The Funhouse Mirror: an Examination of Distortion of Government in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

O'Connor states (correctly, might I add) "[distortion] is the only way to make people see". Writing about what already is is not nearly as effective as writing about what could be. This is just what Huxley does in Brave New World: he provides us with an image of what the world of the future could be like, a distorted image of his own world from the early 1930s. <Tab/>The Great …

…state controlled every aspect of everyone's lives, from what their job would be to the foods they like. People did not like the slight upturn in the size of government during the early 1930s, and he showed them what an extremely large government could be capable of in the future. Brave New World is almost entirely based on the distortion of reality, and that is an element which allowed Huxley to broadcast his commentary masterfully.