The Effects of Satire
Often authors use satire to put a point across in their writing. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury; and The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood are all good examples of such satire. Each of these authors mock society in the way they feel it will be in the future if some of the actions that society takes go too far. They all do this by describing a different kind of “Utopia.” There are forms of brainwashing, censorship, control and fear in each novel which then lead to some sort of rebellion because of personal conflicts. Huxley uses satire in his novel to describe what he is thinking about technology today. In Brave New World there is a convention where babies are artificially produced. There is no such thing as reproducing humans sexually. There is still such a thing as sex, yet it is strictly for pleasure only. There are so many new ways to produce humans technologically today and Huxley is stating that if society doesn’t control such technology that the technology will soon take control of us. Our society could turn out to be that of a Brave New World. In Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury is satirizing technology also. Bradbury uses a thing called the “Parlour Family.” This
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