What is Satire? Consider Brave New World as a Satire.

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What is satire? Consider Brave New World as a satire.

Satire is a literary device in which the author ridicules the existing faults and vices of a particular society to correct them. Brave New World (1932) is a masterpiece of satire composed by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). It is a satirical fiction. Huxley depicts a scientific futuristic society in the novel Brave New World. Huxley satirizes probable futuristic social elements. 

Satirical Title: Huxley takes the title Brave New World which has been derived from Miranda’s speech in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. John says,

 oh brave new world that has such people in it.

To describe the World State, he is being ironic. He exposes that the people of the world state are cruel and inhumane. So Huxley wants to expose that this is not a brave world; this is an inhumane, perverted, and cruel world.

Satire on the Caste System: The social structure of the world state is a serious satirical issue. People of the world state are classified into five castes. They are Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alphas and Betas are upper classes, and they are produced to rule inthe  future. But the rest of the three are lower classes. They are produced through the Bokanovsky process. It is a process by which a large number of similar twins are hatched at the rate of ninety-six per egg by budding. We find Tomakin to say,

Bokanovsky’s process is one of the major instruments of social stability.

Satire on Soma: John blames his mother’s death for Soma. He tries to convince other people not to take Soma. He tries to keep people aloof from Soma by interfering with daily soma rations for workers at the Hospital. For both John and the reader, soma now symbolizes a lack of free will, central social control, and enslavement. In the end, John, the novel’s protagonist, uses soma and takes part in anonymous sex. John protests against the World