Huxley's "Brave New World" is a novel that explores the way in which science can enslave humanity and take away individual freedom. The discourses operating in the text effectively construct social criticism and position the reader to consider the social commentary characterized in society. A discourse of class is represented in the novel in order to consider a world were people's destinies are predetermined. Politics is a dominant discourse that considers a world where individual freedom and values are sacrificed for a stable society to exist. In the novel, the family unit has been broken down and humanity has been sacrificed for promiscuity to exist through the discourse of sexuality.
Huxley strongly emphasizes on the discourse of class to consider a world where social conditioning controls the daily functioning of society. In Huxley's dystopia world people are conditioned through behaviourism and hypnopaedia in order to form a stable society.
They are engineered to be content with their rank in a world where love, viviparous reproduction and knowledge of anything beyond their status serves no purpose.
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1st UK editionFor the few individuals who do not feel content, they are sent to islands and labelled as an outsider. In the novel, John the Savage is a character who is rejected by society, a state of mind that Bernard Marx could also identify with sympathetically. "Alone, alone....'So am I,' he said, on a gush of confidingness. 'Terribly alone." (pg 124). Through the World State Motto, "Community, Identity, Stability", Huxley is bringing forward the message that building community and identity serve to create stability, which is the umbrella that all other values fall under in this civilisation. The discourse of class represented in the novel constructs the ideologies of a world where social forces can lead to a loss of individual freedom.
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