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Jason Schabes
Brave New World Essay
TRUE STABILITY?
THE COMPARISON OF TODAY's WORLD AND HUXLEY's WORLD
Huxley's Brave New World is definitely new and is something that is difficult for a
person living in a 90's world to imagine for it is so very diverse compared to our
society and customs today. The odd world and lifestyle that was prophesied by Aldous
Huxley in the first half of the 20th century has much of the same basis of customs but
they are just performed different ritually in these people's everyday routines. If anyone
from our time and our world were ever to spend any given amount of time in Huxley's world
then they would be confused, shunned by society and looked at almost as a savage like
John for having such different and primitive ways. This of course would happen to anyone
from Huxley's world that infiltrated our world that we know. It's all in one's opinion
whether or not Huxley's adjustments for a stable environment are just are not but what
can be done is to show a comparison between a world subjected to Huxley's ideas from
Brave New World and our reality today.
One comparison that can be made and also the most obvious is how people are brought into
the world. In Huxley's world there is a complicated hatching process where embryos are
monitored and adjusted. This occurs in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning
Center. There are many, many aspects to this process and many different methods used to
bring life into the world then what we are accustomed to. Here embryos are kept in jars
and processed in several ways and conditioned in such a way that everything about the
person can be determined and altered. Once these children are born they are put through
several events from day one which help to suit them for the rest of their lives. For
example, a type of treatment would occur to a certain group of children with a certain
determined destiny and so that they enjoy their occupations and niche in their world no
matter what that role may be. The people who work to keep this world stable would not
want a child predestined to become a construction worker to ever find curiosity in books
and learning; that child would be conditioned to stay away from books and learning by
means of bad association with those certain things. The child may be given a book and
then shocked so they can affiliate bad memories with studying. All persons produced by
the center are subjected to many other types of conditioning processes to fit them
perfectly to perform their job in the world such as hypnopaedia which is sleep-teaching.
In today's reality two people mate and the woman conceives the child through birth. There
is no other method of creating a human being. In our world pregnancy is considered
natural and beautiful. Children are brought up very individually and in different ways,
usually by families and taught the basics of growing up. Children are educated in school
learning all subjects including history which is another aspect of life that is shunned
by Huxley's society. The mating part in the ritual of creating life is what brings us to
our next comparison, sex.
In Huxley's society sex is had hastily and through promiscuity, with many partners. Love
is something that is not even imagined in their world. But in reality sex is something
precious and is not had without thought and without knowing the person well, actually,
this is in most scenarios but it is sad to say that promiscuity does exist to some extent
in our world. Love is a very serious thing in reality, even more precious than sex and
love does occur often. Both worlds use contreceptives which is wise to prevent disease
transmissions and unwanted births but in Huxley's world the sole reason for protection
during sex is to not impregnate the woman and have society look down upon you.
Contraceptives are used more in Huxley's world than in ours because there no wants to
have children so protection is always used, most likely nearing 100% of the time but in
our times, some have sexual intercourse hastily and don't stop to think to use safety
precautions and also some couples choose not to use protection so that they can have
children.
An aspect of sexual intercourse in the brave new world is soma, a drug that was invented
to create an artificial happiness with no side affects. There is no such thing as this in
the real world, there is no drug with no affects on the human body, there aren't any
legal pleasure drugs either.
Huxley makes many parodies throughout the book in reference to the real world. One that
he makes is the first idea that you get about the society's religion. The time period is
given as A.F. which stands for after Ford instead of A.D. Also, instead of making a cross
resembling the cross that Jesus was put upon, a T is made standing for Ford. Ford being
the inventor of the simple model car that their world worships. Also, instead of
synagogues or churches they have orgy-porgy which is a group of twelve people, six men
and six women, who more or less say a little chant to the tune of a nursery rhyme and
then break into a massive dodeca-orgy, this is introduced to the reader when Bernard Marx
goes here to seek guidance in his confuzed life. This orgy-porgy sounds a little out of
hand and is obviously far from our religious customs. There are no specific religious
customs that everyone has to follow, everyone is free to have their own religious beliefs
and what G-d if a G-d to believe in. 
Another aspect of freedom comes up with each person's determined occupation and place in
the world. Each person is put in one of five categories which almost stand as a grade of
person, from smartest to dumbest and best occupation to worst occupation. Regardless of
what a person in this society is, they are trained from birth to enjoy what they will do
and do it and not have jealousy of the higher grades of people. In our society of reality
each person's occupation is determined by their determination and ability to do that task
well whatever it may be. Each person is also raised to believe that they can be whatever
they want to be, and that they have the freedom to follow any ambitions or dreams that
they may have.