Huxley Brave New World Marxist Analysis

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One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a unpleasant representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his presentation to the novel Brave New World, Huxley envisioned this statement when he writes "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda." Through his teaching mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and the use of drugs to control emotions, Huxley hardly satirized the society in which we live. “ Marxist and materialist critics explore the reasons behind such gross economic disparities….”. Huxley's uses Marxist theories by manufacturing happiness with our society to create a better living for not them but for all society. Huxley described the hypnopaedia teachings in his novel. However, the present day totalitarian states methods are still crude and unscientific. For example, …show more content…
There is a powerful religious undertone. “ Bernard also jumped up and shouted “ i hear him; he's coming” But it wasn't true. He heard nothing and, for him, coming.” ( Huxley 84). Huxley’s use of biblical allusion underscores the innate necessity of spiritual belief, in even the most mundane society. “ Monds responds with a quote from shakespeare The Tempest: “ Sometimes a thousand tangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices.” John is pleasantly surprised to find that Mond has read shaespeare.” By incorporating religious references into the society, three particular characters, and John, he successfully defines the absolute need for religion in any culture. For example as Christians have God and Jesus as symbols for our faith, the people in the All World State belief in Henry Ford, who partly “invented” the mass production. People have replace god with ford and they view ford as god

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