Brave New World By Aldous Huxley - 1685 Words

Many political figures assert that freedom is knowledge and knowledge is power. However, imagine if that knowledge was never attainable due to the government in ones society. Would one ever become free? Would anyone resist that government to gain knowledge? Would these people be considered individuals though they are not unique from the man next to him? Some universal ideas consist of, individuality, the cost of happiness, technology and control, and dystopia/totalitarianism. Humanity over time has carved itself to be different from others, to be considered unique. However in many societies that is not true today. These societies steal this individuality from people and control every single thing they do. They take away an individual’s†¦show more content†¦Huxley captures the dystopian society in Brave New World, which he portrays to have stripped its people of their knowledge through the use of science. A dystopia is a type of civilization where human freedom has bee n quashed and people are controlled and told what to do seemingly representing a utopian society(). In Brave New World, Huxley portrays a dystopian society that supposedly seems to be a utopian society. The society is set up in a manner that everyone is genetically modified to be similar by the government. This technology decides if one will be highly intelligent or be unintelligent while in a test tube and embryo. Over the use of technology in the society has made it so that knowledge is not needed. In the novel a man by the name of Mr. Foster asserts, â€Å"The lower the caste†¦the shorter the oxygen† (Huxley 21). In the society the people do not have control over their own intelligence. They cannot try their best, nor do more work because their intelligence is predetermined. Also, there is no choice as to whether one will allow technology to think for them, since their intelligence is chosen when one is an embryo. They cannot do anything but only be curious to know wh at it is like to be able to think for one-self. Technology is also evident in sleep teaching. While one is sleeping, a recording is played over and