Sunday, February 22, 2015

Brave New World Chapter 1, 2, 3

Chapter 1
- Restatement: winter= cold, snow
- Irony/Dichotomy: fertilizing room
- Symbolism: shield= defense against anarchy
- Personification: glare through the windows
- The director doesn't have a name because he isn't human, he's inhumane
- Similar to school as a designed setting
- Bad systems produce bad people
Silence is personified; submissive

Chapter 2
- Conditions students through abusing biology
- Strips away individuality
- Social stability and economic productivity within narrow constraints
- They serve the interests of the whole economy
- Distinct social classes

Chapter 3
- Soma kept their young physical and mental character
- No one could sit alone and think
- No one was allowed leisure from pleasure
- Emotions, family relationships, sexual repression, and delayed satisfaction of desire goes against stability

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