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Tertiary Education Unit

Education Department

Fuentes, Charles David

M. English-American
Literature

3-
BEEN February
16, 2017

Time and the Machine by Aldous Huxley:

A Literary Analysis

Throughout the history, man was able to

transform the world he knows into his own
comfort zone. He was able to transform his
primitive life into a comfortable life he dubbed
as “smart living.” It cannot be denied that
man, as a rational animal has succeeded in
using his intelligence to turn the paradigms of
the world he knows –the survival of the fittest
and natural selection –into a world created for
his satisfaction and wit.

In this essay by Huxley, he stressed the

changes brought by industrialism and
urbanism to the human psyche and his
orientation towards time. He posited that as
soon as machines were built and was put into
working, man was shackled in the idea that
time should be chased. They began setting up
targets based on a given calendar. They started
to be conscious about the train schedule, their
work hours, their travel time and anything
related to time. However, the time Huxley was
pointing at is the time created by man just the
same as the machines functioning in the
factories and streets. The concept of time
which makes his world turns around. This
concept of time puts every one of us in a hurry
to the extent of forgetting the primary reason
why we are doing things for our life. It makes
us blind and unconscious of different things.
We became too indulged in counting the time
we are spending.

Upon reading it, Huxley’s argument

simply focuses on one thing. That as we
progress in life whether economically of
emotionally, our simple perception of the
small things –in this case, time –are being
sacrificed for the sake of prosperity and
advancements. We tend to forget the essence
why we are working in the first place, not to
count the time we spent and equate to wages
we are expecting every 15th or 30th but
because we are working for the betterment of
ourselves. Huxley’s argument can still be
applied in today’s society. We are all into the
advancement of technology that we tend to
disconnect ourselves in the more sensible
physical world. If industrialization brought a
change in our perception of time, then Cyber
revolution changes the world we know as we
perceive it. It might not be about ‘time’ that we
are concerned now, but our disconnection to
the world brought by the things we ourselves
gave existence to is what we should be
concerned of.

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