Uma herança romântica : a natureza como reflexo de liberdade em Admirável Mundo Novo, de Aldous Huxley

Abstract

This research aims to identify how the concept of nature, as seen by English Romanticism, was translated into Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932). As a dystopia focused on authoritarian repression, its plot criticizes mass control maneuvers, acting as a "fire warning" (Hilário, 2013). Aldous Huxley is an English writer who excels at instigating critical thought by fictionalizing "societies of control" (Costa, 2004). In his work, the urban center is averse to representations of nature in the formation of the category of "space." Huxley presents a highly alienated London, viewing nature as an escape mechanism and a symbol of freedom. The research infers the possible influence of the English Romantic movement on the corpus, as it was a precursor to narratives where nature serves as a refuge. The bibliographic framework guides the analysis through the following organization: the first chapter conceptualizes the dystopia genre with the aid of texts from authors such as Gregory Claeys (2017), Débora Loane do Amaral e Souza (2019), and Leomir Cardoso Hilário (2013). The second chapter focuses on how nature emerges as a representation of freedom in this literary context, based on the writings of Edmund Blunden (1949), Rodrigo Campos (2022), and Evanir Pavloski (2017). Finally, the third chapter focuses on the analysis and rethinks the relationship between humans and the natural world aiming for more human pathways.