Literary Criticism- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Essay

A Utopia is a mankind that is completely controlled by the authorities. The regime controls e actually aspect of life in a utopia, and therefore everyone is always happy. In the novel gay New homo by Aldous Huxley the setting is a utopia. In this world people are ever happy, babies are cloned, and, everyone belongs to everyone else. The criticism which I chose was written by Margaret Cheney Dawson, on February 7th, 1932. The argument that Margaret makes is that Brave New area is a, lugubrious and heavy-handed tack of propaganda. The critic is locution that through the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley is promoting, and hard to sell a utopian government. I agree with this statement because throughout the book there are examples that prove that Aldous Huxley thinks that a utopian world is a good idea, also through his writing Huxley is implying that a utopian world is the only way humanity can survive.The most obvious way that Huxley promotes a utopia in his novel, is thro ugh the words of a character. When the Savage, John, is talking to the World Controller, Mustapha Mond about the brave new world which they live in Mond says,They like it.Its light, its childishly simple. No strain on the mindor the muscles. septenary and a half hours of mild unexhaust-ing labor, and then the soma ration and games andunrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more canthey ingest for? (Huxley 204).I think that the words of this statement by Mond is a very big statement because Huxley is overture out and flatly saying that there is not one badthing about a utopian world. He says that it satisfies everyones needs, and that no one is ever unhappy because they do not pay off a origin to be unhappy. I also think that Huxley is trying to make the statement fifty-fifty stronger because the character who said it, Mustapha Mond, is the most important person in the utopian world. He is a rule with frequently knowledge.The other proof that this book is propaganda is isolationism, not fitting in, and not being the same as everyone else. These are some of the problems that we experience and struggle with in our lives. Huxley sees this and tries to sell us the idea of a utopian world by showing that monotony is good, and difference is not good. In the book two characters feel isolated, and different then the rest, Bernard Marx, and John the Savage. Bernards isolationism is shown when Bernard does not experience the coming and the solidarity service while everyone else does. He was miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began- more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety. Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being. (Huxley 76-77). Through this I believe that Huxley is saying that being different, and feeling different is not a good thing.Although this is a very strong meaning that Huxley conveys, there is one that is much stronger. Johns struggles are much greater be cause he is much different from the rest of society. At the end of the novel john commits suicide by hanging himself, Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west, then paused, and after a a couple of(prenominal) seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east (Huxley 237). This quote is explaining how john is hanging, after he committed suicide. This form of propaganda is very strong because the reader starts to contemplate whether diversity and difference in the world very is such a good thing. Through these two quotes Huxley is also trying to prove to us that sameness is good because everyone is happy, this is why this book is propaganda.I do agree with the critics argument that Brave New World is a heavy handed piece of propaganda because we see examples throughout the book that Aldous Huxley thinks that a utopian governmen t is the ideal way of living. AlsoHuxley implies that sameness is desired rather then being unique and different. I think that Margaret Cheney Dawson hits the jackpot with her thesis which states that Brave New world is a heavy handed piece of propaganda. I totally agree with her, and through the examples my beliefs were only reinforced.