The tone of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” can be described as critical because the author depicts a dehumanized society in which citizens have no sense of freedom, live by the government's rules and standards, and Huxley infers his opinion about this society to the reader through some of the characters' roles and actions.
Right since the beginning of the book we observe the cold and scientific process by which humans are ‘manufactured’. Here, humans are raised right from birth up to adulthood as mere puppets of the government. If the love and sense of trust from a mother and a father is missing right from the start of the citizens’ lives, and the only organization they can trust in is the World State, the government, then they will always be obedient to their orders without opposing, judging, or questioning them.
Aldous Huxley criticizes the World State and the nation it governs through characters like Bernard, Helmholtz, John, and Linda. These characters can be labeled as the rebels of the bunch who oppose the regime’s criteria for ruling, in comparison to other characters as Lenina, who accept it. Huxley’s opposition of the World State can be clearly observed when John “The Savage” is introduced to this society and takes a tour through the “Fordian Factory”, where children are born and raised, he is deeply disgusted by this way of living, to the point in which he decides to not leave his room anymore to avoid further disgust.
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