Literary Devices Used In A Brave New World

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Point of View - The narrator's position in the story being told.

"He knew that what he was saying was absurd in its injustice ... But in spite of this knowledge.. Bernard continued perversely to nourish .. a secret grievance against the Savage" (165). Aldous Huxley

A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is about a society in which everyone is created and not born. It is a “utopia” like society with no religion and people are produced, cloned, and brainwashed into its society to maintain social order. This novel is in third person omniscient because the narrator knows extraordinary amount of information about the characters, that sometimes not even the characters know. Huxley is known to give the reader a lot of information

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