A Foreshadowing
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Submitted by duqjavelin079 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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A Foreshadowing
A Foreshadowing
I feel as though Huxley’s novel is very closely linked to the war the United States is fighting today. In the novel A Brave New World, Huxley depicts a world where the governing state possesses many technologies to govern society. Today in society we are fighting a similar war, and as John is the main protagonist in the novel the U.S. is the protagonist to Iraq. They are so related that I believe that Huxley intended the novel to be a prediction as to what the world may eventually become. The relationships vary from the use of technology, dangers of an all-powerful state, and to even how the novel is a satire of modern economy.
In the novel, such technologies as medical intervention, surgical removal of ovaries, and hypnotic treatments are used to create a society full of fun and pleasure but lacks love and emotions. By medical intervention, I simply mean that the state restricts population by means of science. They only allow a certain percentage of the population to regenerate or in other words give birth. This is a very difficult subject, as there are many, which bewilder me to the fullest. I just don’t understand how Mustapha Mond, head of the world state, can justify this. He takes a human being and manipulates him into a thing with no self-expressions or emotions only to do his bidding. This kind of resembles the present day followers of Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden’s followers were also born only to be manipulated by Bin Laden. Both Leaders have developed their “children” into what they seem fit. Mond uses hypnotic treatments to control the minds of his people while Bin Laden only uses religion to give his people reason for their actions. It’s kind of like he takes what they already learned and manipulates it to his preferences. There are even more similarities between the two leaders.
Mond believes that the world should be free from emotions and relay solely off the pleasures of life. In making...
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