How Does Huxley Use Diction In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was written in 1931 as a dystopian novel based on a futuristic post apocalyptic world. The society is under complete control, human’s are made artificially and are conditioned from young ages to accept the caste they are put in as well as what is okay and what is not okay. In this society the words mother and father are dirty words, words that mean absolutely nothing to them. The lower castes all had alcohol put into their tubes when they were developing to stunt them physically and mentally. Free will is taken from all the people and happiness is supplied through a drug called soma. This novel can be better understood through a Freudian psychoanalytical lense. This lense adopts the methods reading employed

From reproductive rights, morality, and drugs, Huxley develops a futuristic approach to mankind. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley serves as a cautionary tale about contemporary American culture by illustrating the technological and scientific advancements within a society to establish power and the affects it may have on mankind.

In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley confronts the way in which mass production and capitalism serve to disempower the individual by cementing a self-reinforcing system of consumption and production wherein the individual is reduced to his or her utilitarian function. Although the novel touches on a number of ways in which the individual is disempowered and commodified in contemporary society, from pacifying drugs to an overreliance on technology, Huxley's critique of capitalism remains the most prominent, if only because the novel includes explicit references to the father of modern capitalist production, Henry Ford. Huxley's critique of capitalism becomes most apparent in the third chapter of the novel, when the tour group is taken over by Mustapha Mond, "his fordship" and the Resident Controller for Western Europe. Examining Mond's discussion of the time before the institution of the World State, Huxley's creative demonstration of capitalist reduction, and the function of the individual within capitalist society reveals the ways in which the novel seeks to highlight the dangers of unrestrained capitalist and the consumer culture is perpetuates.

Aldous Huxley was born into a family of acclaimed scientists. His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley who is the most famous, controversial naturalist of his time, and with two brothers becoming eminent biologists, his family was no short of brilliance in the scientific field. Huxley himself was on the path to become a scientist until he contracted Keratitis Punctate and couldn’t properly conduct his experiments ("Aldous Huxley - Biography"). While his later writings may have not been as dry as a lab report, remnants of his scientific endeavors and influences are woven throughout. For example, Huxley writes, “preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity” (A. Huxley 5). His scientific knowledge that is woven into Brave New World creates a general image of the future, but in certain areas, such as the passage above, Aldous Huxley uses his scientific knowledge to create a dry diction that gives off a sense of fear and disgust in the rapid advancement of technology. Huxley’s diction of towering scientific terms brings many aspects of this society to life, such as when Huxley talks about genetic engineering and

In the dystopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a parodic and sardonic tone is often jointly used to describe a futuristic world and its views on reproduction. For example, in a passage found in chapter one, the narrator describes, “Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn’t see it, was a conveyor travelling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour”. Within this line, imagery is incorporated, allowing readers to visualize the scene. This line integrates a parodic tone as it describes a process of reproduction in which bottles of embryos are placed on a conveyor belt for easy and efficient treatment. From the clear and precise description, readers can allude to Henry Ford’s

Brave New World, a novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1932, sets place in a futuristic controlled society where citizens are manufactured before they set foot outside of their mother’s womb. The intelligence and physical attraction determines the worth of the individual, which makes it seem as if they were living in segregation. Society did not live together; each class looked down upon the other. If scientists continue the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, then society will face this “utopia.” According to Gregory Stock, a biophysicist, humans must worry the most about society abusing this new form of technology. He states “The real worry is that these technologies will succeed so gloriously that they will create a host of seductive

“Everyone belongs to everyone now,” are the often repeated words in Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, a dystopic novel that explores countless imperative ideologies of the 1930s, as well as in present day. This chant of belonging is meticulously repeated by the naive subjects of genetic meddling after a closely monitored upbringing. The dystopia described in the book is one of immense control and genetic modification that distinguishes between classes. Yet, upon reading this novel, I found that despite its hard to follow nature, the unnerving correlation between Huxley’s fictitious dystopia and our own society were hauntingly similar. But despite this, I was aghast to find that of the many parallels between the book and our own lives, the

"History is bunk..." (Huxley, 34). Introducing the historical forces that directed the creation of the dystopia, Huxley delivers this quote through World Controller Mustapha Mond, which seems to contradict Henry Ford due to Ford originally stating it himself. Mond continues to lecture the students with enthusiasm and aspect on the self-destruction of the world of the reader and the construction of the World State, the only option to bedlam. In doing so, Huxley outlines the angst-ridden demise of the common world of egalitarianism and individual freedom and the people of the brave new world bring forth what they believe to be the only really winning structure for living developed in the new age — Ford 's assembly line, with its idea of “interchangeable parts”, making possible almost countless rounds of production and consumption. In his third person omniscient novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses Juvenalian satire to create a fictional world which idealizes the streamlined assembly lines of Henry Ford to warn readers that consumerism dehumanizes people.

He borrows ideas of individuals like Ford, to exhibit his fears of extreme use of science and technology. Huxley uses the idea of assembly line mass production in an extreme situation. This is evident in the beginning of the novel where babies are ‘decanted’ at the Central London Hatchery. This symbolises that the natural processes suppresses due to the reverse values as a result of Huxley’s own political context. He also creates a negative atmosphere from the beginning of the novel ‘a squat grey building’. This strengthens the loss of humanity and individualism in the society represented in the World State. The negative connotation strengthens the absence of ‘negative’ emotions in the society due to the extensive conditioning each ‘individual’ receives prior to their birth until their death. Huxley reflects on his own political context, during the recession, and where many individuals lost their job. This further exhibits the lack of individuality, meaning, that when they lose’ a person, Huxley’s representation of the and not

Enhancing the meaning of the work, Huxley chooses Shakespeare--an author and playwright so well-known and influential for many centuries. Shakespeare seems so normal to us, disregarding certain details. Divided into groups including comedies, tragedies, and histories, his works touch on conflicts and romances. They address morals, values, and beliefs of the time. While many of these beliefs still hold true to people today, the world is changing. People are changing, but are scientific advances causing this change? Aldous Huxley asks his readers this as they concentrate on the descriptions in "Brave New World". Are science and technology actually harming society instead of helping? Huxley forecasts the future from the experiences in his lifetime. In his writing, he reflects how society today

Eighty-Five years ago, one man predicted many events of the future. He anticipated what society would offer today, including genetic engineering, antidepressants, and even contraceptives. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel that depicts the dystopian society of the World State, where humans are genetically bred and conditioned for their role in society. Huxley’s prediction that the world would not have freedom of choice is correct, because of racism influences on humanity’s freedoms, limited gay rights and the lack of education for girls around the

In the novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, there are tons of different thematic elements that demonstrated a new and outlandish outlook on the future. The novel is set in a science fiction dystopian reality; where there is a massive gap between the rich and the poor, or otherwise known as the World State versus the Savage Reservation. Aldous Huxley opens the book in the “Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre” with the Director parades a group of students around the hatchery (Huxley 3). Every - so - often the director stops and explains what a certain machine does in the process of creating children through genetic engineering. Providing crucial information about how the World State controls everybody's like and dislikes, physical appearance, physical ability, and health problems. The World State controls everything from medicine to the birth of children. The focus switches to the reader learning the personal thoughts of the main character of the novel, Bernard Marx. It shows that Bernard is an unheroic, jealous and angry person; as throughout the entire novel these characteristics keep getting worse. Bernard is portrayed as a very relatable figure as he has qualities of every person because he is only human. Bernard asks the director if he can go and visit the reservation, as Bernard is starting to question this reality that the World State has built. Through the entirety of the novel there are many predominate themes that, for the time it was written in, are very modern. The two most relevant themes are the loss of individuality through the World State and technology controlling society.

Throughout the novel, Brave New World, events, the features of the dystopian life are illustrated. The world Aldous Huxley creates in it seems to be scientifically-graded, controlled, comfortable and stable and the characters and their psychological analysis help in portraying its motto, but these perfect characteristics lead to the ideal dystopian society instead.

Imagine having to be a child playing sexually with one another instead of being normal and playing with your toys or running outside in the playground. Aldous Huxley was a British writer considered by many as a visionary thinker who published a novel on Brave New World in 1952 right after World War I which impacted the world economy financially and emotionally. Brave new world takes place in London A.F. 632 nearly 600 years into the future. A.F. which is an abbreviated for After Ford, the name of the great industrialist who invented the assembly line and the mass production. Huxley’s purpose of his novel focused on defending a kind on how humanism scientific progression would hurt man kind. The novel brakes into the delineate of what a

Camus uses first person narration to express his message because he truly only needs his readers to see the mind of a single character. On the other hand, Huxley needs his readers to have insight into multiple minds of characters to depict his message; therefore he uses an omniscient narrator to tell his story. Ultimately, both authors use the tool of narration to express their personal concerns with society and the lessons they want their readers to learn about the nature of