To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it. The object of such knowledge is inherently vulnerable to scrutiny this object is a “fact” which, if it develops, changes, or otherwise transforms itself in the way that civilizations frequently do, nevertheless is fundamentally, even ontologically stable.
Knowledge means surveying a civilization from its origins to its prime to its decline – and of course, it means being able to do that, rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. According to Balfour, for the White or the west, to have knowledge on something is the same with to dominate over it. Said opens his explanation by mentioning Balfour’s speech about English colonialization in Egypt. This paper will focus only on four important points in which Brave New World will apply the points in its plot. Postcolonialism, or Orientalism as the ancestor is very rich with crucial ideas related with the dichotomy of West and East. In this book, Said explains to us about what the western people think of the orient. The whole rich scope of postcolonialism philosophy is prompted by a small book by Edward Said entitled Orientalism. Keywords: Postcolonialism, power, Orientalism. Lastly, a short reflection based on the discussion contextualized in Indonesia will be offered. Next it will applied on a literary work written by Huxley entitled brave New World. Firstly the theoretical review on Postcolonialism and Orientalism will be presented.
This paper is presented as a fulfillment to the article assignment on postcolonialism in Literary Criticism class. Graduate Program of English Language Studies Orientalism in the Characters of Aldous Huxley’s
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