Brave New World Essay – Freedom Question

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Discuss how Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World examines the implications of scientific and technological progress on the freedoms of the individual

Conventionally, scientific and technological progress is seen as the panacea to the suffering concomitant with the human experience. Totalitarian systems of governance, however, use these advancements to suppress our spiritual, intellectual and emotional freedoms. Aldous Huxley’s, “Brave New World”, explores the problematic impact of scientific and technological control upon the freedoms of the individual, through its dire representation of a homogenised dystopian society in which the individual is denied basic human rights, advocating for the importance of a holistic human experience.