"Brave New World" written by the English author Aldous Huxley, born in 1894, is the portrait of an "ideal" world far in the future where society is made up of castes and babies originate from test-tubes, rather than from the womb of their mothers. ... The detailed description of some experiments might give him the shivers (c.f. p. 2-3: test-tube babies; p. 16-20: hatred of flowers and books). ... He might associate security and love with it. ...

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In Brave New World, sex is encouraged because it keeps people happy, though love is not. The state does not encourage the people to fall in love with someone because love leads to the want to start a family and have kids. Although both societies do not want the people to fall in love, Brave New World does a better job of preventing it than 1984's society does, because they train and brainwash the people into believing love is bad. ... Additionally the fact that he called Juliet "idiotic" for loving Romeo indicates that he does not believe in love and devotion. ... In Huxley'...

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Huxley was one of those writers who created this futuristic world in which every person was grown from test tubes, conditioned biologically and psychologically, and then divided by caste. ... Lastly, the Brave New World lacks the strong emotions of life, there is no romantic love, there are no strong bonds/friendships, and there is no parenting. ... Love, a strong emotion of life, has absolutely no meaning in the Brave New World except for sex. There is no understanding of love, and love is something so dependent and so important in life, that without it there would be nothing. ... This so...

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"We have arrived at that brave new world that seemed so distant in 1932 when Aldous Huxley wrote about human beings created in test tubes in what he called hatchery. In recent weeks, we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them." ... Huxley predicted the creation of embryos in test tubes which is becoming more and more apparent in the world today. ... As Holden is performing the Voigh-Kompff test on Leon, a heartbeat is becoming louder and louder to inform the viewer that a character is in danger. ... Savage reservation represent the values o...

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These values, such as test tube babies and sex without responsibilities, helps me to realize the impact of these experiences on my own life, compared to that of the imaginary world produced by Aldous Huxley. I am fortunate to be able to experience love, remorse and other natural emotions. ... After acknowledging the downfall or our society, I have become more aware of the life around me and the potential we gain through love and true knowledge....

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Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seein...

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Brave New World starts you off in a laboratory where they are making artificial babies or what I like to call them test tube babies. ... Bernard is always curious of what it would be like to fall in love. ... Lenina tried to engage in sex with John, but John really loved Lenina. ... After a long battle on love and life the government official kicked out Helmholtz and John from this perfect society. ...

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Children raised without parents in this way will be unaffectionate and unable to have real emotions or truly love. ... With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. ... People are conditioned against love, nature, literature and other naturally desired forms of expression. ... There is no family, no love, no science or art or history- all of which are preliminary to anything that we would call society. ...

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Winston hates the Party passionately and wants to test the limits of its power by committing innumerable crimes throughout the novel, ranging from writing "Down with Big Brother- in his diary, to having an illegal love affair with Julia, to getting himself secretly indoctrinated into the anti-Party Brotherhood. ... In Brave New World it is possible to identify two main types of truth that the World State seeks to eliminate: it controls and muffles all efforts by citizens to gain any sort of scientific or empirical truth, and it attempts to destroy all kinds of human truths, such as love, frien...

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In the World State, a person's life begins in a test tube when they are genetically engineered to fit into the structured caste system, and one's fate is predetermined by a scientist in the Central London Hatchery. ... All the mistakes one makes, all the pain one feels, all the love one shares are the reasons one lives, the reasons to fight for something greater than oneself. ...

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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 language of Shakespeare brings out such emotions as love, ecstasy, ambition, jealousy and suffering. ... Certainly within the novel, man has become a commodities and he has no longer become as a result of sexual relations but rather scientifically controlled test tube breeding. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate