Huxley And Brave New World: A Comparative Analysis

Huxley’s Brave New World centers around a society far from modern day. In this warped

Huxley’s Brave New World could be considered almost prophetic by many people today. It is alarmingly obvious how modern society is eerily similar to Huxley’s novel with the constant demand for instant gratification encouraging unnatural changes. Neil Postman, a contemporary social critic, seems to have noticed this similarity as he has made very bold, very valid statements regarding the text and its relevance to our world today. This statement is strongly in support of those statements and will provide both support and counterargument in an effort to thoroughly explain why.

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.

In Huxley's dystopia, there are "Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms" (Huxley 19) where some castes of children are trained to not like books and nature because "[a] love of nature keeps no factories busy...to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport" (Huxley 23). "[T]he World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY" (Huxley 3) is very judiciously upheld. To ensure that there is stability within the society, Literature has been abandoned, and books of Shakespeare and ancient history were destroyed. The originality of the people is wiped out by the monotonous work they have to do, as machines are used to perform most of the work. "The principle of sleep-teaching, or hypnopaedia, had been discovered" (Huxley 25) which involved playing of messages over and over again on a loudspeaker when the children are asleep as it was "[t]he greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time" (Huxley

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley includes allusion, ethos, and pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in the society as a whole. The things that happened in the 1930’s plays a big contribution to the things that go on in the novel. The real world can never be looked at as a perfect place because that isn't possible. In this novel, Huxley informs us on how real life situations look in his eyes in a nonfictional world filled with immoral humans with infantile minds and a sexual based religion.

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses diction and allusions to focus on the

The social critic, Neil Postman, created six assertions he believed supported Huxley’s visions in, “Brave New World.” Out of the six, the three most relevant ones regarded the unnecessary banning of books, the loving of technology in order to think less, and the adoration of the things we love that will eventually ruin us. Which are all linked together in some form, through the ideas of adoration and pleasure.

Aldous Huxley creates a terrifying and heartbreaking scene with the arrival of a gaggle of newborns, a stark contrast against the banality and sterility of the labs the readers were experiencing just moments ago. Babies represent a softness and gentleness not found in the coldness of the characterless adults, their innocence a striking trait splashed against the bleakness of the nursery. The D.H.C. (The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning) orders the nurses to bring the babies out and present them with a bowl of roses and scintillating nursery books. As expected, the infants are naturally curious and crawl instinctively toward the colorful combination. As a "lesson," the D.H.C.

future decided for them before they are even born. Huxley uses diction like “human invention” to

their curiosity is too great and their lives too boring without indecency. If such a book as Brave New World were banned, a novel known widely for its offensiveness, the world would lose a vital source of entertainment. There is an obvious difference between Huxley’s world in which “people are...never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age, they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives or children, or lovers to feel strongly about, they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave” (Huxley 220), and our society which is opposite of Huxley’s and also familiar to us. Would someone choose to read about the world they are accustomed to, or about a foreign and shocking world? Most would argue the latter.

Neil Postman’s assertion on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a truth that was ahead of it’s time. Huxley believed that people would no longer be deprived of experiences by other people, but that they would deprive themselves of better things. People would begin to love their state of ignorance, brought on by the technologies that “undo their capacities to think,” as stated by Postman. Huxley feared that humans would lose lust to pick up a book, because they would have everything they could ever want to read readily available. He also feared that sources and people who had given knowledge to the world, had given to much and would dumb down society. Overall, Huxley feared that people would know too much, and the truths they lusted for

This novel suggests that there is more to life than just happiness; Brave New World insinuates that readers should seek freedom, knowledge and love in life. Huxley implies that without these fulfilling emotions and feelings, readers will be subject to a dreary and repetitive life.

The author Huxley uses his book "Brave New World," as a representation of how today's society is. He uses a fictional world to foretell what really is going on in our world. He mentions different examples within the book to compare both worlds. Huxley writes the book to state the truths of society's views and how it's slowly becoming corrupted.

Postman asserts what Huxley feared the world would become, and how his vision implies to the abounding possibilities of the future. Postman writes, “As he (Huxley) saw it, people will

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicts a world where brainwashing people as well as removing the parenting part of a child’s life, protects secrets and the truth from society. They all go through a brainwashing program called “conditioning”, which predestines future profession and life. Huxley gives the reader more information by having the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explain how "[conditioning] 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 destiny" (Huxley 16). In the book, Huxley uses his character John to create drama, which helps drive the plot along. In the book, Huxley compares the life of a native to that of a conditioned child. In the article “Review: The Brave New World of Huxley Studies” by Peter E. Firchow, Firchow comments on the works of a man named Ronald Clark who wrote The Huxleys. Firchow summarizes Clark's work by stating, "his observations on Brave New World,