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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley - Coggle Diagram
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Characters
Bernard Marx
He is different than everyone else. He has his own unique feelings while everyone else doesn't have many emotions. He faces circumstances where he does not like himself because he isn't stereo-typically the same (65).
Henry Foster
He works in the Department of Hatcheries and conditioning. He is an alpha and is an example of the perfect person in the Central London Hatchery. He has been conditioned perfectly and wants to remain the same as others. Him and Lenina were together.
Lenina Crowne
She is just like everyone else. She does not face emotions, she wants to be just like everyone else. She goes to the reservation with Bernard and faces emotions because she sees old people. She wants to take soma but doesn't have any. (110-111).
Linda
She lives at the savage reservation. She used to be a part of the Central London Hatchery and she worked as a fertilizer. She was a Beta. She had a kid with the D.H.C. (Thomas/Tomakin).
Mustapha Mond
He is very powerful. He knows all of the history that no one is supposed to know. He is the controller of Western Europe. "This is the Controller, this is his fordship, Mustapha Mond" (33).
John
John was born and raised in the savage reservation and he is the child of Thomas, the D.H.C,, and Linda, a old member of the Fertilization factory.
He is a Christian.
when he goes to London and sees all of the "New World" he is not fully impressed and thought that he would see more expensive stuff. (159).
Thomas
He is the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning. He runs these places and makes sure that the people are being conditioned the right way.
He is John's father and when Linda announces it to the whole community he resigns from his position.
"...for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards and never set foot inside the Centre again..." (153).
Helmholtz Watson
He is not like everyone else. He doesn't want to block out the emotions with soma and refuses too. He likes to think about emotions and wants to analyze them.
He is a College of Emotional Engineering Lecturer.
Fanny
Lenina's friend. She is a perfect example of how each conditioned person should be. She thinks, acts, and does just as she was conditioned.
Settings
London
Central London Hatcheries
This is where they fertilize the eggs and create the babies. They hatch them here and make sure they are growing correctly. Basically a hospital.
Conditioning Center
This is where they condition the babies so that they all are the same. They condition hem in their certain group too: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon.
The light house
This is were John resides at the end of the book. He hides out here until the people find him. Later on this is also where he kills himself.
Savage Reservation in New Mexico
This is where people face diseases, growing old, and real world emotions. People are not born and trained to have certain jobs or all be the same.
Themes
Everyone is unique and it is better that we are. If everyone is the same then there is a loss of personality and individuality.
Technology can bring up on many different negative aspects.
Individuality is beginning to dissipate and it is important that it stays existent.
Genre
Science fiction
Dystopian
Novel
Background/Inspiration
This book was released in 1932 and was Huxley's way of describing what the future will look like if there was a continuation of overpopulation.
The book was written between World War I and World War II. during this time there was a height in technological optimism and Huxley shows his belief on what was going to happen in the future through this book.
Allusions
References the Bible and Jesus. "Because I felt I ought to. If Jesus could stand it" (138).
John references Jesus on page 162 and how people are screaming like they are confessing their sins. he also references him as Pookong.
The book brings up Shakespeare and references him. "Do they read Shakespeare?' Asked the Savage..." (163).
On page 167 the book mentions Mozart, "in 1700, at the ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart.."
Author's Purpose
Huxley is giving his point of view on how he believes the world will turn out if the government begins to take full control over people and if technology kept growing more important at the time.
Throughout the book he brings up different forms of technology and they all seem to lead up to a downfall.
He was trying to show that the advancement of technology can lead to many negative aspects in the real world.
Figurative Language
Simile: "Like a pearl in the sky, high, high above them, the Weather Department's captive balloon shone rosily in the sunshine" (158).
Metaphor: "Yes-s,' repeated the Director, lingering, a serpent, on the 's" (148).
"Opening a box, he spilt a cloud of scented power" (143).
Personification: "...so trustful in the helplessness of her limp hands and melted limbs, that he tears came to his eyes" (143).
Definitions
Hypnopaedia: moral and ethical lessons are taught to condition individuals
Viviparous: bearing or bringing forth living young
Soma: drug that blocks the emotions
Freeartins: women that have been given male sex-hormones so it stops their embryos from developing. Stops their reproductive organs.
Symbolism
Soma: this is a drug that gets rid of the characters emotions. This drug represents the search for intense pleasure and quick gratification.
Obstacle Golf: this game makes sure that all the players win. The electromagnets make sure that the ball always goes into the hole. This represents consumerism because it benefits everyone.
Mustapha Mond: He is a representation of a corrupt government and how they would act. Monday hides all of the history of the "old" world and makes sure that no books or any form of historical context are present to the citizens.
Dialogue
"He's so ugly!' said Fanny. 'But I rather like his looks.' 'And then so
small
.' Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste" (46). This is Fanny and Lenina talking about Bernard. Fanny is saying how he is not stereo-typically right and Lenina is saying that she still like him though.
"That's because we don't allow them to b like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium" (110-111).
Lenina see's an old man and wonders why he looks like that. She compares him to the people in the "New World" and Bernard explains that they don't look like that because they are not conditioned to.
"Nothing. Least of all,' she continued in another tone, 'why you don't take
soma
when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly.
So
jolly," (92).
Bernard is showing Lenina things he thinks are beautiful and she finds it strange. She tries to convince him that they are not and that he should experience "real" joy, that being soma.
"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it" (238).
This is a good summary of what the "New world" believes is correct.