The Bloomsbury Group by Mr Dickens https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi Responding to how the Bloomsbury Group's work can be seen as an influence in Huxley's text. en-us 2017-03-30 07:42:01 UTC 2017-04-03 22:52:07 UTC hello@padlet.com QUESTION https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164216307 In what ways does the ideas and perspectives in the dystopian novel Brave New World reflect the ideologies Aldous Huxley was exposed to through his interactions with the Bloomsbury Group ? ]]> 2017-04-03 01:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164216307 https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164218521 Aldous Huxley communicates ideas of freedom in relation to sexual intentions in ways that reflect the ideologies he was educated on through his interactions with members of the Bloomsbury Group. This is evident through his perspective on promiscuity; a key component of the novel. The Brave New World created by Huxley lacks dogma in relation to casual sex with different partners. This exaggerates similar ideas discussed by the Bloosmsbury Group. ]]> 2017-04-03 02:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164218521 Alice https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164241754 The Bloomsbury Group were a congregation of intellectuals that valued an individual's right to spend their leisure time entertaining themselves with their own thoughts, considering their individualism, political stance and role in society. Huxley's exposure to this attitude revealed to him the current opposing trend of society to value material entertainment, conformism and shallow thoughts. Brave New World represents a magnified consequence of this societal trend to convey a warning of the potential future consequences to Huxley's audience.]]> 2017-04-03 06:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164241754 Shivagani https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164244293 The term dystopian refers to relating to or denoting an imagined place with everything unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley perpetuates certain ideologies such as the incompatibility of happiness and privacy. Likewise, there was a lack of privacy between the Bloomsbury group as they interacted often, shared their beliefs/values and gossiped about acquaintances. Thus, this shows that all members were aware of what is going on in their society, similar to the novel. The ideologies of the Bloomsbury group have been used to create a Utopian society, whilst Huxley informs readers about the consequences that can occur in the future. ]]> 2017-04-03 07:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164244293 George https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164245449 The Bloomsbury group were a philosophical congregation of intellectuals in which Huxley frequented, being of the same status and scholarly standard. Brave New World written by Huxley presents a satirically utopian society in which ideologies such as freedom of thought, freedom of sexuality and the importance of leisure are highlighted, and the resultant consequences are portrayed . These values  though magnified and developed in accordance to the futuristic setting are still clearly synonymous with the Bloomsbury Groups beliefs, demonstrating the profound influence his interaction with these academics had on him
 ]]> 2017-04-03 07:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164245449 https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490601 The values that The Bloomsbury Group held were reflected within the novel 'Brave New World'. The beliefs of making sex and sexuality a less taboo topic, valuing materiaistic goods, and the importance of leisure time dedicated to personal reflection were some of the values The Bloomsbury Group held. These beliefs and values, whilst shown in Huxley's, were highly exaggerated and depicted in a dramatic form.]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490601 Stephen https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490610 Huxley's dystopian novel reflects the ideas of the Bloomsbury group in a negative aspect as he displayed the effects of the beliefs of the group if they were followed and expanded on by displaying an over sexualised society in which no one has free time to reflect on their lifes]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490610 https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490630
Aldous Huxley interactions with the Bloomsbury group gave him insight to a different type of person and living which evidently affected the way he wrote this novel. For example the group valued recreation above work, and Huxley incorporates  this through the use of the drug Somo which allowes the characters to be happy for a certain amount of time with no true event or person causing this happiness]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490630 Emily https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490645  Different perspectives througout Brave New World have been implemented, mainly influenced by the Bloomsbury group their ideas of 
- Freedom of sexuality (as the bloobsbury group were always open about this topic)
- Society's values of drugs, materialistc goods 
- The idea that sex should be used to create ''happiness'' or this sense of pleasure which would be usually forseen as abnormal. ]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490645 Annie https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490668 The ideas and perspectives]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490668 Matilda https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490670
Huxley's exposure to The Bloomsbury Group caused him to create a satire of their ideologies. He respected thier views, but realised that a society run as they dictated would be dysfunctional. Thus, Huxley created such a society as a dystopian community in 'Brave New World' to highlight the ridiculous nature of creating a society solely on these ideologies. He believed that fluid sexuality, the pursuit of pleasure and self-reflection without work ethic was impractical whilst running a community. ]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490670 sam https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490681 2017-04-03 22:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490681 Davis https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490693 The Bloomsbury Group was critical of romantic, monogamous relationships and based around sexual openness and liberation, as well as placing importance personal reflection, freedom of thought and individualism (through which one can critically assess and contribute to society around them). Huxley's associations to the Bloomsbury Group is mirrored in "Brave New World", as their entire society revolves around instant gratification and leisure time for the engineered upper classes, embracing a life of hedonism and rejecting ideas of monogamy, romance and love. At the same time, while Huxley was a member of this group and respected or agreed with much of their ideology, the hedonistic lifestyles of those in "Brave New World" is portrayed in a negative light, indicating that Huxley realized that this hedonism could be exploited to create a totalitarian world in which society was placated through pleasure. ]]> 2017-04-03 22:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490693 Sam https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490801 huxley was apart of the bloomsbury group who spoke about the topics that were often frowned upon in society, these included sexuality, instant gratification without consequence and the importance of free time dedicated to freedom of thought.

]]> 2017-04-03 22:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490801 Angie https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490825 The similarities in the text and this group is that Huxley was apart of this group and his experiences were reflected in some instances in the book. In the book, the chain of production is reinforced when there is no marriage and freedom to have as many partners.]]> 2017-04-03 22:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490825 Websites https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490900 http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/81461/the-bloomsbury-group

http://spartacus-educational.com/ARTbloomsburyG.htm.

https://huxleyandthebloomsberries.wordpress.com/the-bloomsbury-group/

Feel free to use them to reference whenever :)

 




]]> 2017-04-03 22:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164490900 Laura https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164491232 throughout Huxley's dystopian world, his previous experiences from the Bloomsbury group have been a reoccuring factor. His ideologies have been portrayed with his society being sex orientated and that with everyone coorporation the society would be suffienct and effective

]]> 2017-04-03 22:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164491232 Emma https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164491472 the topics spoken by the bloombury group allowed for a more free spirited society which was a threat to the idealistic views in brave new world. these influences included sexuality, personal reflection and materialistic goods which could ruin the order of the government.]]> 2017-04-03 22:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/martin_dickens/v5bx0spiacgi/wish/164491472