After reading through and finishing Brave New World I was shocked during and after as I thought about the way they went about doing things in their society. Torturing the children at young ages. Their dependency on drugs. They worship a car for Ford's sake. All of that makes a utopia, surprisingly.
Even if the methods they used to create stability and such in their society seemed some times gruesome, the shocking answer that I have concluded is that Brave New World is a utopia. No misery, no hunger, no over crowding, no rampant diseases. Unless you count the reservation, but other than that the rest of the world is virtually a utopia. Sure they are dependent on soma drugs, they do electrical shock the babies to teach them what they can not like, but that all makes their society. It may not be the utopia we may have imagined in our heads, but it certainly is one.
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I agree in what you said about the society in Brave New World not having the characteristics of utopic place we imagined. According to Wikipedia, utopia means, "ideal community or society possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system," and the society does have good socio-politico-legal system without major arguments among the people against the government. [Almost] Everyone is happy, no one has problem with the government or the law.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure why people say this book is about dystopic society...
I see Brave New World more as a totalitarian country because the people are told what to do and what to be. They also are taught to be afraid of things like nature and told what to do through their sleep .They don't notice this because they are overwhelmed with happiness such as soma and feelies to notice or even think about this. So I am not sure if it is utopia because on one hand it is just like a totalitarianism state but on the other no one is suffering or committing any crimes and no one seems to be complaining about it. So I guess it like a cross over between a utopia and a Dystopia.
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