Brave New World Speech Analysis

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Brave New World Speech

Composers use a multiplicity of textual forms and features to represent the competing perspectives from both a social and political point of view by exploring ways an individual sees their society to interrogate the provocative future of humanity. The composer’s desire to question the audience stems from the political upheavals and personalities of their time, exercising impacts of political actions through the human experience of the characters who each critically responds to political repression uniquely. The satirical representation of totalitarian states asserting absolute control over society in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” (1932) and Neil Blomkamp’s 2013 dystopian film “Elysium” can interrogate whether political power should be abused through unrestrained scientific advancements as a tool to maintain stability and to explore how an …show more content…
The audience is exposed to society's suppression in the opening chapter when the drug ‘soma’ is symbolic of the powerful scientific influence upon the characters who are subjected to disillusionment from the drugged feeling “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant". The deployment of the rhyme implies how the drug eliminates negative feelings to maintain political control. This loss of individuality by stripping people of their free will and identity is reinforced through the Bokanovsky process in which the imagery of the “pallid shape of academic goose-flesh” creates a sense of revulsion from the readers, challenging whether such horrid scientific advancements should maintain stability in society. By the repetitive use of “we”, Huxley satirically represents a disconnected society to interrogate whether applications of science should reinforce

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