Chapter Questions 1 and 2 1. What is the very 1st indication that Brave New World is a futuristic novel? The very 1st indication is when it mentions the hatchery. 2. Find an example of personification on the first page. “A harsh thin light glared through the windows‚ hungrily seeking some draped lay figure.” 3. In Brave New World Huxley provides the necessary exposition by having the expert explain the situation to the novice who knows little about it.
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Shakespeare and John in the Brave New World. John the savage educates himself through the entire collection of William Shakespeare’s work. The plays are all about individuality and through them he realizes how to identify and verbalize his emotions and beliefs. In the brave new world‚ individuality and freedom of personality doesn’t exist. The people are conditioned to feel a certain way and to take somas to cure any emotional pain. It is a predictable and “flawless” world where old things such
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One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future‚ but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned‚ in present-day totalitarian states‚ to ministries of propaganda...." Thus‚ through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing)‚ mandatory attendance to community gatherings‚ and the use of drugs to control
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1. Mother‚ monogamy‚ romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love‚ my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily‚ didn’t allow them to be sane‚ virtuous‚ happy. What with mothers and lovers‚ what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey‚ what with the temptations and the lonely remorses‚ what with all the diseases and the endless isolating
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Happiness in Brave New World When we look to define happiness‚ many different ideas come to mind. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary uses three definitions for happiness: good fortune‚ a state of well being and contentment‚ and a pleasurable satisfaction. In Brave New World‚ Aldus Huxley argues that a society can redefine happiness through the government’s manipulation of the environment and the human mind itself. The government accomplishes this by mind conditioning throughout
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ‘‘The overalls of the workers were white‚ their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen‚ dead‚ a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance‚ lying along the polished tubes like butter‚ streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables’’ (Huxley 8). 1. This is the narrator describing the uniform of the Conditioning Centre. 2. Everything in the centre was
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to Sociology 8 November 2012 Brave New World Essay A novel written by Aldous Huxley‚ Brave New World is a very interesting‚ which is based upon a futuristic society. The entire novel shows the reader that this society obtains pleasure without any moral effects. This Utopian/dystopian society manipulates people’s minds making them believe they are all working together for the common good. Brave New World explores the negatives of a successful world where everyone seems to be content
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I. Introduction Brave New World‚ written by Aldous Huxley in 1931‚ shows a fictional dystopian society located in London that greatly relies on technology and rejects today’s values such as love‚ family and emotion in order to achieve maximum societal stability and gain a false sense of happiness. The novel grasps concepts of futurology‚ which bolster the idea of the book satirizing modern society and showing what it could become. In the not so distant future‚ the novel predicts that humans will
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ENG-401 “The Real Brave New World” Ms.Perito
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II 26 April 2006 Brave New World: Utopia? When one envisions a utopian society‚ religion‚ the prevailing presence of social class segregation‚ and abusive drug use are not typically part of such a surreal picture. These attributes of society‚ which are generally the leading causes of discontent among its members‚ are more so the flaws an idealist would stray from in concocting such hypothesis for a more "perfect" world; not so for Aldous Huxley. In his novel‚ Brave New World‚ these ideals are
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