Brave New World Totalitarianism Analysis

The depiction of events, personalities and situations within an individual’s envisaged society or political regime can be proved throughout a vast amount of texts within the period of war, controversial leadership and society. Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction novel that not only explores the impact of a unique type totalitarianism on the individual but also reflects the ambivalence towards our paradoxical twofold heritage of technology and primitivism through politically positioning his characters within that dichotomy. Profoundly, influenced by the competing ideologies and philosophies and development of modernity, Huxley through his distinctive literary style offers a totalitarian consequence to a scientific attempt to create stability and ubiquitous …show more content…
In Brave New World, the Conditioning Centre is used to prepare embryos for their “inescapable social destiny”. In the new state, it is clear that a person has worth only according to what use they are to society; they are produced and valued much like a tool or a machine. One of the most important quotes in the book is “what man has joined; nature is powerless to put asunder.” This suggests a belief that humankind has grown more powerful than the world of which it is a part. It thinks it has conquered nature, but has perhaps forgotten that it will always be part of it. Huxley has turned a biblical quote on its head: ‘What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.’ In Animal Farm, the windmill soon becomes the means by which Napoleon exerts control. He uses it to direct the animals’ attention away from the growing shortages and inadequacies on the farm, and the animals ignorantly concentrate all their efforts on building the windmill. The symbolic nature of the windmill itself is important – it suggests an empty concentration, a meaningless, unheroic effort, for the idea is literally