Abstract

This research paper focuses on the subject of enslavement and freedom in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It compares between two contrasting worlds: the primitive world, where John the Savage lives and the utopian world, where Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and their fellow-citizens inhabit. The primitive world, in this connection, symbolizes freedom, whereas the utopian world represents enslavement. The story of the novel, Brave New World revolves round these three central figures: John the Savage, Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson. The novel examines how the characters of the World State are enslaved and very few of them attempt to rebel against the principles of the World State. Key words: Enslavement, freedom, primitive world, the savage.

Highlights

  • The aim of this research paper is to investigate enslavement and freedom in Aldous Huxley‟s Brave New World

  • We find the World State intolerable largely because we see in it perversions of our most cherished ideas and institutions” (Grushow, 1962: 42)

  • Brave New World showed that Aldous Huxley is a writer with a message, and the message is to warn us against self-satisfaction

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Ahmed Ahmed Abdelaziz Farag

This research paper focuses on the subject of enslavement and freedom in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It compares between two contrasting worlds: the primitive world, where John the Savage lives and the utopian world, where Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and their fellow-citizens inhabit. The primitive world, in this connection, symbolizes freedom, whereas the utopian world represents enslavement. The story of the novel, Brave New World revolves round these three central figures: John the Savage, Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson.

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