Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World: Mood 1 key example

Definition of Mood

The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. Every aspect of a piece of writing... read full definition
The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. Every aspect... read full definition
The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes... read full definition
Chapter 15
Explanation and Analysis:

The mood in Brave New World is consistently bleak; in fact, beyond sadness, the novel verges into all manner of discomfiting emotions. For a dystopian novel, this is par for the course—it is, after all, a principal goal of most dystopian novelists to generate a foreboding, unsettling mood, with the hopes of warning their readers about future and present societal dangers.