Vocabulary In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

The first thing that I noticed when I opened Brave New World and began reading was that Aldous Huxley has a very extensive vocabulary when he would say things like, “Wintriness responded to wintriness” (Huxley, p.3). I had absolutely no idea what that meant until I looked it up. This fact made the book seem like I was reading another one of those horrid books that you are forced to read in school that no one, except the teacher, understands. Despite that fact I kept reading, because this is for a grade, and I soon came to realize that this book is nothing like those other books. Brave New World does have some rather large vocabulary but I can still understand what is going on to the point where I want to keep reading to see what’s going to happen next. The next …show more content…
He would then, all of a sudden, cut off the scene and switch to a completely different scene with different characters; this was very confusing to me at first, and I couldn’t keep everything straight. As I continued the book and got more familiar with everything it became easier to read and less confusing.The setting and time frame the author chose for the book to take place in, is another reason why I wanted to keep reading. This story was set in the future, and the first place you see some of the main characters, is in a facility where they scientifically produce humans. In this facility the workers are able to control everything about each fetus and decide what they are going to bring to the community when they are older. Everyone in this society is aware of each other’s social rank they were given from the time they were developed. It is so natural for humans to be