![]() ![]() Thus, the Alphas represent the intellectually superior group, followed by the Betas, and continuing down to the Epsilons, who have little to no intelligence. The Centre conditions all the non-Alpha and Beta embryos for their future status in society by dividing them into Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. ![]() Only the Alphas and Betas come from single eggs that are not budded and hence have no twins. The society contains a five-tiered caste system that ranks Alphas and Betas on top. Predestinators then decide the future function of each embryo within the society, essentially assigning a future job to each human. The scientists take an ovary, remove and fertilize the eggs, force the eggs to bud up to ninety-six times, and subsequently grow the embryos in bottles. The students view various machines and techniques used to promote the production and conditioning of embryos. ![]() A group of students receives a tour of the facilities by the Director. The novel begins at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, a production factory for human beings. The underlying principle of the regime is utilitarianism, or maximizing the overall happiness of the society. The world has submitted to domination by World Controllers, whose primary goal is to ensure the stability and happiness of society. Firchow concludes that the future that Huxley crafted is “not without hope”, because no matter how distorted the people in Huxley’s world are, their humanity is still able to shine through.Brave New World occurs six hundred years in the future. Firchow even believes that Huxley chose to create “contrastive/complementary pairs” when he wrote his characters, one example being the relationship between Fannie and Lenina. Despite being conditioned throughout their lives to be as much alike as possible, each of the main characters still have their own distinct, albeit faint, personality. Firchow then argues that the characters Huxley creates in Brave New World are still “vivid and even varied”. Also, the setting of Brave New World does not allow for the realistic development of complex characters the way the characters are raised and the place they are raised in leave them little room to grow as people. The novel is a fairly short work of satire, which does not really require fully developed characters. The characters in Brave New World, for example, were never meant to be too complex. Firchow believes that these allusions are there to “reveal ironically the inadequacies of the present… by comparing it with the past”, and that Huxley used these comparisons to subtly lead his readers to certain conclusions about the reality of the World State using irony.Ī common discussion about Huxley’s works was his “inadequate ability to create living characters,” something Firchow disagreed with for various reasons. Firchow also explains that the many literary allusions Brave New World contains qualifies it as a modern novel. Readers are forced to make their own discoveries about the novel’s characters and society by overhearing their conversations and shadowing them in their day to day lives, a technique Virginia Woolf linked to modern novels in her work Mr. This essay is over an excerpt from Peter Edgerly Firchow’s book The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” in which he discusses the narrative techniques, literary allusions, and character developments that occur in Aldous Huxley’s novel, though especially the implications of these techniques for the book and author as a whole.Īccording to Firchow, the narrative technique and literary allusions that Huxley employs in Brave New World classify the book as a “modern novel.” Huxley’s narrative technique establishes Brave New World as a “modern novel” because instead of writing pages of detailed backstory to set the context, Huxley throws the readers headfirst into his world with little to no explanation.
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