1. "The Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, takes place in the future where the government (in London) has complete control over the population, allowing it to have the "perfect" society. People are no longer born; they are cloned for that perfect society.These clones are artificially made and are "predestined" to be a part of the society. There are Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, or Epsilons. They also have a plus or minus that indicates their intelligence. These types of clones are meant for certain types of jobs and are conditioned to enjoy it. It sounds more of a distopia, it seems like a utopia but people are scared of being themselves because well they can't they are conditioned and "predestined" to do this and nothing else. "Machine men with machine minds!" (The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin speech). The author wanted to show that we are all human we should care about each other, he wanted to show that this is horrid, the way we treat each other. What might become in the future, he showed us a glimpse of how humans are kind of acting like right now, giving us an insight on horrible that could be. Please watch the video if you haven't seen what I see.
2. The theme of the novel is having bad luck and not showing emotion through it is better than having bad luck and showing emotion of it.The characters would always take this drug called soma, whenever they are in a situation they would step out and take them to relieve them of the stress.So if felt like they were escaping from it because that's something they haven't been "programmed" to think that emotion might be a good thing.
3.Auxley saw the society as a confused distopia kind of place, he would criticize the nature of the society, for example, " But in Epsilons, we don't need human intelligence" which shows that he saw the society poorly. Seriously who would say this in our society?(maybe there are some people who would) Still there was heroism at certain points into the novel like this one, " Free, free!’ the Savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area while, with the other, he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants. ‘Free...Men at last"
4. Repetition; There was this slogan that was used a lot of times which went like this,"They’ll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson.” Huxley uses repetition in his own writing, typically to drive home the importance of a phrase or emphasize distortion of time. “Drop, drop, drop. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow…” The most significant instance of repetition is found in the last few pages, as the mob gathering outside of the Savage’s lighthouse chant, “We—want—the whip!” over and over again. The painfully ironic aspect of this is that the whip, to the Savage represents self cleansing, purification from the corruption of society."
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