Brave New World
“Brave New World” presents a futuristic world that is sterile and controlled. Human beings are developed in bottles and trained on how to behave in a particular way. The author employs extensive use of literary elements to pass his intended message. The use of imagery and metaphors is widely witnessed throughout the story.
Metaphors are a literary method of passing information without giving direct meaning at the first impression. The comparison of things provides the reader with a chance to create a picture that gives sense to the intended message. Human beings are presented as bottled beings to show how the future world will be controlled, and human beings will be programmed to function in a particular manner: “Bottled, they crossed the street; bottled, they took the lift up to Henry’s room on the twenty-eighth floor,” Huxley (52). Besides, a bottle prevents its contents from interacting freely with the external environment. Metaphoric comparison is further seen when Mustapha says, “Each of us, of course… goes through life inside a bottle,” Huxley (152). Generally, the life of human beings in the futuristic world is compared to one inside a bottle. Moreover, metaphors develop imagery across the story.
The extensive use of metaphors is essential in the development of imagery that creates an image of an imaginary world on the mind of the reader. Human beings are compared to animals giving a picture of a primitive world in the future. For example, Huxley (137) describes children who are staring “with the curiosity of animals.” Also, the unfortunate appearance of Linda is said to make someone sick: “you simply couldn’t look at her without feeling sick, yes, positively sick,” Haxley (103). Generally, literary devices play a crucial role in developing the plot of the story.
In sum, the use of imagery and metaphors is widely witnessed throughout the story, “Brave New World.” The comparison of things gives the reader a chance to create a picture that gives meaning to the intended message. Also, the extensive use of metaphors is essential in the development of imagery that creates an image of an imaginary world on the mind of the reader.
Works Cited
Huxley, Aldous. “Brave New World. 1932.” London: Vintage (1998).