Marxism In Brave New World

The novella, “Brave New World,” by Aldous Huxley, introduces a futuristic world in which there are different social classes in order to keep a happy society and taught nothing else other than what the people of the world need to know. The world is meant to keep people all over happy and create no issues. The author throughout the book connects this with Marxist theory. This can be shown through the different social classes that there are in the book. There are significant differences between the classes throughout including, the condemnation of social classes, the different ends of the spectrum each class is on, and the idea that society is more important than the individuals within it.
Aldous Huxley creates a society where humans are made …show more content…
In Marxist Criticism by Tony Benn, explains the two sides of classes in society and how when you’re in a higher rank of class, people will do anything to keep that sense of power. “Because those who control production have a power base, they have many ways to ensure that they will maintain their position”(82). The way that marxist theory explains how people keep this power is the way they manipulate places and people including politics, government, education, and news media. They overall take control of all related needed things to stay at the top.This follows Brave New World because proletariat and bourgeoisie are key contributors to the story and the way their society works. “‘ And that,’ put in the Director sententiously,‘that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny’”(15). In order to keep the power within the society, people/babies are conditioned to think the way they do so they can’t escape what they’re destined to do. Or think of their own ideas to the society stable and keep people on the higher classes in their spots. Marxist theory is compared to this way of living because of the social classes and where people end up when they are born, conditioned, and given their jobs within this futuristic society that has been made to keep people happy …show more content…
Although the individuals make up the society itself, the people that have almost all the control will do anything in order to keep society stable and happy. The World State has a motto that defines the way their futuristic society is. “Community, Identity, Stability” (1). There is only one part of the motto for the entire society that they live in and it’s mostly about the society as a whole and keeping everything as stable as they possibly can. Another idea of what happens in the book about the society being more important than individuals is when the “Savage” or John, comes to the World State from the Reservation. The Reservation is the place where people either don’t fit into society go or where there is a normal life and people have mothers and fathers and are born naturally compared to being made in a lab like everyone is in the World State. In “Teaching Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World from Multiple Critical Perspectives,” by Douglas Grudzina, explains the way John can’t form into this society that he comes to no matter how hard he tries. “John’s inability to conform to the rules of society, as well as his rejection by his community of birth-the Reservation- force him to attempt to lead a new life, only to further his isolation and ultimately bring about his suicide” (par. 3). This is explained to show that