What is a specific literary technique used in BRAVE NEW WORLD??

Question

I also need to know how it is significant to the work as a whole. And also if Huxley uses any specific writing style and an example, but the literary technique is #1. Thanks!!! Nothing better than procrastination and trying to throw a paper together at midnight!!

Answer 1

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932.

Wikipedia says that Brave New World was inspired by the H.G. Wells Utopian novel Men Like Gods. Wells's optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to begin writing a parody of the novel, which became Brave New World.

In this way, you could say that PARODY is a literary technique incorporated into the novel. Since Utopian novels were about a happy future (hence the word Utopian) this one sets the idea on its head by being a dystopian novel.

According to Wikipedia: "Irony is a form of stating one thing and meaning another. It is also a form of utterance that postulates a double audience, consisting of one party that hearing shall hear & shall not understand, & another party that, when more is meant than meets the ear, is aware both of that more & of the outsiders’ incomprehension."

"IRONY" is a major literary technique here, because the readers know certain things that the characters do not.

EPIPHANY is often a section of a literary work presenting, usually symbolically, a moment of revelation and insight.

It seems that, at the end of the novel (if you've read it) you would figure out where this would apply. I'll give you a hint; the aftermath of the epiphany is on the last two pages. The entire novel is really leading up to these final pages.


So, parody, irony and epiphany are three that you could easily locate and write an entire paper about! I don't think any of these answers are really wrong, as long as you argue them well.

PS--Don't listen to the LSD stuff. That is how the novel MAY have influenced people later on, though there is no major proof of this, and anyway, LSD is not a literary technique. ^_^

Good luck on the paper!

Answer 2

~Significance as a whole is due to the fact that Timothy Leary, having read it, tried to produce Soma, and developed LSD. The writing style is similar to that of Sinclair Lewis, that is, opium induced. The literary technique is Socratic Plutonium, used by maybe 6 authors, including Newton, Aristole, Bacon, Thomas Moore, Harold Robbins and Robert Burns.