Through deliberate selection of the medium of production, composers are able to offer and emphasise their own perspectives on politics. This is evident in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian prose-fiction novel, Brave New World (1932), and Bruce Dawe’s poem, ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’ (1959). Both texts capture the composers’ own political ideologies and caution readers of governments that abuse technology to manufacture a consumeristic, groupthink culture.
Composer’s criticise government bodies which use science and technology to control citizens and engineer conformity. In Aldous Huxley’s cautionary tale, a significant event that highlights Huxley’s concerns for technological advancement is the tour with the “Director of Hatcheries” (DHC), …show more content…
This is represented through the description of the family members, “one economy-size Mum, one Anthony Squires- / Coolstream-Summerweight Dad, along with two other kids / straight off the Junior Department rack.” This representation of the family carries the motif of materialism and emphasises it as a flaw of society. Furthermore, Dawe uses satire to represent that even an event like death has become commercialised, “Probity & Sons, Morticians,” due to the societies needs to increase consumption. Therefore, both composers caution their audiences of governments and societies that propagate consumerism, to suppress rebellion and control people to benefit themselves.
Aldous Huxley’s and Bruce Dawe’s political satires Brave New World and ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’, caution their audiences of self-interested leaderships, which inhibit the people’s intellectual autonomy and creative thought to control them so that they are benefitted by engineering conformity and increasing consumerism. This political perspective shared by both composers is emphasised through deliberate selection of the medium of production, which persuades us
Composer’s criticise government bodies which use science and technology to control citizens and engineer conformity. In Aldous Huxley’s cautionary tale, a significant event that highlights Huxley’s concerns for technological advancement is the tour with the “Director of Hatcheries” (DHC), …show more content…
This is represented through the description of the family members, “one economy-size Mum, one Anthony Squires- / Coolstream-Summerweight Dad, along with two other kids / straight off the Junior Department rack.” This representation of the family carries the motif of materialism and emphasises it as a flaw of society. Furthermore, Dawe uses satire to represent that even an event like death has become commercialised, “Probity & Sons, Morticians,” due to the societies needs to increase consumption. Therefore, both composers caution their audiences of governments and societies that propagate consumerism, to suppress rebellion and control people to benefit themselves.
Aldous Huxley’s and Bruce Dawe’s political satires Brave New World and ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’, caution their audiences of self-interested leaderships, which inhibit the people’s intellectual autonomy and creative thought to control them so that they are benefitted by engineering conformity and increasing consumerism. This political perspective shared by both composers is emphasised through deliberate selection of the medium of production, which persuades us