Representation In Brave New World

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LQ.+The subjective nature of representation offers the composer an opportunity to manipulate a responder into political reflection. Huxley deliberately uses the science fiction medium for Brave New World, a novel reflective of the technological innovations of the 1930’s, to represent the morally displaced actions in the World State. He satirically exemplifies how the government creates a false sense of security and stability through the parody of the French Revolution Tripartite mantra of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ within “community, identity, stability”. This contrast of values: civil freedom and complete subservience, compels us to evaluate the manipulative manner in which Huxley’s and our present political systems implement control.

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