10 things about the novel BRAVE NEW WORLD

 

10 things about the novel BRAVE NEW WORLD

     1.   The concept of family is abolished

Brave New World----no family is allowed

2.    A central theme is the importance of CONTROL

BRAVE NEW WORLD  Control through pleasure

3.    No interest in books and reading

BRAVE NEW WORLD  No one wants to read books anymore

4.    No real information

BRAVE NEW WORLD  No one has a real interest in what really happens in the world. Everyone is entrapped in his own self and basically he is passive

5.    No TRUTH

BRAVE NEW WORLD  truth will be drowned in a sea of meaningless and useless pieces of information

6.    No CULTURE or real ART

BRAVE NEW WORLD  trivial culture

7.    No real feelings

1984 no love, no real friendship, no solidarity

8.    Disruption of traditional language

BRAVE NEW WORLD  In Brave New World, language has been changed in many ways. 'Mother' is an obscene term. People are brainwashed with banal slogans like "I take a gramme and only am"

9.    Technological advance used against human beings

BRAVE NEW WORLD   mass producing babies, the feelies-movie theatre enhancing all your senses

10.    No individualism

BRAVE NEW WORLD   people wear the same colour as others in their class, they are born with a specific purpose to fulfil, they cannot move from one caste to another; the motto is community, identity, stability