As I was reading Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, I began to question myself about our society. I began to imagine what life would be like without awareness that you don't have your own free will. It is basically imprisonment but to the people's minds it isn't. It's great that people don't have to worry about the struggles people go through in reality such as poverty, depression, and many others.
Everyone would like to live their lives without having the pain inflicted from these unnecessary problems. However, their civilization lives by having their decisions being made for them by social class, Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon, and Gamma. Our society isn't condemned to social classes which I prefer. Even though considerable problems wouldn't exist, freedom is priceless.
Freedom is what makes life interesting. Your own will to choose your own destiny. John, the second protagonist, even says hardship is a necessary and crucial part of life and it's better to have freedom and go through those problems than to be a prisoner from the real world. His point makes a significant impact because even though those problems aren't preferred to go through, it's a small price to pay for salvation.
Imagine yourself in this civilization. It's astonishing that sexual reproduction isn't needed to create new generations. Also, major problems are nonexistent. However, you're sentenced without your own destiny which is based off your social class. I'm curious to see your thoughts. How would you deal with it?
-Lyle Cuevas
I feel the same way about their society. I can't imagine what it would be like to live without freedom.
ReplyDeleteEven if you end up going through hardships, you would at least have freedom, which is what they lack in their "brave new world".
Along with that, producing people mechanically rather than the normal way doesn't really have a down side, but it's just totally UNNATURAL!
It's interesting because the people aren't aware they don't possess the will for anything. At least Mustapha Mond understands John's argument and he agrees with him in some points. However, his claim about people's happiness is wrong.
DeletePeople have the right to their own destiny and stripping away that right is unacceptable. Mustapha Mond has to understand that freedom isn't something you can take away.
At least he gives them a society with nonexistent problems. I'm glad you agree!
I wonder if you noticed that I asked people not to use the names of the books as blog post titles? I posted that one day before you posted this. I would really appreciate it if you kids read my posts. This is the third student blog post entitled Brave New World, and there are many more with the book title in the title somewhere. It's crazy.
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