"Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a pre-determined society makes for the "ideal" social order. Sex, Drugs, and a genetically engineered caste system are the foundations for this so-called "perfect" world.
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To understand Huxley's intent in this novel you must first understand the circumstances. There are no families in this so-called "Brave New World". "Imagine yourself sitting there with a little baby of your own I don't like it." (Huxley 112). Monogamy was not just downcast, it was feared. This was achieved through hynopaedia (repetitions of statute during sleep) training during childhood. "At the mention of the words mother and father, during a tour of the London Hatchery, the students became silent and many began to blush it was a terrifying thing of the past." (Huxley 57). Intimate relations between populace have now been eliminated.
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Soma was another development created by the citizens of Brave New World to let them evade, and forget their emotions. "A gramme is always better than a damn." (Huxley 90). This professed "perfect" drug, was a mixture of hallucinogen, and tranquilizer used widely by the inhabitants of "Brave New World." Soma permitted people to go into a "daze" whenever they wanted to escape their surroundings. "Soma may make you lose a few years in time but it is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity." (Huxley 154). Anger is a fictional word; in a perfect world no one has any purpose to be angry. .
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In his [Huxley's] foreword to the novel he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda." (Huxley xi). The World Controllers in Brave New World understood this, this being the reason why all people are happy regardless of what caste they are prearranged. "The secret to happiness is liking what you have to do.
