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Focusing on Linda and Lenina, I would argue that the "control methods" described are very effective. Both Linda and Lenina are betas, the next caste down from alphas. Both have been indoctrinated...
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The context of this quote is as follows: He halted and, with bewildered and horrified eyes, stared round him at the khaki mob, in the midst of which, overtopping it by a full head, he stood. “How...
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Mustapha Mond quite reasonably points out that he and his fellow World Controllers do not like inconvenience and discomfort. John perversely claims that he does. To comfort and convenience he...
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There are four separate places in which John the Savage repeats Miranda's words "Oh brave new world" from The Tempest. As background, in The Tempest, Miranda has spent her life from a very early...
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Dystopian novels typically will present a character or an element of the story that represents "the past," the world and the "values" of the world as they existed prior to the cataclysm or...
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Within the narrative of Brave New World, the Cyprus Experiment was an societal experiment carried out by a group of "alphas" who wanted to create a Utopia away from the world state. "Cyprus" is a...
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Huxley creates a caste system in Brave New World so that the society has an appropriate number of people to fill all the roles and the jobs necessary to the survival of this futuristic world....
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This is a debatable topic, but certainly some would argue that anti-depressive drugs like prozac are thrown at some people by doctors in exactly the same way that soma is used in this society....
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Bernard Marx feels out of place because he is physically different from his peers. In the book, it is rumored that someone thought he was a member of the Gamma caste, so they put alcohol in his...
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Bernard is different from his associates both physically and in his thinking. Physically, Bernard is not like other high-caste men even though he is an Alpha Plus. This makes him the subject of...
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In Brave New World, Huxley is satirizing how an extreme governmental and technological "community" has destroyed human individuality, the family, education, religion, and human correspondence with...
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These two characters are similar in that they are both unhappy with the society in which they live. They are different, however, because Helmholtz's unhappiness is more principled than Bernard's....
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In my opinion, Huxley uses Shakespeare because his works are the clearest examples of things that embody the difference between our society and that of the dystopia. The dystopia does not value...
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John uses the Shakespearean line, "eternity was in our lips and eyes," when he is in the middle of a conversation with Dr. Shaw, who is looking after John's mother, Linda. Linda, upon her return...
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In my opinion, Huxley is trying to say that monogamous relationships and romantic relationships in particular are a major part of what makes us human. In the Brave New World, the relationship...
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This quote comes as the Director is explaining how certain classes of humans are conditioned and engineered to perform certain tasks, regardless of what their own experiences might allow if they...
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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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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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In the scientific, mechanized, and controlled world of Huxley's novel, genetic engineering and manipulation of those in the New World fulfill the motto of "Community, Identity, Stability."...
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In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, there are five genetically-dictated castes that inhabit the New World. In the supposed utopia, these predestined humans are named after the letters of the Greek...
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Part of Freud's psychoanalytic theories focus on the fixation that children have with their parents, and how many of our deepest psychological disturbances and disorders stem from the anxiety and...
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Even though Huxley wrote this novel in 1931, his satire about contemporary social and moral issues still stands the test of time. In his book, Huxley comments on people's constant desire to be...
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At the beginning of chapter 3, the Director continues his tour by taking the group of students into the garden to witness playtime at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. In the...
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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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In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, none of the characters are described in the detail that is characteristic of many authors. This is done, perhaps, to suggest the lack of humanity that they...
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In "Brave New World," Huxley questions the values of 1931 London by using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which the trends of Britain and America are taken to extremes....
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Huxley's dystopian novel opens with the description of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre and its ironic World State's motto: "COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." For, in reality,...
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In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Mustapha Mond, whose first name is an epithet for Mohammed, meaning "the chosen one," and whose last name is like the French word for "world," is one of the ten...
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The standard Western notation for dates uses BCE and CE ("Before Common Era" and "Common Era"), or BC and AD ("Before Christ" and "Anno Domini, 'in the year of our Lord'"). The shift to CE or AD...
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Several reasons explain why John quotes Romeo and Juliet in Chapter 9. First, the allusion intimates that he and Lenina are doomed, just as Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers. His readings on the...
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Don't know if I can make it all the way to four, but I can think of a few. Drug use. The world state encourages (and almost requires) the use of soma to control people's moods. You could say that...
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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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Huxley utilizes symbolism in his novel by depicting Henry Ford as a symbolic religious figure and deity who resembles Christ. In the World State, technology and manufacturing are supreme, and Henry...
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Huxley gives us a picture of a world in which the ordinary problems of life as we know it have seemingly been eliminated through scientific planning and the use of drugs. But selective breeding...
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Places: Central Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, the Fertilizing Room, Savage Reservation in New Mexico, Malapais, the Fordson Community Singery (Solidarity Service day), the Propaganda House, the...
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If some of the females in the civilization were not allowed to continue to develop sexually, society would have no way of continuing on. These females were offered money to denote their ovaries for...
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John falls in love with Lenina when she comes to the Savage Reservation because he has never seen anyone who looks likes her. Huxley shows more than a hint of racism when he writes, He had seen,...
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In the New World, "civilization is sterilization." As Lenina and Bernard watch the Indians at Malpais, Lenina thinks that she has never seen anything so "indecent" in her life. And, to make...
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In chapter 10, the Director tells Henry that "no offense is so heinous as orthodoxy of behaviour" and that "Murder kills only the individual and, after all, what is an individual?" The implication...
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The world is a monolithic community. There is one World State, run by a Controller. There are no separate nations; all have been amalgamated into one. This world state controls humans much like...
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In "Brave New World," John's perception of male/female love is from his only source of knowledge: William Shakespeare. When he watches Lenina sleep, her perfect beauty enthralls him as Romeo is...
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Mustapha Mond is different from other characters because he is in control of the BNW, aware of its strengths and weaknesses, and has that dark secret past few know of. Mustapha Mond has the voice...
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As they pass the library at Eton, an exclusive private school, John the Savage asks if the students read Shakespeare. He is told they certainly do not: “Our library,” said Dr. Gaffney, “contains...
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There are at least three places in the book where Lenina either looks at the moon or remembers looking at the moon. The first is in Chapter 5 where she remembers a time when she was a child and...
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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World leaves absolutely no doubt that the author intended his depiction of a futuristic, dystopian society – called the World State in his novel – to constitute a warning...
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I guess I would use two words to describe different aspects of the mood that I sense in this book. First, I would say that the society as a whole is surreal. Second I would say that most of the...
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In "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, the dead are cremated. We are told this at the beginning of Chapter 5. Henry and Lenina are out flying in the night when she notices the smoke stacks of...
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I think that Mustapha Mond is sort of a two part character. Personally, he is a very nice man who is understanding and open minded. This is the side of him that we see most clearly in the book....
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The official word label that they give him is "The Savage," which is a tag that is given to him because he came from the savage tribes, which don't live in modern society with the rest of them....
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Each contributes forcibly in reducing the individual to a cookie-cutter replica of the "ideal" worker serving the state: Scientific knowledge dopes up (or down) embryos to conform to the...
