Antz, contrary to the title, is more about humans than the insects we despise at picnics. The movie is completely animated, but it's very clear that the protagonist Z is a character which symbolizes Aldos Huxley's character John in the book, Brave New World. Many of the characters in the movie Antz are symbolic of characters in the book Brave New World, and their actions resemble the book too.Some of the events that take place in the movie Antz are directly related to the events that occur in the book Brave New World.
             The three characters, from Antz, that best symbolize characters in a Brave New World are Z, who symbolizes John, Princess Bala, who symbolizeds Lenina, and Weever, a soldier who symbolizes the 2nd highest caste in the Utopian society. In the movie Antz, Z is a self-centred worker ant who doesn't see why he has to conform to what the rest of the colony does and consequently suffers from an identity crisis. Much like Z, John from Brave New World isn't really self-centered, but he does suffer from and identity crisis. For he has never had an identity of his own because he's lived outside of Utopia in the Savage reservation. Soon in to the story Antz, Z runs into the colony's Princess Bala at a bar and becomes infatuated with her. His infatuation is so unbareable that he convinces his best friend, Weaver (a soldier ant), to switch places so he can see her again. Something extremeley close to that event happens in a Brave New World. It occurs when John meets Lenina at the Savage c!
             amp. One of the difference in the too stories is that instead of Z moving to see Princess Bala, Lenina had Bernard take her to The Savage reservation (where she would meet John). Though the incident with John and Lenina was not planned out, like Z had his planned out, Lenina was infatuated with John on site. This Same infatuation was present in Antz between Z and Princess Bala. Later in the story Antz, the evil General Mandible (who symbolized...