Brave New Essay

            Fifty years from now the world that we have grown up in will probably seem outdated due to the production of new technology. In Huxley’s Brave New World, the society includes many of the same principles that we can compare to our everyday life. Our present world does not seem to compare to that of Brave New World, but many similarities exist. When you think about it, the fact that our world has similarities to this book, can be kind of frightening. Some of the similarities in the book and our own world include the decrease in peoples pain tolerance, teaching through technology, and segregation.
            Huxley introduces the drug soma, which compares to the painkillers that currently exist in our world today. The drug makes the user unaware of his surroundings. People have turned to the use of pain relievers even when they are not needed. Thus causing the pain tolerance to decrease;  most people think that as soon as they feel some kind of pain they should automatically turn to painkillers. It seems like life in Brave New World cannot function without the drug soma, and i think this is slowly starting to take place in our world.
             In Brave New World they use hypnopaedia practices to educate the society on how to live, just like technology is constantly feeding us with information today. Hypnopaedic practices, a voice under the pillow constantly plays and feeds information to the person sleeping telling them how to live life. This relates to how the technology today is always feeding us with new information at the click of a button. Hypnopaedia causes the society in Brave New World ti live the way the government wants them to live. We try to live life the most perfect way we possibly can, just like in Brave New World. Hypnopaedia tells people how to live their life in Brave New World, and in our society, advertisements and television try to tell us how to live ours.
              Social discrimination doesn't seem as notable in our lives as it does in Brave New World, it still exists. Brave New World consists of five social classes; Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The higher classes look down upon people from the lower classes. They do not appreciate all the hard work that the working class does because hypnopaedia has taught them not to. In our society we are divided into four major classes; the wealthy, middle-class, blue-collar workers, and the homeless. The wealthy class in our society may not look down upon the people in the classes below them, but they would probably not want to trade places with them. Some may not see this as segregation because they have become so used to the society that they do not notice these things. Just like in Brave New World, our society does not acknowledge all that the working class does for us because we sometimes take what we have for granted.
             Many similarities exist between our society and the Brave New World society which I personally do not think is a very good thing. This novel may make some people a little uneasy because Huxley has shown us our world from a different perspective, even though the circumstances in Brave New World seem ridiculous. When you look closely are they really that different? In Brave New World, love may not seem prominent because of the fact there is a lack of personal relationships. People express their love for someone by wanting to be with them. Whereas in our society, we express our love through affection and compassion. The circumstances in Brave New World show relevance to situations today, just in ways we may not realize after first glance.