Satire In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a satire showing the need for individualism, and the problems of a controlling society. Helmholtz Watson lives in a world where individualism is practically absent and forgotten. However, this does not stop him from being an individual thinker and rebel. Watson is smarter than everyone else, too smart for his peers liking. This, plus his refusal to follow the social “norms” make him an outsider. He creates the rift between himself and society by not participating in the activities in which he considers to be meaningless and mindless. Even though Watson lives in a controlling society, he is not controlled. He is “exiled” for wanting freedom, lack of freedom is one of the problems with an