Essays on Lenina

The Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, reveals how life and relationships between individuals would be like in the terms of Utopian society. This kind of society requires every individual living within it to look for perfection in life and environment, in which everyone shares the same opinions and beliefs, so there is no disruption within the built system. Just like a normal society, Utopian one consists of males and females, living among each other and developing connections, however, everything in their lives is controlled by the government, so the situation would be different, than in a normal ...

Modernity refers to the approaches, behavior, and ideas of the post-traditional period. Originally, modernity can be defined as a critique of tradition, and a movement toward a new point of view rooted in new paradigms and insights. Recently, modernity has embodied present-day thoughts and present-day lifestyle. One important aspect that arises from this definition of social change and its impact on human experience is the formation of a newly constructed self-image and identity. In essence, the concept of modernity differentiates the modern person from the traditional individual. Such newly founded freedom in connection to modernity involved an experience and ...

John does not feature in the narrative until in Chapter Seven of the novel. He is an uncivilized character in the narrative. He first appears in the narrative when he seeks to participate in an Indian religious ritual which Bernard and Lenina are spectators. Though he is dressed like the Indians, his pale blue eyes, straw-colored hair as well as his light skin pigment betrays him as a foreigner. His isolation is seen in the phrase, “the mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one” (43). As such, he is an outcast and is ...