BRAVE NEW WORLD

    In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley makes a satire of a future age and reflects, in many aspects, the negative consequences of the industrialization in the second half of the 20th century, overcoat, in the last decades. This novel is a negative utopia in which Huxley glorifies the technique and the science progress.
    In the 20th century, ther´s a change of thoughts respecting the previous century. In the 19th century, there´s a flourishing of the positive utopia, as a result of the society optimism. At the end of this century, there´s an optimistic view to the science progresses, seeing that it was thought that these progresses would drive people to a better society. Later on, wars and economical crisis made people feel pessimistic. These feelings affected the field of art and thought.
    The use that the states of the 20th century make of technology and science (reflected, mainly, in communist and fascist states) and the absolut control they wanna exert on the population, is the fact that Huxley denounces in this novel.
    Wells (as opposed to the pessimism created due to Huxley´s progress proposal) advocated science progress as the one that would allow a free and happy man development. Huxley himself says in a letter: "I´m writting a novel about the future (Brave New World), about Wellshian utopia fear and a rebellion against it. It´s very difficult. I hardly have the imagination to deal with this subject".
    At the beginning of the novel, Huxley shows us what´s gonna happen during the rest of the story. In this first part, he reflects the hypothetical way of reproduction which is reduced to a production line, with more industrial characteristics than biologycal ones. Natural reproduction is mentioned when Linda appears, and it´s labelled as an obscenity. There´s a dehumanization of a social mythified process; the term "to be born" is changed by "to decant". As a result of this, there´s a creation of genetically definited men to make particular functions and act in a certain way according to the lineage they belong to. we can observe this dehumanization as well, in this society population death. This death is seen as a last service to the society because it produces an economical yield.
    Nowadays, Huxley´s predictions are confirmed. Processes such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization caused a great stir in our society, because a great dehumanization in human reproduction was denounced.
    Actually, society faces a new moral dilemma predicted by Huxley, clonation. Clonation is showed as a genetic definition method, it can help to improve livestock and avoid an important amount of diseases. The possible application to human race brings about a moral rejection, despite the amount of numerous benefits that this method is thought to present.
    The characters of the hypothetical society that Huxley describes have, from their birth, a task which they can´t avoid, the man is simply an instrument. The work is divided to achieve the best results (materialist aim). On the other hand, this division is made depending on the lineage to which each human being belongs to. As a result of this, the higher lineage human beings belong to, the better work they have, leaving the worst works for the lower lineages. the extreme specialization is a phenomenon which is well stablished in the first half of the century, this is the reason why Huxley warns us about the dehumanization that this work organization means (that´s nowadays confirmed in big companies). The employee that makes an insignificant task feels neither useful nor identified with the company, this affects his selfsteem and provokes stress and low yield.
    In Huxley´s story, these factors are caused neither determination nor this utopian society members education. State interventionalism promotes also, different methods to scape from "reality" such as drugs and exercise after work.
    In relation to the accordance of Brave New World characters, we find, as a very important factor, the limitations in thought freedom. They try to avoid human knowledge acquisition, they even reject the benefit of the existence of philosofers. Besides, the previous art to the creation of the new world is hiden, trying to avoid a revolution against the regime established. Despite the presentation of science advance as the basis of the society, there´s no boubt in hiding it from the population in case it could cause a social disorder. Again, we find a reflex of the society in which we live.
    Authoritarian regimes have used similar methods to the ones described in the novel, such as books and publications censorship, trying to avoid population knowing other countries freedom.
    With the "only thought" predominance, the possibility of a social revolution is non-existent. Nowadays, we live a similar situation than the one described in the novel, this is due to the media. They try to show the system in which we live as the perfect one and try to avoid the possible complaints. In the novel, there´s a kind of exile of the characters that, despite the adds and other methods of "only thought" have discordant ideas and can be harmful to the established system.
    Religion is a very important fact in a human being´s life, that´s why Huxley gives shape to it in this novel. Heavenly and imaginary gods that survive due to the faith are replaced by a wordly idol called Ford. Previous symbols are replaced by another one that glorify science and industry, that´s "T" from "Ford T"; this "T" replaces, in Huxley´s novel, Christian Cross. Moral values change, then, religion ment love; now, there´s an unlimited trust in science advances. With this new religion, the need to admire a superior being is satisfied, being this new idol adapted to the new society. Religion is used by the state as a way to calm the population, although there are a lot of doubts and worry because this new religion doesn´t imply reflexion but faith. Nowadays, although religion has a great influence on our society, there are several myths such as sportmen, musicians or actors in order to dell products such as clothes, drinks, cars and so on.
    Another parallelism between Huxley´s society and ours is the glorification of certain characters who have achieved business success; no matter the way they have achieved it. Huxley prevents us about a moral values mutation.
    During the trip that the main characters make to the savage reservation, we can observe terrible differences among both cultures; the way people from the reservation act is incomprehensible for both visitors. Both aesthetic standards and savage rits were strange and unjustified.
    In Huxley´s world, sexuality is simply a game, even monogamy is not well seen and in a certain way, society imposes polygamy. Relationships desappear because the links in which these relationships were based desappear as well, and so does family, that is a basic element in education and moral values acquisition. Aesthetic values change as well because science has stopped the degeneration of the body.
    In relation to the loss of irrational feelings, we find the nationalism. Terms such as nation, country or state don´t appear in the novel, he even talks about dead languages referring to languages which are used nowadays such as Polish. Human identification is universal, not individual of each country.
    Huxley refers to some characteristics which are showed as daily in the novel  and are historical aims for the society such as non growing old, showing, again, a victory of science on nature.
    To sum up, Brave New World is a right prediction about the future of our society in case we consider science advance as the source of human beings´ freedom and happiness.