| Term Paper Title |
Brave New World |
| # of Words |
535 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) |
2.14 |
Brave New World
Brave New World was an interesting futuristic novel using colorful imagery and shocking symbolism.
Based on a future life, Brave New World tells the story of people when they are not born anymore, but
produced in labs. The setting gives off an air of being very clean without violence. It is an odd setting for
the current reader, but for the characters in the book, the life now is odd.
There are major differences between children now and children in the book. Children in the book
mature faster, and are raised in what seem bizarre ways. Since children are not born to parents, they are
raised by Centres. They are taught rhymes, and drilled on them over and over. They are also taught by
electric shock when they are very young. This is done to help them with their future jobs; each type of
child (i.e. Alpha, Gamma, Epsilon,...) will do a different job when they are older.
There are still civilizations within the book that we have today. Outside the "Other Land" and
mentioned in the book is a reservation in New Mexico; which is the setting more like we know.
When a savage from this civilization is brought to the "Other Land" where his mother came from,
he is shocked. He came with ideas on life that were far outdated in his new surroundings, such as sex
before marriage. He believed that you had sex for love, and that concept was looked upon as "queer" by
the inhabitants of the "Other Land."
The few settings that are described are produced in your mind very vividly. Huxley...Read entire document
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