Brave New World Rhetorical Analysis

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Tone is used to portray the lack of romantic thinking and inability to maintain true relationships in Brave New World. Huxley’s humorous representation of relationships illustrates a society without emotional ties. Additionally, the inability to balance romantic and classical thinking symbolizes a lack of quality. Emotions and genuine relationships are avoided at all costs in order to prevent romantic thought. Fanny elucidated to Lenina that relationships that fulfill more than basic needs are looked down upon and leaves others astounded; “Do you mean to tell me you’re still going out with Henry Foster?...Only four months!... It’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man.” (Huxley 40-41). A current definition of dating