Diction In Brave New World Essay

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Summer Reading Assignment 2016 In the science fiction novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley shows a revolutionary dystopian society where everyone is happy and a programmed piece that fits perfectly in the puzzle that is this “brave new world”. Brave New World is rich with complex style and structure that keeps the reader just enough in the loop of information so that they understand, without spewing details that leave no room for the wandering mind, challenging diction that enables the reader to dive deeper into Huxley’s thoughts, as well as an abundance of allusions to other literary pieces that counteract ideas brought up in the book with the title being an example, all under a dramatically dark tone sprinkled with light moments that Aldous …show more content…
For an example of how his diction creates detailed descriptions, we may look at the words “savages” and “civilized”. Both of which are very strong words used extensively throughout the book that mean completely different things. If the reader did not know what savages meant they could look up the definition and find that it means “fierce, violent, and uncontrolled or in relation to the primitives”. Whereas the word civilized is the total opposite. Huxley uses these words in the place of bland, broad words in order to specify and paint an extremely clear picture in the reader's head also creating tone and emotion. With a word like “savage” the reader can only picture a horrible, disobedient, and repulsive character. Another example in the book is the word “batch” when referring to the large groups of babies being born at the same time. The word “batch” gives the idea that the newborns meant no more than that of a baked good because they were seen as a whole group and not seen as individuals. Authors like Huxley use descriptive diction so the reader can have a full comprehension of the text and never fall short of what they intended for them to
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