Julia & Stephanie's Brave New World Presentation

1. Julia & Stephanie's Brave New World Presentation September 27, 2011

2. Theme: -We think that pretty much the whole concept of Brave New World is a warning to the world. Almost everything that can go wrong or be controlled and regulated is: food, clothing, sex. It's kind of as if Huxley is telling us what not to do. -The incompatibility of truth and happiness. All the residents of Huxley's world are perfectly happy, but also completely ignorant of the truth. The few people who do know the truth are miserable, in comparison to the ignorant people. 

3. Theme (Cont.) -The use of technology to control society. It isn't so much that it's controlled, but just created to be seamless and perfect. Things like the feelies, and orgy-porgies, and soma. All are used to give people a perfect life, so they don't have to actually do anything, just exist.                           -A Google search of "soma" revealed a muscle relaxant by none other than the name Soma. Coincidence? We think not.  http://www.drugs.com/soma.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000717/

4. http://subaru.7.je/keyword/brave%20new%20world%20movie This picture is the New World's motto. Community is the person's caste. Identity is their role is society. And Stability is the fact that the World State uses the individual's work and use of soma to insure that everything works the way they want it to.

5. http://brendanperring.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/a-brave-new-world-wide-web/http://brendanperring.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/a-brave-new-world-wide-web/ This picture kind of represents how everyone is controlled, even from a young age, in the New World. They are told what to do, how to do it, and even how and when they should have sex. They aren't really able to make their own choices and they are "taught" to accept this early on. 

6. Symbols: -Soma: Instant gratification. Eliminates emotions. Lets people escape from their 'bleak' reality. It could be compared to how  some people use alcohol now a days. Symbolizes the powerful influence of science and technology.  -Malthusian Belt: A belt the girls wear that is loaded with contraceptives. Symbolizes how controlled everyone is about everything, even sex. -Pneumatic: This word is used to describe not only Lenina, but also, disturbingly, a chair. It symbolizes how much human sexuality has been degraded in the book. 

7. Symbols (Cont.) -Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms: They give the children books and flowers to play with, and shock them when they go to take them. This teaches them to hate books and flowers. This symbolizes how controlled everything is.  -Hypnopaedia: they make the children sleep and play them a saying or lesson over and over again. Ex. It was teaching them the  order of thing (Alpha, Beta etc.) and why each one is important to society. Again this symbolizes how controlled everything is. 

8. http://www.gho-englisch.de/Courses/2009-2010/LkE-10/Utopia/BNW.htmhttp://www.gho-englisch.de/Courses/2009-2010/LkE-10/Utopia/BNW.htm This picture represents how people are born, or "decanted" in the book. 

9. https://park 204.wikispaces.com/Frannie~+Brace+New+World This picture represents how everyone is basically identical to each other. It even says in the book "One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress." (Huxley 3) Basically saying that it will create 96 "identical individuals", which is an oxy-moron, out of one bud. 

10. Work Cited Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932.