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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Literary Critique of ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Aldous Huxley's Brave ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [New World ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially,
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one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where
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everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness
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are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous
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Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact,
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what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much
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worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among
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others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and
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world of uninterest.
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In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a
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man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts
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to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman.
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This encourages his individual thought, and he realizes that independent
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thought is rewarding, and that he must strive to become a real individual.
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Although this is true to a certain extent, Bernard does not realize that he
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would much rather attain social recognition. At least, not until the
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opportunity presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard
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uses the curiosity of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his
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subconscious wish of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the
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jumble of society. This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a
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supreme result of his arrogant behaviour, he is exiled.
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The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's
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fame (and folly), is an outsider know as the Savage. The Savage is brought
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in from outside of the utopian society by Bernard as an experiment. He
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faces "civilized society" with a bright outlook, but eventually comes to
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hate it bitterly.
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Lenina, the supporting role of the novel, is the most pronounced
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example of the ideal citizen. She adheres to the principles of the society
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without so much as a second thought.
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In the utopian society that Huxley presents, everyone is happy. There
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are no differences. Everyone is brought up to be happy, and most do not
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even know what sadness or anger is. All is cured artificially through
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surrogates or drugs. Even happiness alone is not unique to the individual.
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Soma, the hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is used by all, even
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induces the same kind of happiness. The only variant is to what extent
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this happiness overwhelms the user (one or two half-gramme tablets?).
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"Everybody belongs to everyone else" (127) is the basic psychology of
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the society. This suggests that an individual owes everything to society,
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but society in turn owes everything to him or her. This applies to all.
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No one capitalises on the efforts of others and no one performs excessive
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manual labour for minimum wage. Everyone is the same.
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In Huxley's perfect world, sex is a mundane undertaking. It happens to
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each individual almost every night. And no one knows what marriage is.
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They simply have each other and move on. All for one and one for all.
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Everyone is the same in bed.
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The inhabitants of this society are not given any sort of mental
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flexibility. If you spend time alone, or think, you are considered
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strange, and are considered an outcast. Nobody wishes for this, and so
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correspondingly nobody commits this unspeakable crime. Everyone goes out
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at night with a different partner, or takes a few grammes of soma and goes
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to bed for a soma-holiday. Nothing new, nothing different.
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Each person of this society has a predestined future. They all
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develop in their fetal stages inside a jar, where they are provided with
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their needs, are vaccinated against all known diseases. Also, special
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treatments are performed to aid in the mental growth (or standstill) of the
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individual after 'birth', according to their future occupation.
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"The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane
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engineers was just passing the eleven hundredth metre mark on Rack 3.
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A special mechanism kept their containers in constant rotation. `To
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improve their sense of balance,' Mr Foster explained. `Doing repairs
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on the outside of a rocket in mid air is a ticklish job. We slacken
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off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half
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starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down.
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They learn to associate topsy- turvydom with well being; in fact,
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they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads." (32)
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All two hundred and fifty beings will be the same - they will look
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alike, talk alike, act alike, have the same job, and generally be the same
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people inside different media. One never knows which is which.
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After birth, all children are mentally conditioned to think and act
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with the same motives. Through hypnopaedia, all of the basic rules of the
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society are learned by the children, and they learn to repeat and obide by
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these rules.
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There are no chances for anyone to develop any differences. Or if they
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do, they are exiled so that they cannot influence those around them.
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Nothing changes, including the government and the lifestyle of the
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inhabitants.
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Last and most importantly, the Bokanovsky method of reproducing causes
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great numbers of genetically identical human beings (up to 96 at a time
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from a single egg alone). As well, the same ovary can be used to produce
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over seventeen thousand individuals with the same basic genetic background.
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Everyone is the same. Same birth, same upbringing, same lifestyle. Any
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differences are remedied immediately.
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Huxley presents the ultimate in utopian societies. But nobody is open
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for mental growth. All are limited to set barriers. Although this would
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appear a perfect society at first, it becomes obvious later on in the novel
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that the race will no longer evolve. Nobody will have new ideas. Nobody
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will improve on society. Nothing will change. This is not what the human
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race desires. It desires to acquire knowledge, unceasingly and
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neverendingly. Without this advantage, we will go mad.
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