In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, he uses many different topics and literary devices to convey to the reader social issues that are occurring in the 1930s and how they compare to the new society formed in the State World. Some of the elements that Huxley uses to describe the government control over the citizens by brainwashing and drug dependency are precise diction, vivid imagery, and figurative language. He then uses these devices to show the moral and cultural decay in the New World. The theme of Brave New World is the pursuit of happiness through extreme ideals and use of drugs which helps play a factor in aiding the reader to understand what social issues are occurring throughout the novel.
In the novel, Huxley uses precise diction …show more content…
It occurs in the beginning of the novel when Huxley states “shrieking sirens” and “sharp spasmodic yelps” in the quote “Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, un-peeling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books.” …
“Then the D.H.C gave a signal and there was a violent explosion with a shrieking siren.” …
“Observe said the director observe. Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shock already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked” (20-22). The diction inside the quote helps the reader understand what the children are hearing and going through, and is also describing how they brainwash children to have a major hatred toward books. They didn’t want
Nix 2 these children to learn to read and be smart, and this relates to how the whites during the 1930s wouldn’t let African Americans go to the good schools with good teachers because they didn’t want them to be smarter than them. This relates to the theme of the novel and how these children are unable to pursue true happiness because the State World wouldn’t allow them the freedom to be able to read and learn which is how you gain knowledge to have a life of prosperity. …show more content…
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Nix 4 character, her life was a headache, so she took this drug to get away from all the problems of the society. This relates to the people of the 1930s smoking and using cigarettes to get a break from work or to take their mind away from something. This reinforces that the government forced this life upon the citizens and the only way to pursue the happiness was to take this drug because their happiness was getting their mind off the “headache” of the State Worlds society. Huxley continues later on in the novel saying “The lid was lifted. Oo-oh! Said all the hundred and sixty-two simultaneously, as though they were looking at fireworks”(209) to show the reader that these citizens are so dependent on these drugs that their government could use them to control them. By controlling the citizens with soma the government could make them do whatever they wanted them to just like in the 1930s and the stock market crashed people would do absolutely anything for money. This use of figurative language helps the reader to understand that the State
World's government could control their citizens because of their dependency on
In the novel, Huxley uses precise diction …show more content…
It occurs in the beginning of the novel when Huxley states “shrieking sirens” and “sharp spasmodic yelps” in the quote “Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, un-peeling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books.” …
“Then the D.H.C gave a signal and there was a violent explosion with a shrieking siren.” …
“Observe said the director observe. Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shock already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked” (20-22). The diction inside the quote helps the reader understand what the children are hearing and going through, and is also describing how they brainwash children to have a major hatred toward books. They didn’t want
Nix 2 these children to learn to read and be smart, and this relates to how the whites during the 1930s wouldn’t let African Americans go to the good schools with good teachers because they didn’t want them to be smarter than them. This relates to the theme of the novel and how these children are unable to pursue true happiness because the State World wouldn’t allow them the freedom to be able to read and learn which is how you gain knowledge to have a life of prosperity. …show more content…
To this
Nix 4 character, her life was a headache, so she took this drug to get away from all the problems of the society. This relates to the people of the 1930s smoking and using cigarettes to get a break from work or to take their mind away from something. This reinforces that the government forced this life upon the citizens and the only way to pursue the happiness was to take this drug because their happiness was getting their mind off the “headache” of the State Worlds society. Huxley continues later on in the novel saying “The lid was lifted. Oo-oh! Said all the hundred and sixty-two simultaneously, as though they were looking at fireworks”(209) to show the reader that these citizens are so dependent on these drugs that their government could use them to control them. By controlling the citizens with soma the government could make them do whatever they wanted them to just like in the 1930s and the stock market crashed people would do absolutely anything for money. This use of figurative language helps the reader to understand that the State
World's government could control their citizens because of their dependency on