Free Will In Aldes Huxley's Brave New World

“Brave New World” by Aldes Huxley depicts the possibly grim future that has yet to occur in, which the World State gains absolute control over powerful technologies. This controls the behaviours and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. This was achieved through the clever use of genetic engineering; brainwashing; recreational sex; and drugs. At the beginning of the story, all of the members of the World State are seen as mindless and emotionless, happy consumers with the exception of one alpha male, Bernard Marx. Later on in the story, Bernard visits one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues. After having arrived there, he discovers John and seizes the opportunity to bring him to the World State. There, John is shocked to find that the values of the World State are …show more content…
One of the leading factors which lead to John to suffer was that he was incapable of adapting to the World State’s society where he was unable to deal with certain situations with the appropriate course of action. This was due to the fact that John was raised in an environment in which he was in a way ‘conditioned’ to run away from his difficulty with facing it. This was seen when he isolates himself in the lighthouse away from society after failing to achieve his goal of changing the emotionless people of the World State. Furthermore, John demise was also due to him being unable to emotionally cope with his transfer to the World State. After the death of his mother, Linda, John was shocked by the emotionless reaction from the children in the hospital which triggers him to argue against the moral beliefs of the World State. Additionally, it is known that the absence of emotion of the children towards Linda’s death was the cause of John suffering