Brave New World Analysis

Animal imagery is rampant in Brave New World. Just look at the first chapter. There's the repetition of "straight from the horse's mouth," Foster's implicit claim that "any cow" could merely hatch...

OK, let's start with the time. Huxley establishes in Chapter One that the year is A.F. 632. We are told in Chapter Three that the introduction of the first Ford Model-T was year "zero" for this cal...

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley is a fan of giving his readers a ton of information. As such, the point of view is incredibly omniscient. That is, we get to know everything about every character...

It's pretty easy to see that Brave New World is science fiction. Just read the first chapter. The world in which the novel takes place is highly imaginative and completely different from our own. B...

Huxley can get pretty dramatic in Brave New World. Just check out that moment in Chapter Thirteen when Lenina forgets to give a bottle its immunization. The text is all, "Twenty-two years, eight mo...

By "taunting" style, we're actually referring to the way that Huxley delays the disclosure of important information. For example, in Bernard's orgy-porgy scene, we don't really know it's an orgy un...

Brave New World is chock-full of references to one Shakespeare play after another. (See "Shout-Outs.") But the most important reference, at least thematically, is to The Tempest. The line in quest...

« Les utopies apparaissent bien plus réalisables qu'on ne le croyait autrefois. Et nous nous trouvons actuellement devant une question bien autrement angoissante : comment éviter leu...

Meet the World StateBecause the setting is so unique in this novel, much of the Initial Situation consists of dunking the reader into this very different environment. There's a reason Huxley spends...

John is brought back to the civilized worldIn Brave New World we don't really start this Booker plot until more than halfway into the novel; things get tricky when there's a protagonist shift like...

The three acts of Brave New World can be marked roughly by the changes in setting. The first act, therefore, runs from Chapter One up though Part Two of Chapter Six, and it takes place in the civil...

Now that you've read your book, we're sure you'll agree that V for Vendetta was a total rip-off of Brave New World. You've got the same controlling, overpowering society and the same extermination...

Oh, where to start. Women wear belts with contraceptives strapped to them, like Julia Roberts's boots in Pretty Women. Little kids play erotic games with one another. Promiscuity is law, monogamy a...

William Shakespeare is referenced by name (3.192, 8.36, 11.65, 13.63, 16.14, 16.52, 17.3, 17.17)William Shakespeare, The Tempest"Brave New World" (the title)You can read all about this shout-out in...