A Study Of Aldous Huxley’s Writing Of London In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley’ s Brave New World is one of the most well-known dystopian works in the history of literature.It had attracted worldwide attention since its publication in 1932,and until now lots of readers and critics feel astonished at the description of the new world and worry about the possibility of its being real in human future.Critics at home and abroad have analyzed this work from various perspectives,such as the advanced technology,the degeneration of humanity and bio-politics.However,very few critics have noticed Huxley’ s description of London in Brave New World.This thesis analyzes comprehensively the space writing of London in this novel,and tries to prove that Huxley writes about London to criticize the tendency of totalitarianism in Britain and Europe,and express his worries about the future of Britain.This thesis consists of six parts,including an introduction,four chapters as the main part and a conclusion.The introduction firstly gives a brief depiction of Aldous Huxley and his novel Brave New World.Then a literary review is given to display the research achievements of Brave New World at home and abroad.The end of the introduction part is the argument,research methods and the significance of this thesis.Chapter one introduces the theory foundation of this thesis,involving mainly Henri Lefebvre’ s theory of space.Chapter two analyzes the common places of the new London created by Huxley in the novel to prove that by writing of London in Brave New World,Huxley implies the totalitarian organization of masses achieved by architectures and buildings.Chapter three interprets the typical London architectures in the novel,showing that these architectures are embedded with totalitarian ideology,by functioning as the space of totalitarian indoctrination.Chapter four analyzes the reasons why Aldous Huxley writes about London in this novel,holding that he writes about London in order to criticize totalitarianism and express his concerns.Finally,the conclusion summarizes the whole thesis and reaffirms Huxley’ s criticism on totalitarianism and his concerns to England.