"Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remoreses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?" (pg. 41)
I found this quote quite interesting. Huxley uses anaphora to convey his point in the quote and get the readers attention. However, I honestly have no clue what he is trying to say here though. It's not even a character talking but rather the narrator addressing the reader. Could this be Huxley's attempt to tell the reader of his disgust with the normal social order of the world at his time? We already know this guy had a pretty sick mind to be writing this "interesting" story, so maybe he does want a society like he depicts in his book. His diction is very interesting in the quote though. I don't even think its a sentence or even a complete thought, but from the anaphora, he just states that humans were forced to feel strongly, and therefore, could not be stable. Whether this is his own personal view of his world or some character's in the book, I am unsure of.
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