Brave New World Literary Analysis

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Norris6 Clyde Norris
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English IV
15/February/2017
A Brave New World Literary Analysis Delusions of Life There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. (George Sand)
In Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World you are introduced to the society of a place in England called The World State. There you are expected to participate in constant sexual pleasure with as many people of the opposite sex as possible. In the novel a list of complex characters are introduced. One thing most of them have in common is their disregard for the conditioning that was forced upon them. There are many instances when a character will do something that contradicts the set rules that …show more content…

Though he wasn’t conditioned in the World State his mother, and village still conditioned him. His mother told him from a young age that The World State was the most amazing society in the world due to their technology and views. Due to that he showed a desire to see what this “Brave new world”(Huxley 139) was like. Due to his religious upbringing he immediately was appalled by the promiscuity of the World State’s people. He also did not enjoy the entertainment of the World State. He wanted something with more emotional substance. He shows this after Lenina and John go to a Feely, which is a sexual film that you can feel. After the Feely he says to Lenina “ I don’t think you ought to see things like that”(Huxley 169). He then says the film was “horrible” which astonishes Lenina. He then says indignantly,” It was base … it was ignoble”(Huxley 170). He expressed a desire for monogamy but only once married. And showed feelings for Lenina in a sexual way but he saw them as sinful and tried to forget them. Since he was in a different environment he could not use the traditional courting methods to prove his love for her; moreover, he wanted to prove his love for her as a result of reading Shakespeare, even though she said that he did not have to prove anything. Despite them both wanting a monogamous relationship, it would not have worked due to the fact that he wanted marriage and she didn’t even know what marriage was. He saw sex as something sacred, which she didn’t. John, much like Bernard, saw the flaws in the society and argued that the World State’s society restricts true freedom by not allowing any emotion other than drug fueled happiness as well as solitude. He also hated how there was no compassion in their society based on how they let his mother descend into a drug fueled coma and wouldn’t do anything when she was dying; moreover, how they used her to condition the children by having them watch her die. This caused

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