Mass Media Culture In Brave New World

Mass media culture has become a source of trivial distraction from true reality. The mass media industry allows information to be misconstrued by being produced through multiple sources. The information portrayed in real literature is much more authentic and concrete than the ideas depicted in “unreal” mass media. In Brave New World Revisited Huxley describes human reaction to mass media as “the tendency to response to unreason and falsehood- particularly in those cases where the falsehood evokes enjoyable emotion.” (Huxley)

Even more, it is ordinary in human society to get consumed by the irrelevant information circulated by the media. Many news outlets such as “E! News” deliver unnecessary information about celebrities and reality television to their audience. People are constantly wasting their time gaining information that has no direct relevance to their own lives especially with the rise of technology. In this sense our world can be reflected in the World state of Brave New World. The
Novels come from a single source that has either heavily been researched or was created from an original thought. Literature is concrete expressions of thought that allow humans to critically think about issues and ideas. In contrast to mass media, literature is more concerned with the genuine and inaccurate not the irrelevant distractions found in mass culture. In Brave New World Huxley references great works of literature such as William Shakespeare to depict how John the Savage is a complicated character with original thoughts inspired by the great works of Shakespeare. John’s experience reading novels has given him the courage to stand up to the meaningless community of the world state in hopes of bringing passion to society. However, the people of the world state are so devoit of true meaning that in the end they are just symbols of the distraction that is mass