Brave New World
Like death and taxes, there is no escape to color; or isolation. Isolation is pale, white, and blank because there is an absence of substance, just like with the color- white - there is an absence of pigment. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, two characters face pallid isolation in different ways, Bernard and John. The author exhibits it within a particular passage in chapters seven and eight when Bernard and John share their feelings of alienation from their respective societies where their strong connection is established. Throughout the novel, there is a recurring symbol of white, but in the Indian village, the symbol of dirt and filth shows the differences, but also serves as an enhancement to their similarities. There …show more content…
It is spoken by Miranda who only knows solitude, similar to how John is only familiar with his alienation. The themes of isolation intertwine with one another in the novel, and Huxley deliberately makes this allusion to transfer the main theme to the reader. He also makes this reference to compare Miranda and John. Miranda is admirable and wonderful, brought to isolation by her parent, just as John was. It was not either of the character’s faults that they were banished, similarly to how it was neither of the parent’s doing. All four characters (John, Miranda, Linda, and Prospero) were isolated by an outside force that cast them into the whiteness. John Savage repeats these words several times in the course of the novel, first when he learns that Bernard Marx intends to take him back with him to civilization. As in Shakespeare the words "O brave new world!" are ironic. John, no less than Miranda, is in for a few surprises when he gets to civilization. His education has not prepared him for the world outside the reservation, just as Miranda 's education made her feel apprehensive about the outside society. While the relationship with John and Miranda may be seen easily, the comparison to Bernard Marx represents Caliban, the deformed monster and unwilling slave of Prospero, described by his master as "a devil, a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,/ Humanely taken, are all lost, quite lost,” may not be seen at first, but the resemblance is unmistakable. Like Caliban 's, Marx 's questionable birth, or decanting, is against him. His physical deformity breeds discontent and rebellion, and his education or conditioning has failed to produce its desired results. Similarly, how Caliban proclaims “You taught me your language, but I can use it to curse…” to stake his rebellion against his forced education, Bernard Marx mocks the hypnopaedic
Like death and taxes, there is no escape to color; or isolation. Isolation is pale, white, and blank because there is an absence of substance, just like with the color- white - there is an absence of pigment. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, two characters face pallid isolation in different ways, Bernard and John. The author exhibits it within a particular passage in chapters seven and eight when Bernard and John share their feelings of alienation from their respective societies where their strong connection is established. Throughout the novel, there is a recurring symbol of white, but in the Indian village, the symbol of dirt and filth shows the differences, but also serves as an enhancement to their similarities. There …show more content…
It is spoken by Miranda who only knows solitude, similar to how John is only familiar with his alienation. The themes of isolation intertwine with one another in the novel, and Huxley deliberately makes this allusion to transfer the main theme to the reader. He also makes this reference to compare Miranda and John. Miranda is admirable and wonderful, brought to isolation by her parent, just as John was. It was not either of the character’s faults that they were banished, similarly to how it was neither of the parent’s doing. All four characters (John, Miranda, Linda, and Prospero) were isolated by an outside force that cast them into the whiteness. John Savage repeats these words several times in the course of the novel, first when he learns that Bernard Marx intends to take him back with him to civilization. As in Shakespeare the words "O brave new world!" are ironic. John, no less than Miranda, is in for a few surprises when he gets to civilization. His education has not prepared him for the world outside the reservation, just as Miranda 's education made her feel apprehensive about the outside society. While the relationship with John and Miranda may be seen easily, the comparison to Bernard Marx represents Caliban, the deformed monster and unwilling slave of Prospero, described by his master as "a devil, a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,/ Humanely taken, are all lost, quite lost,” may not be seen at first, but the resemblance is unmistakable. Like Caliban 's, Marx 's questionable birth, or decanting, is against him. His physical deformity breeds discontent and rebellion, and his education or conditioning has failed to produce its desired results. Similarly, how Caliban proclaims “You taught me your language, but I can use it to curse…” to stake his rebellion against his forced education, Bernard Marx mocks the hypnopaedic