In the novel Brave New Wolrd Aldus Huxley talks about many social and political issues in his time. Alsud Huxley uses many literary elements to talk about these political and social issues and masterfully crafts them to take part in the meaning of the book as a whole.The main literary devices the author uses are satire, repetition, and imagery.
The main focus of the novel Brave New World is satire to the most extreme.The entire novel, except the end, can be summed up as satire. The book begins is a center where they make children using machines and conveyor belts, and this is a huge satire on the model T and the assembly line. During the time this book was written Henry Ford had just made the assembly line which made the model T car at incredibly …show more content…
His biggest use of imagery comes from his use of feeling because everyone in the World State society does everything for pleasure. Whether it is having sex with anyone you please, or taking a some to feel better, it’s all about personal pleasure. This is obviously a reference to the pleasure first society that was beginning to develop during Huxley’s time. Considering that people during the depression didn’t get much pleasure in life they took everything they could get and it slowly developed into a pleasure seeking ordeal.
This novel is very deep and expresses a lot of issues beginning to develop during
Huxley’s time, and though it is satire it does apply to our lives today. Basically everything expressed in this novel can be applied to our lives but in a more moderate way. It is true that since Henry Ford’s Model T most things are made on assembly lines and are made to be quick and efficient, rather than original. Also there are a lot more drugs now and it is more common now than ever before to be doing drugs, and maybe not everyone in the society depends on drugs there are people that do, and these problems are just going to get worse as time goes
The main focus of the novel Brave New World is satire to the most extreme.The entire novel, except the end, can be summed up as satire. The book begins is a center where they make children using machines and conveyor belts, and this is a huge satire on the model T and the assembly line. During the time this book was written Henry Ford had just made the assembly line which made the model T car at incredibly …show more content…
His biggest use of imagery comes from his use of feeling because everyone in the World State society does everything for pleasure. Whether it is having sex with anyone you please, or taking a some to feel better, it’s all about personal pleasure. This is obviously a reference to the pleasure first society that was beginning to develop during Huxley’s time. Considering that people during the depression didn’t get much pleasure in life they took everything they could get and it slowly developed into a pleasure seeking ordeal.
This novel is very deep and expresses a lot of issues beginning to develop during
Huxley’s time, and though it is satire it does apply to our lives today. Basically everything expressed in this novel can be applied to our lives but in a more moderate way. It is true that since Henry Ford’s Model T most things are made on assembly lines and are made to be quick and efficient, rather than original. Also there are a lot more drugs now and it is more common now than ever before to be doing drugs, and maybe not everyone in the society depends on drugs there are people that do, and these problems are just going to get worse as time goes