Allusions in Brave New World

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

Imagine how life would be if our society did not have cars. Today, our society is dependent on cars for our daily routines. From transporting our food, clothes, and technology to just going to the store across the street, cars are a very important part of our society. In the 19th century, only the wealthy and upper middle class had access to automobiles, and they only used cars for fancy transportation and to show off their money. This was due to the extreme prices of cars in the 19th century. With these high prices not many people could afford them, especially not the working class. Henry Ford revolutionized the automotive industry in the

     When you think about Ford, an automobile will usually come to mind. Most people don’t think about the man behind that name, Henry Ford. Henry Ford was the man responsible for the Ford Motor Company (FMC). He was also the creator of the invention that changed the mass production industry, the assembly line. As you read on you will learn about Henry Ford’s life, the FMC, and the assembly line.

Henry Ford decided to take the risk of pursuing his dream of machines when he left the family farm in 1879 to work at a car company in Michigan. He believed he had more of an interest in machines than he did in farming, but his father thought differently. Ford’s father wanted him to follow his footsteps on the farm, but unfortunately, it did not turn out in his

According to Karl Marx, a famous German philosopher, came up with the theory that the higher class, known as the bourgeoisie, enslaved and exploit the working class, known as proletariat. This theory relates to the two novels A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Legend by Marie Lu. There are many similarities that take place between these dystopian novels and it is evident that everything is predetermined and controlled by the state, causing conflict and chaos. This is demonstrated by the caste system, abuse of drugs and power within the government.

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in

To broaden on John Cummings’ response: In Brave New World, allusions such as Shakespeare, more specifically his work, appear throughout the novel. When John and Lenia first visit the reservation, they witness a young man being whipped for ceremonial purposes. A puddle of blood is left behind and a stranger, unbeknownst to them, it is John comes up behind them to comment on it "Do you see that damned spot?" (Huxley 116). It's a variation of Lady Macbeth's line, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" in reference to the blood she imagines is still on her hands, thinking of when she aided her husband in killing the king. This is the very first Shakespeare reference we hear from John. LAter in the novel, when John attempts to explain to Lenina that he

In the past, Communist leaders have attempted to rewrite history, but in Brave New World, this was taken one step further; they forgot about history altogether. The only people who had access to any knowledge of the past were the ones who had the power: the World Controllers. Thus, they were able to create a society that fit their liking.

As proclaimed by Shmoop editors, “When authors refer to other great works, people, and events. It’s usually not accidental” (Shmoop Editorial Team). In the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there is a profuse amount of allusions throughout the entirety of the novel. There are three main forms of allusion that is superior to the rest. Huxley uses literary, Native American, and religious allusions throughout the whole of the novel. These three forms of allusion help tie the story together by bringing into view how different the two societies are within the story.

Imagine being the only person in the world to know an imperfect society. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and, Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy are two novels about a a corrupt government trying to create an ideal society. Both novels address the different social classes that exists in the new societies. Literary critic Elke Brown wrote an article about how Brave New World is in fact a new world. In these two novels the societies are broken up into different social classes and, how the government controls the citizens to make the world perfect.

Aldous Huxley’s compelling futuristic novel, Brave New World, takes place in an elaborately constructed society whose citizens have their intellect highly conditioned from birth to be entirely “jolly” [as stated in the text] throughout life merely through superficial fulfillment that the government is able to provide. However, the perpetually gleeful yet blind citizens are stripped of their dignity, compassion, values and morals-ultimately losing their human emotions without the realization that they’ve lost such an important aspect in life. When problems arise, the drug soma is a quick ‘solution’ to the distress it brings. An outcast to the new society, Bernard Marx struggles through his life, seeking to understand why his peer’s, such

Henry Ford revolutionized the way people traveled throughout the nation of the United States. A short time after the first model T rolled off of the assembly line, Mr. Ford found the need to create a vehicle that would ease the burden of caring for the horses that pulled the wagons and saved time for his fellow workers. The model T pickup was born! No more horses to care for, no more strapping the carriage to the horse, and defiantly no more poop to scoop. How did Mr. Ford create so much value for the people? By recognizing there was a need to take care of, a want to fulfill, and a demand to meet.

A Brave New World is a story about Bernard Marx, who rejects his society because he

A man that went by the name of Henry Ford, once said, “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work…” The Ford Motor Company is an American continental automobile maker founded by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903. During the 1920s, this firm marketed automobiles that were reliable, low-cost, easy-to-operate and easier-to-fix device for the masses (Rise of the Automobile). In addition, the Ford Motor Company led the world into the expansion and refinement of the assembly line; revolutionizing our society to greater heights through its mobile products. Meanwhile, the company’s contributions benefited society through the means of the renovation of the suburbs and the invention of new services. Like no other during the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company supplied to the boom of innovations; marking its footprint to a superior society.