Language In Brave New World

It can be observed the the “Controller” states that history is completely removed from society, so the people of future London are not able to explore the ideas of freedom that had existed in the past, instead they are only presented with the works the government deems acceptable for them to consume. For example, “Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150” (Huxley 44). Therefore, they are only presented with the ideas the government has produced, meaning that the government is utilizing language to dictate life to the people they are controlling. For this reason, the aforementioned concepts of feeling and emotion are completely foreign to the common people, regardless of their class. Only those who are raised outside of society, “savages” are capable of controlling their own destiny and living for themselves, rather than authoritative figures. In this way, the suppression of language is an interesting part of how people can be conditioned and socialized into specific cultures.

Furthermore, he uses language to push the reader to create their own opinions on the realistic issues portrayed in his book. For instance, the writing style forces the reader make assumptions regarding what is happening in the book. At the end of the book, when John, the savage, presumably commits suicide, the reader only knows that his feet are dangling in the air. Based on the given evidence, one would be lead to hypothesize that John had hung himself and died, yet it is not certain. By crafting language in a way that withholds important information, he intends for the reader to search for the truth, not just in his novel, but when consuming any form of information that could be a victim of censorship or contain a