Psychoanalytic Criticism In Brave New World

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Psychoanalytical focuses mainly on the characters and what is going on internally and what their motivations are. It can also seek to understand the mind or intentions of the author.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, presents a Psychoanalytical criticism outlook when reading all of the story. Huxley creates his own desires by writing the story this way so we are able to use psychoanalytical criticism when reading. Each individual character in this story has their own thoughts about the society they live in. Also, psychoanalytical criticism can be thought of in the short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain” by Ray Bradbury. The few characters that are in this short story including the author’s way of thinking can be made out to
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He begins to realize he doesn’t like this new society. This helps the reader understand how there are a couple of people who are still different and that they’re right to want these things because they’re normal. In the short story, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain” the reader kind of has to make up their own reason for what’s happening in the story. I have been reading the story as if war was taking place and it’s destroying nature. There is an electronical house that does everything for itself and its residents living there. Except they are nowhere to be found. The house does not know this so as the morning starts it begins its day caring and making food for its people. As we continue to read the story the only one that we know is alive or at least still around
Lach 4 is the dog. But as the dog comes in it slowly begins to lay down and die. In the story, the house is so up to date because during war times sales in electronics increased dramatically. The kitchen is set to demonstrate for family tragedy. Just like in the war, people had assembly lines to get things done easier and quicker. The house can also represent this because in a way it all

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