Kamil Wladzinski

4-3-2017

English IV

In Class Essay

: Dystopias, like utopias, are an authors attempt to perfect the world, but in a

dystopia, that perfection has radically terrible consequences for humankind. In what ways

did the World Controllers in Brave New World seek to perfect the world? In your view,

what are the major reasons those ideas succeeded or failed in perfecting that world?

Have you ever tried to create something but eventually it seemed like the thing you

were trying to create was not what it seemed? Huxley did. Huxley created The World States,

where everything seemed great and happy. That was the idea until eventually the author

revealed that some things are just not made to be perfect. The world controllers in The

Brave New World, seeked to create a perfect world by manipulation.

The director of CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING

CENTRE, manipulated students and others into thinking that life should not be created

naturally but scientifically. This was revealed at a later time in the book when the director

told an outsider about the reasons why so much things were banned in their civilization.

You can also tell theres this sense of manipulation whenever Lenina takes soma:Because

our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without

t steeland you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.

People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're
well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant

of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or

children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't

help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.

Which you go and chuck out of the window in the name of liberty, Mr. Savage. Liberty!" He

laughed (Huxley 198-199). This quote shows the director's intentions for the world and the

reasoning he has behind it. The world was made stable by removing such things as pain and

thoughtful thinking. In order to do this, the people of The World State are told how to feel

and they remove anything that works against the stability of the world. The controllers of

the society manipulate the people into knowing less and feeling less. If there is something

that is out of the ordinary, the people are so used to rely on soma to make themselves feel

better; yet, they are just being manipulated to think that anything other than the society

they grew up in is bad for them and to not be tainted by the other things in the world they

dont understand, they use drugs.

In the view of the book, the controller both succeeded and failed at making a perfect

world. The reason that this is, is because not all of the world is controlled or under the same

impression as The World State. There are such things as reservations and hidden islands

that are occupied with people who think differently than The World State. See the World

State doesnt want anyone who is against them or does things that isnt in compliance with

their rules and ideas, so in order to make it a perfect society, they either kill or exile those

outcasts to places that dont interfere with the World States plans. "One would think he

was going to have his throat cut," said the Controller, as the door closed. "Whereas, if he had
the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent

to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set

of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason

or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the

people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own.

Every one, in a word, who's anyone. (Huxley 190). This shows the reader that in fact, the

World State would remove anyone who have gained the ability of speaking out or having an

open mind to things. That is how they try to create a perfect world. But what they are doing

is just removing those that have grew apart from the society of the World State. These

people dont look to soma to fix their issues, or build upon their questioning and reasoning

of things around them. By removing these people to other places, he is not creating a

perfect world, hes creating a separated one.

In conclusion, Huxley wrote this book and in the book, he includes a world where

everything seems great until the reader realizes the lies and secrets behind the whole thing.

This book shows a dystopian society where life is created through science and not through

nature. The world in The Brave New World, is in fact a dystopia and not a utopia because

of the lies and the mess that is revealed at the end of the book. The fact that the whole

process this is completed through manipulation of the characters in the book and of the

reader. The author makes everyone think that the world that is presented to them is perfect

because it works.