The Precipice Of Knowledge Aldous Huxley s Brave New World

The Precipice of Knowledge The marxist and feminist perspectives are both are utilized to gain a deeper understanding of literature. The feminist lens deals with the role of gender within literature, and the marxist lens focuses on the context of culture and society within literature. Each perspective plays off the other to create a cohesive approach to analyzing Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World highlights the issues associated with a society with a disproportional basis in manufactured social structures. These dysfunctional social structures are created through a fundamental irony: knowledge both unities and destroys humanity. Huxley shows mankind, for the first time in history, united; however, the knowledge and intellect that created this ever lasting peace is also the same factor that stripped mankind of everything that makes it human. Aldous Huxley’s dystopian society, within Brave New World, shows that knowledge is the unifying and destroying thre ad of humanity through the fabricated social hierarchy and preconditioned gender roles. The underpinning of Huxley’s Brave New World is the unifying thread of mankind: knowledge. Through the course of history, mankind has struggled to find and maintain peace. However, in Huxley’s vision of the future mankind has developed, manufactured, and fostered peace all through the knowledge gained from generations past. Mankind has three fundamental factors that drive it and are called â€Å"the functions of life: