Individualism In Brave New World Marxism Essay

The individualism of a person is defined within his/her social class. In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a utopian society that is constructed within social classes that gives an individual all the power or none at all. Huxley then presents the theory of Marxism, where the class struggle is nothing less, but the backbone of an individual’s social status and where they stand in society. Huxley’s text clearly is based on the realism of social class structure and ideology where the value of a human life comes based on the access to political power and material resources. Donald E Hall writes in his text “Literary and Cultural Theory”, “Thus Marxist and materialist critics focus not only on the bare facts and figures related to an individual’s economic status…on the wide variety of social meanings” (Hall76). Huxley explains that without economic security the purpose of servitude cannot be possible in any society. It is this motivation by the Alphas, those in power that succeed in providing such permanent security. In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes, “People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get” (Huxley220). Huxley is stating the main importance of total control of the masses. When the Epsilons and Gammas, the least of any …show more content…
The aristocracy is the highest class in certain societies. Where they feel as if, higher class all the power and basically that’s how it is. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes, “Yes, everybody’s happy now,” “They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years”(Huxley75). This falls into social conditioning the (epsilons) masses become accustomed to all of the same things and know nothing more or nothing less. Abuse over power leads the masses in this utopian society to consume nothing but lies. Power the main disease that overlies the control towards class