Brave New World demonstrates the effects of technology, and implies that pain is necessary for life to have meaning, T he World State emerges as the antagonist of the novel, a force that prevents characters from achieving free will. The plot is initiated when Bernard, protagonist, asks Lenina on a date to visit a Reservation (Reservation is the worst for the World State citizens), when I was reading I could see their mutual attraction but, Bernard and Lenina are incompatible, they have opposite opinions an actions in the book. I see that most of the main characters struggle to conform to society to one degree or another. The conflict of the novel is developed before Lenina and Bernard’s trip, when the Director tells Bernard about his own visit to the Reservation, asking questions about how successful the society really is at creating an ideal existence, t he Director describes being separated from the woman he was with, hurt...
In the book Brave New World we can find different types of symbols due to the dynamism and topic that it presents, in the book, we can find the symbols in objects, characters, colors or ideas. The Soma is a symbol of gratification to control the World States populace with the illusion of content, represents powerful influence in science and technology on society and artificial happiness. The weather can be applied in the citizens and environment, its symbolism is of difficulty because the controllers of the states can't control them or know how to regulate them. The music has a connection between sex and violence in the book, all the violence is vaguely sexual and all the sex is vaguely violent. Henry Ford represents worship of technology, he is god in the society, pump people conditioned to fit in a specific job or caste. Shakespeare represents the art and literature that was destroyed by the new world. The symbols that I mention are just few ones that we c...