created promiscuity in an effort to eliminate families and the emotional despair that they believed love and families caused. The world State believed that conditioning produced stability. "....that is the secret happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people their unescapable social destiny" D.H.C the director of Hatcheries(10): "Stability" said the controller, no civilization without social stability"(28)

In Closing, Huxley tries to portray to us a utopia. A society where everyone is happy, disease is non-existent and anger, strife and sadness is unheard of. We learn that this society doesn't