Utopia in Brave New World Essay

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses a Utopian world to modify the obsession with science and technology, and the attitude of newer is better. His anti-Utopian literature is crucial in order to scare his readers of the future that will come if we allow the science and research to control our lives. He is trying to educate the young generation of the evils of advancing in technology.

In the beginning, the first four chapters are unemotional and cold descriptions of the bottling process. The diction used in chapters one and two describe the facilities in which the eggs are fertilized and put through the Bokanovsky process. The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center instills a sense of intimidation just in the name of the building. A harsh thin light glared through the windows, and the light was frozen dead, a ghost, the room is dead and can not sustain happiness and life, which is a contradiction sense its the room where life begins. The detail in which he uses to explain the Bokanovsky process and the measures taken to create the castes is in a simple form, an informing sequence. He goes to great lengths to convey that if all of this happens morals will change, promiscuity will be the norm, and treating everyone dependent on their caste. He does not want this world to become a reality.

When Bernard and Lenina visit the Savage Reservation its like stepping back into the past. Lenina is confused why anyone would want to live in dirt and filth, without any technologies and future accommodations. To go a day with out her vibrating massages and synthetic sounds Isa tragedy for Lenina. Bernard on the other hand, sees a hope in the villagers of the reservation. Huxley has given Bernard an interesting extra to his personality, he is aware that there is something not right about the new world, that there is something significant missing, or taken away from him and the other citizens. The contrast between the savage reservation and the brave new world is so eminence, its like two different universes. When Aldous Huxley describes the brave new world as a glowing, exciting, inviting world, and then he explains the ancient savage reservation, and to a new person without any knowledge of the world looking in would never make the connection that the new world is derived from a savage reservation.

Later, Aldous Huxley introduces John the noble savage, who has similarities to both new worlders Bernard Marx and Henry Foster. They all seem to be missing something and searching for that one aspect, and they feel out of place. Bernard Marx brings John the noble to the new world and the reaction is the complete opposite of what is expected. While everyone is thinking they are saving John from the disgusting world he has only known, he is actually suffering and can not stand to live in a society that is so consumed in consuming. Living in the new world is hell, like being imprisoned and used as a circus attraction, John does not understand how an advanced society can act like animals. The reader in the end fears the advancement with technologies, and not doing anything for one's self. The audience does not want to be made in bottles and conditioned in bottles and told how to live, what to do on a day to day basis, and being created to fit in castes and not being able to over come status. In the end there is a sign that even in a science ruled world full of innovation there is a aspect of barbarianism and realization of the past influences.