How Successful Are Huxley (Brave New World), Goldi Essay

In all three of the novels, the reader is presented with a world that is much unlike their own but the authors manage to portray the world with a sense of realism and credibility using only their own knowledge and future predictions . In Brave New World, Huxley took inspiration from the advances that science was making at the time and also what was happening in the world to predict in which direction society was heading.   Wells on the other hand drew upon his socialist background and predicted that the class division would evolve to become such a big problem that eventually the human race would actually become a split species because of it. Golding, however, didn’t look into the future at all; instead, he looked back to our primitive roots to see if anything could be learnt from our Neanderthal ancestors, and having just experienced the war, wrote The Inheritors to make a point about how we have always had this Neolithic tendency to attack our own kind for dominance
Out of all the 3 books, Huxley’s Brave New World is the one that is most advanced in terms of science and he therefore uses a more scientific language to portray the world with a sense of being grounded in reality. Therefore as a reader you have to make more of an effort to understand and engage with the language he uses and as a result of this, the world which he is creating becomes much more real and believable. In a stark contrast to this, Golding’s The Inheritors presents the reader with a world that is like our own in the sense that they live in a heavily forested area and therefore it is easy to relate to as a reader. However, just as the language that Huxley uses in Brave New World enables us to progress as a reader, Golding’s use of under-lexicalisation in the Inheritors stunts our attachment and belief in the this world he is presenting to us, despite the fact it is more true to our own than Brave New World is. Like Huxley, Wells also came from a scientific background and this is evident...