Brave New World Analysis

When the boys get their tour, they become aware of families. The boys had no idea what a family is, when they become informed about them, they become disgusted by the thought of it. “ ‘And “parent”?’ questioned the D.H.C. (…) One, at last, had the courage to raise a hand. ‘Human beings used to be...’ he hesitated; the blood rushed to his cheeks. ‘Well, they used to be viviparous.’ ” (23-24). The boy hesitated and tripped over the words that he says about a family. Later in the book Lenina and Bernard travel to a reservation where people have children the natural way. RESERVATION QUOTE. L/O While in the reservation they meet John who was born the natural way, so they decide to take him and his mother back to the World State. His mother, Linda starts to dye and while in the hospital people stare and question why she looks the way she does. John becomes furious that they would say something so rude about his dying mother. “‘Oh, look, look!’ They spoke in low, scared voices. ‘Whatever is the matter with her? Why is she so fat?’ They had never seen a face like hers before-had never seen a face that was not youthful and taut-skinned, a body that had ceased to be slim and upright.” (202). The kids had never seen anyone that did not have the same look and go through the anti-aging process of soma. Huxley did this to show that their society will not allow them to become old, they stay young forever.

In the Regency Era, marriage was a necessity for both genders. Men and women looked for sensible spouses who would be socially acceptable to marry. During this time, it was not uncommon to arrange a marriage or marry for money or status. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas illustrate the primary reason for marriage during the Regency Era: economics.

Society in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World was an exaggerated society of the United States during the 1920s. These extreme societal boundaries were unknowingly predicting the future. Brave New World developed a liberal trend toward materialistic views on physical pleasure. Throughout the novel, there was dependence on science for reproduction, open-minded views on sex and, ideological concepts that disvalue family and relationship. In the modern-day United States these views are reciprocal and ever-present, however, these views were not directly mirrored, values today are not completely lost.

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.

theme of a corrupt, brainwashed society that reflects the community during the era of the 1930s.

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.

reader's mind about what life was like in the 1930's showing the reader that the world was

dystopian world in his novel. During the 1930’s, life wasn’t so pleasant in Europe. Depression

In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce

The book was written in 1931, so truthfully I didn’t believe it could be accurate about a society 84 years older. However, after reading more of the book and analyzing it, his vision is a lot more accurate, as well as exaggerated, than one might think.

back to real life problems in the 1930s like racism, sexism and the great depression. When

In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses many literary

controlled society. The author believes that the 1930’s was a corrupt society to live in due to the

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a society where people are “made” in labs, a place where everyone is the same, and there is no chance of personal improvement. All of the citizens in this so called “perfect society” seem to be fine with this concept of daily life. However, the citizens are only okay with this way of life because they are being drugged with Soma, which gives them a distorted view of life. Very often, authors use themes that relate to our lives to relay a message through a book. Huxley uses this fictitious novel to stress many themes. Three of which include the power of literature, identity, and freedom and confinement. Not only are these themes important to the book, they also show an importance in human history.

These autobiographies are written primarily by working, and what was considered poor, men. The men of these autobiographies were in their late teens to early twenties when married. “It was common for young men to marry shortly after the end of their apprenticeship, once they had begun to earn the higher wages of a journeyman” (Griffin 139). Young men didn’t begin to marry until they had an income in which to start a home life. Savings was not at the basis for marriage; “Prospects, not savings, clearly formed the basis of most of these marriages” (140). The money that could be made in the future held more importance over the money that the men already had. Skill and residence in London both played a part in pulling age of marriage downwards throughout the 18th Century (141). “By the very end of the century, however, industrial and proto-industrial work were also extending the possibility of early marriage to unskilled and semi-skilled labourers in many other parts of the country” (141). As it got closer and into the 19th Century, early marriage was more accessible to more people, not only to those with skills to earn