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Brave New World, Relevant works, Born in Surrey, England in 1894 - Coggle…
Brave New World
Themes & Motifs
Totalitarianism
Instead of controlling by inducing fear through survelliance or torture, the control is kept by making people love the conditions they're into, making the totalitarian system more effective.
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Technology and Control
Shows how the technologic advances can turn into control tools that change how people think and act.
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The Cost of Happiness.
Explores the consequences of conditioning a society to completely avoid any feeling other than happiness.
It is clear that the author based his novel on his concerns about the society of the 1920s, as he took as main themes several aspects like the rise of consumism and mass production, fast technological advances of the moment, or the extreme wealth lived during that time, that caused people to be constantly happy and not question the system they were living in.
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Individuality
Individuality is suppressed by stopping people of thinking themselves as individuals, making them easier to control. Some people may develop (or never lost) their individuality, those are taken out of the state.
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Historical Context
Great Depression
Crash of the stock market in the United States in 1929 created a severe economic crisis that spread across various countries, specially in Europe
Crisis led to a lack of demand and therefore, unemployment
Poverty and malnourishment increased severely, leading to high levels of different illnesses (like scurvy and rickets) among the population.
It came after a time of prosperity known as The Roaring 20s, in which capitalism ruled the economy and Ford's industrial lines became extremely popular and successful
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Born in Surrey, England in 1894
Raised in a family of scientist, writers and teachers (had excellent education)
Novelist and critic, also worked as a journalist
Suffered from degenerated eyesight, making blindness a recurring theme in his work
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