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Literary Devices used in "Brave New World" by Aldo

Literary Devices used in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley


In the book Brave New World the author, Aldous Huxley, uses rhetorical strategies and devices to show his readership the consequences that can come from continuing on the destructive path of self-involvement that can lead to the dystopia presented in the book. In the forward of the book, Huxley defines his purpose of Brave New World as “… the advancement of science as it affects human individuals. The triumphs of physics, chemistry and engineering are tacitly taken for granted... It is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed.” He explains that his purpose is to show how technology can be turned against the good of humans and forced into the course of mass destruction of what we know now as the world.


One of the big themes that comes from the grave advancement of technology is the idea of social predestination. In the book, people are no longer made by a father and a mother but purely by machines. These machines have the ability to make as many twins as in the upward of 16,000 per egg used. This is called the Bokanovsky’s process and it is one of the rhetorical strategies used by Huxley to get his audience to respond quite negatively and hate this process because no one longer has a family which is something very dear to everyone. In this process, those who are chosen to be lower class are the ones who go through the Bokanovsky’s process. They also have alcohol and other harmful substances put into their test tubes at just the right stage in their development so they are biologically inept. Of course there is not just a lower class, there is also many more social classes which are all determined prior to “birth”. This is very disturbing to Huxley’s audience because something they have always been taught (a person can rise up above their status in life and succeed) is no longer true, people are now biologically engineered so they can’t do anything more than they are intended to do in life.


Another metaphor that runs continuously throughout the book is the insect metaphor. In this, there are ceaseless references to people being insects. At one point, Huxley even says, “ ‘This hive of industry,’ as the Director was fond of calling it, was in the...

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