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Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.  Do not merely summarize the plot.

         To conform to society means to restrain the brain from extending its full potential growth of knowledge and experience. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, society is meant to be restrained and restricted from unleashing the true natural wonders of the mind to gain an order of unity. In didactic terms, unity is beneficial and can accomplish things because “together we stand, divided we fall”. But in ideal terms, the more unity there is, the more entropy is caused. The idea of having less entropy has left Bernard Marx in a rut. Marx, which alludes to a German philosopher, lives in a dystopian community where the caste system separates and predetermines the fates of all individuals. Through his eyes, readers are able to understand the corruption of being an individual and the sheer consequences acted upon people because of what they naturally are.

            Aldous Huxley presents readers a world full of controversial topics of today. Having polygamous relationships and being sexually active at young ages is a social norm. But what is even more odd is the fact of having parents, which is slurred as an unspeakable word. Lenina Crowne, another character, is criticized for her monogamous relationship with a guy named Henry, which in today’s society would be socially acceptable. Lenina is then talked “sense” into by her friend Franny and says to go out and enjoy the gifts given by other men. This indirectly infatuates her mind that what Lenina is doing is morally wrong. Huxley’s purpose of doing so is to create a contrast between a worlds that is currently making history to a world that could be the next history. Huxley wrote about theories that were fifty years ahead of his time. With him portraying his theories through caste systems, soma, mass production and etcetera, a dystopian community is not far from what history could become.

            Though, not everyone is easily influenced by their predetermined faiths. Bernard confronts an elder about what he is experiencing and how he thinks it’s a fluke in the system. This corrollates to how even in a uniformed society such as the government in the United States, not everyone is going to agree on terms on what high officials determine. Even though there was a great gap between the time periods of now and the future setting of this novel, what Huxley predicted is on the verge of becoming reality.