Brave New World Essay, Research Paper

In Aldous Huxley?s ?Brave New World? the setting is set many years into the future. This

future describes a world where science and technology have been allowed to progress

unchecked. There are no moral or spiritual obligations and the good of society is placed above

individuality and freedom. Lenina Crown is a perfect example of this society and all that it

represents.

Lenina Crown is a model example of how unchecked technology can destroy humanity. If

you allow every desire to be satisfied with no work or effort it teaches people that they are

entitled to privileges and should not have to work for them. With only physical wants

considered the moral, emotional, and spiritual aspects of society are eliminated, leaving only

pleasure as a deciding factor. The lack of care for resources is shown with the hypnopaedic

phrase of ?Ending is better than mending.? This along with, ?Every one belongs to every one

else? capture the spirit of the New World perfectly. There is nothing needed except pleasure

and instant gratification to factor into a decision.

If you allow science and technology to be your god and savior it is proof of a decaying

society. If progress becomes more important than spirituality you begin to lose your soul, the

very part of you that makes you human. Lenina?s complete lack of knowledge of God, religion,

and faith show that even though there is little suffering in the New World, there is no real joy

or happiness. True happiness can only come from faith and without it there can only be a

mediocre existence. Lenina can not understand John?s religion, the Indian?s beliefs or anything

that resembles faith. This is because the New World discourages anything but the present and

physical pleasure. This keeps the citizens happy only because they have never experience true

emotion.

For all her beauty and brains, Lenina lacks one of the corner stones of a normal society,

morals. She is not a bad person but does not have any set of guidelines to live by. The Solidaity

Services with ?Orgy-Porgy? and the belief that, ?Promiscuity is a citizen?s duty? are meant to

promote group pleasure and social stability, sacrificing the individuals morals and personal

beliefs. Without these beliefs people are not individuals but programmed robots who do what

they are told is best for them.

To leave science and technology to progress without regulation is to open the door to the decline

of humanity. Everything is done according to what is best for the entire society as dictated by the

World Controllers. With no emotions, pain, joy, morals, or spirituality to say what is right or

wrong technology continues on into areas where self-control and restraint are needed but none is

used. With nothing to guide science, only chaos and death can come in the end.