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Brave New World
In Brave New World, people are cremated after they die and then forgotten. As Bernard and Lenina fly around in their helicopter, they see the four chimneys of the Slough Crematorium. It is lit up...
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Brave New World
The word "pneumatic" is used by Huxley quite a lot in Brave New World. In its normal usage, it refers to something full of air, such as tires, for example. In the context of the story, however, it...
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Brave New World
The hospital patients in Brave New World cause John to react this way due to the clinical, unemotional setting in which they rapidly head toward death under the influence of soma. Death is treated...
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Brave New World
Bernard and Helmholtz are very different characters, and they are motivated in this friendship by different things. Though he is an Alpha, Bernard does not have the finer things in life that...
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Brave New World
Lenina makes this comment as she and Marx arrive at the Savage Reservation. They walk towards a large mesa or wall of rock that towers up. Lenina is out of place in this world. She says: “I wish...
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Brave New World
Mysticism is the experience of direct communion with ultimate reality, spiritual truth, or God (Merriam Webster). Huxley satirizes not so much the concept of mysticism as the way it is debased in...
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Brave New World
The title of the novel itself is an allusion, an ironic reference to Shakespeare's play The Tempest. It is ironic because this "new world" of the World State is anything but "brave": people seldom...
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Brave New World
Animal imagery plays a nuanced role in Brave New World, and the repetition of "straight from the horse's mouth" plays into the function of animal motifs throughout the book. There is a strong...
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Brave New World
Bernard dislikes the use of soma because the drug induces a false sense of self. Soma is a drug produced and provided to the residents by the government. The drug is provided with the aim of...
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Brave New World
In Brave New World, the idea of family is unacceptable and unsavory because it goes against this society's key philosophies. For a start, a family (the traditional unit for the procreation of...
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Brave New World
In chapter 18 of Brave New World, John the Savage mutilates his own body as a means of purifying himself. In his isolated lighthouse, for example, John whips his "rebellious flesh" and endures all...
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Brave New World
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, those in power have engineered a society that is community-oriented and impeccably stable. People's identities are assigned to them at birth, and this creates a...
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Brave New World
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Bernard and Helmholtz both feel like outsiders in the civilized world. Both of them are Alpha-Plus males who perceive themselves as being different from those...
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Brave New World
The citizens of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World have been conditioned to only enjoy low, vulgar art which promotes the self-indulging values of this society. Children are given electric shocks when...
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Brave New World
All of these pillars, community, identity, and stability, are achieved and maintained in similar ways. The main process by which these are achieved is conditioning. As the Director explains: All...
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Brave New World
The word "bunk" is short for "bunkum," an old-fashioned way of saying "nonsense." Henry Ford, the famous car manufacturer and industrialist, coined the expression "history is bunk." What he meant...
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Brave New World
Hypnopaedia is the principle of sleep teaching. It represents social control because it is used to condition all of the children. The Director explains that while hypnopaedia is not useful for...
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Brave New World
Brave New World is a work of fiction based on scientific and psychological ideas that are obsolete at best. It does not describe what even Huxley would have considered a probable future and was not...
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Brave New World
Huxley's Brave New World remains relevant in today's society because this fictional civilization, in many ways, parallels America's affinity for sex, science, and pharmaceuticals. In Huxley's...
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Brave New World
Generally speaking, the societies of Brave New World and our world are very different but, on closer examination, there are some similarities. Firstly, the ability to reproduce artificially is a...
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Brave New World
There are various ways in which modern society mimics that of Brave New World. Medical Science While there is nothing to parallel the activities of the CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING...
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Brave New World
After a date with Lenina that ends with John shoving her and forcing her to hide in a bathroom, John is notified by phone that his mother has overdosed on soma. Soma is a drug that people take...
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Brave New World
As his mother, Linda, dies, John calls out, "Oh, God, God, God..." and he repeats this to himself. John realizes that Linda has died sooner than she normally would have because she has been taking...
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Brave New World
To properly understand the nurse's reaction to John's emotional display, it is necessary to understand the social structure of the society presented in Brave New World. Compliant citizens are...
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Brave New World
The nurse is afraid that the group of Bokanovsky clones will respond negatively to John's emotional reaction to his mother's death. Children in the futuristic setting of the novel are conditioned...
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Brave New World
When John, the Savage, sees his mother, Linda, in the hospital, she does not seem to know who he is. When he stands by her bed, she merely says, "Popé," the name of her lover who used to bring her...
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Brave New World
After rushing to get to his mother at Park Lane Hospital, John finds her quickly approaching death. The nurses, stripped of human emotion or any appreciation for the concept of family, are shocked...
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Brave New World
The fertilized ova were taken to the incubators where the Alphas and Betas were separated from the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The Alphas and Betas were bottled, while the Gammas, Deltas, and...
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Brave New World
The world Huxley describes values stability and conformity above all else. Genetic engineering and conditioning are the crucial elements that ensure stability and conformity will occur. Genetic...
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Brave New World
The easy answer to this is question is that, like the characters in the book who took the mind-altering drug soma, Huxley also experimented with mind-altering drugs such as mescaline and, most...
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Brave New World
This quote by Edward Said can be applied, in particular, to two characters: Linda and her son John, the "Savage." Linda, the perfectly conditioned Beta, finds herself trapped on the Savage...
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Brave New World
Motifs and themes of manipulation of human life, desensitization, and the dangers of a powerful government in Brave New World can be connected to American contemporary society. Manipulation of...
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Brave New World
A Brave New World critiques the psychological implications of modern society's reliance on technology. In the World State, human truths, such as love and friendship, are repressed because...
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Brave New World
Bernard Marx abuses power by hurting others as he selfishly seeks popularity. He is an Alpha, which means that he is at the top of the caste system and is highly intelligent. As a result, he treats...
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Lakota Woman
The World State's response to overpopulation is to regulate the type and number of the population on a global scale. According to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the World State is the entity...
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Brave New World
Freedom and control are philosophical ideas in The Truman Show and Brave New World. Freedom and its countervailing force of control are essential to Huxley's vision of the future and Weir's world...
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Brave New World
Simply put, the caste system in Brave New World is based on intelligence that was more or less determined during conception. Therefore, those of higher castes (and thus higher intellect), were the...
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Brave New World
In Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World, John the Savage and Bernard Marx are aligned to become allies. Both men are seen as outsiders by the dominant social class in the ruling society,...
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Brave New World
The women whip Linda so she will stay away from “their men.” Linda is from the main community, but she is living on the Reservation with the “savages.” She hates it there. She doesn’t...
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Brave New World
All three works raise questions about the intersection of suffering, freedom and rationality in society and all three reflect a world in which, for the first time, it was considered possible to...
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Brave New World
The best way to identify important points in a narrative is to use Freytag's Pyramid, a literary theory developed by a German analyst. He theorized, and proved, that the majority of literature...
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Brave New World
The smallest percentage of the population in Brave New World are the Alphas. As Mond explains: "The optimum population," said Mustapha Mond, "is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the...
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley published his dystopian novel Brave New World in 1932. A dystopia is a society, real or fictional, in which people are subjected to dehumanizing conditions. Although Huxley's world is...
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Brave New World
In Chapters 16 and 17 of Huxley's Brave New World, Mustapha Mond has an open discussion with John the Savage, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson about the society in which they live. During this...
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Brave New World
In chapter ten, Bernard walks into the Hatchery with Linda and John, the Director's long-lost "family." In Huxley's world, motherhood is not only frowned upon, but it is the most obscene word and...
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1984
The idea that we should question and challenge political authority and the status quo is central to both 1984 and Brave New World. The novels envision different types of dystopia, but in each, loss...
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Brave New World
Helmholtz says that Shakespeare was an excellent propaganda technician, but his society was more interesting so he had more to write about. John, who grew up on a reservation and is referred to as...
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Brave New World
The novel serves as a warning to our own society not to take the easy way out of life by giving up our freedoms in return for a superficial "happiness" than might numb our pain, but also prevents...
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Brave New World
In the controlled society of Brave New World, Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are misfits because they are different from other Alphas. Both Bernard and Helmholtz are independent...
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Brave New World
Huxley is not trying to mock religion on the savage reservation. Instead, he is illustrating a theme of the book: that a trade-off exists between the sterile and soulless but clean, bright, orderly...
