How Does Huxley Use Satire In Brave New World

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World a possible dystopian future without morals and deprived of free thought exists. This relative utopia has removed everything that makes humans human. Free thought, emotions, and learning have all faded to create a perfect world that has left nothing to nature. Huxley wrote this book in response to the political and social turmoil the world was experiencing to ensure that morals remain, even in the name of advancing technology or promoting unity. This turmoil is clearly seen in his book as Huxley uses several examples of satire. Such as a process known as “Hypnopaedia,” in which everyone is taught from birth to believe certain thoughts such as their own inferiority, or their own superiority by having certain

Because if one crime that was not ok is now suddenly ok the line between right and wrong begins to blur and therefore snowballs into a society such as the one described in this book. Huxley described this to disgust people. Because thinking about something horrible, such as this, forces one to truly consider what they are doing wrong and if that could possibly lead to what is being described in this book, which is what Huxley’s main goal was. To ensure people consider the future; as actions today will affect what happens tomorrow. Such as stealing to survive, which leads to everyone in your community stealing so it reduces to chaos. So was stealing worth it? These difficult questions are what Huxley wants to bring up. With the sole purpose of improving tomorrow for someone else. To create a future better than his present. As during his time he experienced nothing but sorrow, thievery and his country just come out of a world war that left it in tatters. Being surrounded by these crimes along with the emergence of gigantic weapon factories that were responsible for everything wrong caused Huxley to refuse to remain silent in order to construct a better future. To bring about “community, identity, and

“Straight from the horse's mouth...any cow could merely hatch.” Huxley uses phrases such as this to emphasize the derogatory nature of the people in his book. Consequently the reader picks up on how animal congeneric these people are, exemplified by basic abilities that separate humans from an animal like a dog, such as comprehension and emotions being eliminated from their society. Effectively rendering them on the same level as a wild animal. Huxley draws this comparison of humans to animals in order for the reader to realize the negative side of technological advancement. However extreme, Huxley’s use of imagery definitely puts the nail in the coffin for the fate of this society. As the people became equivalent to wild animals. “Everyone belongs to everyone else,” similar to how animals behave. People have a pack mentality such as when the savage begins to throw away their soma causing a riot which is just another example of how they’re just dogs; trained to do whatever their masters tell them to