This concept is explored in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, which shows what can happen when a hedonistic society is allowed to create its own ‘perfect world’ or utopia. Huxley uses satire to reveal the truths about such a society and while doing so, presents a personal criticism of a society that he feels is on the way of losing its sanity. All aspects of society in the Brave New World are negatively affected while trying to create a perfect place. The importance of love has completely disappeared as well as its purest meaning. Also, knowledge and history have been thrown away in the hopes of creating a world unaffected by its past and unthreatened by progression.
The allusion is used almost sparingly and is dismissive of the religious values. ‘The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly’ – forebodes the impending death of Roy and of ‘light’ and ‘life’ being truly endangered. The making of artificial replicants has defied the ethics of man not being allowed to play God and the absence of the sun represents that ‘light’ or ‘life’ has deserted the people on Earth to leave them to their hubristic luxuries. Loss of natural fundamentals leads to an imbalance between artificial and real nature where artificial dominates and ‘darkens’ the world.
Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance. In the play, ignorance is apparently portrayed and paralleled to the compact majority. The compact majority can be compared to un-educated people who are generally seen in many developing countries. Compared the Bath to technology development or social development, the city cannot accomplish this development surely since the compact majority is ignorance. Ibsen, faithfully, wrote the play as a way to criticize Europe society at the times when people were not interested in any technologies and truths.
This is a far more delicate way of saying if you end up with ignorance you were not highly favored by God, but if you have knowledge you were and will be favored by god and will end up in heaven. Ignorance is similar to a song written by Mumford and son “Babel” which is the examination of the bourgeois mindset. They comment on the pelagian nature of society, they are building their own 'tower of babel' because they see the society collapsing behind their progressive thought, "I write home laughing, 'look at me now,' the walls of my home come crumbling down." He "goes along" with this mindset; all his life his "greed and pride" has been nursed by society and he accepts this mentality for its face value. He is promised success, which they will "slip into the cloud."
Another Major flaw was that “the country, whose president, Woodrow Wilson, had dreamt up the idea of the League - America -, refused to join it.” The league’s most powerful militaries Britain and France not only suffered casualties, but also economically as they were greatly in debt to the United States. Because of this neither country was enthusiastic to get involved in disputes that did not affect Western Europe. Therefore the League had no military might and could only enforce economic sanctions in hope that they worked against aggressive nations. All these flaws point to signs that the League of Nations was a failure. However, even though there were a few setbacks, the league was a success in many ways.
Hamilton was an ardent believer that the states were incapable of uniting the people politically and economically. He feared the interests of the states would lead to chaos due to “an excess of the spirit of liberty, which has made the particular states show a jealousy of all power not in their own hands” (Morse, 1890). Hamilton was leery of state power because of how ineffective the Articles of Confederation were in promoting a national identity capable of defending the homeland and creating the basic foundation for economic development. Unlike many of his colleagues, Hamilton did not grow up a child of privilege and carried with him the stigma of being a bastard because his mother was previously married and his biological father abandoned the family. He grew up on the small Caribbean island of Nevis that “generated more wealth for Britain than all of her North American colonies combined” (Chernow, 2004).
Because of a permanent hierarchy of status and occupation, it is impossible for a lower class member to move up in society. In the novel the proletarians are exactly as their name suggests; they are the scum of their society, their life style is dirty and unorthodox and the government doesn’t care for them in the slightest. This disregard for the whole social class by the government leaves no hope for their existence and impedes on their human right to excel and succeed in what they choose. “The aim of the Low [Proletarians] … is abiding characteristics of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives” (Orwell, 210). The proletarians are so beat-down by the government that they
Thus, More’s Utopia is a sternly righteous and puritanical state, where only a few of us would feel happy; this is because the communal way of life and the laws of the state forbid its citizens to have absolute personal liberty, which is essentially the main ingredient of happiness. The laws of the Utopian society place really harsh and irrational restrictions on the people in terms of the fundamental choices of life. For instance, when choosing an occupation, the son must practice the same trade as his father. “But if anyone is attracted to another occupation, he is transferred by adoption into a family practicing the trade he prefers.” (Utopia p.45) Thus, a person has to give up his family and the bonds he shared with them just to pursue a profession of his own choice. However, it still does not guarantee him a free choice.
A proud, military country which was ordered to disarm and hand back hard fought land. The fourteen points were unfair and instead of bringing peace, it caused tensions on both sides. The League of Nations was also a failure. Lack of support from important countries such as the USA, Germany and Russia, and their finances, caused it to collapse. Its actions and warnings were useless, the restriction of trade would affect innocent countries at the same time.
For Wordsworth, the structured, book-based education is destructive for the sake of knowledge; a trait he finds reprehensible. William refers to this tendency as a “meddling intellect” that “Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things” (The Tables Turned, 26-27). William calls Matthew to abandon the books on which he bases his knowledge for the more noble and free education provided by nature. In Shelley’s novel, Victor and his Creature are the two main, moral examples of education and the havoc it can impose on the student.