Tetsuya Ishida Brave New World Summary

Visual Explanation This surrealistic painting by Tetsuya Ishida is one of his many dark portrayals of life; similar to the way Aldous Huxley, in his novel Brave New World portrays life. One of the key themes presented in the novel would be the dangers of an all powerful state. In the painting above, this idea can also be easily pointed out. The people living in the world portrayed in the painting appear to be brainwashed, mindless and only concerned with fulfilling their assigned roles in society. I believe the gun shaped jet being fed to the men represents the ideology and beliefs being forced onto the individuals by the government without them even realizing. Similarly, in the novel The World State hopes to obtain a similar goal of an …show more content…
The novel was chilling, timeless, and incredibly opinion-raising. It amazed me how such a short book can cover such a vast array of topics and themes including everything from the consumer society to the incompatibility of happiness and truth.The first thing that truly caught my attention from the very first chapter was Huxley’s satirical tone throughout the novel. His clever choice of words and casual digs at the society itself were not only entertaining, but also extremely accurate. His use of satire put an effective emphasis on the fact that despite the new world appearing to be a utopian society; it is in fact the exact opposite. In addition to his tone throughout the novel, I found his character development to be particularly intriguing. His decision to put Lenina on a “soma holiday” for a huge part of the book was an excellent choice to not only represent the society as a whole, but also her emotional instability making her so dependent on the drug. In addition to this, I believe the inclusion of John The Savage was probably one of his most effective character choice for this novel. By including this character Huxley was able to easily juxtapose the two views of the world within the novel through the eyes of an outsider. By including John as a character with likely similar views to the reader, this character was used effectively to address and express all of the frustrations and anger the reader may …show more content…
Instead, Aldous Huxley turns this deceivingly perfect motto on its head; demonstrating the true danger of these three elements in the dystopian society portrayed in the novel. The idea of community is enforced by The World State constantly placing emphasis on the idea of being “socially useful”. To be considered this, they are conditioned as children into consuming (contributing to the economic stability), being involved in casual sexual relations (since “everybody belongs to everybody”) and to having common likes, dislikes, fears and beliefs as the others in their caste in order to have a sense of community among the other residents. Next, identity is something given to individuals through rigorous conditioning as well. The Bokanovsky Process is used to produce thousands of genetically identical people in each caste (Betas, Alphas, Gammas, etc); each one with their own set of values and assigned purpose. The individuals are expected to be completely content in these destined identities. Lastly, stability is the ultimate goal of The World State for the new world. Stability is accomplished through the eradication of any intense feelings or emotions; therefore resulting in happiness. A drug called soma is something the majority of the New World is reliant on in order to escape or get rid any sense of sadness, anger, etc. Feelies are films created to control the