Brave New World: A Linguistic Analysis

The novel abide new-made serviceman by Aldous Huxley tries to show us the extreme consequences of social planning. As Huxley deals it, it is a project begun in philosophy, and ending in a few philosophers exercising sustain over larger c each(prenominal)er in order to suppress philosophy among the generality. The vestige of philosophers has earned the wisdom that thinking is baneful to homo happiness and social stability. accordly the overriding goal of the 27th ampere-second world community is to suppress the raw(a) human inclinations.In effect the community is notwithstanding of the sm totally coterie of philosophers at the helm, for the peacefulness of human is takeed at a bestial level of existence by their machinations. They atomic number 18 bred unnaturally, and then raised by dint of constant conditioning, all designed to contribute them function on their animal instincts al wiz, and so that they abhor the least tendency to reflection. all(prenominal) arg on made internally sterile, and then encouraged to dwell on the sexual act with informal abandon.C be is taken that the promiscuous partners do not fall in love, for love arouses the noble tendencies, and theses argon sober to the status quo. Otherwise, any substantial opinion in nipped in the bud, for the inhabitants of this inn are encouraged to take the soma do drugs at the least onset of a serious eyeshot attend to. It has been plyed out that a hierarchy is necessary for this conjunction to function, and harmonise a five-fold caste system has been utilise to the make-up of this society from the alphas and betas at the top, to the deltas and epsilons at the bottom.The reproduction and conditioning takes stern according to this scheme. It is a triumph of logic, and yet it is excessively the shoemakers last of the human. This conflict is the central melodic theme of the novel. The opening section of the novel extradites to us this theme motleyly and in affecti ng fashion. This essay carries out a linguistic analysis of the opening chapter, which sheds light on the overall theme. The general impression presumption is that society has progressed very far, so that logic and science have completely prevailed.The theatre director of the Hatcheries is describing to some students the act of artificially breeding the citizens of this society. His account tells us that it is a exceedingly advanced process, and the machinery seems to be functioning flawlessly. As he enters the fertilizing room, there are lambert Fertilizer staff immersed in their work, and so the group is met with a scarcely external respiration silence, the absentminded, soliloquising hum or whistle, of absorbed niggardliness (Huxley 2004, p. 16). in all the clues commove to a highly sophisticated society functional on the mill principle.The factory principle is so esteemed divisions are counted from the year that the industrialist Henry Ford brought out his prototypi c mass-production car, the model T, which was in the year 1914. The present year is said to be 632 A. F. the last menti singled stands for after Ford (Ibid 15). simply the factory is producing human beings. The cold calculation that is bear on in this process reminds us of death rather than life. The suggestion is that the genesis of human being is withal a process whereby humanity dies. Therefore, the general atmosphere multi-coloured is deathly, cold and uninspiring.A SQUAT colorize building of single thirty-four stories (Ibid, p. 15). describes the Hatcheries Central, and defines a drab setting, to juxtapose it against its momentous function. wintertime conditions are maintained to preserve the bollock and the spermatozoon, and winter is also intimated in a symbolic sense. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a tinge (Ibid). The general impression is that this is not a place of life, but of death.The conflict is also between experience and ignorance. We are basin to a society where the excess of association has begotten its antithesis, which is a will to ignorance. The society is based on a highly philosophical design, and yet the philosophy crumb it is not suppositious to be know by the citizens, because the correct object is to manage thinking. Thus the motto of World golf club is emblazoned on the top of the entrance to the Hatcheries COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, stability (Ibid). The only possible way for the entire world to live as one community is to suppress thought.Individuality is encouraged, but only in so far as it pertains to action in particular, and eschews all generalizations that stems of thinking. non philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the binding of society, we are told by the narrator (Ibid). individuation here means that one is up to(p) to fulfill ones knowledge immediate in clination or instinct. stability is the result of this non-thinking and instinct-driven existence. In short, the plan is for a bestial existence, and one acquires stability only as a species of animal is constant in its jungle abode.Yet the highest philosophy mustiness(prenominal) coexist with this manufactured ignorance, because the ignorance must be manufactured by someone. The Director of the Hatcheries is among the detailed group of citizens that must know hardly what is going on, for they must process and maintain it. He is part of the highest caste, the Alphas, those who are potty to all knowledge. besides the second highest caste, the Betas, must also have a working knowledge, because they take on the high supervisory roles of the running of this society. Just to give you a general idea (Ibid 16).the Director is rule to say as he provides development to the Beta students. They are not supposed to know, yet they must be satisfactory to do their work properly, and w ith a modicum of intelligence. The knowledge that they are provided is just enough to slip by them happy. They apply the knowledge towards the particular work that they have to do. If they do their work proficiently they have job satisfaction and pecuniary reward, and ask for nothing beyond these. But the danger is that the knowledge is applied generally, and beyond the confines of the particular situation.Such application of knowledge disrupts the whole pattern, and defeats the object of society. For particulars, as any one knows, the narrator tells us, describing the logic of the Director, make for virtue and happiness generalities are quick-wittedly necessary venomouss (Ibid). The last observation is told from the point of view of the Director, and it is significant that he describes generalities as intellectually necessary evils. This is admitting that evil has not been eradicated from this society. It is present in the process, especially in the thought process that engend ers the entire system.But the sentiment that takes place is necessary, so it is not the philosophers at the helm who are evil. There is no indication in the novel that the World Controllers abuse the power that they have appropriated. They are portrayed as selfless, and as having no concern but the greatest skinny of society. They hold the secret knowledge that thought is evil, but the evil does not vex their own person, while they proceed with their intellectual designs on society. The evil is instead piano throughout the system. The evil aspect of this society is the aggregate loss of humanity.Happiness has been bought, but the toll paying(a) for it has been essential humanity. The gift of humanity is the greatest gift, and thus the price paid is the ultimate one. For all its apparent contentedness, this society is intrinsically barbarian, and the descriptions of the process taking place in the Hatcheries Central point towards an inhuman existence. I shall begin at the scr atch line (Ibid). This is how the Director begins his instruction, trying to manufacture a service in keeping with the outrageousness of what is taking place, which is human genesis on a massive scale.But his effort falls flat, and it seems nothing more than a humourous pun. We notice the same effort towards solemnity in all his words and gestures. But solemnity is not possible in the presence of such mundane processes, no matter that the object is human genesis. He tells them about the operation that removes the female ovaries, which are then kept functioning artificially in order to provides the human egg. We are told that the donors act voluntarily, but we know that it is really a hefty bait of a bonus amounting to six months salary that induces them (Ibid, p. 17).Both sperm and egg cells are maintained at the right temperatures, before arriving at the fertilizing room, where cylinders containing the eggs are manually dipped into the sperm to effect fertilization. We are sh ocked to picture human conception under such a shabby process as dipping cylinders is seminal fluid. The calculation is relentless. Not all the fertilized eggs are not all treated the same. Those embryos that are destined to go away Alpha citizens are accorded the best treatment. All other embryos are deliberately maltreated, to various degrees, so that they form the lower hierarchies, from beta to epsilon.The Bokanovskys Process is the euphemistic border to describe this crime. The deliberate damaging of embryos in indicative of the inherent inhumanity of this society. It is one human being maiming another who is at the most defenseless state of existence. The evil is thus inherent in the process itself. Not just on the philosopher at the top, the indictment somehow falls on society at a whole. References Huxley, Aldous. Brave advanced World and Brave New World Revisited. London HarperCollins, 2004.