TagAldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a novel that warns of a dystopian future in which scientific technology and mass production threaten human dignity and cause us to lose our intrinsic value through sensory pleasure. It raises questions about the dangers of technological advancement in the modern world, about true happiness and ethics, and asks deep questions about the essential human...

This essay compares the civilized and savage societies depicted in Brave New World and criticizes the problems with civilized societies that sacrifice important values such as science, literature, family, death, inequality, and love for the sake of happiness. It concludes that a life that emphasizes family and love, in the pursuit of humanity and truth, is preferable.   Recently, when I had...