He makes me feel as if the novel’s version of Utopia is not far from becoming a truth. His characters were only secondary to the ideas that he proposed especially considering the time and context when he propounded them. I think that the author was successful at highlighting his point. Anybody who’d date or have sex with a single person for an extended period is looked on as weird. Family life and the formation of intense personal relationship are obliterated so that these cannot interfere with the stability of society.
Anybody can have sex with anybody they want and vice versa. Pain and grief is removed from the realm of human emotion thereby removing all the deep feelings we associate with the feeling of being genuinely “alive”.Ĭitizens in Utopia are encouraged to be promiscuous. The achievement of stability is attained by keeping everybody in an artificial state of perpetual happiness and contentment. This is a very extreme way to highlight the author’s point, completely removing the “humanity” from humanity to the point that even the genuine personal bond of parent and child is removed.
Multiple copies of a single person can be made in one go. In the novel, Huxley plays with the idea of how technological advances would affect society. Seeing Lenina come to watch him whip himself causes him to kill himself. John’s suicide after seeing that his beloved joined the mob to watch him suffer is a great point at rejecting the idea of Utopia in the book.Įven when John found a place where he could live with all the things that he thought were necessary, including pain, he was followed by a huge crowd which had come to watch him suffer. Huxley did very well in highlighting this point.
However, if the price of such comforts would be the ignorance of the existence of freedom, an idea that many countless people have died fighting for in the real world, I think Utopia is not worth it.Ī. They are happy and contented in their respective occupations and are satiated by spending their free time wallowing in pleasure even though they are all alike in each class and behave in much the same way as each other save for a few idiosyncrasies Uniformity is stressed and individuality becomes like a sickness and all characters who had even a minor difference from other citizens in the same class were cruelly crushed into either conformity or the final escape of death in John’s case. The characters from Utopia in the novel do not even know freedom.
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