Imagery In Brave New World

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In Brave New World, imagery plays a huge role on the success of the novel. Huxley impacts his novel full of imagery which makes the book easier to visualize. For instance, when Huxley describes Linda, the mother of John, “A very stout blonde squaw stepped across… Lenina noticed with disgust that two of the front teeth were missing. And the colour of the ones that remained. . .It was worse than the old man. So fat. And all the lines in her face, the purplish blotches..and the blanked she wore over her head-ragged and filthy (Huxley 171).” From this, the reader can clearly imagine a older fat woman in ragged clothes standing in a doorway. Huxley has used imagery to create numerous atmospheres. Huxley uses the provocative imagery of death to create a feeling of solitude for the reader, with words such as “pale”, “corpse-coloured”, “cold”, “frozen”, “dead”, “thin” and “ghost.” The content of imagery Huxley has provided is both strange and intriguing. All of these examples have helped Huxley to make his novel vivid and lively to the reader. "Bernard stood watching the retreating twinkle of the white stockings, the sunburnt knees vivaciously bending and unbending again, again, and the softer rolling of those well-fitted corduroy shorts beneath the bottle green jacket (Huxley 84)." This use of imagery provides the point of …show more content…

For instance, when John goes to the hospital to see his mother, Linda, he sees the children staring at her with, “…the stupid curiosity of animals… (Huxley 295).” This shows the that individuals in the new world act more like animals than civilized humans. Another example is, "Alpha children wear grey…They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki.…(Huxley 39)." This overall shows the different colors based on the different systems and classes of the society. Huxley add in colors to separate others and to distribute across the civilized new world. From this, they are each labeled to a different