Literary Devices Used In Brave New World

As for intelligence there have been three capacities and virtues that should be targeted for moral enhancement, which are the sensitivity to the features of situations, thoughtfulness about doing what is moral, and the proper capacity for people to make proper judgments. The continued progress in the modification of learning, cognition, memory, the capabilities of decision-making will help assist the moral enhancement with these tasks. There have also been many neurochemicals that have been used to enhance cognitive abilities, which include increased attention span and cognition span. Drugs like OxyContin have also been used to help with empathy, and to make people feel happier. It may be believed that a drug like soma was only possible in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, but perhaps not. Utilitarian’s have been pushing for human enhancement that uses drugs, genetic engineering and nanotechnology to ensure the maximum amount of happiness possible while attempting to eliminate any pain. Proponents believe that this would reset the brain’s thinking patterns, and allow people to think more positively by keeping our minds engaged, rather than in a constant dull and depressing state. Many anti- depressant drugs are attempting to do just this. It is safe to say that moral enhancement is not just a potential innovation, but a technology that is already beginning.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, is a masterpiece of science fiction. His imagined, dystopian state creatively employs facts and theories of science, as well as his very own thinly-veiled commentary on the future of society. His family background and social status, in addition to molding Huxley himself and his perspective, no doubt made impact on his writing and contributed to the scientific accuracy of his presentation. However, Huxley certainly qualifies as a social commenter and his extensive works, while sometimes biased, were always perceptive comments on the future of mankind, predictions made based on current event in his world. In other words, current affairs had undeniable impact on Huxley’s novel, and his

Herman Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was German physicist who helped establish the law of the

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses many literary devices throughout the book. Literary devices such as Allegory, Imagery, Alliteration, Foreshadowing, etc. These contribute to not only the people but the events that occur. Each quote in the book contains a significant meaning.

Fredrich Engles (1820-1895) was a German social scientist, journalist, and professional revolutionary. He was chiefly known for his close collaboration with Marx. He helped Marx with ideas on economics and with his writings. His communist beliefs took effect in the BNW in the concept that everyone is enslaved to the civilization and that there is complete equality in each caste.

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

“How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve?... Most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action” (68). Postman defines this has a sense of decontextualized information. He suggests that while we feel connected to the information of the news of the day because it inspires opinions from us, we’re actually not. As the quote details, we cannot do much about the information we receive because we have no context in which to

The purpose of this essay is to explain how some out of the many propaganda techniques that are used in the novel Brave New World, and in parties like the Communist Party in Russia. Propaganda was a very important weapon in the Communist party in Russia. Propaganda was used to share information, educate, and lead people to the standard purpose. The Communist party of Russia took control of many communication tools, art, film, radio, theatre, music, books, posters, as propaganda. Those were the best way to reach out to a wider audience about the Communist party of Russia. The novel Brave New World also uses propaganda techniques to influence people. Propaganda was also very important in this novel, without it the people in the novel would not

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley added many key elements to his novel that enhanced the reading experience. One aspect where Huxley excelled was the use of motifs, spread across the text. A motif is considered a recurring object or idea that has symbolic significance in a book. Through its extensive repetition, motifs can help develop themes or mood. Examples of motifs in Brave New World are alienation and Shakespeare. Though those motifs have major importance to the development of the story, the primary motif in Brave New World is Henry Ford.

Many times there is an underlying topic to a novel and what it truly means. For Brave New World, there are many underlying ideas as to the makeup of Aldous Huxley’s novel. For example, themes like science, sex, power, freedom and confinement, drugs and alcohol, society and class, and dissatisfaction as different themes that Huxley produces in the novel. Also there could be many symbols in the novel including, bottles and Ford. Not only are these themes and symbols throughout the novel, but there also could be a direct tie to Brave New World with Freud.

Our society has changed a lot through the centuries and still changes with all the new laws that are incorporated; the government types have changed a lot. There has been and currently are different types of societies like in times of the cold war where there was communism and capitalism two completely opposite government ideas and therefor societies. We will be talking about the literature work of Aldous Huxley, "From Brave New World" I think this text incorporates the idea of a different society, the author did a great job imagining a dystopian or even utopian society; depending on which point of view it’s viewed from. The author uses many literary devices in his work to carry his story and what the text makes me understand is that society changes drastically and sometimes we may not like the changes and it might make us want to go to how our old society was and applying the use of literary elements like conflict which

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.

Bernard juxtaposes Helmholtz. He is an Alpha-Plus who fails to fit in with his caste due to his scrawny physique. His physical stature is no different than those of the average Gamma. It is evident that his conditioning is incomplete as he doesn’t enjoy community events, promiscuous sex, or sports and doesn’t see the need to take soma. Helmholtz is handsome, physically superior, can get any female he chooses, and is more intelligent than Bernard. Unlike Bernard, he is also well respected and is very comfortable in his caste.

In the novel, Brave New World, readers are shown vast uses of technology and science. The World State used technology and science to change the thoughts of people and eliminate pain. The World State not only messes with the psychological state of a citizen yet deals with biologically engineering people to create social castes. Overall, we see the misuses and beneficial uses of technology and science throughout the novel. Using immense amounts of technology, we see the use of technology in biological engineering and changing the RNA and DNA in people. They do this in the World State to inhibit "specified qualities" in to certain people.

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