Setting Report: A Brave New World
December 1, 2013
Setting Report: A Brave New World
When one takes the time to open their ears, they may hear the sound of the natural earth as it moves and grows, or they will hear the whirrs and clicks of the mechanized world as it slowly envelopes the planet. In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, these two parts of the world are compared as humanity tries to find peace in them. Every human in Brave New World, which is set about 600 years in the future, lives in either one of two settings. There are those who live in the civilized world, which has nearly achieved total stability, and where they are perpetually happy. Then there are those who have chosen to live closer to nature, and who must adjust to the natural world, and cope with their natural feelings. The novel begins in London where The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. The environment is described as “Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure”(Huxley 15). The imagery used, paints a picture of a cold and inhuman setting, with describing words conveying the idea that the processes discussed are not natural and humane. Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future ("After Ford"). In fact, we find out later on that Human life has been almost entirely industrialized — controlled by a few people at the top of a World State. An example of this ‘industrialization’ is when another part of the lab is described, “And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon. The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier
Setting Report: A Brave New World
When one takes the time to open their ears, they may hear the sound of the natural earth as it moves and grows, or they will hear the whirrs and clicks of the mechanized world as it slowly envelopes the planet. In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, these two parts of the world are compared as humanity tries to find peace in them. Every human in Brave New World, which is set about 600 years in the future, lives in either one of two settings. There are those who live in the civilized world, which has nearly achieved total stability, and where they are perpetually happy. Then there are those who have chosen to live closer to nature, and who must adjust to the natural world, and cope with their natural feelings. The novel begins in London where The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. The environment is described as “Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure”(Huxley 15). The imagery used, paints a picture of a cold and inhuman setting, with describing words conveying the idea that the processes discussed are not natural and humane. Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future ("After Ford"). In fact, we find out later on that Human life has been almost entirely industrialized — controlled by a few people at the top of a World State. An example of this ‘industrialization’ is when another part of the lab is described, “And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon. The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier