Brave New World Book Report

Once (when he was bigger) he tried to kill poor Waihusiwa [or Popé]… just because [Linda] used to have them sometimes” (Huxley 105). Despite John’s aggression towards the men, he was truly enraged by his mother for being so unchaste. John demonstrates this near the end of the novel when he discovers his mother in is the hospital. In her dying unconscious moments Linda comes to for a moment, but to John’s disappointment she says, “Popé! … Oh, I do so like it, I do…” (Huxley 179). In a desperate attempt to regain her attention John screams “But, Linda! Don’t you know me? ... Don’t you know me Linda?” (Huxley 179-180). To which she replied, “Popé!” (Huxley 180). John was infuriated that his mother, in her dying moments, saw Popé as her comforter—not her son. This reveals that John truly is alien among both of the societies. His mother has more compassion for another man, leaving John to feel alone.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley shows how scientific advances could and have destroyed human values. Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, and most of the technologies he examines in the book have, to some extent, turned into realities. He expresses the concern that society has been neglecting human-being distinction in the progression of worshipping technology. In the story there are no mothers or fathers and people are produced on a meeting line where they are classified before birth. They also use a drug called, soma, to control themselves which illustrate the lack of personal freedom. Everyone in the state world do whatever they were taught since they were growing. For example, one of the tasks they give people is sexuality which is

“In one of the articles, John is a perfect example of a commanding mate, a husband who holds absolute power over his wife. He treats her as an minor, as seen here: “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” John sees his wife’s feelings as laughable, never taking them seriously until it is too late. It is also clear from this statement that John laughs at his wife because it is what is expected by the community. Later, when Jane is qualified to control her own thoughts, his role as a strong, higher ranked husband and leader is switched, and he becomes much like a woman himself: “Now why should that man have fainted?” Having seen his wife in a state of dementia (symbolically, shattering the power he has over her), he faints, much like a woman would be expected to. Due to acceptance of her insanity, Jane has changed the traditional roles of husband

1. The thesis of this essay in the author's words is "Travel is how we put a voice to the Other and step a little beyond our second hand images of the alien." In other words, the author is trying to tell us that travelling is necessary in order for us to not hold prejudices and experience the lifestyle of other cultures.

Mustapha Mond responds to John Savage’s protest, saying that John has a point, but that in this society, happiness is the greater good and great literature can only come from unhappiness.

|(you’re supposed to sleep with a bunch of people) and takes soma (stimulants (uppers)) and gets high. Also, no one has a mother or father because they were created from test |

When John was led back into life in the futuristic society, he was mocked and treat as a strange attraction. He was at the awful end of a sick joke - people came from all over to understand this simple “savage” who has spent his life in curiously primitive manners. John was so poorly received, he went as far as wanting to commit

When Bernard visited a “Savage Reservation” in Mexico he met an unlikely person of interest, Linda. Linda was a British women who had been injured and taken care of by the “Savages”, she had a child named John, who was the son of the director of the hatchery in London. In Linda’s current state she was ugly and broken, but she dreamed for the day of returning to London, to be away from the “Savages”. Her son John also, wished to venture to this “Brave New World” because he was an outcast in the village he grew up in since his mother was an outsider. And so, the beginning of Bernard’s transformation began.

When John is first introduced as a character he is excited to visit the world state and become civilized. When Bernard invites John to go to the world state with him and Lenina he is excited

John is an antagonist of the story. He feels he is doing his wife good; by locking her away in this mansion. However, the reader soon realizes, this treatment is only worsening her mental state. He is never home with her; he always has patients to see in town, leaving her locked in this house; alone with her thoughts. He ensures that she gets rest and fresh air to get well. To him, it may seem as though he is doing his wife good; by locking her away in this mansion. However, this seclusion she experiences causes serious damage to her mental state. Her husband has control over her that women

The reader will start to fear for John’s safety mostly because they don’t know what will exactly happen to him. The uncertainty of John’s fate created an even more suspenseful outcome. By making John’s future unclear, the author was able to plant thoughts of unsureness and anxiety within the reader’s mind. Another internal event is when Alejandra went to visit John in the barn to talk about what Duena Alfonsa had said to him. After John Grady explained that he’s not allowed to be seen with her, Alejandra expresses the unfairness of her great-aunt’s order. At this moment, John starts to believe that he sees sorrow within Alejandra and starts to feel bad for her. He begins to feel concern for her and eventually agrees to disobey Duena Alfonsa and spend time with Alejandra. Right after John agreed to do whatever Duena Alfonsa asked him to do he breaks his promise once he sees Alejandra. His inner thoughts had an affect on his consciousness and changed his views on spending time with Alejandra. Due to John’s sympathy towards Alejandra’s apparent sadness, he makes the decision to go out with

Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's

Aldous Huxley wisely inserts many instances of distortion to the elements in Brave New World to successfully caution the world about its growing interest in technology.

Chapter 5 is about consciousness of the inhabitants of this Party-dominated world both by having them speak and by showing their subtle reactions or acceptances to the situation. One of the examples of this is Syme's explanation of Newspeak, which is supposed to be in use by 2050, when all Oldspeak should be phased out. The theme of destruction as control is shown when Syme speaks of the elimination of words. Syme anticipates the day when the Revolution will be complete and when Oldspeak will be completely phased out and unintelligible. Winston points out that the "proles" will be able to understand Oldspeak, but Syme says that "The proles are not human beings," showing a similar pyramid scheme to the one in Brave New World.

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 dating each other too much and are discouraged by the state. So Lenina’s best friend, Fanny, picks on her because of this. Lenina then meets Bernard Marx, and grows to like him so much that she agrees to go on a vacation with him to a New Mexican