Brave New World Style Analysis Essay
Wesley Phillips
AP English
Period 4
Style Analysis: Brave New World
In the excerpt from chapter 3 of the speculative fiction, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the narrator at the moment, Mustapha Mond, explains to the students in the garden about the past life before the World State was created discussing how it differed in social relationships. Mustapha Mond enters the book when The Director Of the Central London Hatchery is disturbed by a young boy crying because of the sexual activities the kids were encouraged to engage in. The boy is then sent to a psychologist and the Director starts to discuss reproduction when he is interrupted by Mustapha Mond, who is one of the ten World Controllers. Huxley creates a tone of irony …show more content…
Mond compares a pipe with flowing water to emotions. Mond continues to explain that the water flowing in the pipe represents human emotions. Mond tells the children to, “Think of water under pressure in a pipe.” Mustapha Mond pierces a hole in the pipe and describes the water shooting out as, “a jet!” Mond then pierces the pipe twenty times causing twenty, “piddling little fountains.” The strong jet represents a strong emotion which is out of control and not calm like the twenty holes which pour out evenly. From this metaphor, Mond insinuated that strong emotions are unsound because, “The urge has but a single outlet” causing instability. The twenty holes in the pipe represent stability because there was more than one outlet for the water to pour out of. This metaphor allows the children to grasp a better understanding for the creation of the World State and the regulation it imposes on society. This was the reason for the creation of the World State because they believed emotions were the cause of destruction in the world before. From Mond’s metaphor, the ironic tone is portrayed because the World State believes that emotions need to be repressed to achieve a utopia. By removing all the flaws in society, the World State created a society where there is no individuality and restricted everyone from expressing themselves the way the y wanted
AP English
Period 4
Style Analysis: Brave New World
In the excerpt from chapter 3 of the speculative fiction, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the narrator at the moment, Mustapha Mond, explains to the students in the garden about the past life before the World State was created discussing how it differed in social relationships. Mustapha Mond enters the book when The Director Of the Central London Hatchery is disturbed by a young boy crying because of the sexual activities the kids were encouraged to engage in. The boy is then sent to a psychologist and the Director starts to discuss reproduction when he is interrupted by Mustapha Mond, who is one of the ten World Controllers. Huxley creates a tone of irony …show more content…
Mond compares a pipe with flowing water to emotions. Mond continues to explain that the water flowing in the pipe represents human emotions. Mond tells the children to, “Think of water under pressure in a pipe.” Mustapha Mond pierces a hole in the pipe and describes the water shooting out as, “a jet!” Mond then pierces the pipe twenty times causing twenty, “piddling little fountains.” The strong jet represents a strong emotion which is out of control and not calm like the twenty holes which pour out evenly. From this metaphor, Mond insinuated that strong emotions are unsound because, “The urge has but a single outlet” causing instability. The twenty holes in the pipe represent stability because there was more than one outlet for the water to pour out of. This metaphor allows the children to grasp a better understanding for the creation of the World State and the regulation it imposes on society. This was the reason for the creation of the World State because they believed emotions were the cause of destruction in the world before. From Mond’s metaphor, the ironic tone is portrayed because the World State believes that emotions need to be repressed to achieve a utopia. By removing all the flaws in society, the World State created a society where there is no individuality and restricted everyone from expressing themselves the way the y wanted