“But Hatsumomo threw herself at Shojiro and began hitting him everywhere. I do think that in a way she went crazy‚” (330). Hatsumomo‚ a prized and popular geisha‚ turns into something else altogether. Sadistic acts such as treating children with disrespect‚ sabotaging the livelihood of others‚ and physical violence were the root cause of her downfall. These actions reflect on her hateful yet confident personality. Hatsumomo‚ who is oftentimes the center of attention‚ illustrates how being narcissistic
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The Motto of the World State is Community‚ Identity‚ Stability. With detailed reference to the novel‚ how do you view this in relation to individual freedom? “Community‚ Identity‚ Stability.” -- The motto that shapes and defines the entire civilized world. Civilians like Lenina believe that the motto has given them their individual freedom. “I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays.” (Page 79) Ironically‚ Huxley was trying to convey the exact opposite message
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Absence of Formative Education and Hegemony in the novel Brave New World Education with respect to its definition in the oxford dictionary “as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction‚ especially at a school or university” has been acknowledged as an important tool capable of either propagating cultural hegemony or rebelling against it. Antonio Gramsci‚ the Italian philosopher‚ who exposed the relationship between education and cultural hegemony in his work Prison Notebooks (original
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Compare Shelley’s Presentation of Women in Frankenstein with that of Brave New World Throughout the novel‚ Frankenstein‚ a feminist theme subtly pervades the novel‚ and is crucial to the characters of the story‚ the plot line and the setting of the novel. The reasons for the creation of the monster lie within Frankenstein ’s own familial relationships‚ especially with the grief he experienced at the loss of his mother. Frankenstein is riddled with passive female characters who suffer throughout
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Aliya � PAGE �1� Aliya � PAGE �7� Morality‚ Meet Brave New World "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."1 Concerning Aldous Huxley ’s dystopian novel‚ Brave New World‚ readers find themselves thinking the theme of the novel is not of proper conduct and it would not take place in their current world. Brave New World follows a futuristic society‚ the World State‚ where citizens are mass-produced and conditioned to suit the ways of the government and
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NAME: Alina Ehrl Aldous Huxley‚ Brave New World - READING LOG (page 1) Chapter/ page/line Important facts Personal impressions a) Institutions and practices of the World State b) New information about a character c) Striking language items Chapter 1 Page 15‚ l. 7 Page 17‚ ll. 26 - 27 The Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre shows a group of students around (who are going to work in the Centre in the future) First room:
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who go against their basic instincts and think out loud are those who are first considered mavericks or protestors but over times become heroes to future generations. Which is why being an individual is the greatest think one can be. In both Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell individuals are punished or casted away from society as they are a danger to the artificially created stability which lies within these societies. In these dystopias measures have been taken to insure
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his work. This can be seen in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ where one of the characters realizes that life in the technological world they live in isn’t as great as it seems. John‚ otherwise known as the Savage‚ is an outsider to the World State who is educated and well-informed that their society is being destroyed due to the manufacturing of people and loss of individualism. To begin with‚ John was not manufactured on an assembly line in the World State and thus has not been conditioned to the
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English 441 New Criticism Explained Beginning in the 1920’s and coalescing in the 1940’s‚ an interpretative approach emerged that did not define literature as essentially the self-expressive product of the artist nor as an evaluative reflection or illumination of cultural history. These "New Critics" opposed the traditional critical practice of using historical or biographical data to interpret literature. Rather‚ they focused on the literary work as an autotelic (self-contained) object. The New Critic
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Brave New World There is a place where the government controls everyone’s life‚ where the government uses drugs to manipulate the people’s thoughts. In this place there is no such thing as a family‚ there is no such thing as love. They teach young children that their body is not theirs‚ and that it belongs to everyone and anyone who wants to use it. This place is Huxley’s predicted of the future. Huxley wrote his prediction in the book Brave New World‚ written in 1932 and is eerily similar to present
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