Brave New World

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley written in 1931.In Huxley’s society that he created everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that provokes the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young woman has the potential to be much more than what there allowed to think. The future society shows how reproductive technology and anti-depressants shape a society.

"The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber." 


Huxley uses figurative language to create a feeling of lifelessness in the Hatchery, which is a place that is supposed to be giving life. The word “corpse” adds to the dead feeling. Comparing the workers gloves to a pale color rubber makes the reader think that although they are creating lives, they feel dead themselves. I also think it's interesting that the workers were dressed in all white with pale colored rubber because I think that color white represents how the life is sucked out of everything that is created in that room.