Literary Terms In Brave New World

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Ben Bobick 5/13/24 EWRC Block 5 Brave New World Essay. The novel Brave New World by Adoulus Huxley is deep on many levels. The story is about a futuristic, utopian society that is under an incredibly powerful government. The “World Order” is completely foreign to us, babies are made in labs and natural reproduction is illegal. Babies are made to fall into one of five social classes. Each social class is genetically designed to work particular jobs and the lower classes are purposely made to be less intelligent so they will be content working the mundane jobs. Concepts such as family, afterlife, religion, god, spirituality, etc. don’t even exist in the world. To keep the world order everyone is brainwashed since birth and information and media …show more content…

The concepts of religion, god, and the afterlife don’t even exist in the world order. In chapter 17, the controller, Mustapha Mond tried to explain to John the Savage why he doesn’t allow things like religion and god to exist, on page 159, he said “Call it the fault of civilization”. God isn’t compatible with machinery, scientific medicine, and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery, medicine, and happiness. That’s why I have to keep these books locked in the safe. They’re a smut. People would be shocked by it.” This quote shows how there is no deeper meaning to life in the world order, you are born to work, consume, and die. The phrase “God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness” shows how if the concept of god existed in the world order it would undermine the values of the world order and their brainwashing. In most common religions it’s frowned upon to overconsume and people are encouraged to not be attached to physical possessions and to use money and resources to help others instead of to pleasure themselves. In the world order, the only thing anyone is really allowed to do is to work and consume stuff, which directly contradicts how God would want us to live our lives. This means that the controllers cannot allow religion to exist or else all their brainwashing would be for nothing as people would want to help others and start a family instead of just work and consume. This is what Mustapha is alluding to when he says “Our civilization has chosen machinery, and medicine and happiness”. What he really means is that he cannot allow the concept of family or god or religion to exist, because then people wouldn’t want to do what the world order tells them to do, which means the controllers lose their power and the structure of the world order completely