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Brave New World:

Comparison of World State vs. U.S.A. Society

Sergei Meckem

Mrs. Leggett

English IV

15 March 2009

I wonder to myself how a person would feel if they were to one day wake up from such a strange illusion and suddenly find out that everything they do or speak of is controlled by government or just really high leaders in society. Sitting here and thinking of a world where love is just a ghost with a disguise handing out drugs to take care of feelings such as compassion and sorrow. To put a person at ease so that the body can do things not recognizable by the mind, only knowing the feeling of pleasure and self-indulgence. To have no faith to follow on, having a short and controlled life, Aldous Huxley has shown me a whole new way of living in his book, “Brave New World”.
When I really look upon it, the whole aspect of human life in this book is really more important then human life in our society today. “Brave New World” shows a place where life is already predetermined for everyone. No one is born from a mother anymore like U.S. society today, but rather they are born from eggs that are genetically enhanced. I read as the director explains, “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.” (Ch.1, p.6-7) The U.S.A society as I see it is quite different then this, and less effective, people are born from their mothers everyday, living longer lives and overpopulating the world we live on. But in Huxley’s world, life is very essential and they do everything they can to preserve it and make sure it doesn’t overpopulate. Everyone lives shorter lives, and they die younger deaths. Everyone lives and dies in peace, with no problems, nothing getting in the way, no emotions to stop...