Wednesday 27 September 2023

The Perception of Civilization and Savageness: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World | Chapter 5 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 9

 The objective concerning this article is to survey Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) in terms of the nature of the rules – that are presumably civilized – by which the World State citizens in the story should abide. Those rules are, characteristically, contradictory the usual human ways of history that are referred to as “savage”. The main debate raised here is politically and culturally oriented; the humankind of this World State seemingly determines every materialistic inclination its members, still it remains far away from optimism. The article, thus, attempts to check the reasons behind the failure of this culture, which is fundamentally established scientific and technological progress. The article, moreover, aims to investigate and analyze the two ideas of civilization and savageness just before Huxley's utopian/dystopian world is worried, trying to underscore, employing juxtaposing the discussion of two together concepts, how two together are perceived and what ironical whispers there are underlying their valid meanings.

Author(s) Details:

Saffeen N. Arif,
Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RHLLE-V9/article/view/11943

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