Brave New World Novel by Aldous Huxley by Emmanuel Calva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm Made with swagger en-us 2016-06-09 15:01:59 UTC 2024-04-22 12:42:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Thesis 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114229047 American citizens are becoming more like the characters in the novel Brave New World.  Americans are becoming more egotistical, do not care about those around them and are not united. Despite the United States, being the diverse country it is, many may not agree with the idea that immigrants have the right to live here.  Americans are racist and cannot see past the flaws of an individual which has deteriorated society as a whole.]]> 2016-06-09 15:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114229047 The divisions and discrimination of castes 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114229196 2016-06-09 15:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114229196 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114229630 "Why not? Bernard's an Alpha Plus. Besides, he asked me to go to one of the Savage Reservations with him. I've always wanted to see a Savage Reservation."
"But his reputation?"
"What do I care about his reputation?" (3.123-5)
]]> 2016-06-09 15:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114229630 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230030 "Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
" (2.75-7)

]]> 2016-06-09 15:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230030 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230192 And I was so ashamed. Just think of it: me, a Beta—having a baby: put yourself in my place." (The mere suggestion made Lenina shudder. (7.56)]]> 2016-06-09 15:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230192 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230222 Lenina, meanwhile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station. "Fine," she agreed. "But queer that Alphas and Betas won't make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there."(5.1.6-7)

]]> 2016-06-09 15:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230222 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230269 The liftman was a small simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron. (4.1.12)

]]> 2016-06-09 15:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230269 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230610 "And then he spends most of his time by himself—alone." There was horror in Fanny's voice. (3.128)]]> 2016-06-09 15:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230610 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230666 The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity. How bitterly he envied men like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover! Men who never had to shout at an Epsilon to get an order obeyed; men who took their position for granted; men who moved through the caste system as a fish through water—so utterly at home as to be unaware either of themselves or of the beneficent and comfortable element in which they had their being. (4.2.3)

]]> 2016-06-09 15:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230666 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230724 With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively averted, Bernard hastened across the roof. He was like a man pursued, but pursued by enemies he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone. (4.2.1)

]]> 2016-06-09 15:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114230724 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114231247 2016-06-09 15:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114231247 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114231978 2016-06-09 15:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114231978 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114232397 2016-06-09 15:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114232397 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114232645 2016-06-09 15:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114232645 Analysis 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114340829 The divisions and discrimination of castes:
All castes are conditioned to be content with what caste they are in. But the higher castes are also conditioned to despise the lower ones and believe they are very fortunate to be a beta or alpha.  This is why Lenina always talks about why she is so glad she is a beta and not an epsilon. The lower castes work harder but they are conditioned to be happy with what they do, so there is never any rebellion because each caste believes that they are happy with what they do.

Isolation:
In this society, isolation is unheard of and people are trained to be personable and not hold secrets. This is why they are conditioned to say "everyone belongs to everyone else" so that they never feel isolated from people. Bernard is a good example of the opposite of how people are conditioned to be and Lenina is a prime example of what humans in this world are supposed to act like. She has relationships with everyone and knows everyone and never holds secrets.  Bernard on the other hand is the direct opposite and likes to be alone which is not what people are trained to be like.]]> 2016-06-10 15:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114340829 Isolation 16ecalva https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114341654 2016-06-10 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/16ecalva/9r1oont6oebm/wish/114341654