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Brave New World

Brave New World. Religion. Pg24 “For a long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!)”

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Brave New World

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  1. Brave New World Religion

  2. Pg24 “For a long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!)” Shows how our religion has been turned upside down to create the Ford religion. Christianity believes you shouldn’t have sex before marriage however the ford religion encourages people to be very promiscuous. • Pg26 “His fordship Mustapha Mond!” Replacing of Christian terms like his “lordship” for “fordship” • Pg49 “Does it start from the Charing-T Tower?” Replacement of Charing cross, a religious Christian symbol with Ford’s worshipped T symbol • Pg62 “As they flew over the Crematorium, the plane shot upwards on the column of hot air rising from the Chimneys, only to fall as suddenly when it passed into the descending chill beyond.” Shows a similarity between Christianity and the Ford religion as they both use Crematoriums. • Pg63 “tremulous chorus mounted towards a climax” Shows another similarity between Christianity and Ford as singing hymns is a part of both their religions. • Pg64 “the depressing stars had travelled quite some way across the heavens” Representational of religion as it talks about “heavens” the same as in the bible where it talks about God and going to heaven. • Pg65 “Big Henry” Replacement of Big Ben to “Big Henry” to show their worship towards Henry Ford. They see him as their “God”

  3. Pg65 “The great auditorium for Ford’s Day celebrations” Replacement of Christmas, a day for worshipping the birth of Christ, with a day to worship Ford. • Pg66 “Twelve of them ready to be made one, waiting to come together, to be fused, to lose their separate identities in a larger being.” Twelve of them is a reference to Jesus' twelve disciples. Shows how in Fords time people still think of religion very highly. • Pg65 “Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver.” • Pg65 “Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating Twelve-in-One! We long to die, for when we end, Our larger life has but begun.” • Pg66 “Feel how Greater Being comes! Rejoice and, in rejoicings, die! Melt in the music of the drums! For I am you and you are I.” Solidarity hymns sung by people at a Community sing. Show how they worship Ford like Christians worship god. They are not individuals, they are a collective working towards Ford’s utopian like society.

  4. Pg74 “Oh, for Ford sake,” Replacement of our blasphemy with one related to Ford religion • “Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release.” Their idea of religion is completely different from modern times. Everything that would be deemed immoral by us is completely normal to them. The idea of the Christian Ten Commandments has been turned on its head. • “He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began- more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety. Highlights a flaw in the Ford religion. It is only a good thing if you conform. However, if like Bernard, you don’t then you are isolated from society and shunned. • “’Don’t imagine,’ he said, ‘that I’d had any indecorous relation with the girl. Nothing emotional, nothing long-drawn. It was all perfectly healthy and normal’” Shows how our religious beliefs in marriage and monogamy are the opposite of Fords as they believe in being promiscuous • “I hear him; he’s coming! But it wasn’t true. He heard nothing and, for him, nobody was coming. Nobody – in spite of the mounting excitement.” Trying to call on the “Greater Being” at the solidarity service.

  5. “For a long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!)” Highlights change in religion between our society and Ford’s. Christians don’t believe in sex before marriage whereas Ford promotes promiscuity • “where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? And those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jerusalem and the Middle Kingdom – all were gone. Whisk- the place where Italy had been was empty. Whisk, the cathedrals; whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal. Whisk, Passion; whisk, Requiem, whisk, symphony; whisk...” Vital parts of our societies religious beliefs have all been abandoned and demolished to follow Ford. People in present time cherish these things so it is hard for the reader to understand how they have simply been forgotten about. • “There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller’s study. Bibles, poetry- Ford knew that.” Shows how people must conform and not really think. Cannot know about old religion, they are conditioned to think about their jobs etc. Appears that they can only share Ford’s beliefs and not be individual or different.

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