Everyone has a predisposed fate when it comes to their career and intelligence, knows nothing more or nothing less than what is presented to you through hypnopaedia, has no voice in society. ... The World State, the functional society in Brave New World, seems Utopian in theory, but its overarching plan for moral, social, and cultural improvement actually results in dystopian themes such as loss of individuality and brainwashing. ... People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. ... Overall, the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley portrays a wo...

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Distopia in Brave New World The purpose of a Utopian society is to create an environment where everyone is happy, disease does not exist, and anger and sadness are extinct. ... Aldous Huxley's Brave New World leads to the realization that this is not what the human soul really craves. ... These governments believed that having total power would engender a perfect society. ... Although the government's control over and use of technological advances, conformity, and lack of personal freedom contribute to the success of a Utopian society, these aspects are also the reason for its ulti...

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The quotations of Shakespeare throughout the duration of the book also emphasize the emotionless society of the World State. ... No more unrequited loves or broken hearts, no more family feuds, no more saddening death, no more passionate crimes; This utopian world is stable, but it is not full of what touches most audiences when reading Shakespeare, and consequently they cannot be introduced to it. Shakespeare and his works point out many specific aspects of this "utopian- society. The lack of emotion and unfamiliarity of the citizens with ideas that touch people in our society to the greate...

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Both Huxley and Scott use aspects of their style to show the lack of importance, that both societies have on the natural world which does not only include the physical landscape but also what considered natural nowadays like birth, motherhood, family and of course love. ... The elements of the styles of both texts which show how weak this relationship between humanity and the natural world are for Brave New World using Shakespeare, satire, the anti-utopian genre, language, persuasion and propaganda, contrast and duality of character. ... Brave New World is contrasted with our own modern societ...

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