In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley illuminates the world's willful ignorance never learning history which furthers the idea of Uniformity.
Huxley attempts to show the reader this many times during the novel thought quotes like
“Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years’ War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 15O.” “There were some things called the pyramids, for example. “And a man called Shakespeare. You’ve never heard of them of course.”
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“He’s so ugly!” said Fanny. “But I rather like his looks.” “And then so small.” Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste. “I think that’s rather sweet,” said Lenina. “One feels one would like to pet him. You know. Like a cat.” Fanny was shocked. “They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. That’s why he’s so stunted.” “What nonsense!” Lenina was indignant.
The man they are speaking about is Bernard, an Alpha Plus that is ugly and smaller than others. He’s different not just in size but also in his mind. Because of this, he is being made fun of. He’s not conforming to uniform expectations which are a dystopian theme. He is bullied because he is different which would only make him want to be the same as them but he can't. He is different which makes him weird but if history was taught to these people they would understand that in every great civilization being different was normal and to understand how society is normally you must understand the past. The Brave New World creates the there own idea of society by getting rid of the history where others were
Huxley attempts to show the reader this many times during the novel thought quotes like
“Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years’ War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 15O.” “There were some things called the pyramids, for example. “And a man called Shakespeare. You’ve never heard of them of course.”
This quote shows how the world leaders or the “Government” has stopped the citizens from learning about the past, learning about …show more content…
“He’s so ugly!” said Fanny. “But I rather like his looks.” “And then so small.” Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste. “I think that’s rather sweet,” said Lenina. “One feels one would like to pet him. You know. Like a cat.” Fanny was shocked. “They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. That’s why he’s so stunted.” “What nonsense!” Lenina was indignant.
The man they are speaking about is Bernard, an Alpha Plus that is ugly and smaller than others. He’s different not just in size but also in his mind. Because of this, he is being made fun of. He’s not conforming to uniform expectations which are a dystopian theme. He is bullied because he is different which would only make him want to be the same as them but he can't. He is different which makes him weird but if history was taught to these people they would understand that in every great civilization being different was normal and to understand how society is normally you must understand the past. The Brave New World creates the there own idea of society by getting rid of the history where others were