Satires are made to ridicule society and Brave New World is a classic example. Several elements are ridiculed in Huxley’s novel that were true then and are still very true today. Huxley ridicules by acceptance and standard which I find to be original. He makes you stop and consider how you live your life and how you affect others. Aldous Huxley’s satire proves to be successful.
There are many things wrong with society today and in Huxley’s day and he doesn’t seem to forget any problems. Huxley manages to cover vanity, social prejudices, social conditioning, instant gratification, hygiene and religion versus science. Vanity is apparent in the way that society only buys new things, throws out the old and can hardly wait to buy the newest fad. We hardly have any of that. I mean it’s not like little girls all over the world are trying to be the next Paris Hilton or Lindsey Lohan. No, our world is just full of children and adults who are completely satisfied without having......
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