Book Report Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1. Brief Outline: Protagonist: John the Savage‚ is the protagonist of the novel and the symbol of the old world order‚ where emotion and individualism were important. When he is taken from the Savage Reservation to London‚ he refutes the accepted merits of the "brave‚ new world" and points out its pitfalls. Antagonist: Mustapha Mond is the antagonist of the novel and the symbol of the brave new world. As one of the Controllers of the new society‚ he
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Freedom and individualism are a significant component of contemporary society‚ however there are many parts of the world where these basic human rights are not granted. The lack of these basic rights are clearly demonstrated in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The leaders of many societies are willing to sacrifice innocent lives in order for society to function according to their visions. Many leaders are willing to sacrifice the freedom of
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with a sudden need to boast. I’m taking Lenina Crowne to New Mexico with me‚’ he said in a tone as casual as he could make it."’As seen from this quote Bernard’s only grudge against the New World is his loneliness‚ awkwardness and his weak physique and personality. Given a chance he would enjoy the New World to the fullest as he does during his little moment of popularity.While Bernard Marx is clearly one of the main characters in Brave New World‚ Huxley does not present him as "the hero" or even give
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Wesley Phillips AP English Period 4 Style Analysis: Brave New World In the excerpt from chapter 3 of the speculative fiction‚ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ the narrator at the moment‚ Mustapha Mond‚ explains to the students in the garden about the past life before the World State was created discussing how it differed in social relationships. Mustapha Mond enters the book when The Director Of the Central London Hatchery is disturbed by a young boy crying because of the sexual
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Brave New World Explore the ways in which Huxley explores the idea of escapism and pleasure. Support your answer with details from the novel. In the "old world" people had to deal with melancholy and abuse‚ and pleasure was received in different ways than in that of the new world. Huxley depicts this in his novel‚ Brave New World by establishing the idea of escapism and pleasure. He portrays some people as wanting to decamp from reality and explains that people in this utopian society get their
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A life where citizens are forced to be happy and hide their individuality is not the life anyone should have to live or be forced to live. In the novels‚ Divergent and A Brave New World‚ both share many similarities and differences in their over controlled societies. The citizens of these societies life’s are controlled by their government’s educational courses‚ the extreme censoring of important information‚ and the restricted amount of individuality allowed in their communities. In Veronica Roth’s
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basic necessities of life. But‚ is happiness attained only when one’s life is full of luxuries‚ immediate gratification‚ and excess? We will evaluate happiness‚ family structure‚ and the freedom and limitation within More’s Utopia and Huxley’s Brave New World and determine the positive and negative aspects within each society. In Book 1 of Thomas More’s Utopia‚ thieve suffer the consequence of being put to death‚ including theft of a loaf of bread in order prevent starvation. Thieves suffered the
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people in the Brave New World society take soma whenever they get a bad feeling like its nothing instead of learning to put up with them. When they do this they are not experiencing all aspects in life such as the hardship life brings. They also don’t know the consequences that taking drugs like soma gives you. This is evident when the book says‚ ‘”But aren’t you shortening her life by giving her so much?”… “In one sense‚ yes‚” Dr. Shaw admitted.’ (Huxley 154) The people in the Brave New World society
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authentic and concrete than the ideas depicted in “unreal” mass media. In Brave New World Revisited Huxley describes human reaction to mass media as “the tendency to response to unreason and falsehood- particularly in those cases where the falsehood evokes enjoyable emotion.” (Huxley) Even more‚ it is ordinary in human society to get consumed by the irrelevant information circulated by the media. Many news outlets such as “E! News” deliver unnecessary information about celebrities and reality television
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novel “Brave New World”‚ main characters John the Savage and Bernard Marx struggle to fit in a world which has achieved happiness and refuse any form of change. The World State also declines the need to have any other truth than its own. With the use of technology‚ they use a hallucinogenic drug‚ called “soma”‚ it encourages social stability and by conditions citizens avoid the truth. The actions taken by the World State to make society happy‚ produce a more steady and comfortable world but fail
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