Brave New World Themes
Characters Expressing Themes
A handful of characters are put into Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to make the societal themes gleam more brilliantly in his dystopian world where erotic behavior is encouraged from a young age and stability is more important than joyfulness. Two characters that convey themes for the duration of the novel are Linda and John the Savage. The way citizens treat Linda in the reservation and in the New World and the way John perceives the civilized world both elucidate ideals important to the citizens in the society and the themes like BLAH BLAH BLAH laced throughout the book .
Civilization values one’s appearance more than how a person acts, thinks or treats others. Lenina, from the civilized world, encountered Linda …show more content…
And all the lines on her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. And the sagging cheeks with the purplish blotches.” (Huxley 119) Instead of being described as wrinkly or chubby or worn out looking or in polite terminology, Linda was described through Lenina’s eyes as a repugnant creature not worthy to bear the title human. Huxley shifts whose point of view he tells the story through frequently throughout the novel. Here, this tactic used to display how judgemental the society feels towards those who are not flawless. Completely aware of her less than perfect appearance, Linda began to grovel at Lenina’s clothes and long for her old life again. She blubbered as she ran her dirty hands on Lenina’s garb, “civilized clothes. Because I thought I should never see a piece of real acetate silk again… I suppose John told you. What I had to suffer- not a gramme of soma to be had.” (119-120) Soma, a hallucinogenic drug given to the citizens in the new world, to ease any slight …show more content…
John wanted to join them and decided to go. He started to leave with them but the other boys yelled and threw rocks at him to make sure he did not try to come with them again. “The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for the pain that he sobbed; it was because he was all alone” (136). John grew up knowing solitude, but that does not mean it was something he enjoyed. After telling Bernard about this story they began to discuss loneliness. Linda had told John that no one was alone in the civilized world, but Bernard told him that he felt alone. The conclusion the both of them came to was “If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.” (137). Different equates to loneliness whether one inhabits the New World or the reservation. However, on the reservation, differences were respected while in civilization differences were
A handful of characters are put into Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to make the societal themes gleam more brilliantly in his dystopian world where erotic behavior is encouraged from a young age and stability is more important than joyfulness. Two characters that convey themes for the duration of the novel are Linda and John the Savage. The way citizens treat Linda in the reservation and in the New World and the way John perceives the civilized world both elucidate ideals important to the citizens in the society and the themes like BLAH BLAH BLAH laced throughout the book .
Civilization values one’s appearance more than how a person acts, thinks or treats others. Lenina, from the civilized world, encountered Linda …show more content…
And all the lines on her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. And the sagging cheeks with the purplish blotches.” (Huxley 119) Instead of being described as wrinkly or chubby or worn out looking or in polite terminology, Linda was described through Lenina’s eyes as a repugnant creature not worthy to bear the title human. Huxley shifts whose point of view he tells the story through frequently throughout the novel. Here, this tactic used to display how judgemental the society feels towards those who are not flawless. Completely aware of her less than perfect appearance, Linda began to grovel at Lenina’s clothes and long for her old life again. She blubbered as she ran her dirty hands on Lenina’s garb, “civilized clothes. Because I thought I should never see a piece of real acetate silk again… I suppose John told you. What I had to suffer- not a gramme of soma to be had.” (119-120) Soma, a hallucinogenic drug given to the citizens in the new world, to ease any slight …show more content…
John wanted to join them and decided to go. He started to leave with them but the other boys yelled and threw rocks at him to make sure he did not try to come with them again. “The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for the pain that he sobbed; it was because he was all alone” (136). John grew up knowing solitude, but that does not mean it was something he enjoyed. After telling Bernard about this story they began to discuss loneliness. Linda had told John that no one was alone in the civilized world, but Bernard told him that he felt alone. The conclusion the both of them came to was “If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.” (137). Different equates to loneliness whether one inhabits the New World or the reservation. However, on the reservation, differences were respected while in civilization differences were