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Entertainment is making us passive and self-centered like the people of the World State through countless reasons, such as how expectations and social norms have changed drastically over time. Helmholtz finds Shakespeare's work hilarious as it does not make any sense to him because of his conditioning by the World State. “When Juliet said this, Helmholtz broke out in an explosion of uncontrollable guffawing. The mother and father (grotesque obscenity) forcing the daughter to have someone she didn't want! And the idiotic girl not saying that she was having someone else whom (for the moment, at any rate) she preferred . . .  He laughed and laughed till the tears streamed down his face—quenchlessly laughed” (Huxley 184). His laughter demonstrates how self-centered and passive he has become in comparison to John because of his different views to life. The people of the United States are slowly becoming self-centered and passive through the forms of entertainment that is easily accessible to them. Too many forms of entertainment for the people of the United States is causing everyone to eventually change and have the same reactions to new ideas/concepts. Lastly, the constant barrage of entertainment is making us self-absorbed and self-obsessed, leading to a society much similar to the World State.

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Our society is being controlled and conditioned by pleasure through many reasons. For example, the text stated, "The lift was crowded with men from the Alpha Changing Rooms, and Lenina's entry was greeted by many friendly nods and smiles. She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them" (Huxley 57). This demonstrates how people are seeing sex as something regular and not as love and passion. By doing this, it represents that once someone is addicted to something, nothing else matters. Within our society, many people do things for others and not themselves to try and prove that they are superior than others.

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There are countless sacrifices made for the sake of social stability through both the society in the World State and the United States, such as how the people of the World State are perpetually satisfied and happy. For example, John desperately attempts to show how the Delta's freedom and liberty but they are unable to understand him. “‘Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?’ . . . ‘Very well then,’ he went on grimly. "I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to or not’ And pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area” (Huxley 213). This demonstrates that having a purpose and meaning in life have been basically erased in society for the World State. The Delta's are unable to understand what John is trying to tell them since they are expected to behave and act a certain way. The United States is very similar to the World State from this because everyone has also been expected to follow set social norms and expectations. Lastly, the people of the United States are eventually going to be almost identical to the people of the World State because of how they have sacrificed uniqueness as everyone strives to become socially accepted and follow certain expectations.

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Denise Doan & Daniel Khuu
Period 4, 12/20/18

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Work Cited: Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Brothers, 1932. Print.

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Work Cited: Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Brothers, 1932. Print.

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Aspect of Society #1: Entertainment is Making Us Passive and Self-Centered

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Aspect of Society #1: Entertainment is Making Us Passive and Self-Centered

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Our world and society is extremely similar to the World State depicted in Brave New World.  The United States is becoming more like Brave New World everyday because of the constant barrage of entertainment, how we make certain sacrifices for the sake of social stability, and how we are being controlled/conditioned  by pleasure.

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Aspect of Society #2: Controlled and Conditioned By Pleasure

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Aspect of Society #2: Controlled and Conditioned By Pleasure

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“He waved his hand again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second lever. The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone . . . at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror, the volume of their howling suddenly increased” (Huxley 21).

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Aspect of Society #3: Sacrifices Made For Social Stability

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Aspect of Society #3: Sacrifices Made For Social Stability

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“There was a gasp, a murmur of astonishment and horror . . . Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches. Bernard walked beside her” (Huxley 150)

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“When Juliet said this, Helmholtz broke out in an explosion of uncontrollable guffawing. The mother and father (grotesque obscenity) forcing the daughter to have someone she didn't want! And the idiotic girl not saying that she was having someone else whom (for the moment, at any rate) she preferred . . .  He laughed and laughed till the tears streamed down his face—quenchlessly laughed” (Huxley 184).

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“‘Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?’ . . . ‘Very well then,’ he went on grimly. "I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to or not’ And pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area” (Huxley 213).

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“Sitting beside her, the Savage tried hard to recapture his mood of a few minutes before. ‘A, B, C, vitamin D,’ he repeated to himself, as though the words were a spell that would restore the dead past to life. But the spell was ineffective . . . He tried to think of those times when he sat on her knees and she put her arms about him and sang, over and over again, rocking him, rocking him to sleep. ‘A, B, C, vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin D’” (Huxley 203).

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“‘A New Theory of Biology’ was the title of the paper which Mustapha Mond had just finished reading . . . well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes . . .  He picked up his pen again, and under the words ‘Not to be published’ drew a second line, thicker and blacker than the first; then sighed, ‘What fun it would be,’ he thought, ‘if one didn't have to think about happiness’ (Huxley 177).

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“‘It's curious,’ he went on after a little pause, ‘to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to have imagined that it could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific research was still permitted. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were the sovereign goods.’” (Huxley 228).

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"The lift was crowded with men from the Alpha Changing Rooms, and Lenina's entry was greeted by many friendly nods and smiles. She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them" (Huxley 57).

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“Linda looked on, vaguely and uncomprehendingly smiling. Her pale, bloated face wore an expression of imbecile happiness. Every now and then her eyelids closed, and for a few seconds she seemed to be dozing . . . were the marvelous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of infantile contentment” (Huxley 200).

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“That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly," he added, "because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! The end” (Huxley 110).