BR vs BNW

Many of the predictions in BNW and BR arose from issues relevant to their contexts of production.

BNW was written post WWI (Published in 1932), a time where the world was disillusioned by democracy and depression affected global markets. From this arose totalitarian regimes in areas such as Germany, Russia and Italy. These governments promised people order, security and economic stability. Huxley explores and satirises flaws and dangers associated with these ‘remedies’ of society. He aims to exploit the anxieties of his bourgeois audience about both Communism and ‘Fordist’ American capitalism. It was a time where technology defined man’s brutality. Technological advancements had created new and devastating war machines, t

In the BNW, natural rhythms of society, such as emotion and birth, have been intentionally eliminated by the process of conditioning, bringing social stability at the price of individual thought. ‘Bokanovsky’s process is one of the major instruments of social stability’, ‘ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!’ In this artificial society, religion has been replaced with consumerism and god substituted with ‘his ford ship’, an icon of revolutionary mass production in society. ‘Our ford… the sign of the T’. This satire of religion and consumerism presents the oppression of the masses. ‘That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that’. This serves the commercial goal by substituting natural and spiritual enlightenment for commodities.

In BR the nature of humanity is questioned. Humans appear cold and unemotional, while replicants are seen experiencing emotions such as love and anger. Batty shows emotion when he embraces Pris’ lifeless body

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