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“Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written. Mustapha Mond is one of the

Brave New World Analytical Essay In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, satire is used to show how ridiculous modern society was in the 1930s. Huxley refers to a variety of themes, ranging from the decay of morals and culture to drug dependency to brainwashing to others. Huxley also speaks of how the world in the 1930s is getting too liberal, nobody cares about each other, and how if you have a problem you can just take drugs until it is no longer a problem. The main thing Huxley speaks about is

The 1920 was a time of major cultural and moral change. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley he uses satire to relate to the society and politics in his time of the early 1920s and 1930s. He describes drug dependency, moral and cultural decay, and alienation by using the following literary devices: connotative diction, and dialogue. Aldous Huxley uses connotative diction to describe many topics in his book. In the quote, “Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consumption, the peace, not of mere vacant

pictures we noticed that I was neck deep in water, my dad on my right was waist deep, and my little brother who was the only one that wanted to dip into the water wasn’t even touching it! We stayed on the second largest island Oahu and we took a day trip to the biggest island of Hawaii to see the volcanoes and some other

Cormac McCarthy’s brain child “The Road” is a postapocalyptic novel that illustrates the harsh reality of the world. This story serves as a truth that humans, when stripped of their humanity will take desperate measures in order to survive. The reader learns; however even when it seems all hope is lost good can still be found in the world. The son character of this story illuminates this philosophy. He is a foil of his father and shows how even a person never accustomed to the luxury of a normal

Hawaiians have experienced difficulty with understanding their identity since the arrival of the first haoles, and since then with the promise of labor and tropical paradise, people of all different races and cultures flocked to the islands. Through years of interracial marriages, Hawaii has become home to many beautiful hapa children of different backgrounds and ethnicities. However, as a result of these mixed bloods and cultures, many have had difficulty coping with where exactly they belonged

He could not make up his mind if it was a small island and he was very close, or if it was a massive one and he was far way. Still continuing to take step after step across the water, across the stretch of glass like liquid, he reached the sandy island. The moment his bristled toes touched the hot sand, Judai immediately fell into a deep slumber. When he hit the ground, his head split apart like an

In the passage “A Brave New World,” by Adam Huxley, John the Savage experiences exile when he travels to the civilized world with Bernard Marx. While John is in the civilized world, the separation from his homeland causes him to have alienating experiences. John is seen as an outcast in the civilized world due to his refusal to participate in customs and events that are normal to the citizens. His refusal of protest also makes him appear as an odd person to the citizens, due to the citizens viewing

The book begins with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explains that this Utopia breeds people by artificially fertilizing a mother's eggs to create babies that grow in bottles. Everyone belongs to one of five classes, from the Alphas, the most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the jobs that nobody else wants to do. All the babies are conditioned psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will

the West, while the island of Uta-Jima is a symbol of Japan as a whole. The novel pits the ancient, traditional values of the island against the new, brash values of the West. Off the shores of Uta-Jima, the author describes a world slowly succumbing to Western encroachment. The author depicts Shinji as the embodiment of Japanese values pre-World War II. Shinji is described as living an average islander life. He supports his family by fishing, something that men on the island have done for generations