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Religion in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”

Structure

Your opinion

  • Do you think that traditional religion is outdated?
  • The end of the religion and the view on the religion in the past
  • The "religion" of the World State
  • Why Ford?
  • Religion of the savages in Malpais
  • Your Opinion
  • Would you prefer the Ford's religion or the religion of the savages in Malpais?
  • Do you think that our world develops towards BNW's religions? Why? Where?

Savage Reservation

The end of religion & The view on Religion in the Past

  • worship Jesus and Pookong
  • mixture of Christianity and Indian myths

-> combination of religion and superstition

View on Christianity

View on Religion in General

  • despised

Elements

  • no freedom
  • "history is bunk"
  • unnecessary waste of time
  • not necessary
  • superstition

Indian

Christianity

Why Ford?

  • God is old
  • Bible is forbidden
  • Marriage, love and families
  • Monogamy
  • Whippings (to punish themselves)
  • Picture of Jesus as a man nailed to a cross

  • Outward appearance
  • Totemism + Ancestor worship
  • Rituals: dances; sacrifices, Kiva
  • Connection to nature
  • Painted image of an eagle

The religion of the World State

Quotes

Brave New World

Who was Henry Ford?

[...] Awonawilona, who made a great fog by thinking in the night, and then made the whole world out of the fog; of Earth Mother and Sky Father; of Ahaiyuta and Marsailema, the twins of War and Chance; of Jesus and Pookong; of Mary and Etsanatlehi, the woman who makes herself young again; of the Black Stone at Laguna and the Great Eagle and Our Lady of Acoma” (p. 113, ll. 5-10)

= a world of perfected "Fordism"

“The seed of men and all creatures, the seed of the sun and the seed of earth and the seed of the sky – Awonawilona made them all out of the Fog of Increase. Now the world has four wombs; and he laid the seeds in the lowest of the four wombs. And gradually the seeds began to grow…”

(p. 114, ll.35-39)

  • everything automated
  • materialist society
  • no individuality
  • even humans produced on assembly lines
  • happy workers

seen as Dystopia

  • american car

manufacturer

  • developer of the

assembly line

  • introduced minimum wage & less working hours

So why Ford?

Values

future of America

= future of the world

1926: Huxley visits America

ship's library: Henry Ford's biography "My Life and Work"

America in its "roaring 20s"

Ford's principles

  • efficiency, production, automation

  • consumerism & materialism

  • work-life balance
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