Alliteration In The Passage In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Situate the Passage: The passage takes place in the seventh chapter of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley where the two primary protagonists, Lenina and Bernard, two alphas from the World’s State, are visiting the reservation, which is outside their society, to witness the life of a community still subsisting the “outdated way” where people do not have the technology to stay young, healthy and without children who are being created by machines.

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Lenina and Bernard are alone on the reservation while their guide went for enlightenments. They scrutinize how the population interacts. Furthermore, as Lenina is repulsed, Bernard is, instead, quite interested in the community they discover since they are naked, elderly, sick and …show more content…

Although, the amplification in the text is “her face wrinkled up into a grimace of disgust” and it refers to a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding further information to it in order to increase the importance. Moreover, another literary feature present would be the alliteration, which is “a neighbouring house rung after rung”. An allegory appears as well with “like a mask of obsidian” and an anthropomorphism too with “tremulous”. An example of hyperbole in this passage could be “what a wonderfully intimate relationship”. Finally, Aldous Huxley put in juxtaposition Bernard and Lenina in the sentence “she had never seen anything so indecent in her life and what made it worse was that, instead of tactfully ignoring it, Bernard proceeded to perform open comments on this revolting viviparous scene.”. Moreover, a juxtaposition is a literary device, wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another. In addition, the purpose of juxtaposing two directly or indirectly related entities close together in literature is to highlight the contrast between the two and compare them. Although, this literary device is usually used for etching out a character in detail, creating suspense or lending a rhetorical

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