1 00:00:01,070 --> 00:00:04,549 Hello, today we are going to talk about Brave New World. 2 00:00:04,910 --> 00:00:07,250 We are going to cover the following points. 3 00:00:07,570 --> 00:00:11,869 Historical background, what may see Calistocan novel, and Huxley message. 4 00:00:13,189 --> 00:00:14,369 Historical background. 5 00:00:14,769 --> 00:00:18,010 We must have into account the period when this book was written, 6 00:00:18,469 --> 00:00:21,910 the influence of science in Huxley and how could this affect him. 7 00:00:22,429 --> 00:00:27,710 Other factors that could have influenced Huxley are political revolutions throughout Europe. 8 00:00:28,670 --> 00:00:30,609 First, let's have a look to history. 9 00:00:31,070 --> 00:00:35,009 We must have cleared that the book was written during a period of change. 10 00:00:35,009 --> 00:00:40,409 War disasters were still recent in people's minds and writers were not an exception. 11 00:00:40,409 --> 00:00:45,229 One thing that may have inspired Hartley when writing the novel is science and technological 12 00:00:45,229 --> 00:00:46,229 development. 13 00:00:46,229 --> 00:00:50,950 If you have read the novel, you will know that it is set on a distant future, precisely 14 00:00:50,950 --> 00:00:53,570 600 years in the future. 15 00:00:53,570 --> 00:00:58,609 Helicopters, which in the 1930s were considered maximum technology, Broganovsky process and 16 00:00:58,609 --> 00:01:04,069 body preservation, ultra-high buildings, all of them present in people's daily lives. 17 00:01:04,069 --> 00:01:09,370 Almost no one opposes development in present-day society, but we must understand why Huxley 18 00:01:09,370 --> 00:01:10,370 did it. 19 00:01:10,370 --> 00:01:14,670 During the First World War, a lot of scientific development was made, but it did no good at 20 00:01:14,670 --> 00:01:15,670 all. 21 00:01:15,670 --> 00:01:20,170 All those might have feared a future in which technological advantages were used against 22 00:01:20,170 --> 00:01:22,569 people's rights. 23 00:01:22,569 --> 00:01:25,409 We could relate this war with the Victorian one. 24 00:01:25,409 --> 00:01:31,730 We already know there are some obvious differences, as there is a Victorian code of values, but 25 00:01:31,730 --> 00:01:37,469 what makes them similar is the fact that those two societies have something in common, exploitation. 26 00:01:37,469 --> 00:01:42,489 In Brave New World, epsilons and deltas worked extremely hand for long periods of time. 27 00:01:42,489 --> 00:01:48,370 In Victorian era, the lower classes had the same role. 28 00:01:48,370 --> 00:01:53,129 It was because of the interaction of machinery why all this freedom cut was made, and Hasley 29 00:01:53,129 --> 00:01:56,349 knew it. 30 00:01:56,349 --> 00:02:02,790 Another influence factor could have been the different political intransitions such as 31 00:02:02,790 --> 00:02:10,349 the Russian Revolution, in which the power of the oligarchy was substituted by a communist 32 00:02:10,349 --> 00:02:16,069 and totalitarian government, or Mussolini becoming president of the Nationalist Socialist 33 00:02:16,069 --> 00:02:17,069 Party. 34 00:02:17,069 --> 00:02:22,949 Huxley's New World could have been influenced at least in terms of freedom by these new 35 00:02:22,949 --> 00:02:25,669 societies. 36 00:02:25,669 --> 00:02:31,469 The relationship between Mussolini, Hilder Franco and the world controllers is that they 37 00:02:31,469 --> 00:02:36,909 both control the society, they do all for the people but without them, and they didn't 38 00:02:36,909 --> 00:02:40,629 let them be free or express their opinion. 39 00:02:40,629 --> 00:02:47,289 The relationship between the high burguesy and alphas is that they are a very wealthy 40 00:02:47,289 --> 00:02:52,729 social class which can do many travels and luxury activities because they have been educated 41 00:02:52,729 --> 00:02:58,310 in a different way, so they are better prepared than the other social classes for doing more 42 00:02:58,310 --> 00:03:00,210 complex jobs. 43 00:03:00,210 --> 00:03:06,150 The relationship between the middle burguesy and the betas is that they are in the middle. 44 00:03:06,150 --> 00:03:14,250 They aren't as wealthy as the alphas, but they are better prepared than the epsilons. 45 00:03:14,250 --> 00:03:21,409 The relationship between the working class and the epsilons is that they both are in 46 00:03:21,409 --> 00:03:29,430 this social class because they were very ignorant because of the education methods and they 47 00:03:29,430 --> 00:03:33,550 are very manipulable persons. 48 00:03:33,550 --> 00:03:40,250 The relationship between the people against the system and the savages is that they are 49 00:03:40,250 --> 00:03:47,770 marginated by the society because of their different way of thinking. 50 00:03:47,770 --> 00:03:53,610 of dystopian novel. A dystopian novel is set in a distant future and shows the frustration 51 00:03:53,610 --> 00:04:00,289 of a character suffering because of a totalitarian government, technological development, etc. 52 00:04:00,289 --> 00:04:07,650 It is set in a dystopia, a society in which values, as we know, have disappeared. 53 00:04:07,650 --> 00:04:13,810 Why is it a dystopian novel? The characteristics that show this is a dystopian novel are the 54 00:04:13,810 --> 00:04:19,329 following. First, social control, lack of freedom, and so on. 55 00:04:19,329 --> 00:04:24,709 In Brave New World a perfect society is shown to us, however freedom isn't something important, 56 00:04:24,709 --> 00:04:28,529 furthermore it seems as something painful for stability. 57 00:04:28,529 --> 00:04:34,370 We can also consider Soma as a way to control society, and restricting freedom, as it obstructs 58 00:04:34,370 --> 00:04:38,040 rational thinking and pain. 59 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,079 Second, genetic engineering. 60 00:04:41,079 --> 00:04:45,779 In this novel human beings aren't created naturally, as we do today, but they are created 61 00:04:45,779 --> 00:04:51,160 artificially, by the Bokanowski process, something normal and very important because facilitates 62 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,160 social stability. 63 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:58,379 The cloning process is one of the tools that the state uses for his motto, Community, Identity 64 00:04:58,379 --> 00:05:00,259 and Stability. 65 00:05:00,259 --> 00:05:05,399 People are disgusted with natural imperfections, like wrinkles, because of body preservation 66 00:05:05,399 --> 00:05:08,399 and they have lost their naturalness. 67 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:10,160 3. 68 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,839 Social Classes and Inequality of Opportunities 69 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:18,779 In this society, human beings are divided for the beginning of its artificial creation 70 00:05:18,779 --> 00:05:24,899 process in different classes, alpha, beta and gamma, delta and epsilon. 71 00:05:24,899 --> 00:05:29,639 Each of these classes serves for a purpose in the society, and because of their artificial 72 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:35,759 selection and conditioning, they accept and even like their inescapable social destiny. 73 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:40,180 This creates inequality of opportunities. 74 00:05:40,180 --> 00:05:43,420 4 Literature, art and religion 75 00:05:43,420 --> 00:05:48,500 In the novel Brave New World, almost nobody knows about Christianity or any religion of 76 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:51,980 the past, thanks to the ten world controllers. 77 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:56,100 In a time where technological progress is very advanced, the problems are solved by 78 00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:03,180 some and sex, society is not afraid of dying, religion is unnecessary and makes no sense. 79 00:06:03,180 --> 00:06:08,379 All literature is out loud and people want new things. 80 00:06:08,379 --> 00:06:14,379 Hasley message. Hasley wanted to transmit the idea of evil and suffering dressed as happiness. 81 00:06:14,379 --> 00:06:24,379 Some things that Hasley touches are the following. Is benefit without loss, happiness without suffering, or pleasure without pain something good? 82 00:06:24,379 --> 00:06:35,019 One important critique is to pain as false happiness, in the way that in the book there is no big suffering and there is a lot of pleasure. 83 00:06:35,019 --> 00:06:40,019 and also if they felt some suffer, they take Soma. 84 00:06:40,019 --> 00:06:51,019 Finally, the biggest critic is made to the suppression of liberty because just from the beginning the little boys and girls are punished if they touch books or flowers. 85 00:06:51,019 --> 00:07:01,019 There is also a suppression of big writers as Shakespeare, because he is supposed to be old so people wouldn't understand him. 86 00:07:01,019 --> 00:07:12,019 The second big critic is for communism, because is in some way, communism suppress liberty in many ways, but in this book are suppress the nature and books. 87 00:07:12,019 --> 00:07:17,019 After this, consummation is also criticized. 88 00:07:17,019 --> 00:07:25,019 During this book, the DDT and Mustafa bond state that they were always making things supposedly new, 89 00:07:25,019 --> 00:07:30,019 because in truth, they were the same as their last invention, 90 00:07:30,019 --> 00:07:38,329 and is defended by Mustafa saying that if they made something new, people wouldn't understand it. 91 00:07:38,329 --> 00:07:43,490 Through this book, Huxley wanted to represent a much more deep theme than love, sex and 92 00:07:43,490 --> 00:07:49,089 banal things, but he treated to make a critique on consumerism, capitalism, communism and 93 00:07:49,089 --> 00:07:56,649 various dictatorships, and in bigger terms, in liberty and in pain as follows happiness. 94 00:07:56,649 --> 00:08:01,009 Starting with the capitalism, there are some capitalist ideas that state that people who 95 00:08:01,009 --> 00:08:06,569 are born in poverty should stay there for their lives and people who are born in a crucial 96 00:08:06,569 --> 00:08:12,170 situation is changed for their lives. In the book, nor epsilons nor alphas can change their 97 00:08:12,170 --> 00:08:15,680 situation in society. 98 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,959 We hope that you have enjoyed our work, especially our wonderful English teacher, Daniel. Thank 99 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:22,120 you for listening to us.