Topic C
The author’s vision into the future from 1931 when it was written to portray that technology is going to take over society. This is very believable because technology makes people in general lazy and act like they don't have to do anything. Since this society begins when the Model-T was invented and Ford is their God like figure it makes since the road they went down to get to where they are in the novel. In the novel human beings are made through machines and it is considered a foreign idea if someone were to create humans naturally. This society is also addicted to Soma the "perfect drug" that was created to make people forget about their worries. This puts people in a situation where they can't complain about society. Since the society conditions humans to act the way they act emotionally Huxley is portraying the idea that technology will overpower humans in the future through the creation of human beings and the entire living of the human life. I the second section of the book Lenina goes to the New Mexico Reservation and freaks out because none of these things from society exist in there and she gets depressed. She is so dependent on technology she is affected emotionally. Humans in this society are also shown as not as important as the machines. The author gives us hope through Bernard. Even though he is brought up in the technological society. Bernard sees the world differently because he is short for his status in society and therefore is secluded. The author gives us hope that through Bernard he can make society much better than it is now by revolting against society. This is why he travels to the New Mexican Reservation to figure out what they do differently than they do in society.
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