...Claim 1 In Brave New World, the culture is a lot more open to sex and relationship than today's culture. Sharing multiple partners is considered the norm and being alone/having one partner is considered odd. Analysis 1 The openness is engrained as part of their culture and is viewed as a regular pleasurable. This establishes the culture of and the way the children are engineered from the very beginning. Claim 2 The strong narrative developed with Bernard Marx shows how he will be important. The story develops a narrative around this character shows how he will be important in the future of the story. The first paragraph around Bernard shows he is unique from the other alpha +’s Analysis The specific alienation shown towards Bernard sets...
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...A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel of the early 1930s, gives a new definition to a functioning society. Throughout this novel, characters are not allowed to have an individual thought process, as they thought it could be dangerous to society. As you read, Bernard is the only character born in the "New World" that does not fit within societal norms, no matter what he tries to do. In the book, you can see that Bernard is not the only socially outcast person, as John the Savage, Linda's son, is too. Literary perspectives such as social class, gender, and feminist that are main supplements to this story. This dystopian society is separate from the outside lands or known as "savage lands." The "new world" is based on conditioning...
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...“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Throughout the works of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley slowly transformed all of the themes in a way that explained each character and situation that happened. The tones of the book also helped transform what he was trying to portray in his writings such as miserableness which Bernard felt every day. The most prominent theme that was shown in the book was the internal struggle some of the characters had with having freedom with their inner selves and not being trapped in the confinement of the world they were living in. Internal freedom and self-confinement were something that was unheard of to many...
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...In the opening paragraph of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley conveys a coldly scientific detachment in his use of capitalization, syntax, and detail. The paragraph begins with two fragments, and the word “SQUAT” which conveys, like the fragments, something clipped, squelched, or subdued. What is squelched seems to be the humanity and individuality of human beings. The capitalization of words like “CENTRAL,” “CONDITIONING,” “CENTER,” and “STABILITY,” following a reference to the “World State,” connote a homogeny, conformity, and uniformity that seem to be devoid of human variety. In a like manner, the use of capitalization standardizes the language. Huxley’s word choice also contributes to the lack of human warmth and feeling conveyed in...
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...Reading the two novels, We and Brave New World, the reader is educated about the possible future of our society. Both book’s idea of a perfect utopia may sound a little extreme, however. Looking at today’s society, it is possible. We already have shock therapy for psychiatric patients, so using it for babies could possibly happen. Between reading We and Brave New World, I can see what rules are beneficial to its citizens and what is not. In the novel We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, the main goal was to almost to dehumanize everyone. The One State officials had direct control over the city: making privacy no longer, destroying any emotions one might feel, and drilling into everyone’s mind that praising the Benefactor is the right thing to do. If...
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...Nallely Aguilar Ms. Rogers 18 April 2017 Honors World Literature Brave New World By Aldous Huxley "The principle of mass production at last applied to biology"( chapter 1). In this scene the Director of Hatcheries is leading a group of students on a tour of the facility. The Hatchery biologically mass-produces its citizens to populate the area of Western Europe . The tour starts off in the Fertilizing Room, where eggs donated by women are kept in test tubes until fertilized and divided into five castes—Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. This quote symbolizes that the narrator takes on a satiric tone, as he gives the description of the lower three castes after the Director explains the advantages of the Bokanovsky Process. I feel...
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...Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, uses allusion to demonstrate that people will go to extreme measures to protect their loved ones. As Lenina and Henry tour the reservation, they witness a rather appalling religious ritual where an eighteen year old boy, only covered by “a white Cotten breach cloth,” is whipped until he collapses. According to John, he does so “For the sake of the pueblo–to make the rain come and the corn grow. And to please Pookong and Jesus” (125). The boy is an allusion or reference to Jesus of Christianity during the scourging of the pillars in his crucifixion. The boy, who also physically resembles Jesus in his nakedness, withstands being whipped seven times before he collapses. The boy endures extreme agony...
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...Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is about an advanced society that relies on conditioning its citizens in order to achieve stability and constant universal happiness. When an outsider visits the “World State”, he reveals that true happiness is impossible without passion and individualism. The residents are conditioned from conception through manipulation of the eggs, hypnopaedic suggestion, and laboratory experiences which prepare them to grow up to be constantly happy and eager to fuel the economy. Conditioning plays a large role in depriving people of their free will. Individualism is removed entirely because the World Controllers have eliminated access to new scientific studies, art, and religious practices. Ultimately, conditioning along with the removal of these things lead to a sense of false happiness for citizens. Before people are released to be a part of society, they are conditioned in their sleep through hypnopaedia. This sleep teaching technique takes away people’s free will because the repetitions force the listener to adhere to the World State’s morals and values without their consent. For example when Bernard mentioned “arresting [his] impulses” (Huxley 81), Lenina instinctively spits out a hypnopaedic...
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...Brave New World Personal Response Haseeb Qasir Topic: Education In Brave New World Huxley suggests that education in the World State is very different from the education we have in our world. In the book people are bred to a specific career. For example if the person is being bred to be a pilot their oxygen supply is cut in half when they are positioned upwards and it doubles when in an upside position and this happens so they adapt to the different oxygen levels a pilot gets when he/she is piloting their aircraft. Another thing different is they get put through a procedure where a nurse puts out books and flowers in front of a child and if that child reaches out for those items they are shocked. From these pieces of evidence we can see...
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...feelings that you would not think can have the same meaning. The way he tries to explain things by using symbolism. For example, “Words can be like X-rays if you see them properly-- they’ll go through anything.( Huxley p.70) You read and you’re pierced.” Throughout the passages he constantly has a sense of want of what would be the opposite in the dystopian world. “...because, after all, I know quite well why I can’t-- what it would be like if I could, if I were free-- not enslaved by my conditioning.” (Huxley p.91) In the dystopian world there are people like him who’d want everything to be different, and others who go along with it and don’t have the same desire of feeling free. The ways Huxley uses satire are mainly to both criticize and expose how the conditions of the dystopian world affect the citizens living in it. Huxley’s tone is also very dramatic. He extends what he’s trying to say in a way it’s almost poetic which is something he enjoys and wishes there was more of, so it makes sense. He...
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...There are many things in Brave New World, that would be considered a bottled pleasure. Soma, for example is the mainstream pleasure that they have readily available to them. The way they approach and handle relationships is another pleasure, that is handed to everyone. Brave New World’s civilizations are not taught history of everyone before them, saving them from knowing all the things people had done before their times. Soma, a small little tablet, with affects close to modern day drugs like LSD, but without the side effects, "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." It gave them an escape you could call it, they took it and could be “gone” for days "As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in...
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...Wow! This was first reaction to answer this question. It's probably the oximoron of novel comparisons. Ban books, no reason to read." books. Inflicting pain, inflicting pleasure. There is no grey area here. It's black or white, democrat or republican. Two totally different literary masterpieces. Huxley's "Brave New World" published in 1932, portrayed a world of preiscuous sex, no war, no poverty, no crime, and everybody was using a suposively perfect drug called "Soma." The drug use and unlimted sexual freedom gave them comfort and a false sense of hapiness. Orwell's "1984" was published in 1949 and received immedaite attendtion in England and the United States. Orwell died at age 46 of TB six months after it was published, so he never got to see how his predictions would pan out....
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...and found in the books The Picture of Dorian Gray and Brave New World. Among the variety of novels that can be included in the summer assignment reading list, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Brave New World should be included because of their beneficial themes and extensive use of vocabulary. Firstly, there are many themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray that can be readily used throughout life. One of the many themes is the negative consequences of influence. “Dorian, this is horrible! Something has changed you completely…...
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...In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses literary elements such as diction and symbolism to portray his theme of of moral and cultural decay, brainwashing, and drug dependency in politics and society. Huxley uses “ford’ throughout the novel as their version of “god.” This symbolism relates back to the assembly line and the use of humans to equip a certain object. Their utopian society is decaying and crumbling at the seams by “living” like robots. Religion is repetitive but almost non existent. In chapter 14, John the Savage repeated to himself “God” as if he’s coming to a realization of what or who God could be. Huxley uses this questioning of God to show their may be more to life than what the government, or leader, tells you there is. The people of...
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...Savannah Morris Faris Honors English IV 09 January 2015 A Maggot-Less World A Utopia is an imaginative place that is beautiful in every aspect and is the author’s perspective of a “perfect society”. Aldous Huxley creates this Utopia in his novel, “Island”. He creates a perfect society with limited technology and a union of all people to work together. Huxley creates this Utopia during a time period of corruption and new discoveries. As the nation enters the literary time period of “the beat period”, Huxley's unconscious idea of a Utopian society is displayed uncensored in “Island” as opposed to “Brave New World” and he provides his personal solution to the world’s problems. In “Island” by Aldous Huxley the main character, Will Farnaby,...
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