Discurso utópico e distópico nas paisagens narrativas de Admirável mundo novo, de Aldous Huxley

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a reading from of Aldoux Huxley’s Brave New World, from the point of view of the concepts of Utopia - an ideal vision of a positive social order, future or present - and Dystopia - negative characterization of an oppressive social order - as similar propositions, both setting a particular vision of the future scenarios. In common, the two terms show the attempt of certain novelists to narrate a social reality ideally organized, whether authoritarian or not. For our analysis, we will seek first to contrast the way the narrator of Brave New World presents the urban and wild reality, seeking perceive the characterization of two dissonant points proposed by Huxley in its depiction of his fictional utopian/dystopian future. Later, we will study the main characters of novel, the civilized Bernard Marx and the savage John Savage, to see how the social reality of them alters their perceptions and their attempts to change their reality. For this, our intent is to analyze the relation between literary art and the different characterizations of utopia or dystopia in Huxley’s novel.