Research Guides: Huxley, Aldous: Critical Articles

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A Foucauldian reading of Huxley's Brave New World
Abstract -- Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) is a nightmarish depiction of a post-human world where human beings are mass-produced to serve production and consumption. In this paper, I discuss the manipulations of minds and bodies with reference to Foucault's biopower and disciplinary systems that make the citizens of the world state more profitable and productive. I argue that Brave New World depicts a dystopian systematic control of mind and body through eugenic engineering, biological conditioning, hypnopaedia, sexual satisfaction, and drugs so as to keep the worldians completely controlled, collectivized and contented in a totalitarian society. The world state eradicates love, religion, art and history and deploys language devoid of any emotions and thoughts to control the mind that judges and decides. I argue that Brave New World anticipates the Foucauldian paradigm of resistance, subversion and containment, ending in eliminating the forces that pose a challenge to the ideology of the world state.
Power of Images/Images of Power in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four
The importance of visual imagery in social control is explored, using the novels 'Brave New World' and '1984'. Topics include Aldous Huxley's and George Orwell's condemnation of sociopolitical conditioning, and the misuse and forging of photographs, documents and other materials to achieve it.

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