12 October 2016
Can you imagine a society where the economy is massively growing, and diseases,
poverty, political issues, and crimes are absent? How wonderful would it be to live in such
society? Aldous Huxley has created that ideal world in his novel Brave New World. A story
happens in a futuristic society in which people are completely controlled by the government
(or the World Controllers) on their behaviors, attitudes, and thoughts. This World Controllers
ideal World State society reflects that in order for a society to become highly desirable where
everyone is conditioned to be satisfied with their own livings, individualism, family, and love
must be eradicated.
social threat. Bernard Marx, a top class intelligent man who feels alienated because of his
small appearance and his different thoughts, tells Lenina, a woman whom he is dating with,
that the sea in peace makes him feel like he is more of himself, not a part of social body.
Bernards blasphemy shocks Lenina for which it is against what people believes; When the
individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. (Huxley, p.81). This phrase
shows that people in this society have been conditioned to believe that no individual feelings
or thoughts should be occurred with anyone. These individual characteristics lead to an idea
of freedom of action for oneself over a state control, which will eventually result in social
instability, contradicting to the World Controllers goal that everyone must act and think in
ways the government suggests in order to maintain a stable community. Thus, individualism
has been eradicated from this world to avoid people rebelling against society. However, not
only this idea of self-reliance, but other human experiences have also been eliminated.
Family is another human experience that is not found in the World Controllers World
State. In the very first chapter, Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, is giving a lecture to
the students on a visit in the Hatchery Centre where humans are produced and conditioned.
He mentions the old age when people used to be raised by fathers and mothers, making an
Try to realize what it was like to have a viviparous mother. That smutty word
again. But none of them dreamed, this time, of smiling. Try to imagine what
living with ones family meant. They tried; but obviously without the smallest
It can be seen that the idea of families does not exist. Humans in this society are decanted in
the Hatchery centre with no need of parents to give birth and raise their children. Moreover,
people are conditioned to believe that a relationship between members of a family group is
grotesque and obscene. The Controllers believe that a home where people live together
causes unpleasant emotions, unnecessary intimacies, and diseases, which can destroy
Apart from family, love is another human emotional experience that can be found in
nowhere in this new world society. People are conditioned to believe that they can have sex
with anyone just for fun regardless of emotional attachment. Monogamy or going out with
one person for a long period is not accepted, just like what Fanny, a friend of Lenina, said
that I really do think you ought to be careful. Its such horribly bad form to go on and on like
this with one man (Huxley, p.34) From this dialogue, it shows that humans in the World
State do not know the idea of love. It is common and acceptable to have short-term
relationship with many people at once. Having sex without love or any emotions other than
pleasure is directly what the Controllers want; everyone is happy and stable. They believe
that love or any emotional attachments ruin ones stability, and so those things are disappear
From this world in the book, a stable community where everything goes right and
comfortable under government control can happen with the elimination of human experiences
to prevent people from disruptive behaviors that will insecure societys happiness. Huxley
asks us is this really an ideal society? Is such a society worth losing love, family,
and individualism? Or maybe we, a future generation, could create the real ideal world where