The Director tells a story about how he went there twenty-five years earlier with a woman. Lenina has been dating Henry Foster for the past several months, but since long-term relationships are discouraged, she agrees to go with Bernard Marx to the Reservations.īernard goes to Tomakin, the Director, and gets the Director’s signature to enter the Reservations. Bernard has a crush on Lenina Crowne, another Alpha, and she informs the reader that he asked her to go with him to the Savage Reservations several weeks earlier. His coworkers dislike him and talk about him in derogatory tones. The reformers soon eradicated religion, monogamy, and most other individualistic traits, and they stabilized society with the introduction of the caste system and the use of soma.īernard Marx is introduced as a short, dark haired Alpha who is believed to have accidentally received a dose of alcohol as a fetus on the assembly line. Exhausted by their disastrous living conditions, people finally allowed the world reformers to seize control. After the so-called Nine Years' War, the world suffered through an economic crisis. War finally ensued, culminating in the use of anthrax bombs.
The first world reformers tried to change things, but the old governments ignored them.
This existence led to dirty homes with families where emotions got in the way of happiness and stability. Before the Utopian world order was established, he explains that people used to be parents and have children through live birth.
The World Controller of Western Europe, His Fordship Mustapha Mond appears and gives the students a lecture about the way things used to be. Hypnopaedia teaches babies and children while they are asleep by playing ethical phrases numerous times so that the phrases will become a subconscious part of each person. When the babies approach the books or the roses, alarms and sirens sound, and the babies receive a small electric shock, which frightens them so that when they confront the same items for a second time, they recoil in fear. In Neo-Pavlovian conditioning, babies enter a room filled with books and roses. After the babies are decanted from their bottles, they are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. The students view the various techniques for producing more babies and watch as the process segregates babies into various castes. An assembly line creates embryos using the latest advancements in science. Pre- and post-natal conditioning further ensures social stability.īrave New World opens with the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre giving a group of young students a tour of the facilities. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and members of every caste receive rations of the drug. Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class. World Controllers rule the world and ensure the stability of society through the creation of a five-tiered caste system. stands for the year of Ford, named for the great industrialist Henry Ford who refined mass production techniques for automobiles. 632, approximately seven centuries after the twentieth century. Setting (Compare and contrast the significance of the World State, Reservation, and outpost colonies, i.e. 5.ĥ Total (Scatter throughout the novel.) Mean Meanwhile the Director of the Hatchery, and assistant, Henry Foster, conduct a tour of the establishment. Segregation Era in the U.S Rise of Fascist ItalyĬharacteristics of the Genre (Dystopian/Ironic Lit.) Dystopia World, Detachment, Anti-Hero, Wasteland World, Alienation, Fear/Trembling, and Nothingness Plot Summary Brave New World takes place in futuristic London in the year, within the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre. However in 1932, he publishes his most notable novel Brave New World, continuing with a successful career as an author. In the decade of the 1920s, Aldous publishes the first of his novel Chrome Yellow (1921), followed by three others between the years of 19. Aldous earned his education by attending Eaton Preparatory School, Balliol College, and Oxford. Both placing an influence on Huxley, in terms of literary works especially religious and scientific. Historical Information about the period of publication Rise of Hitler Great Depression First concentration camp is openedīiographical Information about the Author Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England in 1894, as the third child of his father Leonard Huxley and mother, Julia Arnold. Title: Brave New World Author: Aldous Huxley Date of Publication: 1932_ Genre: _Dystopian/Ironic Lit. Brave New World Major Works Data Sheet (Choose a group of 4 people!)
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