Huxley+and+Dystopia

=Huxley and Dystopia= Using //Brave New World,// explain how it fits the category of a dystopia by finding evidence for each of the following questions and qualities.

1.  What is the imagined universe?
 * everyone was serperate and that they had there own group of people and some groups acted like they were top of the society and otheres were just made to work. (TD)

a perfect society transportation is by heli. and its excepted to have intercourse with a veriety of people ( j. pearl )

2. What is the oppressive societal control? people never are alone now "We make them hate solitude and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it. chpt 17 (John A)

conditioning also helps keep people in line so they dont learn to change how the world is. "They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." (Murphy)

3. What kind of control is there- corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, totalitarian?
 * he explained, "at blood heat; whereas the male gametes," and here he opened another door, "they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven. Full blood heat sterilizes." Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs. chapter one Explains how people are created into their place in their society. chandler b

- I would say there is Totalitarian and corporate becuase in the world you have to be cooperate, but if you get out of line then you will be put back in line. (Taylor W)

- I would say there is Totalitarian and corporate becuase in the world you have to be cooperate, but if you get out of line then you will be put back in line. (Taylor W)

4. What is the exaggerated worst-case scenario presented in the novel? The worse case scenario is that there are no parents, no books, and everything is sexual. (Marshall)

5. What is Huxley criticizing- a current trend, societal norm, and/or political system Explain?

6. What do you think Huxley hoped the audience would realize about our world after reading this novel? What change(s) is he hoping we make? -He hoped people would stop trying to make civilization perfect, and be proud of our differences. Wanted people to realize that the perfect world could turn out not so perfect, and infact be worse, in many ways, than the world we're living now(the down side of a perfect world). 

He wanted people to know the effects of genetic engineering and that if we keep trying to genetically breed humans we could end up going in the same direction they did in the novel.( K Scott)

Find examples of how the novel fits with the definition of a dystopia and also figure out who is the dystopian protagonist. Provide evidence and BE SPECIFIC. ** Characteristics of a Dystopian Society ** • Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society.

• Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.

• A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.


 * The people worship Henry Ford and the Model T by saying "Oh Ford" and having giant Ts on the buildings. (IMEveritt)

• Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.

• Citizens have a fear of the outside world.


 * Hot tunnels alternated with cool tunnels. Coolness was wedded to discomfort in the form of hard X-rays. By the time they were decanted the embryos had a horror of cold. They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miner and acetate silk spinners and steel workers. Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies. "We condition them to thrive on heat," concluded Mr. Foster. "Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it." Each of them are conditioned to hate something that meakes them have a fear. Chapter1(mike M)

• Citizens live in a dehumanized state. they allway sgo with the flow and never question. rommy tims

• The natural world is banished and distrusted.

• Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad.

• The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world.

**The Dystopian Protagonist** • often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
 * John is the Dystopian Protagonist Because he wants to leave the New World and go with his friends to other places, but Mustapha has a different plan for him. He keeps John in the New World and says he can be unhappy all he wants but people who live in the New World are always happy. John lives in the New World far away for everyone and he makes sure he stays unhappy. He in the end kills himself because he can get out of the New World and is extremely unhappy.(Andrea!)

• questions the existing social and political systems.

• believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.

• helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.