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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Brave New World Aldous Huxley Huxley, A. (2006). Brave new world. NY, NY: Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Setting - Most of the story takes place in a futuristic London that is under a totalitarian regime. In the world, people are always happy since they are constantly taking doses of a drug called soma which is provided by the government. The drug helps them escape discomfort or pain and feel joy. The city they live in is perfect. Summary - The story starts off in London at a center where test-tube babies are produced then grown and conditioned based on their social class. A worker at the center named Lenina Crowne is scorned for only dating one man. In their society, people believe that everyone belongs to everyone else. Thus. …show more content…

The reservation is everything society has told her to hate. Linda and Bernard get even more horrified when they encounter one of the members of the reservation who was once part of their civilization. The women they meet, whose name is Linda, had been trapped there for years. She was obese, dirty, and desperate to get back to London with her son, John. Bernard gets consent to bring Linda and her son back to London. Sadly, Linda and John are unable to conform to society’s ideals. Since babies are made in a lab, people in their society believe it’s odd for Linda to have given birth to her child. To them, only animals do that. People being to avoid her. However, Linda doesn’t seem to mind that, as all she wants to do is take drugs while lying in bed. On the other hand, John faces the outside world differently. When he was on the Reservation, he didn’t fit in with everyone else. He was an outcast in that small place since his mother was promiscuous and lacked the skills to be a productive member in the area. When he was younger, Linda taught John how to read and appreciate culture. That made him feel superior to others. However, the ideals he grew up with left their mark on him, as he thought that civilization is unethical and

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Later, Bernard meets a blond kid who is dressed as an Indian named John. John tells them about his mother, who was born in the other world. He tells them about how she came to visit and she got lost during a storm and fell and hurt her head. John takes them to see his mother, Linda. When they get there, Linina is disgusted by how she looks.

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While reading “Ramona” one of the overarching themes in the novel is the mistreatment of Native Americans. The reason that Helen Hunt Jackson was able to write so much on this subject without having people criticize her for a biased view, is because the story of “Ramona” is based on the treatment of Native Americans. The prejudices that affected them in the 1800’s was horrific. The Native American were moved off their homelands, forced into a situation of being put into camps, and a lack of rights. This lack of rights is where Helen Hunt Jackson attempt to expose this mistreatment and abuse to the light.

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The author shows the events during time by telling us when this story took place“It was 1970, and he said he was stationed up in the northern hill country” (63). This is important because the Vietnam war was happening during this time. This story takes place on a reservation which is significant because it helps set the tone “I was the first one to drive a convertible on my reservation. And of course it was red, a red Olds.” (61).

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The novel opens with the first theme which sets the tone for the rest of the novel. Joe describes all the actions that are taken to help his mother. The family rushes to the hospital off the reservation to only encounter prejudice from other patients. At this point, there is a clear representation that those who do not live within the reservation are disrespectful towards the natives.

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The phrase “and I don't belong in either one'' implies that she feels significant cultural dissonance and that she struggles to reconcile her Native American cultural identity with the dominant culture around her. This dissimilation Jacquie’s character experienced due to the intergenerational trauma from past generations, forced her to assimilate to mainstream American culture that has historically oppressed her community. Overall, the historical trauma she now bears causes a loss of belonging and identity, creating Indigenous People to feel uncertain about their place in the

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This suggests the everyday basic struggle for necessities on the reservation. The girls throwing up their food sends a harsh reminder of the hardships and alcoholism at home. It further reveals the societal norm of worrying about looks among other minor issues whereas the Indians worry about providing for their family; it displays the concerns and anxieties of mainstream society compared to the uncertainty of those living on the reservations. This further suggests the marginalized life that the Indians live on the reservation and the effects it has on their lives. In “Indian Education,” Alexie presents many unspoken

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This is made clear as Bernard showcases the advanced civilization to John and John seems either unimpressed or confused about the whole situation. This is exemplified when John visits both the library and the Television Corporation factory as the savage learns about daily soma rations of the lower castes and the absence of Shakespeare in the World State. (Pg 164-165). As John continues to explore the world around him it is made very clear that he dislikes and is simply a square peg trying to fit into a circular hole, though John isn’t really trying to fit in moreover just blindly following others direction. This becomes clear to John as Bernard begins parading him around at parties as some kind of entertainment and after finally rejecting to go to one of Bernard's party the reader can see how much John is simply a tool that Bernard is using for his own social gain.

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Sex is casual and expected. She believes “everyone belongs to everyone else” (BNW, 34). However, Lenina has a long sexual relationship with Henry Foster which makes her unusual. Eventually she moves on to a new relationship with Bernard Marx. “But, Bernard, you 're saying the most awful things. '

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After a long conversation with Mustapha Mond, John even forces himself to throw up in order to purge himself of civilization, explaining that “It poisoned me.” John does not see himself as a part of society like Lenina does; in fact, because he has always been treated and considered as an outsider, John is the very embodiment of individualism and natural instinct. John is all the more dangerous because of his refusal to accept the World State’s society and conform to their societal

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The next couple chapters give insight on the Savage Reservation and John and Linda. The two of them symbolize the reality that this world is not as perfect as they want it to be, and not everything goes as perfect as the New World claims that they are. Linda was a member of the New World, but stayed in the Savage Reservation because of the embarrassment of getting pregnant. She became a fat, crazy drunk because that was the only way she could remove herself from her situation of live in this new, barbaric society. Also, John was born in the barbaric society but he doesn’t belong there, but he is also viewed as an outcast in the Brave New World society because of his unnatural, natural birth.

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After finding Sarah’s baby buried in the garden, she nurses the baby back to health and houses both the mother and baby saying “I will take the responsibility” (70-71). Mother nurtures them without question, providing for the baby and Sarah as if they are her own family. After Sarah’s death, Mother continues to raise the baby as her own and after the death of Father and a year of mourning, she marries

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Author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, explores the origin of dystopian literature by exploiting the fear of a dictatorial government that silences the freedom of future people. Huxley demonstrates his belief that his society approaching a bleak and extreme future through concepts such as recorded entertainment. Recorded entertainment pertains to the modern-day media and its influence on people. The evolution of the media has changed with the normalization of concepts that society has not acknowledged previously such as premarital sex. Huxley personally believed that sexual behavior was a casual concept; Brave New World was part of his prediction that the societal ideology behind sex would change.

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Each of the foremost characters conjointly modify the question of identity. It's evident that the circumstance in any culture dictates how it’s individuals act and react and justify their behavior. During this, survival between two different tribes was the catalyst in an exceedingly unstabilizing country, language reinforces the novel’s themes of racial and social division. As an example, Ugwu’s love of the English language, or the blending of dialects and words throughout the novel. Even in Richard’s character, he is like an outcast.

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Yet what strikes the viewer most is neither the Wichís’ cultural difference nor the evidence of transculturation within the community, but John’s own remarkable assimilation into the Wichí language and culture. The film shows us how perfectly John has adopted the quiet, pausing speech and reticent manner of his Wichí companions. Rosell’s patient recording of everyday, unremarkable detail immerses us to such an extent in the new life John has chosen that the film succeeds in reversing the ethnographer’s gaze. John’s relationship with his home country is condensed into a single phone call with his mother, whose voice is left “suspended somewhere off-screen, just as it is for John.” The scene is wonderfully evocative of cultural distance, and acquires a particular poignancy for a British viewer who would immediately capture from the mother’s accent that the difference between their two environments is one of

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