How+Do+The+Words+Used+Influence+Characters+and+Readers?

"But one of the students was **fool** enough to ask where the advantage lay. "**My good boy!**" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you //see?"// He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "**Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!"** //Major instrumennts of social stability.// Standard men and standard women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg. "Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous with **enthusiasm**. "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "**Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved."** - **chapter 1**

The language in this passage greatly influences both characters and readers. To utilize Bokanovsky's process Huxley utitlizes words that have antonyms with negative connotations. By using the word normality, it causes one to think that if something were not normal, it would be deemed a mutation. Huxley utilizes the word stability, for many think that if something was not stable, it would be chaos. The word community comes with the antonym isolation, causing the reader to think of community with a positive connotation, and anything other than community in a negative light. The planetary motto of Huxley's distopian future is: "community, identity, stability." As an effect of using these positive words in contrast with negative antonyms, readers think that Bokanovsky's Process is a good thing. Additionally, by stating "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved" causes a reader to believe that there is a problem, and that Bokanovsky's process is the solution. The language used in this passage influences readers and characters for words that belong to negative antonyms, simply due to the contrast, are viewed as an extremely positive thing.

"Pneumatic too. And how!" Then, in another tone: "But, I say," he went on, "**you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of //soma//**." Diving into his right-hand trouser-pocket, Benito produced a phial. "One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy … But, I say!" Bernard had suddenly turned and rushed away. Benito stared after him. "**What can be the matter with the fellow**?" he wondered, and, shaking his head, decided that the story about the alcohol having been put into the poor chap's blood-surrogate must be true. "**Touched his brain, I suppose**." Henry Foster had had his machine wheeled out of its lock-up and, when Lenina arrived, was already seated in the cockpit, waiting." - **chapter 4**
 * He put away the //soma// bottle, and taking out a packet of sex-hormone chewing-gum, stuffed a plug into his cheek and walked slowly away towards the hangars, ruminating.**

In this passage, Huxley utilizes different words in order to portray soma in a positive light. By using the words "you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma," depicts that soma will cure all sadness. Since the people of Brave New World are not supposed to feel, when wondering what was wrong with someone, Huxley uses the phrase "touched his brain, I suppose." Huxley also utilizes different words in order for the reader to understand the lifestyle in which the characters of the distopian futures live. The quote "he put away the soma bottle, and taking out a packet of sex-hormone chewing-gum, stuffed a plug into his cheek and walked solwly away," shows how in the distopian future, drug use and sex is viewed non-chalantly, Huxley's choice of language helps a reader understand what life is like for someone of the Brave New World. The words chosen show that emotions are looked upon negatively, sex is completely casual, and the race relies on drugs to help them feel at ease.

"The men came nearer and nearer; their dark eyes looked at her, but without giving any sign of recognition, any smallest sign that they had seen her or were aware of her existence. The writhing snake hung limp again with the rest. The men passed. She liked even less what awaited her at the entrance to the pueblo, where their guide had left them while he went inside for instructions. The **dirt**, to start with, the piles of **rubbish**, the **dust**, the **dogs**, the **flies**. Her face wrinkled up into a grimace of **disgust**. She held her handkerchief to her nose. "But how can they live like this?" she broke out in a voice of indignant incredulity. (It wasn't possible.) Bernard shrugged his shoulders philosophically. "Anyhow," he said, "they've been doing it for the last five or six thousand years. So I suppose they must be used to it by now." "**But cleanliness is next to fordliness**," she insisted. "Yes, **and civilization is sterilization**," Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopædic lesson in elementary hygiene. "**But these people have never heard of Our Ford, and they aren't civilized**. So there's no point in …" - **chapter 7**
 * "I don't like it," said Lenina. "I don't like it."**

The choice of language in this passage illustrates how the citizens of Brave New World are closed-minded to anything that is different from what they are used to. In a new situation, Lenina immediately states that she does not like it. She continues to notice everything negative about the place, the dirt, the rubbish, the dust, the dogs, and the flies, immediately disgusting her. By stating "but how can they live like this?" and "but cleanliness is next to fondliness" portrays that Lenina has no capactiy to understand other lifestyles, for she feels hers is the best. Bernard, a little more open minded, states "I suppose they must be used to it by now," however, throughout the rest of the book Bernard is portrayed as somewhat of an outcast to the Brave New World society. By choosing language that depicts Lenina as simple and closed minded, in contrast to the open minded somewhat odd Bernard, Huxley may cause a reader to think that simple and closed minded is better, therefore, people should not try to understand new concepts or ideas.

"In the end Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms and inform the **impatient** **assembly** that the Savage would not be appearing that evening. The news was received with **indignation**. The men were **furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions**. The **higher their position in the hierarchy, the deeper their resentment." - chapter 12**

The words in this passage clearly portray that the citizens of Brave New World felt that in comparison to all other races, they were superior. When the people of the Brave New World were waiting for the Savage, they were impatient and rowdy, and when they found out that the Savage would not be present, it is stated that that "the men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions." That statement alone proves that the men felt like they were doing the Savage a favor by waiting for him, that the Savage was unimportant, for the simple reason that he did not agree with their lifestyle and beliefs. The language used illustrates that the men were viewed as a much higher social class than the savage, and the higher the person in the social class, the more angry they were. Huxley's choice of language in this passage leads a reader to either agree with, or in many cases resent the social class system, the beliefs, and the feeling of superiority felt by the citizens of Brave New World.