Lit Analysis #2

Summary:Brave New World is a fictional novel that takes place in the future. Babies are not born, they are developed in test-tubes. They are developed to different standards of intelligence, the Alphas are the ruling class, then the Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. They are all taught from the time they are born on to be content with their lives. When they aren't at work they spend their time in superficial pleasures, nobody thinks about or discusses anything serious. The famous american businessman Henry Ford is worshiped as God. There is no history, no culture, and no love. Bernard is an Alpha, but he is smaller than the average Alpha so he feels kind of inferior. He takes a trip with Lenina to a savage reservation that is fairly dirty, but is also free. He likes the idea of being free. He ends up bringing a kid named John back to his civilized and controlled world. John likes it and seem to be having fun at first, but doesn't not like that everyone acts the same like robots. John starts to destroy tons of the drug Soma that everyone uses. Bernard and Helmholtz are called in by the Director and are both exiled. John stays and moves into the mountains. After sometime John sees Lenina and starts whipping her and a crowd circles them and watches. Bernard is found in his house dead because he hung himself.

Theme: IndividualityIn this book society can be described as an effort to eliminate the individual from society. It means the conditioning of those people so that they don't really think of themselves as individuals. This sense includes both the joy of one's own talents and thoughts, and the sorrows of loneliness and isolation. These experiences of individuality are what are referred to as "the Human condition," and everything in the World State is designed to avoid anyone ever feeling individual in any way, either through sadness or joy.  

Tone: IronicHuxley is writing about how humanity always seeks pleasure instead of pain, and then shows examples of how makes society just a bunch of sheep's. Only the outcasts can really think outside of the box, but even then, it's limited. Only someone who is truly not from that society can think beyond.


Literary Techniques:

Figurative Language: "Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver."

Irony: "What's the matter?' asked the Director.  The nurse shrugged her shoulders.  'Nothing much,' she answered.  'It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play."

Alliteration: "There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep"

Metaphor: "In a few minutes there were dozens of them, standing in a wide circle round the lighthouse, staring, laughing, clicking their cameras, throwing (as to an ape) peanuts, packets of sex-hormone chewing gum..." "The ape had spoken; there was a burst of laughter and hand-clapping." 

Similie: "He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw-knew it, with sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.Twins, twins.... Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of linda's death."