Suicide In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

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Sydney Edmonds
Mrs.Riddle
Honors English 12
13 March 2016
Social Society Suicide
Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, gives readers a fresh inside look to ideas and concepts not formally accepted in the twentieth century. With twisted political and controversial subjects, he opened readers minds in more ways than one showing how scientific studies have a hold on a society. Sigmund Freud was a major key voice in his dystopian literature novel. The psychoanalysis of id, ego, and superego played a large role in the development and plot of the story. (The novel Brave New World is a warning of the power society has over its citizens.)
Freud separated the personality into sections such as ,id,ego and,superego.Id is home to the animal urges(Britannica …show more content…

Superego is a person’s self morals (Britannica 2).Freud believed that to be a healthy strong person the ego would be stronger than the id and superego so that it could consider the reality of the situation.In some cases the suger ego can be the strongest and a persons will have very strict morals.But when the id is stronger than the super ego that is when great harm can be born into society.A strong example of a weak superego in todays society are rapist. They choose to seek out pleasure over morality. Today’s society and care takers often times impact a person’s superego. Majority of people get their morals from influential people in their life. With no parental guidance, morals were installed by sleep teaching and classical …show more content…

In this quote:Brady Buchanan goes into detail on how the relationship of Linda and John blossomed.
Huxley's adoration of his mother implied feelings of intense jealousy for his father, and ... these were translated into the subconscious notion that Leonard Huxley was at least partly guilty for his wife's death. ... [T]he hostility which Huxley always shows for Freud's ideas ... [is] an indication of the fear which he had that such a diagnosis might be true, and the fact that almost all the fathers in Huxley's fiction are caricatures would lend weight (Buchanan).
John the Savage obsession on protecting Linda could easily be a symptom of this Freudian psychological study. With John not wanting anyone else to have her,he portrays himself to come to readers very anger and backlash to her sexual partners.“ He experiences some classically Freudian Oedipus jealousy of the native man who sleeps with his mother, spurring his anger with ADT quotations from Hamlet”(Buchanan 3). He hated Pope more and more. John has an unconscious wish to replace Popé, which drives his unsuccessful attempt at

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