Brave New World: A Critical Analysis of Huxley’s Dystopian Vision
Formal Analysis.
This book consists of 255 pages. It is divided
into 18 chapters. Each chapter is divided into
parts, corresponding to each of the dialogues
that occur together, as they come to have
more than three dialogues at the same time.
Short biography of the author:
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), novelist,
essayist, critic, and English poet, grandson of
Thomas and brother of Julian. He was born
in Godalming, Surrey, and studied at Eton
and Oxford universities. He worked at several
newspapers and published four books of
poetry before the appearance of his first novel,
“The scandals of Crome” (1921). The novels
“Old hay” (1923) and “Counterpoint” (1928),
illustrating the nihilistic climate of the 1920s,
and “Brave new world” (1932), a dehumanized
and utopian vision of the future, made him
famous. During much of this time he lived in
Italy and France. In 1937 he emigrated to the
United States.
This book is dominated by narrative, because
in it there are characters, and events happen
that cause or affect the characters. The story
unfolds in a succession in time. The settings
are several, which include cities in Great Britain,
and the Amazon rainforest, which is where the
reserve of savages is located.
(2) CONTENT ANALYSIS:
The theme that the author wants to convey in this book is the dangerous speed
with which science advances.
Argument: to make it easier to understand
I will divide this analysis into chapters.
Chapter I: it starts in the center of incubation
and conditioning of the Central London.
There the director of this center guides a tour
of the building to new workers. He was teaching
them the entire complex of major appliances, each
with an essential function of a whole. He began
teaching them about the incubators, where the
gametes were preserved from climatic adversities
from abroad. He then told them that the
gametes were subjected to a careful observation
of the leg to throw away the abnormal. He then
explained that the gametes alpha and Beta
(all humans in this book are divided into five
ranges, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon.
Each of them was created according to a pattern,
and prepared to support their work, be happy,
and not feel envy of the companions of higher
or lower ranges) were introduced in incubators
until they were packed in a jar with a blood
dissolution.
The gamma, Delta, and Epsilon were subjected
to a method called Bokanovsky, in reference to
its inventor, which was, through chemical reactions,
divide a gamete in 96 sprouts that
would develop a perfectly developed individual
. He then taught the other chambers, the
packaging, where the embryos were introduced
in incubators until they were packed in a jar
with a blood dissolution. The gamma, Delta, and
Epsilon were subjected to a method called
Bokanovsky, in reference to its inventor, which
was, through chemical reactions, divide a
gamete in 96 sprouts that would develop a
perfectly developed individual. He then taught
the other chambers, the packaging, where the
embryos were entered in their corresponding
containers. Another room where embryos were
advancing by conveyor belts at a very slow
speed, two hundred sixty-seven days, until they
arrived at the room of decanting where they were
desenvasados.
Chapter II: the chapter begins when the future
workers of the Center visit a room where young
children are taught to love some things and hate
each other, by means of cruel treatment, such
as electrical shock, sudden changes in temperature,
etc. They also led them to the room where the
children slept, and showed them as they were
spoken to by tapes while sleeping, to achieve, through
hypnosis, that they appreciate or hate colors,
work, meals, books..
Chapter III: in this chapter three dialogues are
developed simultaneously. The first is the Director
with their students, the second is of Lenina Crowne
(at that time she was coming with Henry Foster, one
of the protagonists of the work and of which you
already talk later) with Fanny, a friend of hers, and
finally another conversation between two men
(among them Henry Foster is located) in costumes
for boys that Bernard Marx listened very carefully.
Lenina Crowne is talking to Fanny on what they
will do that night, and the guys that were coming
out.
Fanny is very surprised that Lenina takes so
long coming out with Henry Foster, and Lenina
tells him that she intends to accept an invitation
by Bernard Marx to a wild reserve. In the costumes
for boys are talking about Lenina and his
magnificent work in bed, and Bernard Marx
listened to it thinking that you were a few pigs
and a few animals (the truth is that Bernard
loved Lenina and had envy of Henry Foster).
Chapter IV: when all come out of the locker
room, Bernard Marx goes to the elevator,
where he meets Lenina. Lenina tells Bernard
that she accepts his proposal to go to New Mexico.
Bernard feels a bit embarrassed, because he did
not like to treat these things in public. In a short time,
they say goodbye and Lenina goes with Henry to
play golf of obstacles, while Bernard is going to
meet with his friend Helmholtz Watson.
Chapter V: in this chapter Bernard goes to a kind
of sect which he goes to regularly, and in which they
enter into Ecstasy through dancing and games,
for he finished making love with the nearest person
of opposite sex. Bernard never got going into ecstasy,
but always concealed it following the power to others.
Chapter VI: Lenina meets Bernard in an
appointment, and this leads her to a quiet
place to stroll, what seems to her silly.
They are talking and Bernard brings to light
his revolutionary air and his ideas against
the system of life, only based on consumption
and stability, leaving aside the most values
human as love, tenderness, etc. In the end,
Lenina convinces Bernard to go home and
make things more entertaining. The day
following Bernard will request authorization
from the director to enter the reserve. This tells
that once he went to the reserve with a girl, and
that this was lost there, and not seen again it.
It gives you the authorization and tells him to
be careful with their revolutionary
demonstrations, because it can cost him an
exile to an island. On the same day Lenina
and Bernard went to New Mexico, where
they arrived without incident. Once there
they headed to the reservation.
Chapter VII: in the reserve, guided by a wild,
they began to know the truth of the human
race. They looked at elderly (in their cities humans
taking numerous products to not age ever,
although this delayed life), pregnant women
and giving suck to their sick children…, this
didn’t like anything to Lenina, but the worst
came when they observed a ritual in which a
young man turned and was flogged with a
whip until sold out calleseto prove their worth.
Lenina did not understand anything of those
customs and seemed all inhumane. Then
comes a young man who tells them that he
should have been in the place of the beaten
down, and told them that their mother was
not there, native but coming from a civilized
city, but that it had been abandoned by the
boy that came out. This young man named
John, leads them to visit his mother, who
was old and very fat and ugly. Bernard just
discovering what the wedding director
lost in this same reservation, and decides
to mount a plan against the director and
bring the woman and her son to London.
3) CRITICAL ANALYSIS:
-Explanation of the meaning of the
title: for me the meaning of this title is
the ideal impossible to create a perfect,
happy, harmonious world, etc. In this book,
the world is happy for those who live in it.
To us, it looks boring and monotonous.
-Agreement or disagreement with the ideas
of the author: I agree with the author that
science advances so fast that in the end it is
difficult to stop it or see if the road leading
is correct or not.
-Plausibility or implausibility of the situations
that are exposed: the situations that the author
is exposed here are not implausible
ahoramismo, as it is impossible to generate
a gamete without parents. But this does not
rule out that within a few years, it is not
possible.