The Id: A Dystopian Society

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•The idea of life and death illuminate the psyche of the characters and the author.

•The Id is a basic structure of personality which serves as a reservoir of instincts or mental representation.

•In the novel, Huxley illustrates a dystopian society in which various scientific and psychological techniques are used to control people from their conception to their death. With relation to the human psyche the id is what as newborns, allows us to get our basic needs met.

•In the novel it states that, “The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning - forever. It is death if it stands still” (Huxley, 36). This quotation explains the human life from birth till death, as the wheel symbolises our human desires from birth and by the end there

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