Aldous Huxley Brave New World
...The Novel 2
1.1.1 Short Info 2
1.1.2 The Style 2
1.2 The Setting 2
1.2.1 BNW a "perfect" system ? 3
1.2.2 Satirical Elements in BNW 4
1.3 The Characters 4
1.3.1 Fanny Crowne 4
1.3.2 Lenina Crowne (Main Female Character) 4
1.3.3 Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (Thomas Tomakin) 4
1.3.4 Henry Foster 4
1.3.5 John the Savage 5
1.3.6 Linda 5
1.3.7 Bernard Marx (One of the most important male characters) 5
1.3.8 Helmholtz Watson 6
1.3.9 Mustapha Mond 6
1.4 BNW's Society and Moral Values 6
2. Themes, Motifs and Symbols 7
2.1 Themes 7
2.1.1 The Use of Technology to Control Society 7
2.1.2 The Consumer Society 8
2.1.3 The Incompatibility of Happiness and Truth 8
2.1.4 Class Conflict 8
2.1.5 Sex 8
2.1.6 Knowledge and Ignorance 9
2.1.7 Community, Identity, Stability vs. Individual Freedom 9
2.1.8 Technology as a Religion 9
2.2 Motifs 10
3 Plot Summary 10
4 Sources 11
1. General:
1.1 The Novel
1.1.1 Short Info
- Utopia (Dystopian / anti-utopian novel), all definitions can be used on BNW
- Written in 1931, published in 1932 by Aldous Huxley
- Novel questions the values of 1931 London using satire and irony, contemporary trends in British and American society are taken to extremes
- In BNW Aldous Huxley turns to an imaginative analysis of the future as it appeared to him already implicit in the present he analyses the consequences for mankind of rapidly acquired scientific power and the problems arising out of hyper-development of the intellect at the expense of other human qualities
1.1.2 The Style
- Third-person, omniscient teller
- Chronological for the most part; only some flash-backs
- First six chapters are used to show how the World State's society functions
- The climax of the novel is Johns attempt to set up a riot in Chapter 15
- The tone of the novel is ironic, satirical, silly, tragic, juvenile,...
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