Juxtaposition In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Discuss the arguments Huxley develops through the juxtaposition of the world state to our own.
Juxtaposition: place two things side by side in order to compare
Argument: opinion, point of view, perspective

Brave new world depicts a unique, subtle different world in comparison to our world. Huxley gives a different perspective on the world that depicts toward the reader as he doesn't show the reader from a 3rd person perspective as he actually shows the world from the 2nd person perspective and even 1st person perspective as well. He shows that the world is divided into classes much like how we have social classes in our world. But the different classes in BRAVE NEW WORLD is much different than you'd think. He shows that the world is divided
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More specifically. Child sex. In one quote on page 35 "We had elementary sex for the first forty minutes" which depicts that it's a child's perspective due to the words "We had". But none the less is very opposite of our world where people would get freaked out and go crazy, even some elementary kids who understand and know of sex would go crazy as well depending on age and grade level of course. But none the less, Brave New World has one unique , very odd differences captioned in the beginning of the book. No longer are babies born, yet they are hatched. No longer is sex meant for having babies, let alone having fun, in their world it's just for fun, a casual event such as on page 37 chapter 3 it says " outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running around with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs." Though this is completely normal in our world but just so long as the kids weren't having sex and running around naked. Those little details make the big difference in comparisons to our

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