Whoa! "Brave New World" is freakishly scary. Could our society ever become this demented? I feel that Huxley thought so and wanted to forewarn readers to protect their rights lest history should repeat itself.
Freedom is a right like no other. Often times we take freedom for granted and forgot the hard work our Founding Fathers devoted themselves to. For example, Mustapha Mond says, "Freedom to be a round peg in a square whole" (46). We tend to forget in the pre-revolutionary days that freedom was only an unattainable dream. Today we have an infinite number of freedoms; yet, we always think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. It is hard to imagine a society where freedom is incompatible with day to day life. The characters in the novel are forced into promiscuity and isolated from love; they don't realize it but they are slaves. The citizens in the depicted society are confined to being efficient robots who are deprived of the freedom of being living, breathing humans with emotional ties. Without the freedom of every man/woman being treated as an equal we would not have the president we have today. By using scare tactics, Huxley is frightening readers to abolish a corrupted government if they should ever have the unfortunate occurance of being oppressed by one.
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Ok so I have one question, I think you left out a word but anyways what did you think Huxley thought (in the first paragraph). I really enjoyed your opinion on how we have so many freedoms and that how we could not have come to where we are today without the past and all the different individuals. I found your comment, “By using scare tactics, Huxley is frightening readers to abolish a corrupted government if they should ever have the unfortunate occurrence of being oppressed by one”, very interesting. I absolutely agree with your beliefs about how Huxley is creating a scary world to make people want to change the government. It is a powerful tool and it is working to persuade people that our society is good the way it is and Brave New World’s society is corrupt. However, depending on who is looking at it, our world could be corrupt too. We just do not notice it because we have been living here all our lives.
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