Brave New World Rhetorical Analysis

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Date submitted: March 5th, 2024. The “Brave New World” Expository Essay. Aldous Huxley’s captivating, dystopian novel “Brave New World” warns of the dangers of giving the government control over all powerful, new technologies, eliminating the importance of humans. Huxley's “Brave New World,” depicts a dystopia: a world of anonymous and dehumanized people dominated by a government made overwhelmingly powerful by the use of technology. Huxley's purpose for employing vivid, dark and animal-referencing imagery is to show the true oppression of the World State as well as the consequences of a society which has no value for individuality. [2] Firstly, in Chapter one, Huxley introduces the reader to a very grave, dystopian-like atmosphere. His use of provoking, descriptive …show more content…

Huxley introduces the “Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre,” where the reader learns the secrets to the “Bokanovsky Process,” a method of cloning human embryos. One quote states, “He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. “Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability” (7). Huxley highlights the director’s urge to explain the importance of using the “Bokanovsky’s Process,” which produces a sense of conformity, where desensitizing students to the evil behind cloning human beings is justified and their only option as workers in the hatcheries. [3] Furthermore, Huxley makes references to animals when describing the workers in these hatcheries. In Chapter ten, Aldous starts referring to the fertilizing hatcheries as “beehives.” Through the use of this metaphor, Huxley creates a sense of production and urgency, different from the “pale,” “gray,” and “solemn,” death-like imagery he painted at the beginning of the book. He even incorporates onomatopoeia by saying, “Buzz! Buzz!” when describing the “buzz of work” (99) in the hatcheries. Both quotes compare the precise, focused work of the

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