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Brave New World: Dystopian Society
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Brave New World
- Written by Aldous Huxley in 1931
- Set in London 632 A.F. (After Ford)
- Procreation in hatcheries, no childbirth (no family or attachments)
- Everyone is programmed to perform a specific function that they will enjoy
- Children are conditioned every night
Dystopian
- Specific function: gives citizens a sense of importance and purpose = "happiness"
- Soma: drug use encouraged to decrease stress, therefore decreasing revolt
- Brainwashing & propaganda: phrases learned as children stick with people for the rest of their lives and they don't realize it
Shakespeare
- John "The Savage" reads Shakespeare and uses this knowledge to express himself in ways no one else understands
- Mustapha Mond reads Shakespeare but knows if anyone got a hold of it they wouldn't be able to read it
- Huxley was a Shakespeare fan and wanted to present a world where no one knew of his existence (irony)
Brave New World: Dystopian Society
Brittany Welch
- Soma is taken whenever someone is feeling discomfort and numbs their emotions
- Casual sex is encouraged so no two people can form feelings for one another; opposite of 1984 & The Handmaid's Tale
- Words like "mother" and "family" make people uncomfortable, forming attachments to others is abnormal
- People like Bernard and Helmholtz exiled for resisting this movement; similar to thought crime (1984) and sense offenders (Equilibrium)
Sources
Beauchamp, Gorman. "The Shakespearean Strategy of
Brave New World." Utopian Studies No. 4 (1991): 62-64. Web. Published by Penn State University Press.
"Equilibrium." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 09 Nov.
2014.
Gruenwald, Oskar. "The Dystopian Imagination: The
Challenge Of Techno - Utopia." Journal Of Interdisciplinary Studies 25.1-2 (2013): 1-38. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.
Hickman, John. "When Science Fiction Writers Used
Fictional Drugs: Rise And Fall Of The Twentieth Century Drug Dystopia." Utopian Studies 20.1 (2009): 141-170. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.
- Seems Utopian because there is more freedom, but any suspicious behavior still results in punishment
- "The Achilles' heel of techno-utopia concerns not merely the science-fiction aspect of science or technique, but their impact on human self-understanding and free choice." -Oskar Gruenwald, The Dystopian Imagination
- Argument: human nature will prevail
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