Brave New World Rhetorical Analysis

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In the first passage entitling “Three Questions” Tolstoy extensively theorizes the answers to three rhetorical questions. Although the questions are open-ended, there is an apparent connection between psychological traits to the given answers. The emperor receives a series of answers from assertive personalities proposing a direct organizing method; meanwhile, the passive approach seeks other people's guidance or just giving up. Despite the plethora of replies, the frustrated emperor ventures to seek a wise determination. Tolstoy is exploiting society’s urge to find definitive answers to questions of ongoing ponderance. In relation, Brave New World explores the same questions within the characters’ dystopian setting. Huxley vivaciously characterizes a society where there is an ultimate hierarchy determining the importance of other’s lives. …show more content…

In his pursuit, the king calls forth an older man and the man’s older consanguinity generations. The eldest of the line provides a sufficient explanation of the grin’s origins; however, one becomes inquisitive regarding the declining health of the three generations. The youngest contains a “bent” stature as he has impairments in most physiological prospects, and fascinatingly enough, the eldest sustains the physiological health expected of a young gentleman. Ultimately, health and fruitful plantation are related to appeasing God as disrupting spiritual equilibrium brings chaos and famine. Appeasing gods to seek prosperity is prominent in the Kalanga culture in The Poisonwood Bible. As the Price family begins to assimilate into the surrounding culture of the inhabitants, a recurrent motif is a connection between Earth’s elements and approval by the gods. Consequently, when society disturbs the gods, civilization begins to dismantle from natural disasters like a horrific ant

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