Loss of Personality and Individual Liberty in Brave New World.docVIP

Loss of Personality and Individual Liberty in Brave New World 　　In Brave New World, British novelist, Aldous Huxley, describes a perfect society 600 years in the future. With advanced technology, people live prosperous, material lives in their society. There is no coldness, starvation, and disease. However, as World State’s motto declares: “community, identity, stability,” (p. 1) there is no individual freedom, no personal thought, and no religions under the totalitarian reign. People even have no real sentiment for each other. In addition, there are lots of absurd rules for the purpose of consolidating stability in the community. For example, people are forbidden to read books, because they might learn something from them and start to think. Thinking threatens the stability of the society since people are difficult to control when they think for themselves. What is called a brave new world is actually an inhuman and horrible society. Therefore, people become discontented and resist the new world. There are two kinds of people both from inside and outside the new world. They try to against non-humanity of the new world, but the former get exiled, and the latter is forced to suicide. These facts explain that independent people have no place to stay in this new world. The brave new world is an inhuman world killing people’s personality and individual liberty. 　　Not all of the social members agree with the new world’s values and morality although the controller brainwash people by various methods. A few of them refuse to live mindlessly in a society which is full of material and carnality. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are this kind of people. They are friends since they can exchange information about this serious topic, the personality. They gradually express their individual consciousness when they think of pursuing a free life. Unfortunately, both of them get expelled in the end. 　　Marx is a complicated character in the novel. He looks smaller than nor