Huxley And Brave New World: A Comparative Analysis

The human mind consistently wonders what if, and soon finds itself looking into the future for different possibilities in life. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, the reader finds Huxley exploring a nuance in humanity, creating a dystopia, where science becomes the new focus and humans are mass produced in test tubes. Huxley creates a world which contrasts to some aspects of what the world is today. In this dystopia, the values of people are in the technologies which are developed to speed the process of developing babies. Through Huxley’s effective use of syntax and diction, his use of literary techniques, the structure, and playing of theme, Huxley creates an image of a society that worships technology

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.

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 social critic, Neil Postman, created six assertions he believed supported Huxley’s visions in, “Brave New World.” Out of the six, the three most relevant ones regarded the unnecessary banning of books, the loving of technology in order to think less, and the adoration of the things we love that will eventually ruin us. Which are all linked together in some form, through the ideas of adoration and pleasure.

their curiosity is too great and their lives too boring without indecency. If such a book as Brave New World were banned, a novel known widely for its offensiveness, the world would lose a vital source of entertainment. There is an obvious difference between Huxley’s world in which “people are...never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age, they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives or children, or lovers to feel strongly about, they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave” (Huxley 220), and our society which is opposite of Huxley’s and also familiar to us. Would someone choose to read about the world they are accustomed to, or about a foreign and shocking world? Most would argue the latter.

This novel suggests that there is more to life than just happiness; Brave New World insinuates that readers should seek freedom, knowledge and love in life. Huxley implies that without these fulfilling emotions and feelings, readers will be subject to a dreary and repetitive life.

The author Huxley uses his book "Brave New World," as a representation of how today's society is. He uses a fictional world to foretell what really is going on in our world. He mentions different examples within the book to compare both worlds. Huxley writes the book to state the truths of society's views and how it's slowly becoming corrupted.

In his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, social critic Neil Postman claims there is one novel that directly relates to questioning the fate of humanity: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Postman analyzes Huxley to other authors such as 1984’s George Orwell, citing their similarities in style. However, compared to other dystopian novels, Postman believes that Brave New World is much more relevant to today’s society, highlighting its aspects of technological advancement, the expulsion of self-knowledge and learning, and the potentials of exorbitant consumerism.

Brave New World brought a new way of thinking to readers, as was the way each of us interpret it’s meaning, there are critics who say the work hit close to home. While some critiques as MC Dowson stated “A lugubrious and heavy-handed piece of propaganda. (P.S. p8) I disagree with some of the critiques, in my point of view Huxley is using some of Freud Sigmund theory

Neil Postman’s assertion on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a truth that was ahead of it’s time. Huxley believed that people would no longer be deprived of experiences by other people, but that they would deprive themselves of better things. People would begin to love their state of ignorance, brought on by the technologies that “undo their capacities to think,” as stated by Postman. Huxley feared that humans would lose lust to pick up a book, because they would have everything they could ever want to read readily available. He also feared that sources and people who had given knowledge to the world, had given to much and would dumb down society. Overall, Huxley feared that people would know too much, and the truths they lusted for

of the 1930s. In a time of great change and discrimination, Huxley creates a world in which all

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicts a world where brainwashing people as well as removing the parenting part of a child’s life, protects secrets and the truth from society. They all go through a brainwashing program called “conditioning”, which predestines future profession and life. Huxley gives the reader more information by having the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explain how "[conditioning] is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny" (Huxley 16). In the book, Huxley uses his character John to create drama, which helps drive the plot along. In the book, Huxley compares the life of a native to that of a conditioned child. In the article “Review: The Brave New World of Huxley Studies” by Peter E. Firchow, Firchow comments on the works of a man named Ronald Clark who wrote The Huxleys. Firchow summarizes Clark's work by stating, "his observations on Brave New World,

Huxley wrote this novel in the 30s, right after World War I and before World War II. Even though The British society was finally at peace we could still see how the war affected the society. So he decided to write those changes. When the mass productions of cars, telephone and radios were affordable it brought new changes to daily life. With the new tech, things were much faster and there was less privacy between one another. Some were happy with the advances, but some were worried they were losing their familiar and old way of living. The fast-paces yet meaningless way of living in the Brave New world reflect the concerns about the world in the 20’s and 30’s. Huxley decided to create a world where all the public’s concerns have made terrible consequences. For example,