Transcript Brave-New-World

A satirical
piece of
fiction, not
scientific
prophecy
A piece of literature designed to
ridicule the subject of the work.
While satire can be funny, its aim
is not to amuse, but to arouse
contempt.
Ridicule, irony, exaggeration, and
several other techniques are
almost always present.
ELF
40S
Ms.
Van
Den
Buss
 A Utopia is a place or
society that appears
perfect in every way.
 The government is
perfect, working to
improve societies
standards of living rather
then their own, social
aspects of the community
run perfectly.
 There is no war or
disease, only peace and
happiness. Everyone
outside this Utopian
society looks to this place
in wonder and awe,
believing it is completely
perfect in every such way.
Dystopia came from the term
Utopia.
It defines a place or society
which is in complete chaos.
The citizens are all suffering
and are miserable.
Often times in novels what
appears to be a Utopian
society it first by the visiting
protagonist is actually revealed
to be a dystopian society.
The citizens are often revealed
to live in terror, under
complete control by the
government, unaware of
corrupt world in which they
actually live in, or suppressed
by the society as a whole.
“Utopias appear to be much easier to
realize than one formerly believed.
We currently face a question that
would otherwise fill us with
anguish: How to avoid their becoming
definitively real ? The utopias are attainable. Life
marches towards the utopias. And it can be that a
new century begins, a century where the
intellectuals and the educated class will dream
means to avoid the utopias and to return a nonutopian society, less ‘perfect’ and ‘free’.”
Nicolas Berdiaeff
“Reading Brave New World
elicits the same disturbing
feelings in the reader which the
society it depicts has
vanquished.”
Huxley exploits anxieties
about Soviet Communism
and American capitalism.
 The price of universal
happiness will be the
sacrifice of honored
shibboleths of our culture:
“motherhood,” “home,”
“family,” “freedom,” even
“love.”
Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller of
Western Europe, governs a society where all
aspects of an individual's life are determined
by the state, beginning with conception and
conveyor-belt reproduction.
A government bureau, the Predestinators,
decides all roles in the hierarchy.
Children are raised and conditioned by the
state bureaucracy, not brought up by natural
families.
•There are only 10,000 surnames.
• Citizens must not fall in love,
marry, or have their own kids.
Brave New World is centered around
both control and manipulation
• He instills
the fear that a
future world
state may rob
us of the right
to be
unhappy.
Setting: 2540 AD; referred to in
the novel as 632 years AF (“After
Ford”), meaning 632 years after
production of the first Model T
car
Narration: Third-person
omniscient
Point-of-View: Narrated in the
third person from the point of
view of Bernard or John, but
also from the point of view of
Lenina, Helmholtz Watson, and
Mustapha Mond
"This is rather alarming that you're being persuaded below the level of choice and
reason... Advertisement plays a necessary role but the danger of it to a democracy is this:
a democracy depends on the individual voter making a rational choice for enlightened
self-interest. What these people are doing [advertisers] when their purpose is selling
goods, what the dictatorial propagandists are doing, is to try to bypass the rational side of
humanity and to appeal directly to these unconscious forces below the surface--so that you
are in a way making nonsense of the democratic procedure which is based on conscious
choice on rational grounds... Today's children walk around singing beer commercials and
toothpaste commercials."
Huxley on advertising, the media, and propaganda
BRAND ALPHABET
 This novel is more applicable today than it was in 1932. This is a
time of:
propaganda,
censorship,
conformity, genetic
engineering, social
conditioning, and
mindless
entertainment.
• This was what
Huxley saw in our
future. His book is a
warning.
Consider the number of ads
for prescription drugs, which
are permitted only in the
United States and New
Zealand
Doctors and consumer
advocates believe these ads
drive up health-care costs and
seduce millions into asking
their MDs for drugs they don’t
need for diseases they had
never before heard of, like
restless leg syndrome
 Is it better to be free than to be happy?
Is freedom compatible with happiness?
Is the collective more important than the individual?
Can children be taught effectively to think in only one
certain way?
 Can young people be taught so well that they never
question their teachings later?
Is stability more important than freedom?
Can alterations made by advanced science to
mankind be made permanent at the DNA-level?
Can mankind be conditioned by science?
Should the individual be limited/controlled for the
greater good? If so, how much?
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels
steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t.”
- Aldous Huxley
“Manmade utopia is an oxymoron.”
- Mike Duran
3-2-1 Exit Slip:
Write 3 things you learned
Write 2 things you found interesting
Write 1 question you have after
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