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Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Introduction

Written in 1932, The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a utopian novel that tells the

futuristic story of a society that seems to live under the control of the technology that plans and

dictates its ways of life. Right from the beginning, the story is all about a future community, its

identity, and stability (Huxley 1). Following the narration, Huxley (5) demonstrates the interests

of the facilitators of these futuristic changes as genuine and beneficial to them. The rest of the

public, on the other hand, is subjected to the adversities that shall accompany it. Some of the

adversities exhibited by this society include the degradation of natural human morals, denial of

personal free-will, and the elimination of negative emotions, anger, and resentment. In essence,

man desires free-will and unconstrained freedom to emotions and decisions to live a meaningful

lives, what the people in this typical society lacked.

Lack of Free-Will and Liberty for People of World State

The society described by Huxley (220), however, constitutes happy people. People do not

have to worry anymore. If anything, there is a drug branded soma, which, when taken, blocks an

individual’s negative emotions. Thus, members of society live happily all through their lives. All

they can ever do is party, socialize, and keep it that way until their time of demise, which is

regarded only as a mere distraction. Huxley (220) refers to it as a stable world. Even so, this

form of happiness comes at a cost because the absolute happiness and liberty are artificial, and
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people in it live purposeless lives. Purposeless lives are derived from the fact that society, in this

context, lives entirely dependent on technology. Almost all jobs and obligations are claimed by

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots leaving the more extensive public an idol lot.

In this society, everyone belongs to everyone, meaning one can choose to sex whoever

they want without hesitating or feeling bad about it. Men and women in this narrative are also

not allowed to procreate anymore. Instead, people are genetically engineered in large state-run

firms for reproduction. The reproductive specialists identify specific persons from whom sperms

and fertile eggs are acquired for laboratory processing. In the process, modifications are made

depending on the kind of individual to be made. Higher castes exhibit strength, intelligence,

charisma while the lower castes are characterized by obedience, turgidity, and physical

weakness. Since the concept of family constituting a father, mother, and children are withdrawn,

the government assumes the full responsibility of reproducing future generations with lesser

emotional attributes than normal human beings.

This society lacked the right to free will. They were unable to decide for themselves since

they are controlled by technology and newly developed laws that forfeit them from enjoying

life's normality. A society that enjoys free will has no limits to the decisions they make based on

morality, sin, and guilt, among other judgments. In this novel, however, immorality and

promiscuity are highly promoted and somehow forced upon society members. It is a society

majorly constituted of jobless individuals who are programmed to live purposeless lives, and the

most agonizingly denied the right to have children. Such is a lifestyle that has no meaning when

people live just for the sake of it, their freewill is squelched, and they survive in an induced state

of artificial intelligence.

Conclusion
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The Brave New World – Aldous Huxley presents a society deprived of liberty and free

will. People of the world state are technologically programmed and lead insignificant lifestyles.

They indulge in immorality, use drugs, and party extensively to keep away negative emotions;

they cannot decide for themselves, they cannot procreate anymore, a majority have meaningless

jobs or no jobs after technology replaces them with robots and AI. They lack free will and

unconstrained emotions and decisions to live a meaningful life desired by every living man.
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Works Cited

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Aldous Huxley, 1946,

www.scotswolf.com/aldoushuxley_bravenewworld.pdf.