Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley. Although the book was written in 1932, the book is set in London, 2540. Throughout the book class issues are very evident.

Huxley’s Brave New World could be considered almost prophetic by many people today. It is alarmingly obvious how modern society is eerily similar to Huxley’s novel with the constant demand for instant gratification encouraging unnatural changes. Neil Postman, a contemporary social critic, seems to have noticed this similarity as he has made very bold, very valid statements regarding the text and its relevance to our world today. This statement is strongly in support of those statements and will provide both support and counterargument in an effort to thoroughly explain why.

He uses rhetorical irony in one situation in particular. He makes light of conception and giving birth that is usually a gift that is presented to parents through human contact. He uses his language to provoke an emotional response to the insensitivity of the process of conceiving and giving birth to children in the new world. He uses satirical language to degrade parenting and the relationships formed between mother, father and child. The citizens at age four are presented the opportunity to be sexually active which creates a sex driven society. “The world was full of fathers – was therefore full of misery; full of mothers – therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts – full of madness and suicide.”(41), this brainwashed and engrained the ideas of family members being toxic to one another. Lastly, Huxley uses allusions to historical figures to portray characters and different technologies. Due to Henry Ford being the creator of the assembly line and the assembly line being the main tool for the production of the thousands of embryos, Ford becomes the new worshiped god. The phrases presented around God are altered around Ford in the new world. For example “Our Ford” (41) and even altering the years A.D. (Anno Domini) to A.F. (After Ford). All the characters names and technologies are linked to famous historical

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley includes allusion, ethos, and pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in the society as a whole. The things that happened in the 1930’s plays a big contribution to the things that go on in the novel. The real world can never be looked at as a perfect place because that isn't possible. In this novel, Huxley informs us on how real life situations look in his eyes in a nonfictional world filled with immoral humans with infantile minds and a sexual based religion.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley crafts a false utopia that is maintained and enforced through strict conditioning, which shapes the psyche of characters in the civilized world such as Lenina; this conditioning–evident through repetition and conflicting values between the characters and the readers–illustrates Huxley's theme: the messages and values one learns as a youth become the unshakable foundation of one's identity.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, like most satires, addresses several issues within society. Huxley accomplishes this by using satirical tools such as parody, irony, allusion. He does this in order to address issues such as human impulses, drugs, and religion. These issues contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole by pointing out the disadvantages of having too much control within society.

Written in 1932 by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is a novel in which many of the characters experience some form of exile. Huxley himself was born into English aristocracy; however, at a young age, he contracted a disease that blinded him for two years and left him with severely impaired vision for the rest of his life. The disease kept him from finishing his education, thus restricting him from becoming a true English gentleman. Huxley, therefore, experienced some form of exile from the social class he grew up in. His own understanding of exile could be what led to so many characters being involved in it.

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, nobody imagined that his fairytale story would someday be a reality. It is almost scary to see how accurate Huxley's far-fetched fantasies came to be. When Huxley wrote about the conformity, drug use and sex and technology of the society, he was almost pinpoint exact to predicting today's societies. Unfortunately, all of these things haven't exactly changed our society today for the better.

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a scenario where the government has control over the people and their ideas. Throughout the novel, we are shown the different methods and techniques the leaders utilize to control the lives of the people. After reading the story, we can point out similarities of government control from our world and the book. Huxley has a message for us about government power and what it could do to us.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a fictional story of the possible society in the future built on further advancements in science and engineering. In London, England, this story takes place during the year 600 A.F., representing “After Ford.” The natural processes of life, such as birth, aging, and death, are all seen as dangers to the civilized society. To protect themselves from these dangers, the individuals of the society create these exact natural processes from the form of advanced technology. Babies are born from bottles formed as an exact replica of the female womb, carrying out all of its characteristics and duties to provide the baby with a healthy environment.

The formative years of the 1900’s, suffered from communism, fascism, and capitalism. The author of the Brave New World, Mr. Aldous Huxley lived in a social order in which he had been exposed to all three of these systems. In the society of the Brave New World, which is set 600 years into the future, individuality is not condoned and the special motto “Community, Identity, Stability” frames the structure of the Totalitarian Government.

Brave New World takes place in a futuristic society that has a date system entirely based off Henry Ford. Huxley intentionally distorted the setting of Brave New World so distance was created between his audience and the reader. This distance allows the reader to cast judgment upon the society without instantly realizing that he is actually judging himself. Had Huxley not painted a futuristic society, he wouldn’t have been able to get away with as much criticism because it would be a direct insult to the reader.

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During the 1930s, the times of World War II and the Great Depression, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. There were several issues going on in Huxley’s time that are still present in today's world . Huxley features some of these problems in his book, Brave New World. These problems include drug or medicine usage, women and gender inequality, and traditional marriage/homosexuality. Since this book was written during the times of the Great Depression and World War II, these factors also contributed to some of these issues. Since World War II and the Great Depression are over, these do not affect the problems today. Although some of these problems are still a problem in today's world and society, they are not as much of a problem as they were during Huxley's time.

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