Bernard Marx is a major character in Brave New World and probably the most interesting. In the beginning, when the author introduces the story plot, a character show up and define the law of order. The World State had just become a utopia; free of emotion and desire. Huxley describes Bernard as a jealous man toward Henry Foster because he is successfully acquiring Lenina Crowne. Many other interesting things portrayed Barnard of being “different” as story continue.
Essay: Instead of throwing the nation into an economic bear trap the same way that WWI did, WWII actually enabled the economy to sky rocket. This in turn gave way to higher industrial productions, better conditions for family money wise, and supposed equality for all men. But even though there was this theoretical equality, racial injustice continued to sprout all over the nation. This left black men struggling to achieve their own "American Dream". With the despair of millions of unjustified people, authors like Charlotte Watson Sherman made their stories those that would expose the importance of dreams in a world where people of color were told that no such thing was useful.
However, the character meets his downfall by "succumbing to an effect caused by a flaw that is tragic” (Orwell). Winston is truly a heroic character because even though he dies while fighting or struggling to face the state which is depicted as a totalitarian, controlling all aspects of human life, he does not give up in his struggles. Winston is a man of high social nature, and this makes him a hero. He works for the Ministry of Truth as an outer party clerk. He does not belong to the “proles” who are the third class in the country living in filthy places.
This inflates questions about the ethics of children’s marketing and its impact on the health and well being of kids. The documentary Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood focuses directly on the huge impact this is making. You are what you buy; you are what you own, if you don’t have it you are seen as less fortunate than others. What you buy is who you are. Education and consumerism blindly targets you and is easily mistaken for happiness and satisfaction.
March 26th 855 words Happiness at a cost “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” 1. Aldous Huxley's book BNW reveals that a society, which prioritizes happiness, has its consequences; it undercuts our ability to think and use our full range of emotion. Through the use of conditioning citizens in Brave New World are unable to think for themselves and make their own decisions. Huxley shows that drugs like soma restrict our ability to make our own choices and experience emotions other then happiness. In the Brave New World society children are conditioned at a young age to fit into society in a particular way to achieve happiness in society.
Has Huxley written a book about what a perfect society is, or has he written about degradation humans? The society in Brave New World is functional, it protects it's people everyone is happy, and it keeps people safe. The lives of the people seem to be horrible because they have no individuality. Yet their lives are much better than ours. In a Utopia the things that hurt the society and make it unstable the same things that make people happy in a modern society.
Juan Pablo said, “A gramme is always better than a damn,” “A gramme in time saves nine,” in his article about Brave New World (Juan Pablo, 1). These quotes say that by taking the drug lets you forget all your worries. In reality we call that drug abuse. Drug addicts use different substances to escape the harsh reality of truth. Living without the drugs seems unimaginable and frightening in both worlds.
Still, a caterpillar can desire to be a butterfly all it likes, but without God’s power, it will never be one. If we rely on our human nature to run a republic, what is known to be a ‘perfect’ society, because of our depravity, it will inevitably fall apart. Isaiah 33:22 tells us that God is our king, lawgiver, and judge. Because He is perfect and holy, this form of “government” saves us. In a monarchy, a fallen human being attempts to take on these three positions and in doing so, becomes the god – like figure for the society.
Happiness achieved in Brave New World is phony. They achieve happiness not through actually feeling it, but with soma. Whenever they start to realize the reality of Brave New World and get upset about life, or don’t understand things they take soma. They do not experience real happiness. It is just a drug able to drown away ones negative feelings.
Mr Birling is a very selfish man who ‘has to make his way’ and doesn’t think of anyone but himself and his family; he thinks the community is stupid. He likes to make predictions on future- the unsinkability of the titanic, the impossibility of the war and the promises of technology. Sheila is presented as a very pretty and a quite honest character. She is engaged to Gerald Croft and they have just had their engagement party. When the inspector tells Sheila about Eva Smith she showed a lot of emotion and felt that she had to tell the inspector everything that happened.