Huxley Brave New World Analysis

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Technology and all of its beauty, it helps countries and even ourselves to communicate with each other from around the world, it helps saves lives through medical uses, and has made shopping not only faster and safer but more diverse through the internet and all of its vast products. That being said we can’t deny technologies current problems. Besides things like cancer causing and social problems Huxley argued with the constant evolution of technology while it’s improving entertainment he also argued that it is making us being brainwashed, controlled, and conditioned. I agreed with that notion and that we are turning into Huxley’s Brave New World because I think people will soon come to love their oppression due to technologies that undo our …show more content…
In BNW the director was talking how on how it was “madness” that the controllers wouldn't approve of any new games unless it shows as much “apparatus as the complicated” and “consumption” as the existing games. For comparison Ash Harrison once played a card game called Magic the Gathering an extremely complicated and they both relate to my claim as everyone in BNW is all subdued to things like feelies and complicated games in order to make everyone ignorant to the world around them. The same was happening with Ash as he claimed he didn’t realize how much consumption he was pending until he spent up to “$3,000.”” For comparison BNW again in pg. 125 Delta’s too little too late died from soma from the higher ups but not many cared of this corruption as everyone was playing games and feelies. Another example is when Bernard looked at the sky while both him and Linda were in the elevator and claimed “Isn’t it beautiful” Linda responded by saying it is “simply perfect for obstacle golf” and to our world when a mother and father in Korea killed their daughter due malnutrition from lack of care due to playing Prius taking care of a virtual baby called Anima. They relate as both again were unaware Kim Jae the father claimed he didn’t even know what killed her daughter which is similar when Linda later saw the crematorium center and saw all the Beta’s to Alpha's mixing together for compost, she finally started to view the world around her and made a somewhat of realization. Linda for how, despite the class system they are all the same and Jae with her daughter’s
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