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A Brave New World Mood Analysis

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Feelings of disconnection, confinement, and apathy are all moods that have surfaced in Brave New World. The way Huxley illustrates the system that which society operates is in such a way to make the reader feel an uneasy sense of disconnectedness. The way he chooses to describe the process of life is very distant and technical. This is demonstrated with the following quote, “From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion.” (128). Infants are developed in a lab in mass amounts and if they are destined to be of a lower caste they will be made in multiples, up to ninety-six, designed solely for industrial purposes. Any emotions beyond basic …show more content…

Here Bernard describes ‘the soul’ with obvious unfamiliarity towards the topic which makes the reader imagine a world without substantial consciousness and feel uncomfortably oblivious to such a way of life. Huxley’s use of language greatly contributes to the mood set in this novel. He has created a whole new vocabulary used frequently amongst citizens of the new world. The new inventions that he has made up to develop his world are all given unusual names such as the ‘feelies’. The ‘feelies’ are a new style of movie in A.F. 632 where the audience is able to experience all the feelings those in the moving picture might, including scents and touch. He’s also created ‘soma’ which is a specialized drug designed to be the perfect combination of hallucinogenic and stimulant drugs without any of the negative side effects, as long as taken in controlled amounts. There is no more use of alcohol or any other kinds of drugs because with soma being the perfect drug there is no longer a need

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