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Brave New World : A Scientific Ordered Community World Versus Tradition – Oriented Reservation World
Dr. Seema Rani S.S. Mistress, Govt. S.S.S., Defence Colony, Jind (Haryana)‐INDIA ABSTRACT “In the present paper, the investigator attempted to reveal Huxley’s view abut the underlying discontent of the 20th Century. According to Huxley, the present World is likely to become if the scientific and technological progress, being made in modern times is allowed to go unchecked and if people’s dependence on Science and their subservience to it remain undiminished. Though it depicts the world state of future, it seems to aim at satirizing the tendencies prevailing in the present times. Thus ‘Brave New World’ is an imaginative picture of future world, which only mirrors the present world in a distorted form.” KEYWORDS : Science, technology, tradition, underlying discount. Introduction : Huxley has been popularized as of scientific ideas and as a revolutionary and prophetic writer. His Brave New World’ is a fantasy satire in which Aldous Huxley has created two types of Worlds – one is scientific, mechanized, stable and ordered community world and the other is the primitive, instinctive, emotional and tradition – oriented Reservation World. Since the first type of world is controlled and conditioned by the handful of Rulers who shape and supervise the birth and growth of human beings into the categories like Alpha – plus at the top followed by Beta, Gamma and Delta upto Epsilon – Minus Morons at the bottom, so the people thus created are born within a specific scientific caste system which determines their life and destiny. Huxley writes – “All conditioning aims at making people like their unescapable social destiny.”1 Brave New World is a Fable in future and depicts the world of 632 A.F. (After Ford) as the present World is likely to become if the scientific and technological progress, being made in modern times is allowed to go unchecked and if people’s dependence on Science and their subservience to it remain undiminished. Though it depicts the world state of future, it seems to aim at satirizing the tendencies prevailing in the present times. Thus ‘Brave New World’ is an imaginative picture of future world, which only mirrors the present world in a distorted form. In the novel Mustapha Mond who one of ten all‐powerful world controllers comes forward to lecture to the students and explains them that in this controlled society individual passions, such as love have been replaced by Communal spirit and Casual promiscuity. Personal relationship have become taboos. The disordered like of old world Global International Research Thoughts (GIRT) Page 9 An International Indexed Online Journal
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has been replaced by an ordered life of new world to make people more happy and contented’ Mond has presented a rosy picture of the new world, but Bernard Marx who is an unorthodox and unhappy Alpha‐Plus, a brilliant person, feels dissatisfied with the whole system. Helmholtz Wastson felt a vague creative restlessness. Lenina Crowne, who had been attracted towards Bernard, produced a feeling of disgust and boredom in both. Bernard was allowed to visit accompanied by Lenina a new world which had remained unaffected by the civilization of the new world and where people still lived as savages. Bernard & Lenina meet a savage John who was born to a middle – aged woman, Linda, by the Director of Hatcheries as a result of her carelessness in the use of contraceptive device. John grows up as an intelligent and self taught person because he was born of civilized parents. John falls in love with Lenina, who, has affairs with many persons including Pope. John falls in love with Lenina but he is attracted more on her physical Charms. Bernard get permission of Mustapha mond to take John back to England along with his mother Linda to conduct an experiment, on him John proves to be a huge success in London society with his knowledge of English and his frequent quotations from William Shakespeare Lenina is attracted towards him and tries to reduce him but he rejects her because he regards her as a girl of loose morals. John is attracted towards the new world but in the end he felt disgusted with it and he revolted against its laws. Because his mother died because of having taken an overdose of Soma drug. Savage wants to life with its fullness, but he also wants also deals with its tragedy. All the wonders of material civilization leave him cold, because he remembers that Ariel could put a gridle round the earth in forty minutes.2 John cries and raises his voice against its use because it makes people less human and Helmholtz joins him in his demonstration against Soma. People tries to murder John but he is saved by police. Bernard, Helmholtz and John are called before the world controller Mustapha Mond to be punished for their revolt against the state. Bernard and Helmholtz are exiled to the Falkland Island but John is detained so that he can have a lengthy philosophical discussion with Mond. Mond illustrates to him how the brave new world has no place for art, literature and religion because these things are detrimental to social order and stability. In the words of Laurence Brander, “Bereft of feelings, emotions and dreams, these bottle – products are released from world, tension as they are so conditioned that their actions have no moral consequences.” He says “Happiness consists in sensual pleasures and emotional attachment.” John turns to the life of a primitive savage doing all his odd jobs himself, such as making tools for hunting and planting a garden When he remembers his lust for Lenina, he occasionally lashes himself with his whip. His eccentric behavior of whipping himself becomes an enjoyable scene for people they come to see him, Lenina also comes to see and killed by John by whip. He committed suicide by hanging himself in the light house because he was unable to adjust himself to the way of life or manners and morals of the new world. In Brave New World Huxley mirrors cynicism, despair, disillusion and Anxiety of the first Global International Research Thoughts (GIRT) Page 10 An International Indexed Online Journal
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half of the 20th century. Brave New World is Utopian novel with a pessimistic despair without any glitter of hope due to which it was rightly been called a dystopian novel. Huxley like a surgeon and observer has express in a satirical manner in terms of the dangers of an over‐independence on science which in turn resulted into an over indulgence in material pursuit, and physical pleasures. That is what, Keith M. May means when he says, “the progress of Science has suppressed the emotional and spiritual dimensions of human life thus precipitating a vacuum in the mind heart and soul of man.” Huxley has presented a horrifying picture of a socialized and sterilized society which beautifully be summed up by Mustapha Mond. “One cannot have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.”3 So, Huxley has attempted to reveal the underlying discontent of the 20th Century, and in so doing he has demonstrated a range greater that of any other novelist of his time. REFERENCES : 1. Aldous Huxley : Barave New World (1932) p. 29. 2. M.D. Metre, The Hibbert Journal XXXI (October 1932), p. 70. 3. Aldous Huxley : Brave New World (1932), p. 179. Global International Research Thoughts (GIRT) Page 11