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Satire In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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In the novel Brave New World and the short story “The Modest Proposal”,they both use the literary element sarcasm to stress an absurd situation. Each piece of work uses satire to bring attention to actual changes in the world such as industrialization and the potato famine in Ireland.
These stories as a whole are both bringing up issues in a sarcastic way to make the readers really think about it. They use irony and imagery to press the issues to make it known to try and actually make something change and they both also use diction to bring specific pieces of evidence to the reader to make them think about the issues even more.
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses satire to bring up the issue of industrialization.
The way he does this is by showing how Brave New World is a world of mass production, even of people; it is a world society where values are pleasure, order, and conformity. Huxley criticizes how every part of the new World State is industrialized, as if life is one big factory.
Even strong relationships between people have no emotion and feel unnatural or fake. The way the World State is designed in Brave New World is similar to a factory. In a factory everything is designed to be as efficient as possible and to be stable. This is just like the creation of people in the World State; laborers are being mass produced in a building that seems to be almost exactly like a factory in our world today. Huxley uses satire throughout his novel, but in chapter two he
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