Compare Romeo And Juliet And Brave New World

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.

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.

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

Romeo and Juliet, though termed as tragedy, love is the dominating and most vital theme of this play, the whole play is intertwined on the romantic love between Romeo and Juliet at their first sight, though the love can be considered infatuation love. In this play, the lovers deny the family and the entire world and proceed with their marriage "Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, I” “And I'll no longer be a Capulet" Romeo abandons his close friends, Mercutio and Benvolio and even risks his life and returns to Verona for the sake of his lady love even after being sent in exile. Love becomes a force for every incident narrated in the play. The lovers take impulsive decisions; by this, they go against the norms of this world. Juliet has no words to explain her immense love "But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth"

Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are both iconic, enjoyable stories that most people have heard of. Romeo and Juliet was written much earlier than West Side Story was, however it was still based on older Italian stories. These stories can teach us a lot about our daily lives and how we live them. In order to do this though, we have to make other comparisons throughout the story first. So, let’s dive in and analyze the differences between the stories, their origins, and their authors.

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.

Aldous Huxley has a humanistic, deep and enlightened view of how society should be, and of what constitutes true happiness. In his novel, Brave New World, he shows his ideas in a very obscure manner. Huxley presents his ideas in a satirical fashion. This sarcastic style of writing helped Huxley show his views in a very captivating and insightful manner. The entire novel describes a dystopia in which intimate relationships, the ability to choose one's destiny, and the importance of family are strictly opposed. In Huxley's mind, however, these three principles are highly regarded as necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling existence.

The text Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the text west side story by Arthur Laurent’s deals with the main themes of love and conflict. The two stories are similar in multitude of ways, even though their settings are centuries apart. The author explore (other themes) family, friendship, and hate. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both teach a lesson of how to hate, and how one of your rivals may be the one who helps you remember how to love.

Having been a somewhat of an outsider in his life, physically and mentally, Aldous Huxley used what others thought as his oddities to create complex works. His large stature and creative individuality is expressed in the characters of his novel, Brave New World. In crafting such characters as Lenina, John, Linda, Bernard, and Helmholtz, not to mention the entire world he created in the text itself, Huxley incorporated some of his humanities into those of his characters. Contrastly, he removed the same humanities from the society as a whole to seem perfect. This, the essence and value of being human, is the great meaning of Brave New World. The presence and lack of human nature in the novel exemplifies the words of literary theorist Edward Said: “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Huxley’s characters reflect the “rift” in their jarred reaction to new environments and lifestyles, as well as the remnant of individuality various characters maintain in a brave new world.

Throughout the novel, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, the second protagonist John, views the world through Shakespearian eyes. “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” In several significant ways, John's knowledge of Shakespeare empowers him to be able to speak of his reactions and emotions and to be able to criticize the World State values. With his viewing the world through Shakespearean eyes, it allows John the power to realize all the values the World State had abandoned. Since John is the outsider to all the World States Value’s, since he will never and can never express his love for Lenina, and he is forced to suicide, he shows most of the traits

The story of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare and the text West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents both approach the two main themes of love and violence. Both stories are much the same in numerous of ways, though their conditions are generations apart. Similarly, the two authors both deal with (other themes,) such as Fate, Honour and Death. Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story separately teach a lesson of how conflict can cause you to learn to hate others instead of learning to love. But the main two characters of each story defy it.

Aldous Huxley’s personal upbringing had a severe impact on the ideas and politics that are reflected in Brave New World’s utopia. Huxley’s family dynamic included some of the most intellectual elite in England. With his father being an accomplished biologist, and his mother a renowned poet, standards were always held high (Kollar 4). This was an immense weight on Huxley, and because of it he possessed an ambivalent attitude towards the ruling class (Kollar

To start off the allusions that Huxley uses throughout his novel, the allusion of literary pieces is one of the most prominent form of allusion. Huxley uses John to show the vast contrast of knowledge that was given to John while on the reservation and taken away from the people that lived within the city. The greatest literary figure that is alluded to within this novel the astounding William Shakespeare who John quotes multiple different pieces of literature throughout the entirety of the novel. John quotes plays such as Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the most impactful play for the entire story was The Tempest which is William Shakespeare’s final piece of literature. The Tempest sets the entirety of this novel as the title is based off one single quote when Miranda exclaims, “O, wonder! How any goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!” (5.1.187-190). This quote in itself shows the contrast that John has with coming to know of this society and how new this society is to John himself while he tries to figure out all that he needs to in order to understand this estrange world. The multiple allusions to Shakespeare’s also show just how educated John truly is and how his knowledge completely separates and isolates himself from this new society. As John sees this new world for the first time the quote from Miranda really shows just how John anticipates this whole new world and how he believes the world will be, painting John just as naive as Miranda is about how dark the world truly can be.

Although Shakespeare is not a physical character in the novel, Brave New World, Shakespeare’s plays and novels shape the title, help to express Johns emotions, and contribute to mold the readers opinions about the new world. The title of the novel ‘Brave New World’, was a quote taken from Shakespeare's play the Tempest. Aldous Huxley chose this title because he could link an occurring theme in both novels, ‘civilization vs. savages’. The two novels, ‘The Tempest’ and ‘Brave New World’ plots are somewhat similar. Like Miranda, John was introduced to a new type of society, and at first glimpse was intrigued by it.

Throughout the novel of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley tries to create a futuristic, Utopian society in which to warn the dangers of scientific progress. Huxley creates a type of world in which people are being controlled and developed by science. Huxley uses Henry Ford’s principle of mass production and happens to apply it to biology. While still creating his own World Statem Huxley differentiates the roles of men and women, in where men are powerful figures and women are only sex objects.