Allusion is a "reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture" (Schemer). Allusions are very obvious in Huxley's Brave New World. Shakespeare is the one who inspires Huxley while writing this novel. The name of the novel is taken from Shakespeare's the Tempest as John says "o brave new world, that has such people in it" when he is forced to discover the new world (139). This is originally Miranda utterance in the play. John says, "But some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone"(Huxley 116) when he wants to marry Lenina as he learns in the reservation. This makes an allusion to the Tempest in which Ferdinand has to exert some efforts
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In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality". In Brave New World, Huxley uses all types of irony. Dramatic irony "occurs when the audience or the reader knows something that a character in the story doesn’t". For instance, John is very interested in going back with Bernard and Lenina. He wants to discover the new society instead of the life of the reservation. The readers know that this world is totally different from the life he is used to but John does not know. In addition, John dreams of Lenina and wants to marry her. He is shocked because this society shuns monogamy because "everyone belongs to everyone else"(Huxley 26). In fact, the two worlds are primitive because the life in the reservation is traditional and the life in the new society is not modern as it appears to be because people there are child-like. Situational Irony "occurs when what happens is different from what we expect to happen". In fact, the novel is full of strange things that astonish the readers of the modern world now. For example, when the teacher thinks that there should be something wrong with the children who do not join the erotic play. When the director asks her what is wrong, she answers "nothing much"(Huxley 99). Verbal Irony "occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means another". John's …show more content…
For example, Huxley describes the civilized woman, Linda who lives in the reservation as "a very stout blonde … stood looking at the strangers"(118-19). Huxley uses animal imagery to dehumanize the citizen of the new world. It means that people in the new society are like animals as they have no identity and they are controlled by the government. In the first chapter, the sentence "any cow could merely hatch out embryos"(13) is repeated. Then Huxley descries the children in the hospital as looking at Linda and John with "the stupid curiosity of animals"(189) because they are different from people of the new world and the children are surprised to see these people who come from the reservation. The identical bokanovskified twins are described as "maggots"(29). John's disgust with the new society appears in the description of the people as "goats and monkey's"(Huxley 219). John cannot fit into the new world as he sees people as being pets or animals that are easily controlled. He portrays this image by describing people as "nice tame animals" throughout the conversation with Mond (Huxley 220). Finally, in chapter eighteen, the people see John as an animal because he is different and they start throwing food at him like an animal in the zoo ("Imagery and
In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality". In Brave New World, Huxley uses all types of irony. Dramatic irony "occurs when the audience or the reader knows something that a character in the story doesn’t". For instance, John is very interested in going back with Bernard and Lenina. He wants to discover the new society instead of the life of the reservation. The readers know that this world is totally different from the life he is used to but John does not know. In addition, John dreams of Lenina and wants to marry her. He is shocked because this society shuns monogamy because "everyone belongs to everyone else"(Huxley 26). In fact, the two worlds are primitive because the life in the reservation is traditional and the life in the new society is not modern as it appears to be because people there are child-like. Situational Irony "occurs when what happens is different from what we expect to happen". In fact, the novel is full of strange things that astonish the readers of the modern world now. For example, when the teacher thinks that there should be something wrong with the children who do not join the erotic play. When the director asks her what is wrong, she answers "nothing much"(Huxley 99). Verbal Irony "occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means another". John's …show more content…
For example, Huxley describes the civilized woman, Linda who lives in the reservation as "a very stout blonde … stood looking at the strangers"(118-19). Huxley uses animal imagery to dehumanize the citizen of the new world. It means that people in the new society are like animals as they have no identity and they are controlled by the government. In the first chapter, the sentence "any cow could merely hatch out embryos"(13) is repeated. Then Huxley descries the children in the hospital as looking at Linda and John with "the stupid curiosity of animals"(189) because they are different from people of the new world and the children are surprised to see these people who come from the reservation. The identical bokanovskified twins are described as "maggots"(29). John's disgust with the new society appears in the description of the people as "goats and monkey's"(Huxley 219). John cannot fit into the new world as he sees people as being pets or animals that are easily controlled. He portrays this image by describing people as "nice tame animals" throughout the conversation with Mond (Huxley 220). Finally, in chapter eighteen, the people see John as an animal because he is different and they start throwing food at him like an animal in the zoo ("Imagery and