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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
Here is an additional quote on Helmholtz: When Helmholtz and Bernard speak in Chapter 4, Bernard compliments Helmholtz's writing: “But your things are good, Helmholtz.” But Helmholtz feels...
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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...
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Brave New World
Bernard is disgusted with society's casual sex philosophy. He wants something more than just casual sex with any girl he dates. He thinks that there might be something to be experienced by holding...
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World projects a society in which its citizens lead dehumanizing and disempowered lives. Many issues are obvious, such as the lack of free thought, the...
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Brave New World
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, John instigates a riot when he tries to free the crowds from the influence of soma. The policemen who calm the riot use two main tools to prevent the riot from...
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Literature
The Director was angry because he realized that he had divulged his secret to Bernard. He tried to downplay his attachment to the lady he took for a visit to the reservation where she disappeared....
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Brave New World
The economic well being of the society in Brave New World is based on factories churning out mountains of consumer goods. If people don't buy these goods, the economy will grind to a halt....
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Brave New World
The Nine Years' War marked the turning point from the old society to the new. We learn that the Nine Years' War was a point of crisis and economic collapse so acute that people had to make a choice...
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Brave New World
The word "decorum" means that a person behaves properly for polite society. In Huxley's A Brave New World, adults behave properly by acting "infantile," or like children, in social circles. When...
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Brave New World
The statement is ironic because the phrase "brave new world" comes from Shakespeare, but the society John is talking about has banned Shakespeare. John has read Shakespeare, unlike the rest of the...
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Brave New World
That quote most definitely applies to Brave New World; however, the quote could be applied to other future, dystopian novels as well. In Brave New World, the society has been designed around...
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Brave New World
In Brave New World, the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre is the site of all reproduction of human life. There ova are kept at "blood-heat" and sperm frozen. Once the ova are...
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Brave New World
Both Mustapha Mond and Aldous Huxley are "authors" of their dystopic worlds. In Huxley's case this authorship is clear: he wrote the novel. But Mond, whose name is a play on the French word for...
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Brave New World
The World State enjoys all the comforts of a technologically advanced society. Reservations, like the one Linda and John come from, are allowed to exist within strictly managed boundaries and for...
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Brave New World
The Director of the Hatcheries and Conditioning Center, or D.H.C., does have a name, but it is not revealed until chapter seven. Linda tells Bernard Marx that the father of her son took her to the...
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Brave New World
There are many similarities, not necessarily because there is anything especially wrong with America in particular, but simply because Huxley did a good job of capturing some of the problems with...
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Brave New World
Huxley envisions a future in which people are cloned and put into classes based on intelligence, ranked from A to D, with A the most intelligent and D the least. The As are the intellectual leaders...
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World develops the theme of culture clash or cultural conflict, a theme that is extremely apparent in the relationships between John, Lenina, and Fanny....
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Brave New World
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are the five different social classes that the society is divided into. Each class is distinguished by the color of its garb, responsibilities, and living...
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Brave New World
Both Bernard and Lenina have been conditioned to reject monogamous relationships and "have" whomever they want, whenever they want. In fact, if a man and a woman see too much of each other, it is...
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Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley. In Chapter 13, the relationship between Lenina and John the Savage reaches a climactic moment that reveals the culture clash between...
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Brave New World
We are the pre-moderns, living in the time of Henry Ford. The community we see in the novel is considered modern because they have complete control of the population. Everything is on an assembly...
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Brave New World
Children engage in erotic play because it teaches them to equate sex with meaningless fun. Sex plays a very different role in the modern society than it does in ours. To them, motherhood and birth...