Satire In Huxley's Brave New World And Idiocracy

Satire is the strongest tool of revealing the truth. But it becomes sharper in the hands of very clever people or genius such as Benjamin Franklin. Taking into consideration literature analysis, satire is a very strong and sharp display of comic art, which is based on a humiliating rebuke of poetic phenomena using different comic funds such as irony, sarcasm. Satire is both a literary genre and a particular technique that ridicules or condemns individuals or society for having a lower standard of values, attitudes, and behavior. The satirist exposes popular views in order to bring about intellectual or social reform (Rasenber).

Satire can be defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people 's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues (theodysseyonline.com). There are two different types of satire: Horatian and Juvenalian. Horatian satire is more witty, childlike, funny, and is meant to maintain a positive and upbeat crowd. Juvenalian satire, on the other hand, is more abrasive, daring, meaningful and meant to carry a variety of messages through the comedy.

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.

society was in the 1930s. Huxley refers to a variety of themes, ranging from the decay of morals

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.

Huxley’s Brave New World is a perfect depiction of twenty first century’s societal conditioning. Although Huxley envisioned his theory coming to fruition more than five decades forward, we can identify many areas in our society that Huxley speaks about. In today’s society media is the most important role in conditioning our society. How can one keep their individuality secure in a world that doesn’t allow for one express their individuality? Huxley’s extreme use of satire helps develop the idea that, Society has some how adopted this false illusion of psychological happiness through media and propaganda.

Satire is like water, not everyone in the world gets it. Satire is a style of comedy where a serious issue is told in a light and funny way. Quite often, satire has its moral purpose and is aiming to provoke changes to the society. This form of humour can be presented to the audience in three different ways, including a video from The Chasers, image and a written piece by unknown author. Satire brings out an amused look at the human foible which result in such way that they become absurd, even hilarious.

Satire is a literary technique that uses humor to emphasize a certain point, usually by over exaggerating its flaws. It is extremely effective because it approaches the topic in a seemingly light hearted manner, but portrays a deeper, more powerful message when thoroughly understood. In today’s culture, the media is flooded with various types of satire, irony, and sarcasm that efficiently conveys their ideas. For example, there are many political cartoons today of President Donald Trump. Pictures may over exaggerate certain features such as his bright yellow hair and orange-ish facial color in order to criticize him and express their disapproval.

In “Brave New World”, written in the 1920’s during the Industrial Revolution, Aldous Huxley explores a hypothetical future of the world. With the World State in complete power, the dystopian society functions as a totalitarian civilization. In this fictional reality, Huxley employs satire in order to exaggerate faults in today’s society to extremes. Some of the broader flaws the author exaggerates within the novel, including divisive social classes, widespread drug use, and extreme consumerism, reflect the undesirable aspects of Huxley’s society during the time in which the novel was published.

A satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Like mockery or ridicule. In the pieces, my class read we saw a form of satire in every piece. In this essay, I will explain the types of satires I notices. As I mentioned in my opening paragraph satire can be making fun of something or mocking it.

Satire is a technique that uses humor, irony, and extreme exaggeration to ridicule society in favor of bringing change.

Could you imagine all the difficulties one must face when they have been exiled? All the hardships as well as finding a place to belong? A lot can happen from one’s banishment, including one’s alienation along with enrichment, which is one of the many underlying topics of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”. Part of the story follows a character named John, and his experiences from being exiled, including the up’s and the down’s.

Only a drink of mescal every now and then, when Popé used to bring it... But it makes you feel so bad afterwards`` (Huxley 103). This excerpt indicts how people who have used soma, like John’s mother, get an addiction to it and are not able go on without it. This demonstrates how after becoming used to soma, withdrawal from it impossible. Furthermore, the population has gone through conditioning to see relationships as shameful and meaningless. Early on in the novel it is seen that sexual relationship are not consider anything special and only a way to satisfy themselves as they are taught to do it from a young age. Any relationship such as parents and marriage were made a mockery of. John’s mother shows her dissatisfaction from those who gave birth stating, “So they’re having children all the time-like dogs. It’s too revolting. And to think that I. Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford! And yet John was a great comfort to me. I don’t know what I should have done without him” (Huxley 105). Ironically, John’s mother goes on to realize the emotional attachment she developed for John, creating conflict with what knowledge she had been conditioned with. She gets a glimpse into true utopia in this midst of her social dystopia.

A force exists within this world that is so powerful that it molds our societies, and when in the right or wrong hands, it can change the world: control. Every drop of history was fueled by control, and how it was sought after blended with the time. But then a new era came to society, an era of technology, and with technology came a new form of control, secret control. It’s secrets relished in our desire to come back to the source, and that we unknowingly did. This fact of modern society can be related to Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, as the novel journeys across this idea of loving what is unknowingly controlling us, becoming ignorant in a world of information. And to that end, it is true that we a society have become ignorant, but it’s not so black and white as it being that everyone is ignorant, and that everyone is being controlled, but it is the majority, and they don’t even know it.