A Brave New World Literary Analysis

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Literature has been used throughout the ages to advance human knowledge and make widespread revolutionary and new ideas. Much of what literature was for so long was only scholarly works made to make an argument and propose a theory. Brave New World does this, it tries to propose a future dystopian society where most people are clones or twins of each other and there is almost no individualism. The government provides narcotics to keep the citizens happy, encourages promiscuity and no marriage, and also does not allow traditional religion, instead idolizing Henry Ford for creating the assembly line. While this book does make a good point for whether or not we want our society to become anything like it, the prevalence of other, lewd scenes and …show more content…
The newly born children are taught when they are babies to love and hate the things that their respective caste calls for. Deltas for example, a social caste, are shown flowers and books and are then given electric shock to condition them to hate or fear those things. Children are also taught when they are young to be sexual with one another, even having classes called “Elementary Sex.” They also have sexual games for young children. While observing children “In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focused attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game,” scientists comment that it is “charming” (Ch. 2). In all of the literature I have read, this is the most inappropriate in nature. The simple fact that Huxley included this into his novel is ridiculous and tasteless. While this does introduce a larger principle that the society shares, which is gone over later in the novel, it is unnecessary to include such a profane scene and takes away from the actual literary and philosophical value of the

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