Brave New World Literary Device
Symbols:
- Soma: A drug that keeps people happy and controlled.
- The Hatchery: A place where people are made, showing control over life.
- The Electric Fence: Separates the controlled world from the free, natural world.
- Shakespeare's Works: Show real feelings and individuality, which the World State lacks.
- Ford and the T-Model: stand for machines, mass production, and no individuality.
- The Feelies: Movies that keep people busy and stop them from thinking.
- The Conditioning: Controls people’s thoughts and actions from birth.
Figures of Speech:
- Imagery: Imagery means using words to create pictures in the reader’s mind. Huxley uses it to show the clean, controlled World State and the wild Savage Reservation.
- Symbolism: Symbols are things that stand for bigger ideas. In Brave New World, Soma shows control and escape from real life, and conditioning shows how society takes away individuality.
Moral Lesson:
- True happiness needs freedom and individuality.