Biblical Allusions In Brave New World

History has always been a major motivation for our lives today. From pushing ourselves to create a better society then before, or just wanting to create masterpieces that will be remembered for centuries like the the great artists of the past did, humankind has always looked to its past to shape a “perfect” future. In 1516, Thomas More wrote Utopia to justify what life would and should look like in a perfect society. He describes it to be full of scholarly people who work in monasteries (Sargent). Aldous Huxley also wrote of a utopian society set far in the future called Brave New World. The major difference between the two though is that Christianity and historical works of art are banned in Huxley’s utopia. Huxley depicts the Bible

Mustapha Mond, when talking to John the Savage, tells of how God has no place in society, the Bible belongs on a shelf (Huxley, 231). Yet throughout the novel the Bible plays an important rule in the Novel. In the Holy Bible, Jesus says, “But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God” (Bible). On the contrary, Mustapha Mond says “Suffer little children” (Huxley, 56).When Jesus said this he meant that the wanted them to come and join, while Mond hated the children and wanted them to leave. The contrast reveals how the attitudes of people are affected without God. Also another time the ideas of the Bible are brought forth in this novel is at the end when John the Savage is isolated from Society. The land around him is described as being a perfect and pleasant as if it is the Garden of Eden, and then it says, “Startled as though by the bite of a snake” (Huxley, 249). This symbolizes how Satan disguised himself as a snake in the Garden of Eden and tricked Adam and Eve to sin against God. The snake in Brave New World was actually someone from society, and this reveals how the society ruin goodness and peace. One of the last contrast between the Bible and the World State is John the Savage’s name. In the bible John was an apostle of Jesus and was a founder in the Christian religion. When John the Savage first sees the World State, he is in love with it; however, he slowly turns away and hates it. As Mustapha Mond religion cannot exist in this