https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk By Rosanna Chamberlain en-us 2021-10-26 16:46:53 UTC 2025-09-26 07:07:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882096141 Brave New World definitely fits the description of a dystopian novel. The main genre would likely be science fiction as most of the focus revolves around creating people in a lab but this has not become reality yet. Realistically, no one wants a world where everyone is the same and there is no diversity. Diversity is what makes the world and every person in it interesting. I would also say that Brave New World is also very futuristic. It's as if it is a warning to people in the future that not being yourself and ignoring your problems ends badly.

As for form, Brave New World would be considered a novel. The Brave New World story is told in third-person through the thoughts, actions and words of Lenina, Bernard and John with the help of characters like Walter and the director. 

In this novel, Aldous Huxley uses a lot of dialogue. Personally, I really like this as it helps expose the true character or some individuals in the novel. It also helps to develop the story line and give the reader more details on what their life is like or how certain characters feel about certain things and their general opinions. Huxley uses a linear timeline for the most part with really only one semi-flashback when John is talking about memories he has of Linda. Otherwise, it is a very easy to follow novel in regard to timing. On this linear timeline, the story is told through multiple points of view but remains in chronological order. 


]]> 2021-11-10 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882096141 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882098763 Aldous Huxley was someone who led a particularly challenging life. When Huxley was only in his teenage years, his mother died of cancer while he lost his brother to suicide. Throughout these difficult times, Huxley also began to have issues with his vision. It was discovered that he had a condition called keratitis which affects the corneas. When he was 17, his vision almost completely disappeared. This was also when he began to write which made it difficult as he could not even read his own novel or writing. Perhaps Huxley's lack of 'normalcy' made him crave the feeling of being 'normal' so much that he imagined a world where everyone was the same and almost equal. Huxley was born in 1894 and published Brave New World in 1932. Some other of his literary works would include Island, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow and The Doors of Perception. ]]> 2021-11-10 18:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882098763 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882108693 Throughout Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses many literary devices and elements. For example, he uses plenty of dialogue in this novel to expose the personalities of certain characters such as Lenina, Bernard or John. Using dialogue can definitely influence the reader's opinion of the characters as it shows them how the character may interact with other people or react to certain situations. Dialogue can also help a character become more relatable as it their words or reactions may be similar to the reader's and help them to relate more to the character. Huxley's vocabulary and diction is also fairly sophisticated and uses some older words to communicate specific feelings, actions and such things as these. With the level of diction, it helps the reader to more so understand what is going on and what characters may be feeling. The use of syntax is also very prominent in Huxley's writings as they are very descriptive yet don't lead to run-on sentences. So, with Huxley's widely expanded vocabulary, he also creates a lot of imagery. The very in-depth descriptions of places including the labs and the village allow reader's to thoroughly imagine what it may look like and exactly what Aldous Huxley is trying to show. Tragic flaws are also fairly common in this novel . Insincerity is likely a tragic flaw of each character as, for the most part, they all take soma to ignore their true feelings and therefore technically faking their emotions. As for specific characters, I believe that John has the tragic flaw of lack of judgement. I think John has this tragic flaw because he thinks that Lenina will understand his ways however she completely interprets his confession as the direct opposite of the message he was trying to convey.



]]> 2021-11-10 18:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882108693 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882111091 "A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability" (Huxley 15).

I think this quote sheds light on the theme for a couple of reasons. First of all, it introduces what this book is essentially all about (hatchery for people). This immediately shows the reader some of the ethical and moral issues that can be thought about while reading this book. Secondly, it states the motto of the World State. This motto is important because it reveals what the book will focus on and how the characters will revolve around those three things. Throughout the book, one can see that all community, identities and stability are to be plain. There is no creativity because all characters pretend not to be themselves therefore they have no identity. The community focuses on how to make it work the best whether that;s with the people or not as they send some who go astray to islands. And as for stability, they make the people and community as stable as possible with no variances through the use of soma. 

"John also laughed, but for another reason - laughed for pure joy. 'O brave new world,' he repeated. 'O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once.' " ( Huxley 114 ).

This quote may shed light on the main message because it is talking about this new world and how the people in it act. This quote is also coming from John, who was not a part of the new world. The fact that John is laughing about the new world and the people in it may force one to consider that this new world is not all that great. He calls it a 'brave new world' and also comments about the people in it almost in a mocking manner implying that it is odd. John may be laughing at the people because they are not themselves which leads reader to see some of the theme or main message. 

" Should she speak to him? try to bring him back to a sense of decency? remind him of where he was? of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents? Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry - as though death were something terrible, as though anyone mattered as much as all that! It might give them the most disastrous ideas about the subject, might upset them into reacting in the entirely wrong. the utterly anti-social way" (Huxley 163).

This quote comes from a nurse who is attempting to condition children to death ensuring that they think it's normal and not emotional. She is talking about John who is very upset about the death of Linda and does not want the children to see him.
I believe that this quote exposes some of the main message because she talks about how death is not a terrible thing and how no one could matter that much. This shows how little other people in this new world truly care for each other which exposes part of the main message where Huxley may be trying to convey that we must always care for each other and keep our emotions. This nurse also talks about how making such an outburst is incredibly anti-social whereas presently, if one did not cry or be upset about the death of a loved one, that would be a lot more concerning.

]]> 2021-11-10 18:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1882111091 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1906147693 Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, shows readers something increasingly important in this world of change. First of all, there are levels of 'sameness' in this novel that make people from certain genetics or backgrounds equal and they are set in the same social group. There are also lower-class people who do more work. I think one of the things that this book tries to warn readers about is not ignoring or underestimating how important an individual is even if they are 'low class'. The second thing that I think Brave New World teaches would be that ignoring your own true emotions really only creates more problems for yourself and those that have to deal with them. In this novel, characters take something called soma to make them happy and forget feelings such as anger, sadness and loneliness. This results in individuals really not being their authentic selves. In this book, doing so causes more pain and confliction for certain people. So really, by ignoring your own emotions and true feelings, you do more damage not only to yourself but also others. Without recognizing how one really feels, they may not understand their own personality, other people or essentially life as a whole. and   Ignoring problems (soma) can cause lack of emotion, personality and understanding of other people and life itself. Brave New World demonstrates just how important it is to be your true self no matter how it may make other people feel or if you think it is wrong. Each person being unique is what makes our real world colourful and interesting. Without uniqueness, our world would be very bland and boring. In summary, ignoring problems and feelings really only make things worse and may result in personal tragedy. ]]> 2021-11-22 13:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1906147693 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908179127 Looking at Brave New World would definitely be good to look at from the point of the biographical literary criticism as Aldous Huxley had a very challenging life. Some of the things that occurred in Huxley's life would have definitely influenced the things that he wrote about including his mother and brother's death as well as his own blindness. Life would have been incredibly difficult which transferred into his writings through Linda's death. Another reason why it would be good to use the biographical criticism would be because Huxley's own feelings potentially about his family, blindness, etc. may be very prominent in certain characters such as John. ]]> 2021-11-23 11:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908179127 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908180991 Looking at Brave New World through the philosophical criticism perspective would be beneficial as there are many contradictory topics in this novel. First of all, how the people are made in labs and essentially identical in ethics, morals and personality would definitely be a contradictory topic in regard to this. Another ethical issue would be how everyone depends on the use of soma to keep themselves happy as well as how the government pushes it on them to keep them all the same without having to face any consequences or answer any questions. Soma could also be considered as an addiction because the characters feel like they must take it when different emotions begin to come over them which would create another moral problem. ]]> 2021-11-23 11:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908180991 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908415133 As for world events that may have influenced Huxley's writings, in 1932 there were many on-goings of war-related issues. The year 1932 was also in the middle of the Great Depression. This may have influenced the writing of Brave New World because in the Great Depression, food was rationed and people were all made equal in the way that no one could have more food than another. There were limited purchases no matter how well off an individual was. I also believe that war and the Great Depression may have influenced the writing of Brave New World because they caused plenty of conflict and necessary organization. In Brave New World, there is so much organization in the creation of people in the labs. This was also all organized by a government who then sold the idea to people for taking soma; essentially telling them to ignore their true feelings and be someone they're not. Potentially, Aldous Huxley may have been told not to act like himself after so much trauma and this is simply speculation but maybe he had something he would do to act less like himself. For some people, this could be alcohol but it could also be almost any activity to keep his mind off of what his life was actually like. Or maybe it's only something he wished he could do. Overall, between these two topics, I believe that they influenced some of the writing of Brave New World.
Additionally, I think that if Aldous Huxley were to base one character off of himself from his book, I would say it would have been John or 'The Savage'. I think he would have based John off of his own character because John is someone who stands out and is treated differently. He is brought to this place he's never been and told he is entertainment. He is different. I also think this because John's mother dies and as did Aldous Huxley's. In conclusion, John would likely be the most relatable character to Aldous Huxley. ]]> 2021-11-23 13:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908415133 chamberlainr1 https://padlet.com/chamberlainr1/gq3imzswbmj2wk/wish/1908640526 “Aldous Huxley.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Aldous-Huxley.

Huxley, Aldous. "Brave New World". Penguin, 2009.

Raga, Suzanne. “10 Fascinating Facts about Aldous Huxley.” Mental Floss, 26 July 2016, www.mentalfloss.com/article/83243/10-dystopian-facts-about-aldous-huxley. 

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