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In this 5 page paper, Plato's The Last Days of Socrates is discussed in addition to Huxley's Brave New World. No additional sources are cited.
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and the ability to be different. In American society, people are free to an extent. They do have choice in terms of vocation and they have many freedoms guaranteed by
the constitution. Historically, different authors have addressed the ideas of freedom and happiness, sometimes tougher and sometimes distinctly, and there are very different views on the subject. Author of Brave
New World Aldous Huxley is critical of too much authoritarian rule as exists in the world he created. This is not very different from the thinking of Ancient philosophers like
Socrates. The well-known dystopian view of Aldous Huxley (1998) is shown in Brave New World. Huxley (1998) explores what it might be like in a modern, technologically oriented society.
In the work, there are a certain number of people who are allowed to exist, and reproduction is essentially controlled by the state (Huxley, 1998). The people do not have
a choice as to whether to raise a family for example. In effect, all the people are programmed and taught to think and act a certain way. In general, they
are thought to be all the same. The government completely controls everything. Ironically, while the people are not free to think as they wish, they have other freedoms that are
perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (1998) sees the future as something akin to a place where one does as one wishes.
People use drugs, have indiscriminate sex and do a number of things just to feel good. Morality, as it is known today, does not exist in the novel. Of course,
it should be said that the characters choices are state-controlled. That is, the people do not go out on the streets and "score" heroin for example. They are able to
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