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Essay / Otherness - 1234
Brave New World, through the eyes of the reader, and even John, depicts their culture as an extremely colorful and peculiar culture. Culture is one of the main issues addressed in the postcolonial perspective and by focusing on culture it becomes easy to see the otherness of the colonizers from the colonized perspective (). What one culture believes and how it behaves is very different from the beliefs and behaviors of another culture. Brave New World shows its otherness which expresses its exotic and erotic ways which, for readers, seem to signify a lack of morality (). All of this has become this way because of their environment: their cultural origin, their social context, where they are located and how society has been constructed. The comparison between the inhabitants of the reserve, who symbolize our culture and the colonized, and those of Brave New World, who symbolize the culture of the future and those who colonize, is a method used in the postcolonialist perspective to inculcate a vision of the natives. as victims rather than as perpetrators (). The way Brave New World works seems so horrible and inappropriate to us today, but if we look back 40-50 years, today's society would have had the same sense of otherness towards them. It's an indication of the direction our society is slowly moving, but also an extreme case of the direction society is moving to explicitly get the message across. Huxley points out that we are slowly allowing aspects of our environment to colonize our values today, and then shows us what that might look like: a world that we do not recognize or even know, a culture that displays the otherness of our current culture. Brave New World is exotic in the sense that it seems like a world of happiness, no one is ever really sad or sick, everything is efficient and practical, for...... middle of paper .. ....family and we get caught up in our environment, we don't notice the growing emptiness within us and then, all of a sudden, we lose something truly fulfilling. Due to the place and evolution of this society, it has formed a certain otherness or “otherness”. » to its culture which is very different from what we see today. This is all used as an exaggerated concept of what life is like today, and even in the 1930s when the book was written. Huxley shows where we have placed ourselves as a society and how we have set our direction for the future. Aldous Huxley exposes and establishes real connections and hypotheses that, over time, our own society becomes more and more exotic from one generation to the next. We change our sexual morality, what we value changes completely, and we begin to see our own otherness in the culture we have so blindly and carelessly shaped..