Ambiguity In Brave New World

In Brave New World, John’s happiness in the new environment of hill does not last long because he dies few days later. He does not have enough time to enjoy his new life. Writers of dystopian fiction usually tend to resolute the central conflict by death because there is no life without troubles. Huxley seems to say that real happiness in this world is difficult to attain. The dystopian protagonists may succeed to escape to a new desired society but they cannot overthrow the totalitarian dystopian society.

Jonas’ destiny at the end of the novel is not clear. Lowry intentionally writes an ambiguous ending so that the readers can decide for themselves. She mentions the reason for choosing an ambiguous ending of the novel:

I liked the ambiguity

In a 1962 interview, he says that the new forces of science and technology, pharmaceutics, and social conditioning could: iron humans into a kind of uniformity, if you were able to manipulate their genetic background ... if you had a government unscrupulous enough, you could do these things without any doubt ... We are getting more and more into a position where these things can be achieved. And it’s extremely important to realize this, and to take every possible precaution to see they shall not be achieved. This, I take it, was the message of the book (Goodman 13).

Like Huxley, Lowry finds that it is impossible to achieve real sameness because man without freedom, love, family and will is semi-human. For man, choice is constructive and not destructive. And this is a shared message with Brave New World. In the novel’s conclusion, Jonas sees the lights of a village below the hill. It is very likely that this supposed community is just a conception of

So man must suffer in order to know true happiness. This means that achieving conformity and sameness in this way of dystopias is impossible. Both novelists argue that people without sorrow and distress are people without souls. By the end of the two novels, Huxley and Lowry sent a frightening message to the whole world that one day in the future our world might just turn into the World State of Brave New Wold or the Community of The Giver. Therefore, the two novels describe a real dystopia based on science and technology. Humanity’s true happiness and stability can be achieved by intimacy and profound attachment to others, close family ties and a strong sense of people’s ability to have power over their