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Men's Role In A Brave New World

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Universally earth symbolizes growth/life and peace, yet in the novel, Findley has proven to the readers that the element of earth can also be associated to death.“Houses, trees, and fields of flex once flourished here. Summers had been blue with flowers. Now it was a shallow sea of stinging grey from end to end. And this is where you fought the war.” (Findley, 70). This quotation from the novel further illustrates the fact that men are using a strategy that involves destroying anything that can be useful to the enemy. Specifically, all of the assets that can be used by the enemy are targeted, such as food, industrial resources, and even the people of the area. Here men manipulates earth by destroying the resources that belong to the earth in

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