https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT 1920- 1930's ~ A period of tension between traditional literature and mass produced popular culture with an emphasis on entertainment, popular genres and the commercialisation of the new codes of sexual liberation and pleasure. Americanisation of England; the spread of the Jazz Age and mass production (The Machine Age - Ford and mass production are significant). Along with this came the rise of mass culture and the silent cinema, radio and recorded popular music and popular dance. Sexual freedoms and fashionable sophistication (and sophisticated wit) are intertwined in the rise of mass culture, furthering the popularity of these forms as mediums for changing sexual expression and freedoms. Fashionable English culture was deeply immersed in these new sexual freedoms, along with great sophistication, and the latter part of the 1920's was a blend of world weariness, scepticism, cynicism and celebration. It is important to consider scientific advancements (Freud, Pavlov, Einstein, hypnopaedia, artificial insemination) that led to these ideas. The rise of the Communist Revolution in Russia was also an influential factor. Huxley critiques both Communism and Capitalism in this hybrid text by representing a strictly controlled society based on consumerist ideals. Huxley writes at this point of transition between the 1920's into the 1930's. en-us 2016-07-26 00:11:02 UTC 2023-03-19 06:49:48 UTC hello@padlet.com aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116958626 Mass Hysteria, 1920's opulence, shifts in popular culture, sexuality, materialism, pleasure through dance and song; promiscuity of the Roaring 20's and the 30's. Mass production & industrialised pleasure.]]> 2016-07-26 00:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116958626 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116958789 Consider the titles and lyrics quoted - what do they reflect ? ]]> 2016-07-26 00:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116958789 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116959548 2016-07-26 00:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116959548 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116959625 Popular culture of the time. Note the emphasis on sexual freedom, freedom for women with a culture focused on pleasure. Changing traditions and a representation of class. Note also the clear comments on the nature of marriage/being tied down.]]> 2016-07-26 00:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116959625 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116959860 Elyot & Victor were previosly married & divorced... By chance they meet on adjioning hotel baclonies in France when they are both on honeymoons in new marriages. They fall in love again and run away together. ** Representation of glamour, romance, liberated sexual codes, witty fashionable comedy. Understanding this is useful for understanding H.'s mode of satiric representation in BNW.]]> 2016-07-26 00:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116959860 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116961245 Shifting notions of sexuality, identity, mass culture and value systems.]]> 2016-07-26 00:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116961245 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116994770 an extract...]]> 2016-07-26 11:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116994770 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116994862 The rise of popular music in the 1920's & 1930's; couples danced together in formal (and more sexualised) rituals. * This, and other forms of dance, provide rich insight to the contemporary context Huxley is building on.]]> 2016-07-26 11:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116994862 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995003 2016-07-26 11:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995003 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995138 What catalysed humanity's fall ? What were the impacts of the first great war ? Eliot's disjointed, Modernist composition echoes a deep, dark undercurrent and reveals humanity's despair and disillusionment. How may this link to Mass Hysteria and the shifts in Popular Culture of the era ?]]> 2016-07-26 11:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995138 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995257 Swept the nation and popular culture - consider the birds eye view of the people dancing...]]> 2016-07-26 11:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995257 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995608 In the 1920s the motorcar came to represent the American dream, by offering independence and adventure.]]> 2016-07-26 12:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995608 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995719 The mentality of the society is that progress, through invention, is the key goal of mankind. Consumerism and productivity are the purpose of life in Huxley’s industrial utopia.

"It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers”  (Postman, 1993).]]> 2016-07-26 12:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/116995719 aliferisa https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/265599873 Watch a collection of images depicting Ford's Assembly line, and gain some insight into his ideology. Consider the links to excessive capitalism and mass production; socio-economic 'progress' Huxley was alarmed by.]]> 2018-06-05 10:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aliferisa/BNWCONTEXT/wish/265599873