Analysis Of Aldous Huxley s Brave New World - 3236 Words

Maddie Holm Dixon-Willden AP English Literature 12 8 December 2014 Utopia s Price Tag Many people wonder what it would be like to live in a perfect society; one in which everyone is equal, happy, and virtually living easier lives on a day to day basis. A society is defined as the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. The perfect society would hold a more ordered community, obviously. However, perhaps this utopian dream could carry a society that hides malicious motives in order to keep up appearances. Aldous Huxley illustrates this idea in his timeless work of science-fiction, Brave New World. Huxley illuminates a malicious government that hides its true motives from an unsuspecting society by using†¦show more content†¦The Great Depression had a substantial effect on the economic side of the nation, but possibly, an even more substantial effect on the lives of those who lived through the Depression. The Depression affected the lives of everyone, young and old, throughout the industrialized nation, such as the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. The majority of adolescents living during the Great Depression were uneducated and malnourished. School establishments were forced to close due to the lack of funds and employees (Meissner 1). Food scarcity was not uncommon and a sufficient amount of children and adults were suffering from starvation, malnourishment, and disease. Living during the Depression seemed tragic and hopeless to most, however, had a huge impact on the way people saw and continue to see their lives and marked an important point in history. Brave New World, when put into context with the Great Depression, is a complete antithesis of that particular lifestyle. Perhaps the significantly different lives that characters, such as Lenina, Fanny, and Henry, were seen as the ideal â€Å"dream life† to many that lived during a time of ultimate pillage. Quotes from a study about the children of the Great Depression were collected, by an author whose name is not cre dited, and convey interesting ideas and morals that developed solely because of the devastating time period. One individual (quotations are not given credit)