Huxley' S Dystopia In The Aspect Of The Genre Creative Evolution

Abstract

The genre of anti-utopia acquires new significance nowadays, as it helps to reveal essential peculiarities of contemporary reality due to its specific intrinsic features. The present research analyzes the specificity of Huxley’s novel Brave New World in the context of the creative evolution of the dystopic literary genre. Investigating the fledging period of the named genre the authors expose the reasons for which novelists resorted to anti-utopia at the beginning of the XX century and defined the originality of the leading stylistic means, employed by the writers-anti-utopist. The authors come to the determination that the novel is an idiosyncratic literary work, where dystopic features are intertwining with the utopic genre markers: distrust in the social and moral progress of humanity, the practice of social consciousness manipulation, robotics and dehumanization of a person in a standardized society. Through wit and pessimistic satire, the author hyperbolizes features of contemporary reality. The paper also observes the specifics of the anti-utopic genre development of Huxley’s novelism in connection with the writer’s outlook in his early writing period, to which Brave New World refers. In the course of the research, there was suggested a conclusion that Huxley’s vision of futuristic society is caused by his agnostic-pessimistic apprehension of the reality surrounding him. The phenomena he cogitated and forewarned of their consequences occur in a tacit or overt manifestation nowadays.