Lit Anal #3

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
 

GENERAL

 

1. This story takes place in the future. It is about 2500 London. The people in this story are created and not born. The government controls these people's lives and wants to create a perfect world. There was a war that destroyed all of civilization. The people pretty much worship Henry Ford because of his work. They start a new era of Ford. Everybody who is made has one of five different castes Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. There are 10 controllers who have the power of the world. The world is maintained by brainwashing babies and giving adults the soma which helps people stay happy. Marrage is not allowed because the babies are produced in factories. So everybody has sex with everybody, but being together longer than a few months is bad.

2. The theme of the story is the threat of Genetic engineering. Huxley talks about how his new world breeds prescribed numbers of humans artificially for specified qualities. This whole story shows an example of what could happen if the world started using more and more genetic engineering to a point where every person on the earth was created and born.

3. The tone of the story is dramatic. The author uses a lot of flashy words that illustrate the perfect picture of what he is trying to say. Although there are a lot of big words that are hard to understand. it is very easy to read and makes the reader have to think and let their imagination run wild with his fascinating ideas. It is also humorous in a few ways. Like when the students in the classroom feel sick whenever they hear the word mother. Just the way he makes people talk and with his ideas of how life is at that time, he kinda jokes around a bit of the things people say do these days in the reader's present.

4. Imagery- he uses imagery of humans to animals like when he says they have the stupid curiosity of animals.

repetition- “straight from the horses mouth”

irony- “Community, Identity, Stability” is ironic because how are you supposed to be your own person when you are told how to feel and think.
Oxymoron- The blossoms described on pg 15 are an oxymoron between beauty and death/suffering.

Foreshadowing- “What man has joined, nature is powerless to assunder.” This foreshadows that because society is unatural, nature will break it apart and become natural again.

Hypocricy- The controllers are making children think how they want them to think, but the controllers are just people with their own beleifs and they are thinking the way that they want to think, why cant everybody else?

Hyperbole- The storyies characters are really exhagerated.

 

CHARACTERIZATION
1. The author uses mostly indirect characterization in this story. Since it is from a 3^rd person point of view, he can explain what how every character thinks and feels to give us an idea on their personalities.
 2. The author's diction does change a little bit from when different characters are speaking. Like when Mustafa Mond is speaking, he makes him sound way more intelligent than when Lenina is talking.
3. The protagonist, John the savage, is a round character. He has many different personalities that separated him from the world around him. He questions the order of things and expresses ideas through a real personality. He is different than everybody else and looks at the world through christian views. You can see his struggle with the world views when Lenina wants sex.
4. I feel like I read a character in this story. Everybody is mostly the same in this book where they are all brainwashed except for john. He was the only one who was normal and actually questioned the system. Like he probably did what every one of the readers would have done as well and wasn't really a person that was all that diferent from the every day person in the present.