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Momo Essay
13/10/16
Brave New World one of the best novel in the world the person who has read will surely
agree with that. Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, the novel
anticipates the development in sleep-learning, reproductive technology, and classical
conditioning. Brave New World is a novel that has much interesting symbolism that
represents the story. Therefore, 3 things that are a symbolism of Brave New World is 5 caste
of class that represent the type of people ,the zipper that represents easy access or the
relationship that more than one and soma that represents short-term of happiness.
In the world of Brave New World, there are 5 castes of the system include Alpha, Beta,
Gammas, Delta and Epsilons, these 5 classes will have a different color that represents each
class, also different class will have different kind of people and different knowledge.
According to the novel has written that "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder
than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't
work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid.
They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta
children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides
they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."(Hexley,p22) .This
quote indicates that what kind of people that will be in which class like the quote represent
that the lower class will be more stupid than the high class ,however the higher class have to
work harder than lower class.
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The world Soma everyone who has read Brave New World before will know that it is a kind
of drug that can give only a short-term of happiness, but it will impact the user health in the
long-term. According to the novel Theres always soma to give you a holiday from the facts.
And theres always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you
patient and long-suffering (Huxley, p210). This quote has represented that Soma can leave
the fact and make the user feel good for only a short period of time but when past that period
of time Soma will make user suffering for a long time.
In conclusion, 3 symbolism that the author represent in the novel is 5 caste system,
Zipper, and Soma .The 5 caste of the system which represent the class how the difference
between each class. The Zipper also one of the important things that author tries to represent
the world easy access and the relationship that more than one which different from our
world. Soma the thing that the author represent about a short-term of happiness , but will
affect the user health in the long-term. Finally, hope that the person who never read the novel
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named Brave New World before will find or spend sometimes of your life to read it
because the reader will get benefit from this book. From the person who has read this novel
before most of them will not think that it is just a novel,but will think that it is a real world
just only different from our world ,and if you want the new experience from other world
thinking about the book named Brave New World.