Brave New World Similarities Today

It was difficult to come up with good similarities between Brave New World and modern America let alone three but here is what I came up with. The first comparison between the two societies is the obvious fact that Brave New World (hereby known as BNW) keeps the same city and country names. London is still London and America is still America. The second comparison I found between the two was that the people were always entertaining themselves. It is true that BNW did this to stay happy and to not be bored. This is not so different from modern America. People generally don't want to be doing nothing. We go to movies, play golf, go on vactions just like the people in BNW. However, it is not written if BNW people do anything else for fun, but we both try to entertain ourselves to avoid bordom. The last comparison I could thing of was the fact that there is some order in both societies however different they may be. We have local police that keep order in the cities as well as a central government to keep order in the country. BNW has a much larger populus to take care off and the World State is only controlled by one guy, the fact that John and Bernard were taken to Mond by the police reminded me that there is order to this society as well as modern America.

John vs Lenina

John and Lenina obviously come from two completely different cultures and lifestyles. The reader can understands this seperation by observing the reactions to each others actions. Lenina, grew up in the World State. Everything thing she has learned and understands came from the conditioning of the DHC. The hypnopedic treatments have taught her that everyone belongs to everyone else. She sees nothing wrong in two people who like each have sex without any other emotions. This freaks John out because he grew up on the reservation in, what we would call, a normal upbringing. However, in contrast to Lenina's hypnopedia lessons, John has learned his veiw of the world by reading the plays of Shakespeare. These plays have taught him about loving one person and being with them forever, a concept Lenina does not understand and thinks its a terrible idea. John's ubringing can also be seen as different than the World State by his reaction to his mother's death at the hospital. He has learned from Shakespeare that death is a bad thing and does everthing he can to prevent his mother's death. Unfortunatly, the World State teaches everyone that death is not a bad thing and is necessary for the society to operate. From the reations of Lenina and John when they are together makes it obvious that both characters have learned about the world in two different ways. Lennina through the DHC and hypnopedia and John through the reservation and his reading and understanding of Shakespeare

Brave New World

Here are my thoughts regarding Brave New World. I did not find many comparisons to Huxley and More. One thing I did find was the fact that everyone in the society is content with their lives. Exept for a few people in Brave New World, both societies are designed to keep everyone content and happy. Both societies do not have crime or fight in any wars. Everyone gets along with everyone else. These are the comparisons I found in Brave New World that seemed similar to Thomos More's vision of Utopia. Oviously there are many differences, but there were some similarities between the two societies.
The best thing about the World State in Brave New World is the fact that there is nothing bad in the society. What I mean by this is the fact that there is no crime because everyone is happy with what they have. There are no wars to fight because the World State controlls everything. Finally, the genetic upbringing of humans is grossly disturbing and incredibly wrong in my eyes, the one good that I can find in it is that it has eradicated most of the harmful diseases so everyone lives healthy long lives.
I have many problems with Brave New World, but the assignment is to pick the worst aspect of the society. I would choose the Conditioning facility. I seems to me that all they do is clone different classes of humans in mass quantities just to have some controll over the population. The fact that nobody gets pregnant to me defeats the purpose of humans. I was always taught that humans were put on Earth to conrol everything and multiply. The fact that the World State controlls controls the population is wrong. The whole purpose of sex is to make babies. I know that todays society prevents pregnacy quite heavlily, but I believe that humans should be in control of children, not the government.