A Brave New World Dystopian Analysis
The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley criticizes the growing totalitarian world of the 1930s by representing the effects of very controlled worlds on their people. The citizens of the civilized world do not understand the old culture or the Savages, and therefore, do not see what is wrong with their world. The message in this novel is ignorance. The citizens of this society are ignorant because they are not taught about other ways of life, they are conditioned to avoid learning about other cultures, and are constantly distracted by the problems in their world. Huxley steers away from many traditional conventions of the dystopian genre, like propaganda, opting for human conditioning instead. Brave New World’s civilized citizens’ behavior
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The characters in the civilized world are uniform and the idea of independent thought is scorned by citizens. However, some conventions, like the feature of a character who starts an overdue revolution and the heavy use of propaganda, are not included. There is no revolution. There is no use of propaganda; instead, the people are so conditioned to believe the views of the civilized society that there need not be an posters that praise Ford or promote Solidarity Services. Conditioning throughout the citizens’ childhoods instilled moral education, “‘which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.’ (26)” The rationality and ethics of moral conditioning is decided by the reader; citizen, but dissidents like Bernard and John do not. Several times the characters are mindlessly caught saying aphorisms from their conditioning, Lenina especially. During one of Bernard and Lenina’s arguments about the ethics of conditioning, a few of Bernard’s words “seemed to touch a spring in her mind (93).” She goes on to state, “Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have today (93),” and does not realize she said it. More importantly, Brave New World is distinguishable as it is a novel of ideas, not characters. Lenina and Henry Foster represent the content, Bernard and Helmholtz represent the discontent, and John and Linda represent the different. Lenina and Bernard
The characters in the civilized world are uniform and the idea of independent thought is scorned by citizens. However, some conventions, like the feature of a character who starts an overdue revolution and the heavy use of propaganda, are not included. There is no revolution. There is no use of propaganda; instead, the people are so conditioned to believe the views of the civilized society that there need not be an posters that praise Ford or promote Solidarity Services. Conditioning throughout the citizens’ childhoods instilled moral education, “‘which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.’ (26)” The rationality and ethics of moral conditioning is decided by the reader; citizen, but dissidents like Bernard and John do not. Several times the characters are mindlessly caught saying aphorisms from their conditioning, Lenina especially. During one of Bernard and Lenina’s arguments about the ethics of conditioning, a few of Bernard’s words “seemed to touch a spring in her mind (93).” She goes on to state, “Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have today (93),” and does not realize she said it. More importantly, Brave New World is distinguishable as it is a novel of ideas, not characters. Lenina and Henry Foster represent the content, Bernard and Helmholtz represent the discontent, and John and Linda represent the different. Lenina and Bernard