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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: Dystopia­n Novel Analysis

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Summary of the novel 'Brave New World'


The novel 'Brave New World' written by Aldous Huxley imagine a society in the future London

in the year 632 after Ford. The three ideals of the society are "community, identity and stability" and are for all visible on public buildings, so they are always present.

Brave New World describes a world in which people are generated and categorized in social castes through genetics and belong to one of five classes according to their intelligence: from perfect "Alphas" down to moronic "Epsilons".

Alphas and Betas have more skilled occupations while Gammas, Deltas and Epsilon perform menial work. To insure worldwide stability, people consume Soma, a legal drug that entertain and raise the sensibility of the consummer. Thus, people are always 'happy'.Hence the motto community, identity and stability refers to the whole social construct: The community is best describes by the hypnopaedia sentence 'Everyone works for everyone else.' Each of them perform his assigned task in the system and thus forms a part in society.

No one even waste a thought that he could not be satisfied. Even the leisure facilities, consisting of deverse sports and 3D cinema, contributes, that nobody even feel just for a minute alone. Everything will be done jointly, to total promiscuity, sex is seen as a lesure activity with no obligations.Besides love seems, with few exceptions, no longer exist.

The sentence "everyone belongs to everyone" has taken his place. Privacy is in this type of society, of course, almost impossible, but not missed by the members of this.

Each one has an identity and a direct role in society. In the world of the novel, the Bokanovsky Process is a method of human reproduction in which a fertilized egg is split into identical genetic copies. Using this method, one egg can be split as many as 96 embryos.

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All members of a caste wear the same color, so that further uniformity is achieved. But despite having the same origin of the plant's physical and mental conditions of each are determined before birth, so that it fits into one of the 5 categories.

Moreover, Hypnopaedia is a method in the BNW to control people's thoughts by repeating the same message over and over again until those messages are the person's thoughts. Sleeping Betas babies listen to repeated phrases to a tape played hundreds of times which indoctrinates them to believe they are superior to Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, but not as clever as Alphas.

Through their work, entertainement and consomption of Soma, the world's stability is assured.The story is about an unhappy Alpha-Plus man called Bernard Marx who feel left out. He has fallen

in love with a pretty girl called Lenina Crowne. In contrast to Lenina Bernhard is an outsider, because of his small figure, his individual thinking and his interest in the Savages’ behaviour, rituals and ways of living. They get permission of the Director of the Hatching and Conditioning Center (DHC) and the World Controller (Mustafa Mond) to visit a Savage Reservation, an old society, which reminds the reader of a slum.

After giving birth to their child, named John, it would have been a scandal to go back to the BNW and so Linda and her son had to stay there. First she had various problems to adapt herself to the “new” society, having only one man at the same time. She has grown old, fat, and quite ugly.

She has used alcohol to replace the soma she once had. John is also seen as an outsider, because of his light skin colour, as it is Bernhard, because of the fact that the conditioning didn’t work. They become friends and Bernhard decides to take Linda and John with him to BNW.

And soon he recognizes that BNW isn’t as good as his mother always told him, he tries to make the people in BNW realize how diseased their form of society is. Bernhard is sent to an island with Helmholtz-Watson, a friend with a similar way of individual thinking while John is kept there for some experiments.

John takes over a lighthouse where he mourns for his mother Linda, who died of an overdose of soma and solitude. He prefers to be alone with his thoughts and memories.

Moreover he tries to forget Lenina, who isn’t able to have emotional feelings such as love and only wants to have sex with him. John takes what he sees as his only escape. He commits suicide.




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