Brave New World
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Brave New World
Jessica, Victoria, Lisa
Structure
Introduction
Book
Brief overview of Aldous Huxley
Summary of the Plot
First Chapter
Caste – System
Bokanovsky Process
Persons
Movie
Director
Scene
Conclusion
Dystopia or Utopia?
The Brave New World
2049 a. Chr. war for nine years with chemical and biological
weapons
Propaganda against natural reproduction artifical reproductive
technique
Intention: Freedom and happy people
In year 632 After Ford ( Henry Ford = God)
Totalitarian system
control
Aldous Huxley
* 26 of July 1894 in Surrey (Great Britain)
† 22 of November 1963 Los Angeles
Famous author
Degeneration of eyesight
Summary of the Plot
Brave New World „The World State“
Cold, dead and sterile atmosphare
No different countries
„Community, Identity, Stability“
Humans:
conditioned to fit in the world state
Social System
Produced by „Bokanovsky Process“
No own thoughts
„Soma“ drug, produce a joyfull effect
First Chapter
Guide tour through the „Central London Hatchery“ and „Conditioning
Centre“
Director leading a tour group of young students around a lab,
explains scientific process
Creating people for particular castes in society
Bokanovsky Process
Feed the embryos with special substance
Caste – System
•Highest case
•Highest level of
intelligence and
attractiveness
Alphas
•Human intelligence,
but not like Alphas
Betas
• manual workers
Gammas
• No social function
• Workers
Deltas
• no human
intelligence
•workers
Epsilons
• Twins, dressed in
mandatory khaki
Bokanovsky Process
Eggs „bud“ creates up to ninety – six embryos from each bud
Grow into a human being
One of the major instruments of social stability
Epsilons and Deltas
Solution of the whole life problem
Persons
Lenina Crowne:
She‘s a Beta, perfect citizin of the Brave New World, ambitous
Red hair, very pretty
Bernard Marx:
Alpha, intelligent, physically smaller as „normal“ Alphas more
or less no respect from the others
Has his own thoughts social problems, respect
Melancholic
Helmholtz Watson:
Alpha, very good looking, high intelligence, „chill mood“
Support Bernard and a good friend of John
Persons
John:
„the wild“ , son of the Director and Linda
Outsider
He was born in the reservation
He loves Shakespear
Linda:
Johns Mother and a Beta
Storm got lost Indians found her, while she was pregnant
Desperate to return to the Brave New World
Director:
Father of John scandalous in the Brave New World
Movie - Director
Burt Brinckerhoff
* 25th of October 1936 in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania
Actor, director, producer
Movie:
Filmed in year 1980
For the first time shown on NBC on 7th March 1980
It was released to the public 1998
Scene
the teacher shows a film about the past
they have a perfect society now
all the human thoughts are negative and repulsive
End: they make a discussion about the complex sexuell
versions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhCh-BX3GE
Utopia or Dystopia
What do you think…
?
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(1998_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ne_neue_Welt#Figuren
Pictures: Google Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Book