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John The Savage Bernard Marx
1,590 wordsSome drugs dull, stupefy and sedate. Others sharpen, animate and intensify. After taking soma, one can apparently drift pleasantly off to sleep. Bernard Marx, for instance, takes four tablets of soma to pass away a long plane journey to the Reservation in New Mexico. When they arrive at the Reservation, Bernard's companion, Lenin, swallows half a gramme of soma when she begins to tire of the Warden's lecture, "with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at...
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Nihilistic Themes And Characters In Literature
1,815 wordsNihilistic Themes and Characters in Literature The philosophy of Nihilism was born out of an individuals discontent. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Nihilism is a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless. The roots of Nihilism come from a dissatisfied individual, maintaining a view that nothing in the world has a real existence. Nihilism, from the Latin Nihil or nothing, was first used to describe Christian heretics during the...
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Brave New World Freedom To Choose
1,984 words... shows that a government-controlled society often places restraints upon its citizens, which results in a loss of social and mental freedom. These methods of limiting human behaviour are carried out by the conditioning of the citizens, the categorical division of society, and the censorship of art and religion. Conditioning the citizens to like what they have and reject what they do not have is an authoritative governments ideal way of maximizing efficiency. The citizens will consume what the...
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South South West Brave New World
4,586 words... a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well... Or again, if you want a stronger version of 'good', what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like 'excellent' and 'splendid' and all the rest of them? 'Plus good' covers the meaning or doubleplusgood if you want something stronger still... In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words; in reality, only one word (Orwell 45 - 46). In essence, one of the main goals of Newspeak ...
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South South West Bernard Marx
1,195 wordsBasic Plot: This novel takes place in the year 632 A. F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. In the very beginning there are students being given a guided party line tour through the London Hatcheries. Two employees that work there are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne, they have been ...
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Book Was Written Brave New World
2,848 wordsLiterary Devices in 20 th Century Literature After WWII and during the beginning of the Cold War, much was thought and much was said about government and about the contemporary culture in general. This is reflected in many of the literary works of the time, and even before that time, as many of the Marxist and socialist principles were well known. Some of the works include symbolism, some include metaphors, some include satire, and some have other methods. Regardless on which device is used, the...
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Brave New World Mustapha Mond
1,702 wordsBrave New World The novel Brave New World is like no other in fantasy and satire. It predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion. Has Huxley written about a degrading way of life or has he discovered the key to a perfect world that should be called Utopia? This essay will show that upon close analysis the way of life in the novel is justifiable and all the precautions that are taken are needed to preserve their lifestyle. This essay will also show that however d...
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Brave New World Believed That Man
2,754 wordsOn a superficial level Brave New World is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society: population numbers, social class, and intellectual ability. History is controlled and rewritten to suit the needs of the state. All this is done in the name of social stability. When one looks beneath the surface...
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Brave New World Advancement Of Science
1,828 wordsAldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World written in 1932 presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. In this satiric novel, Huxley makes fun of science and religion, using his idea of the future to attack the present. This pessimistic story of the modern world opens in London some 600 years in the future, specifically in 632 A. F... Through the use of irony and detail he shows how the advancement of science affects human individuals. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxl...
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Story Takes Place Brave New World
2,809 wordsBrave New World by Aldous Huxley The author Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, third son of Dr. Leonard Huxley and Julia Arnold. He is the grandson of T. H. Huxley, the scientist. Aldous Huxley was educated at Eton, which he left at seventeen owing to an affliction of the eyes which left him practically blind for two or three years. This event presented him from becoming a doctor, for which he was grateful later on. The book Brave New World was written in 1932. ...
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Brave New World Mother Or Father
3,232 wordsAldous Huxley s Brave New World, was a very odd book. It portrays many of the moral dilemmas that we now are approaching in our society. I really enjoyed the book, it had just enough science fiction content to keep the reader interested in the book. It also had a very interpretive content in it to mesmerize, and elude the reader. I related myself to, two of the characters. During the opening quarter of the book, I related Bernard Marx to me. I am much different from the average teenager, I am so...
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Brave New World Point Of View
2,492 wordsBRAVE NEW WORLDI) Author: About Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his work. When Huxley was 16 and a student at the prestigious school Eton, an eye illness made him nearly blind. He recovered enough vision to go on to Oxfor...
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Brave New World Considered To Be One
2,219 wordsBrave New World Research Paper Aldous Huxley is considered to be one of the greatest Literary Minds in the Modern Era. The book Brave New World, is considered to be one of his greatest creations. Huxley believed it was easiest to touch your reader in fiction. In Brave New World he did. His book was a tool for him to give his fears and reservations a voice to speak to the public. Huxley s great mind and many fields of research allowed him to write this uniquely insightful piece, Brave New World i...
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Brave New World Savage Reservation
839 wordsBRAVE NEW WORLD ASSIGNMENT In the novel Brave New World many events occurred that makes it difficult to decide whether John or Bernard Marx had more importance as being the protagonist or antagonist to help develop the plot. Both characters can be considered the protagonist as well as the antagonist. John and Bernard Marx, being the protagonists helped developed the main theme of selfishness throughout the novel. The reasons why selfishness is the dominant theme developed by these two main chara...
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Brave New World Bernard Marx
723 wordsThe characters in Aldous Huxley s Brave New World represent certain political and social ideas. Huxley used what he saw in the world in which he lived to form his book. From what he saw, he imagined that life was heading in a direction of a utopian government control. Huxley did not imagine this as a good thing. He uses the characters of Brave New World to express his view of utopia being impossible and detrimental. One such character he uses to represent the ideology behind this is Bernard Marx...
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