Brave New World by Cassandra Bottjer

Imagery (Aline Papazian)

apapazian19 — 2018-12-03 20:05:50 UTC

Animal Imagery:
- visual imagery
  - "Straight from the horse's mouth into the notebook." (pg. 4)
  - "They're done for ... google-eyed and swine-snouted in their gas-masks, in ran the police." (pg. 214)
- auditory imagery
  - "The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees." (pg. 30)
  - "High, low, from a multitude of separate throats, only two voices squeaked or growled." (pg. 208)
  - "That evening the swarm of helicopters that came buzzing across the Hog's Back was a dark cloud ten kilometers long." (pg. 259)
- gustatory imagery
  - "Maggots again, but larger, full grown, they now crawled across his grief and his repentance." (pg. 209)
  - "With the cautious tenderness of one who strokes a notoriously vicious animal, he patted the Savage's arm." (pg. 210)
- Deep personalization of humanity
- You don't have a soul, you have a role.
Bleak, Sterile Imagery: The bleak, sterile imagery is indicative of the soulless life that is the new way
- "...but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory." (pg. 3)
- "A squat grey building..." (pg. 3)

cbottjer19 — 2018-12-03 20:16:19 UTC

London:
- Highly developed city
- Technology based community (innovation by genetic engineering)
- Caste system emphasizing unity and sameness (within caste level)
  - Everyone belongs to everyone and everyone gets what they want
- Busy – constantly working
New Mexico
- Savage reservation (Malpais)
- Technology (using natural resources)
- Individualistic community
- Seen as uncivilized
Lighthouse (Symbol)
- In an isolated area, but still open to society
  - Just outside of London
    - highlights that he is still connected through his Linda 's death and Lenina
  - "The woods, the open stretches of heather and yellow gorse..." (pg. 245)
  - "accustomed to the aridities of the American desert" (pg. 245)
  - rural
- "ferro-concrete and in excellent condition" (pg. 243)
- "almost too civilizedly luxurious" (pg. 244)
- symbolizes his search for clarity and wisdom after being defiled with the experience of the new world

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ecleary19 — 2018-12-03 21:08:43 UTC

Ford
- Religion replaced with technology
- "Oh my Ford”
- Ford created the assembly line, which is now used to create human beings
Soma
- Encouraged by the government
- Inhibits critical thinking and facing emotions
- Easy distraction from the realities of life
- "And do remember,her that a gramme is better than a damn.” (Page 61)
Sex
- No commitment to one person
- No strong emotional bonds
- Sex for pleasure not for reproduction
- John desires love from Lenina, but Lenina wants sex from John
- Difference in values

mmcgee19 — 2018-12-04 04:44:18 UTC

Cynical

Juxtaposes happy things with depression diction
1. “Darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon”
2. “Unescapable social destiny”
3. “Suffocating intimacies”

Ironic

1. Disconnect between the readers and the characters
  1. “And do you know what a ‘home’ was?” “They shook their heads.”
  2. “Everyone belongs to everyone else”
2. The audience has an opposite reaction to the characters’ beliefs
3. Readers pity the characters- raising a question of the realness of World State

Empathetic
1. John tries to resist human impulses- his suicide is understandable
2. Audience feels bad, as john is the only one who is actually civilized
3. Audience understands john’s conflicting feelings
  1. Choosing between two worlds

kmichaud19 — 2018-12-04 04:50:00 UTC

Happiness is ensured to all citizens in order to maintain stability.
- Individual's wants are met in order to provide them with a superficial happiness.
- Prevents them from having new thoughts or being passionate about something.
- “That’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and high art.” (Page 220)
The risks of a government that controls all aspects of life.
- Technology is utilized to control genetics in order to form the caste system.
- Hypnopedia is used in order to program individuals.
- Soma is used for when sadness does occur.
- " In brief, hypnopedia. "The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time."" (Page 28)

Individuality is prohibited in order to prevent instability.
- World State correlates individuality with unhappiness and instability since it ruins their "perfect" society.
- Citizens see themselves as part of the community as a whole and not as individuals.
- "But every one belongs to every one else" (Page 40)

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acarter_monah19 — 2018-12-04 07:53:43 UTC

Expository Diction:
“being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesque of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt”
instant gratification in the World State

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rmayne19 — 2018-12-04 11:46:47 UTC

Repetitive
- The character’s constant use repetitive syntax underlines the conformative values of the futuristic society.
  - “the Greater Being comes!” pg. 82
  - “Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford.” pg. 83
  - “odd, odd, odd” pg. 87
- Emphasizes the opinion of the person
Pensive
- Huxley’s use of pensive syntax contrasts and highlights the general foregoal of individual thought in their society.
  - "'absolute savages... our inspectors occasionally visit... otherwise no communication whatever with the civilized world...'" pg. 103
- Shows character's thought
Telegraphic/Simple
- The simplicity of the dialogue between characters reveals the social class structure and which one a character falls into.
  - “‘I can’t help it.’ ‘Take soma, then’ ‘I do.’” pg. 186
  - “Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one.” pg. 74
- Every person talks in simple sentences
- Telegraphic sentences used in dialogue

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