Literary Analysis of Brave New World
Literary analysis of “Brave New World.”
In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce stability, removing individual freedom and results in a false happiness, while in our modern world, society is regulated so that each person has the choice of happiness.
Huxley presents his message in this novel through several of the characters of the “Brave New World”, demonstrating the struggle between control versus individual freedom and happiness in the World State itself. These characters, therefore, present a message put into the novel by Huxley. The main characters include Mustapha Mond, who is the center of all control; Bernard Marx, who seeks freedom and then returns to the control of the World State; and Lenina, who represents the struggle of those of us in our own world who do not want to stand out, but who have the opportunity to choose whether it is accepted by the society or not. Those characters show the theme between control and individual freedom and happiness best and so this paper will base the analysis on a discussion of each character.
In the “Brave New World” the World State is a place controlled by technology. "And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social
In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce stability, removing individual freedom and results in a false happiness, while in our modern world, society is regulated so that each person has the choice of happiness.
Huxley presents his message in this novel through several of the characters of the “Brave New World”, demonstrating the struggle between control versus individual freedom and happiness in the World State itself. These characters, therefore, present a message put into the novel by Huxley. The main characters include Mustapha Mond, who is the center of all control; Bernard Marx, who seeks freedom and then returns to the control of the World State; and Lenina, who represents the struggle of those of us in our own world who do not want to stand out, but who have the opportunity to choose whether it is accepted by the society or not. Those characters show the theme between control and individual freedom and happiness best and so this paper will base the analysis on a discussion of each character.
In the “Brave New World” the World State is a place controlled by technology. "And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social