Analysis Of Aldous Huxley 's ' Brave New World '

Linda Lark was objectively one of the best characters in the book. Left to die by parents who didn’t want the “broken” child, she begins her life of abnormality. The love from the Wishkob’s literally reshaped her into a fully formed person and allowed her to grow up with an almost normal life, complete with sibling rivalries and knowing true parental love. Despite being taken away from and brought back to the Wishkob’s repeatedly, Linda knew who her family was. However, she always felt like there was something, someone else. This presence followed her all her life, unlabeled, until later when her birth mother reached out to her for a kidney that would save her twin’s life. Linda, in thinking the presence was her long-lost brother, felt a strong urge to help and

is that there are outsiders in today’s society. When one is made into an outsider, the bias

2005, In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Bernard Marx does not fit in the perfectly structured society. As an Alpha-Plus, he is tasked with the most important work, but he still feels like an outsider.

The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, shares moralities that encourage themes of brotherhood and heroism with literary elements - which includes setting, point of view, characterization, conflict, plot, and theme. Each element influences the big idea of flawed heroes and friendships to readers. With her powerful novel, Hinton is able to express the necessity of unity and brotherhood within a community, despite differences in classes, ages, or ideals.

“ Dr. Flint, a physician in the neighborhood, had married the sister of my mistress, and I was now the property of their little daughter” So after Linda’s mistress die, she goes to live with this new family. She relate, when she got to this new home as “ When we entered our new home we encountered cold looks, cold words, and cold treatment”, meaning, she could feel, that things are not going to be as they were before with her last mistress, and that she had nobody “I felt so desolate and alone”. When her father die, she didn't have the opportunity of say a proper goodbye to his body, instead she was ordered to go for flowers for her mistress’s house might be decorated for an evening party. “ I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them

What exactly is an outsider? Does it apply to an individual or does it apply to the world? Is the principle a positive or a negative concept? An outsider is an individual who does not “fit” into society or isolates themselves from the rest. “The Outsiders” is a novel written based on the author, S.E Hinton’s, high school years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book is mainly about the division between the greasers and the Soc. The Soc is higher class and rich, but the greasers are the opposite. The reason why she wrote this novel is that she found the social situation in her school purely ridiculous and she was upset by this. Usually, in these types of situations, the majority will choose a side between the greasers and the Soc because

An outsider is someone who is not accepted or is isolated from society. ‘Of Mice and Men’ is set in the 1930’s, where society considered many people as outsiders. During this period, many people were racist, sexist and prejudice towards disabled people. This is shown with several characters in the novel including Crooks, Curly’s wife and Candy who are all considered as outsiders in this novel, since they each had something that the society at that time were prejudice towards.

In the Brave New World, people who are different from the normal standard are alienated and isolated from society because of their individuality. The society of the Brave New World is structured and ordered – the government attempts to control everything. Alienation in the Brave New World can be categorized into three areas, appearance, intellect, and morals.

Linda, a beta born out of the tube and has gone through all her beta conditioning, has a hard time adjusting to a new lifestyle which she is forced to cope with due to society. Since everyone is conditioned to frown upon having viviparous offspring as something considerable to breaking a major law, Linda decides to live with the savages since she had an offspring by accident and Linda was too shamed upon returning to the World State. She had no way to prevent the birth of the baby stating that, ”…there wasn’t anything like an Abortion Centre here…”(113). When Linda was younger, she came to the savage reservation

Bernard Marx, one of the central characters who is an Alpha Plus but ashamed of his outlook. From his private thoughts, he has the desire to fight the system and become a popular person. His low self esteem makes him feel that he has the need to yell at the Epsilons to protect his dignity as an Alpha Plus. Even if Marx 's inner thoughts shows that he is a rebellious and indignant person, his actions show otherwise. Because of his unsatisfiable sexual desires and low self-esteem, he criticizes everyone. But the irony is that the ones he criticize are those he most desire to become. He loathes John for his barbaric characteristics. Yet, Marx has to use the "Savage" to maintain his popularity. Marx is trapped in a world which he tried so hard but failed to fit in. From his imagination, he fought his boss. But in reliality, he begged to not to be send to an island and blamed the fault to John and Watson. He critizes Lenina for taking soma. Yet, he

John tries to change the framework of this brave new world based upon his values, but all his attempts opposing stability can’t be accepted and finally lead him to his death. Linda’s death marks a transition point of John’s life. Through this trauma, John experiences these citizens’ indifference. He can’t understand their callousness toward a real human’s death. Linda was his real mother, and he loved her very much. This kind of close relationship did not exist in the brave new world. Therefore, John can’t adopt citizens’ attitudes, and the citizens view him as a person who will destroy the status quo. This event affects John’s feelings and forces him to take a stand against the brave new world. Preventing soma distribution is his chance to confront this “enemy”. He thinks, “Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful” (210). This reflection makes him consider a rebellion –

What is an outsider? An outsider is a person who is not excepted by or is isolated by society. Have you ever been an “outsider”? Everyone experiences a situation where they weren’t able to fit in. The feeling of not being able to fit it is universal. Not everyone is the same and in certain situations you may not be able to bond with everyone. Everyone is focused on being judged or being the person who is judging someone. If you are not like everyone in your society group, those people don’t except you. Nowadays our society feels that if you aren’t up to people’s expectations, you are known to be an “outsider”. Being an outsider is universal because not everyone is social, not everyone can afford nice things and not everyone is popular.

Later, Linda turns out to be a genuine person, very precious and willing to give, and, in spite of the cruel way in which the news were given to her. Linda becomes the one with the power of giving new life. At that point, she chooses instinctively not to repeat the actions of her birth mother. With the play of events Linda attempts to connect the presence she felt her entire life being Linden. “ I had never before thought of the presence in relation to my twin, who’d grown up not an hours drive away from me, but that night the combination of the phone call out of the blue and twelve-letter word in my puzzle set my thoughts flowing.” (Erdrich page 3)

Being an outsider is a position that an individual does not fit in with the rest of society. Areas of society are often called clique at which we feel like we must coordinate our actions to follow and pleases. Those actions leads to the anonymous question should the outside, those who do not follow the rest be embraced or rejected. Corresponding with the rights of our world, we are seen as equal, yet we do not always follow that. Outsiders should be rejected, providing them growth, individuality through independence and, crucial life skills.

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection - by her silence and her support, she unwittingly cooperates