“Community, identity, stability”, this is the motto of the society in Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World. It is set in a futuristic London where people are mass-produced inside of test tubes and where “Everybody belongs to everyone else”. Life within this society is cold, everything natural to a human such as reproduction, love, and compassion are disregarded. The citizens within this novel rely heavily on technology and science. Even today, within our modern day society we see this. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, various political and social issues that contribute to this work as a whole are explored by using symbolism and lifeless imagery. One such social issue addressed within this book is a society’s vulnerability to many illusions/distractions.
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Within the first couple chapters of this novel we are vividly introduced to one of the society’s laboratory-like Fertilizing Room’s. Huxley at one point describes the light within the facility as “frozen, dead, a ghost” and the gloves of the workers as “pale corpse-coloured rubber”. This comparison of death in a place where life is born is a society is not a good indication, it shows how desensitized the society has become. The joy, love and compassion within a birth is no longer present, it is seen merely as a job. This not only takes out the power from nature, but gives more to technology. Huxley forewarns us about becoming too reliant on technology and science which will change the way we think and therefore make us gradually less human.
Huxley is cautioning us by using this novel as a tool to explore the various political and social issues by means of literary devices. For example, he uses symbolism to explore a society’s vulnerability and imagery to a society’s reliance on technology and science. Huxley addresses to these issues (political and social) that have been and probably still will be a problem and topic in society contributes to the meaning of this work as a whole. Aldous Huxley’s literary work Brave New World will never be out of style or outdated because the issues addressed will always be an issue within any
Within the first couple chapters of this novel we are vividly introduced to one of the society’s laboratory-like Fertilizing Room’s. Huxley at one point describes the light within the facility as “frozen, dead, a ghost” and the gloves of the workers as “pale corpse-coloured rubber”. This comparison of death in a place where life is born is a society is not a good indication, it shows how desensitized the society has become. The joy, love and compassion within a birth is no longer present, it is seen merely as a job. This not only takes out the power from nature, but gives more to technology. Huxley forewarns us about becoming too reliant on technology and science which will change the way we think and therefore make us gradually less human.
Huxley is cautioning us by using this novel as a tool to explore the various political and social issues by means of literary devices. For example, he uses symbolism to explore a society’s vulnerability and imagery to a society’s reliance on technology and science. Huxley addresses to these issues (political and social) that have been and probably still will be a problem and topic in society contributes to the meaning of this work as a whole. Aldous Huxley’s literary work Brave New World will never be out of style or outdated because the issues addressed will always be an issue within any