Brave New World

       It has been a "Brave New World" indeed. recently our Ap Lit class was asked to begin reading the novel "Brave New World". I must say that when I started reading and as cliché as it may sound, I felt as if I entered a New world. The novel itself is brilliant, however a little unsettling mostly due to the whole ideology of the novels Society. That ideology though is what would provoke a Marxist's curiosity, making him feel compelled to analyze the novel.

     From what I have read so far a marxist would be perticularly keen to the fact that in the novel's society there is a caste system with members of each caste ranging in superiority from Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons respectivly. The Alphas being the dominat caste live in the life of luxury and are portrayed as beautiful. the Alphas tend to hold the most distincly fufilling jobs as they to an extent are the only class that is educated, and because of this education the Alphas regard the other classes as being lowly or beneth them. what's puzzling however is that the governing bodies of the society put in so much time and care into conforming each caste in a unique way fir instance The epsilons are deprived of oxygen when in the incubators so that they can grow to be small and weak mined but able to work in the factories. Once more an example would be that Te gammas are shocked from infancy to hate books and flowers so that as they grow older they still retain a psycological want or need to spend money. This kind of sentiment would have a marxist wondering for what economic or social gain is there from conforming each of the lower claste in this way?
    The society of "Brave New World" from my point of view is riddled with hypocricy. The society condems christianity and organized religion, seeing them as flaws of a previous society. With that belief however the people of the society have an accentuated enfactuation with Henry Ford to the point where they see him as a diety. They possibly feel this way due to his introduction of the assembly line which the society uses to an incredible degree to mass produce human beings. Also to be noted is, the way the members speak of drugs and narcotics that send users into hallucinated states of euphoria, when infact the drug soma is taken to keep the members happy, a false happiness that sends the usered on "vacations' and renders them incapable of feeling sadness. though the ideology in the novel is corupt and imaginative I feel that there is more to be learned and read, and with that being said I bit you a do.