Under the Iron Curtain Imagine what the world would be like if we were all “under the iron curtain.” In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: “To make them love it is the task assigned, in present- day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda….” Thus,…
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number, social class, and intellectual ability are all carefully regulated. Even history is controlled…
The end of Brave New World contained a lot of exciting components. In Chapter 13 Lenina remains confused by how she might be in love with one man. She is finally ready to sleep with John. After taking soma, she goes to seduce John, and John talks about how he wants to grow old with…
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a really unique and interesting novel. Right from the start I felt that Huxley used satire as an effective literary tool. In the first chapter Huxley makes a very bold statement. As the world is getting excited about the march of science, Huxley shows that this could very…
