“To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we’ve used and consumed‚ fondled‚ rejected‚ outgrown.” ― Jane Avrich‚ The Winter Without Milk: Stories The theme of self-identity is very important to both Headhunter by Timothy Findley and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Against the backdrop of pervasive‚ ubiquitous and broad reaching societal topics‚ self-identity aids the audience’s understanding of how the character is thinking‚ feeling and how
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Brave New World FRQ #2 In the novel Brave New World‚ author Aldous Huxley utilizes techniques of presenting multiple‚ differing ideas in short quips in order to foreshadow coming events during the third chapter. This is done first by pairing Lenina’s and Henry’s relationship with Mond’s ideas of both parents and homes. Then combining the thoughts of the assistant predestinator with several characters to create a disruptive thought process which matches that of the past which Mond simultaneously
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psychoanalysis theory‚ society is threatened by people like Bernard who making the unconscious conscious because it threatens their submissive society. Bernard confides to people about the submissive society and makes them conscious of their surroundings. Lenina‚
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RATIONALE I wrote a diary about Bernard and his feelings for Lenina in the World State. It was written with an informal tone and hopes to address the school student’s audience. In my diary‚ I tried to use informal phrases like “I feel bad‚ worse than ever”‚ “I´m angry and frustrated” and “I´m tired and I need to sleep”. I tried as well to use an easy level of vocabulary with word choices like “beautiful” and “emotion” for the people to understand clearly what I want to express. By using these elements
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Aldous Huxley grew up under difficult circumstances‚ losing his mother and eyesight at a young age made his life very challenging. After overcoming his near blindness and gaining a perspective on life not many have‚ Huxley became disillusioned with the war while studying at Oxford. Due to his blindness Huxley was a very shy man‚ which had a negative effect on his social life. This lead him to quit his position as a teacher and become an editor and ultimately a novelist. Huxley visited the United
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and not decanted and conditioned in the ways of the Brave New World John experiences life in a completely different way than that he is genetically made‚ the civilized population of England. After being discovered on the reservation by Bernard and Lenina‚ both John and his mother are brought to civilization to be observed and studied. Upon arriving John experiences not only wonderful things of comfort he had only heard about from his mother‚ Linda‚ but never experienced but also terrible things that
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powerful figures in Huxley’s novel. John’s conflict with soma parallels conflicts between religions in reality‚ and the choice between them. Lenina‚ is the first to make the choice between soma and John‚ when she takes three half-gramme tablets after being rejected by John (Huxley 171). Lenina demonstrates how both John and soma cannot exist within society. After Lenina is rejected by John she promptly returns to the security of her original‚ familiar Christ figure and takes three half-grammes of
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of society. The author starts to show that total happiness is a prison for the mind and emotions. The entire character of John was created by the author to be a symbol of rebellion against the society’s traditional drug use and conditioning‚ while Lenina was a symbol of fully giving into society’s practices. This helps add to the reasons for John’s status as a pariah; he is the only one‚ asides from some such as the World Controller‚ that isn’t constantly in a state of
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followed. Even though John developed feelings for Lenina the moment he saw her‚ he failed to understand her need for soma and sexual interaction. When Lenina decided to throw herself onto John‚ he finally expressed his feelings toward her by quoting Shakespeare‚ “If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite....” (Page 191). John continued to explain the role of marriage and expressed his love while Lenina stood horrified. This scene exemplifies the
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john’s mother sees Lenina and Bernard she’s ecstatic and begins to explain how she got stuck in that tribe and why she couldn’t leave ending in her horrifying lenina. For example when she says‚ “-After all these years! A civilized face. Yes‚ and civilized clothes” (101). This is because she was once part of the more civilized society but because of her circumstances was forced to stay; even so her conditioning is still intact. She repeats how everyone belongs to everyone to lenina and how when she
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