How Does Lenina Change In Brave New World

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A Utopia is a society is which everyone is happy, which is what every society aims for, but instead the probability of the society being a dystopia is more prevalent. A dystopia being, a society with clearly labeled flaws, morals and people. These people, whom of which, will change to fit their own means in society and are shaped by the unfamiliar experiences they are forced to endure. These experiences affect people in different ways, either being crushed by the pressure or able to adapt and overcome, being able to change their own ways of life and their world view. In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” , he uses the character Lenina to show that people change in many ways, when they are met with these circumstances. At the start Lenina is …show more content…

Lenina was introduced to a different way of life and at first, this life seemed absolutely repulsing, but after a little while she began to see that some parts of the savage ways connected to her quite deeply in what she wanted out of life. ““Oh shut up”” she said as she turned back to her neglected embros... As if she could have forgotten her V.P.S.”.The context of this quote gives off the fact that Lenina does not want to go to a feely with another man because she has eyes for only one,John, and at this point she is frustrated with the man judging her for it. This excerpt is perhaps the first time that the change in Lenina is pointed out. She has moved from a character that is very accepting of others and the civilised way of life, to one that gets frustrated with her peers for the simple fact that she likes one guy and one guy only, which would lean more towards being a savage. When she is first met with savage life, she regards only being with one person a nuisance, but she finally begins to realize the lust you can have for one person. She begins to be frustrated with her own life and seeks comfort in one man, much like the savages would do in their life. This is the first time that the author begins to relate Lenina to the savages and even though she found she wanted to be nothing like a …show more content…

This forced her to face the fact that even though everyone is genetically engineered, they still have faults, that they are still human. Her whole lifestyle is based around the fact that they are so different from the savages and this was the first time that she found, that everyone, no matter where you come from can still succumb to emotion and make mistakes. She saw an aspect of life that had never been there before, mistakes, a word unknown to the civilised language because all people are created to be a certain thing and conditioned to have a role in society. “ Laughter broke out, enormous, almost hysterical, peel after peel, as though it would never stop. My father- and it was the director?”. This point of the book represents a turning point for Lenina, realising that the forbidden word of father was used on such a powerful man. This quote supports the fact that even though the people call themselves “civilised” and “better” they are just the same human, with better structure and technology. At this point Lenina begins to see John as more of a human being and not just a savage for the simple fact that he was born to and fathered by the civilised people. It also creates an entire area in which, the grounds are laid on the false pretences of everyone in the civilised world following their own role in the community and

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