Presentation Of Satire In Brave New World
Analyse the passage (John the Savage in the hospital); discern presentation of satire and how it is wrought.
In Brave New World Huxley is targeting consumer, materialistic attitudes that existed in his time (and still do today) and extrapolating, then projecting them into the world that is the World State, to serve as a warning to society of the consequences of these attitudes. The passage in question is from Chapter XIV of Huxley's Brave New World, and more specifically features the incident in which the Savage', John, visits his dying mother at a hospital, and subsequently instigates a riot because of soma, which he abhors.
The drug, soma, in particular is emblematic in its pervasive influence into the World State, of the power of technology and ignorance is bliss' outlook over science and it's ideal as a search for truth. Soma is embraced by the populace as a means of instant gratification, embodied by such hypnopaedic platitudes as One cubic centimetre cures 10 gloomy......
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