Satire In Brave New World Essay Research

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Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley is a utopian novel that uses

satire to a great extent. Brave New World takes place in the future,

where people are no longer born, and are artificially created. People are

placed into five classes before birth and are conditioned to like what

they do, and not to think for themselves. Still, throughout the book,

Huxley uses satire against religion, family and society in general.

In this futuristic world, a religion exists that opposes what religion

stands for today. First of all, the God that the people worship

is Henry Ford, the inventor of the conveyor belt and the model-T.

They worship Ford because of his vision to increase production by

having his workers add the same part to multiple cars during the day.

Instead of the sign of the cross that is performed in Christianity, the

futuristic citizens make a ?T? on their chest. Instead of saying ?O God!?

they say ?O Ford!? In the book, Christianity is considered a plague of

the past. The world controller says that Christianity controlled what

people did and thought and restricted the fun that people could have.

The new religion was all about fun and sex. In the solidarity services,

which occurred every other week, all of the participants take soma,

a perfect drug that eliminates thinking with no hangover afterwards,

and recite sayings while having sex with one another.

Brave New World is also a satire against the current, modern family.

The word ?mother? is considered an insult in their society, and the

word ?father? is considered a joke, something to laugh at. The world

controller, Mustapha Mond made several references to how corrupt and wrong

the family was. Two parents who knew little about parenting were expected

to raise the country?s future productive citizens. There were always

conflicts at home, unlike at the beautiful, educational conditioning

centers in the new world.

John being called a savage shows irony in Brave New World.

John is the character that most resembles today?s values. He does

not want to have sex with Lenina, even though she wants him to.

He wants to marry her and express his devotion to her in some

way, two foreign concepts to Lenina. Lenina rejects this,

and just starts taking her clothes off. Throughout the end of

the book, John tries to get people to think, but to no avail.

John Savage is the voice of reason.

Brave New World is a satirical novel. It satirizes many things

including organized religion, families, and society in general.

Huxley saw the potential future of society and hated it.