Postmodernism

Narratives define a culture without having to be justified.Why and how are completely eliminated. For example, if someone were to say that dogs could talk everyone would just believe this outlandish statement. While, a grand narrative is a focal point of a discourse that contains lesser, smaller narratives. In the postmodern land of Brave New World, citizens believe in the narrative of forbidding emotional attachments to follow the Grand Narrative of progression.

In the novel, the citizens put up an impenetrable wall from one another. For instance,the Director recalls how the death of a girl he once hooked up with affected him more than it should have. "Because , after all, it's the sort of accident that could have happened to any one and , of course, the social body persists although the components cells may change"(97). This is really sad and disturbing to me. How can a living, breathing person be insignificant? Another person cannot inhabit the same characteristics as another and replace them. Death is distorted to eliminate anger and sadness ,so people can constantly be efficient to industry. By not having love or compassion for others, death becomes meaningless. Not having to mourn a loss promotes infinite happiness; however, true joy only comes from learning from past sorrows. The director is marganilized into neglecting the pain of death so he can be productive in his work.

In the postmodern world depicted in Brave New World, there is a vast nothingness. People accept fiction as facts with no evidence. Citizens have no goals ,or ambitions, or even thoughts of their own. People only know of the narratives that they are breainwished with in their sleep. Naturally, hhey have the urge to conform to their discourse. Ironically, by conforming, people are isolating themselves from the world with their apathy.