Aldus Huxley

’s Brave New World Essay, Research Paper

Aldous Huxley s Brave New World, was a very odd book. It portrays many of the moral

dilemmas that we now are approaching in our society. I really enjoyed the book, it had just

enough science fiction content to keep the reader interested in the book. It also had a very

interpretive content in it to mesmerize, and elude the reader. I related myself to, two of the

characters. During the opening quarter of the book, I related Bernard Marx to me. I am

much different from the average teenager, I am sort of an outsider much like Bernard

Marx. Bernard Marx was someone who was regarded as an outsider because of his height,

mentality, and originality of ideas. I am an outsider because I enjoy indulging my mind in

science and math, but I also enjoy being alone. I do not like being around other people

constantly like the people in A Brave New World. They are taught at a very young age that

it was wrong to be alone for an extended period of time. Later in the book when John the

savage was introduced, I related myself to him. He was a stranger to a planet that he had

always lived on. I am beginning to feel the same way. The closer I come to graduation, the

more foreign my world is becoming. I have lived on this planet for seventeen years, and I am

just now beginning to learn what it is all about. The book taught me that it is O.K. to be

different. If you are not, the world would be a very boring place. Everything would be the

same, there would be no surprise. There is almost no reason to live. When people are

different, it adds a variety to society. An almost infinite number of possibilities to everything,

which adds an element of surprise, because you do not know exactly what to expect. The

point of view that Aldous Huxley chose, was a third person, or omniscient point of view.

This point of view was vital to the book. Had he not used this point of view, the book would

have been almost impossible to write. Or it would have taken him a much longer amount of

time to illustrate what was happening in the book. He uses many of the thoughts of the

various characters to give a feeling of the over all book. If he had used a different point of

view, you could not get this feeling from the characters as well. But the point of view he did

use, did make it a little confusing. Aldous Huxley would begin to jump from person to

person, and sometimes it was hard to follow. Since the narrator was in third person, he used

some terminology that was either made up, or not commonly known, because he was all

knowing. The title of the story was stated by John the savage many times after he visits the

outside world of his reservation. He got it from one of Shakespeare s works called The

Tempest. He used this quote to portray the similarities of society he sees, and the play The

Tempest. Aldous Huxley used the opening pages to set up a parameter for what the society

of the story is like. He describes the method of creating life without a mother or father. He

also answers some questions such as why the society was created, what is socially

acceptable, and what isn t. He spends the entire first forty pages describing what this brave

new world are like. The major characters of the story were: Lenina Crowne, Henry Foster,

Hemholtz Watson, John the savage, Linda, Bernard Marx, Mustapha Mond, and Thomas. A

description of each is listed below. Lenina Crowne. Lenina Crowne was a freemartin who

was a pretty girl who was just like any other girl in this society, she believed in having sex

with anyone she wants. It frustrates her much when John would not do it because he loved

her. Lenina did not understand what love was, she believed that everyone belongs to

everyone else. She was a little different than normal girls, because she had dated one man

for a fairly long time, but since that was socially unacceptable, she decided to go on a

holiday with Bernard Marx. Henry Foster. Henry Foster was a scientist in the Hatchery. He

was the ideal person of this society. Although he does not do much in the story, he does help

set up the parameter for the society during the first part of the book. Hemholtz Watson.

Hemholtz Watson was a man who began to realize that there was something more to life

than just sex, drugs, hypnop dia, and work. When John the savage comes along and

introduces him to the work of Shakespeare, he begins to learn more about what things should

be. Although in the end, his conditioning keeps him from going any deeper than that. He

only scratches the surface. John the savage. John the savage, was raised by a mother which

was unheard of in this culture. He was raised on a reservation in New Mexico, in which

Lenina and Bernard take a holiday to. Before Bernard takes him back to London, John gets

a hold of some works from Shakespeare. These works of Shakespeare, enlighten him beyond

what he had learned from his mother and from the savages on the reservatio

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