Theme Of Americanization In Brave New World
~In my essay I would like to analyze Hauxley's fear of Americanization in his novel Brave New World. It is well known that Hauxley was afraid of Americanization and for that reason he gave a American symbols bad meaning in his book. It is pretty clear on example of Ford or chewinggum but also on many other.
Brave New world is dystopia science fiction. Although Huxley wrote many pieces of literature, among his essays, poetries and novels Brave New World1 published in 1932 is the most famous one. Also his second most famous work is categorized as a scientific fiction novel his novel Island2. Comparing these works we can realize that Island should be categorized as a utopia Brave New World is a dystopia. …show more content…
Utopia and dystopia are genres of literature where the main story in occurring in fantastical unreal society and both of them are strongly connected with sociology and political science.
Utopia, firstly mentioned in Utopia3 from Sir Thomas More (1516) and More use the word in the same meaning, when he was trying to describe the ideal society. Dystopian books are mainly about negative society where things like mass poverty, caste system, police state and many others appear. Main effort of most of books written in this genre is to criticized current society or describe it satirically. One of the most important dystopian books are Brave New World and also 19844 by George Orwell, those books are strongly compared to each other and they have many similarities. Well we cannot be surprised because Huxley was Orwell's teacher at …show more content…
University.
Brave New World is taking place in London 26th Century. The whole Earth society was changed completely thanks to several inventions: sleeplearning, the reproduction is now artificial and the people are born by various numbers all same and drugs that allows to psychotically manipulate your mind are used on whole society. This means that whole society is divided into caste structure and future of all individuals is predestined. Author is trying to describe society which is trying to artificially rise level of satisfaction at the expense of feelings and emotions. The most important part of whole society in Brave New World is a Fordism.
Huxley describes whole society on basics a conveyor belt as can be seen in factories. Where the main aspects are mass production, coherence and consumption of disposable
1Huxley, Aldous (1998). Brave New World (First Perennial Classics ed.). New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
2Aldous Huxley, 2002.
Island (Perennial Classics). Edition. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
3 More, Thomas (1516/1967), "Utopia", trans. John P. Dolan, in James J. Greene and John P. Dolan, edd., The Essential
Thomas More, New York: New American Library.
4 Orwell, George (1949). Nineteen EightyFour. A novel. London: Secker & Warburg.
goods. Because there is no religion the “Ford” (by Henry T. Ford) is shown as God. Main characters swear “Oh, mighty Ford!”, there is a Ford day in calendar and whole era is marked by letter F. So the story of Brave New World is taking place in year 632 F where the 1 F means year 1908 AD. The year when first Ford T was produced. Also letter T is used instead of Christian cross.
One of the main topic in Brave New World is a fear of loosing identity. Huxley was afraid and thought that this process is happening during his life time. The loosing identity is one of of side effects of globalization which is strongly connected with Americanization. So in my essay I would like to notice and name marks of Americanization in Brave New
World.
Encyclopedia Britanica defines: “Americanization, in the early 20th century, activities that were designed to prepare foreignborn residents of the United States for full participation in citizenship. It aimed not only at the achievement of naturalization but also at an understanding of and commitment to principles of American life and work .”5 But this process means the effect of USA culture on other countries culture via different brands, popculture and so on. This process began on the beginning of 20th century and is still running until nowadays.
Brave New world is dystopia science fiction. Although Huxley wrote many pieces of literature, among his essays, poetries and novels Brave New World1 published in 1932 is the most famous one. Also his second most famous work is categorized as a scientific fiction novel his novel Island2. Comparing these works we can realize that Island should be categorized as a utopia Brave New World is a dystopia. …show more content…
Utopia and dystopia are genres of literature where the main story in occurring in fantastical unreal society and both of them are strongly connected with sociology and political science.
Utopia, firstly mentioned in Utopia3 from Sir Thomas More (1516) and More use the word in the same meaning, when he was trying to describe the ideal society. Dystopian books are mainly about negative society where things like mass poverty, caste system, police state and many others appear. Main effort of most of books written in this genre is to criticized current society or describe it satirically. One of the most important dystopian books are Brave New World and also 19844 by George Orwell, those books are strongly compared to each other and they have many similarities. Well we cannot be surprised because Huxley was Orwell's teacher at …show more content…
University.
Brave New World is taking place in London 26th Century. The whole Earth society was changed completely thanks to several inventions: sleeplearning, the reproduction is now artificial and the people are born by various numbers all same and drugs that allows to psychotically manipulate your mind are used on whole society. This means that whole society is divided into caste structure and future of all individuals is predestined. Author is trying to describe society which is trying to artificially rise level of satisfaction at the expense of feelings and emotions. The most important part of whole society in Brave New World is a Fordism.
Huxley describes whole society on basics a conveyor belt as can be seen in factories. Where the main aspects are mass production, coherence and consumption of disposable
1Huxley, Aldous (1998). Brave New World (First Perennial Classics ed.). New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
2Aldous Huxley, 2002.
Island (Perennial Classics). Edition. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
3 More, Thomas (1516/1967), "Utopia", trans. John P. Dolan, in James J. Greene and John P. Dolan, edd., The Essential
Thomas More, New York: New American Library.
4 Orwell, George (1949). Nineteen EightyFour. A novel. London: Secker & Warburg.
goods. Because there is no religion the “Ford” (by Henry T. Ford) is shown as God. Main characters swear “Oh, mighty Ford!”, there is a Ford day in calendar and whole era is marked by letter F. So the story of Brave New World is taking place in year 632 F where the 1 F means year 1908 AD. The year when first Ford T was produced. Also letter T is used instead of Christian cross.
One of the main topic in Brave New World is a fear of loosing identity. Huxley was afraid and thought that this process is happening during his life time. The loosing identity is one of of side effects of globalization which is strongly connected with Americanization. So in my essay I would like to notice and name marks of Americanization in Brave New
World.
Encyclopedia Britanica defines: “Americanization, in the early 20th century, activities that were designed to prepare foreignborn residents of the United States for full participation in citizenship. It aimed not only at the achievement of naturalization but also at an understanding of and commitment to principles of American life and work .”5 But this process means the effect of USA culture on other countries culture via different brands, popculture and so on. This process began on the beginning of 20th century and is still running until nowadays.