Aldous Huxley s Brave New World - 1080 Words

â€Å"The Risks of Powerful Government in Complete Control† Today, one s perceptions of happiness are more often than not associated with material achievements, advancements, or perhaps, love. In Brave New World, however, happiness is based upon the pursuit of stability and emotional equilibrium Aldous Huxley s dystopian novel, Brave New World serves as a warning of the ominous. Set in London, the totalitarian regime instills the motto of stability, community, [and] identity(Huxley.1.1) in its citizens. Huxley s dystopia attempts to find the greatest amount of happiness for the largest sum of people. The simple, less complex characters of the novel seek to achieve happiness through means of scientific conditioning, thus, leaving one†¦show more content†¦The citizens are not concerned with themselves as individuals; they have, however, been brainwashed to see the world as a collective and technologically oriented entity, upholding the central theme of the party: stabi lity, community, identity. (Huxley.1.1) The World Controllers possess their own assembly line to mass-produce humans, highlighting the dangers of how technology can be negatively used. The of the novel laments, Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par, at seventy per cent oxygen you get dwarfs, less than seventy percent, eyeless monsters!(Huxley.1.11) The World Controllers have the ability to create humans based upon the needs and wants of society, both augmenting and mutating the child to serve societal needs. Many themes in the novel are based around economic systems. Through technological advancement, the economy has progressed years before its time, leaving a mentality that new is better, and that consumerism is the purpose of life. The consumerist principles can be better delineated with the following quotation, but old clothes are beastly, ending is better than mending.(Huxley.3.17) Stated more simply, essentially all citizens are conditioned through techn ology to have the mindset of a consumer. Currently, in modern day religions , God is believed, by many, to be the creator of all, and that everyone is both a child of and a