Bravery New World LIterary Analysis

1.      The novel starts off with an introduction into the world of Aldous  Huxley’s Brave New World. This is a world where you are born into your social class,  where women no longer get pregnant to have babies, and happiness is achieved through the consumption of a drug known as Soma. Instead eggs are fertilized scientifically and cloned. Bernard is a character that is considered a defect due to being in the high end of the social class yet still oddly different from his peers. The plot truly begins during the inciting incident where Bernard takes Lenina, a Beta, out to the Savage Reservation where they meet John aka Mr. Savage. John is part of the Savage Reservation where they still believe in gods and have babies with pregnancy. John is brought back to the modern civilization where he is treated like an animal in a zoo and starts a series of motion of events. He often refers back to Shakespeare to gain insight on love while he and Lenina begin a relationship. John talks to one of the world leaders and then goes off to live as a hermit and suicides.

2.      Brave New World has both a universal theme and a moral theme. The universal theme is the continuing innovations in technology can lead to the control of society and in Brave New World’s case through Soma. We already see this today when people believe everything they’re told through the media without doing actual research themselves. The moral theme of the story is you cannot truly be happy or content without knowing the truth or meaning behind life. Aldou’s Huxley wrote Brave New World to show us the dangers of science and believing in it too much. Science could eventually become something we worship just like how they kind of worshipped Ford in Brave New World.

3.      Aldous Huxley mainly used a satirical and ironic tone throughout the story. This makes the novel fun and enjoyable to read yet still carrying out an important message from the author. “Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release,” this quote I found to be very satirical and ironic. When I read this I thought it was pretty funny because this is supposed to be a “religious” song from a hymn like the songs you sing in churches. In this world Henry Ford is the founder of modern society and therefore treated as a god. Anyways this making fun of this societies views and ironic. This quote is found in chapter 5. “Christianity without tears that’s what soma is,” this quote is ironic because it Christianity is all about achieving salvation and happiness through struggles and test of faith but this is like an advertisement saying soma can achieve all this without going through all those hardships. “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”

4.      Aldous Huxley uses indirect characterization to present his characters. “From the life the Savage stepped out into the midst of them. But his mind was elsewhere-with death, with his grief, and his remorse ; mechanically, without consciousness of what he was doing, he began to shoulder his way through the crowd,” this passage from chapter 15 shows through indirect characterization that John is nervous and timid. Aldous Huxley uses third person omniscient narration to tell his story. He also uses allusion to Shakespeare to show how infatuated John was with love and how he interpreted love. “The Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet aloud-reading (for all the time he was seeing himself as Romeo and Lenina as Juliet) with an intense and quivering passion,” John often used Shakespeare as a reference to love. Symbolism is huge in Brave New World and is needed to get the author’s message. Soma is a drug that symbolizes how the population can be controlled through the illusion of satisfaction and happiness well fake happiness. “And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.” This novel uses satire everywhere to poke fun at the cultures and religions that have been rooted into that world.