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Songs Relating To Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian society where humanity has been industrialized and is controlled by very few people. The novel could be connected to many things like songs, art, and movies. The songs chosen cover the topics of the need for power, industrialization, and drug addiction and their connection to the novel Brave New World. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears connects to Brave New World. The song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” is about how everyone has a thirst for power and try to get power can backfire. In the first verse the vocalist sings “We will find you Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature”(Tears for Fears). This verse could mean that due to the industrialization of the world people don’t really think out the Earth anymore. People knock down trees and build cities in their place instead of caring about what is happening to mother nature. The verse also reminded me of when they mad people “grow up with what the …show more content…

The Iron Maiden song is based specifically on the book Brave New World. After returning from the Reservation, Lenina “swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma”(Huxley 140). When she takes soma, a drug in the book, it relaxes her and dulls her mind. When threatened by Deputy Sub-Bursar to take the soma distributions away “The Deltas muttered, jostled one another a little, and then were stilled. The threat had been effective. Deprivation of soma--appalling thought!”(Huxley 210). When the Deltas were appalled by soma being deprived it could be considered addiction and drug addiction dulls the brain. When the band sings “Close this mind Dull this brain”( Iron Maiden) in the second verse, they were talking about the drug soma and how it dulls their thinking by putting them in what is basically a trance or short-term coma. In conclusion, the song “Brave New World” is connected to the book Brave New

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