Brave New World - Aldous Huxley's Characetrisation

How does Huxley use his characters to explore the Brave New World?

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley has presented a world which appears as a Utopia in which most people are happy, and disease and death are prevented. However, upon scrutiny this world is a Dystopia that sacrifices freedom, art and religion to achieve its goals. In his novel, Huxley questions the World State through characters such as Lenina Crowne, John Savage, and Bernard Marx.

Lenina has been developed by Huxley to be the quintessential product of the Brave New World. She is a mouthpiece that reflects the society. Lenina's attitude is shown through the repeated use of hypnopaedic proverbs and her obsession with soma. She conforms to all that is social morality such as promiscuity and prejudices towards other castes. Her promiscuity is demonstrated in the line, “She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them” (pg 48). Her attachment to soma and the effectiven...