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Brave New World: A Dystopian Novel
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Hello, today we are going to talk about Brave New World.
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We are going to cover the following points.
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Historical background, what may see Calistocan novel, and Huxley message.
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Historical background.
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We must have into account the period when this book was written,
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the influence of science in Huxley and how could this affect him.
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Other factors that could have influenced Huxley are political revolutions throughout Europe.
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First, let's have a look to history.
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We must have cleared that the book was written during a period of change.
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War disasters were still recent in people's minds and writers were not an exception.
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One thing that may have inspired Hartley when writing the novel is science and technological
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development.
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If you have read the novel, you will know that it is set on a distant future, precisely
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600 years in the future.
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Helicopters, which in the 1930s were considered maximum technology, Broganovsky process and
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body preservation, ultra-high buildings, all of them present in people's daily lives.
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Almost no one opposes development in present-day society, but we must understand why Huxley
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did it.
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During the First World War, a lot of scientific development was made, but it did no good at
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all.
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All those might have feared a future in which technological advantages were used against
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people's rights.
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We could relate this war with the Victorian one.
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We already know there are some obvious differences, as there is a Victorian code of values, but
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what makes them similar is the fact that those two societies have something in common, exploitation.
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In Brave New World, epsilons and deltas worked extremely hand for long periods of time.
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In Victorian era, the lower classes had the same role.
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It was because of the interaction of machinery why all this freedom cut was made, and Hasley
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knew it.
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Another influence factor could have been the different political intransitions such as
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the Russian Revolution, in which the power of the oligarchy was substituted by a communist
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and totalitarian government, or Mussolini becoming president of the Nationalist Socialist
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Party.
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Huxley's New World could have been influenced at least in terms of freedom by these new
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societies.
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The relationship between Mussolini, Hilder Franco and the world controllers is that they
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both control the society, they do all for the people but without them, and they didn't
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let them be free or express their opinion.
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The relationship between the high burguesy and alphas is that they are a very wealthy
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social class which can do many travels and luxury activities because they have been educated
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in a different way, so they are better prepared than the other social classes for doing more
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complex jobs.
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The relationship between the middle burguesy and the betas is that they are in the middle.
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They aren't as wealthy as the alphas, but they are better prepared than the epsilons.
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The relationship between the working class and the epsilons is that they both are in
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this social class because they were very ignorant because of the education methods and they
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are very manipulable persons.
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The relationship between the people against the system and the savages is that they are
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marginated by the society because of their different way of thinking.
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of dystopian novel. A dystopian novel is set in a distant future and shows the frustration
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of a character suffering because of a totalitarian government, technological development, etc.
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It is set in a dystopia, a society in which values, as we know, have disappeared.
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Why is it a dystopian novel? The characteristics that show this is a dystopian novel are the
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following. First, social control, lack of freedom, and so on.
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In Brave New World a perfect society is shown to us, however freedom isn't something important,
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furthermore it seems as something painful for stability.
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We can also consider Soma as a way to control society, and restricting freedom, as it obstructs
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rational thinking and pain.
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Second, genetic engineering.
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In this novel human beings aren't created naturally, as we do today, but they are created
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artificially, by the Bokanowski process, something normal and very important because facilitates
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social stability.
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The cloning process is one of the tools that the state uses for his motto, Community, Identity
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and Stability.
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People are disgusted with natural imperfections, like wrinkles, because of body preservation
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and they have lost their naturalness.
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3.
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Social Classes and Inequality of Opportunities
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In this society, human beings are divided for the beginning of its artificial creation
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process in different classes, alpha, beta and gamma, delta and epsilon.
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Each of these classes serves for a purpose in the society, and because of their artificial
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selection and conditioning, they accept and even like their inescapable social destiny.
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This creates inequality of opportunities.
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4 Literature, art and religion
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In the novel Brave New World, almost nobody knows about Christianity or any religion of
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the past, thanks to the ten world controllers.
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In a time where technological progress is very advanced, the problems are solved by
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some and sex, society is not afraid of dying, religion is unnecessary and makes no sense.
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All literature is out loud and people want new things.
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Hasley message. Hasley wanted to transmit the idea of evil and suffering dressed as happiness.
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Some things that Hasley touches are the following. Is benefit without loss, happiness without suffering, or pleasure without pain something good?
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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.
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and also if they felt some suffer, they take Soma.
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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.
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There is also a suppression of big writers as Shakespeare, because he is supposed to be old so people wouldn't understand him.
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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.
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After this, consummation is also criticized.
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During this book, the DDT and Mustafa bond state that they were always making things supposedly new,
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because in truth, they were the same as their last invention,
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and is defended by Mustafa saying that if they made something new, people wouldn't understand it.
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Through this book, Huxley wanted to represent a much more deep theme than love, sex and
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banal things, but he treated to make a critique on consumerism, capitalism, communism and
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various dictatorships, and in bigger terms, in liberty and in pain as follows happiness.
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Starting with the capitalism, there are some capitalist ideas that state that people who
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are born in poverty should stay there for their lives and people who are born in a crucial
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situation is changed for their lives. In the book, nor epsilons nor alphas can change their
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situation in society.
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We hope that you have enjoyed our work, especially our wonderful English teacher, Daniel. Thank
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you for listening to us.
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- Subido por:
- Alejandro S.
- Moderado por el profesor:
- Daniel Canalejas Nieto (daniel.canalejasnieto)
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial
- Visualizaciones:
- 11
- Fecha:
- 8 de marzo de 2017 - 13:53
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- IES CERVANTES
- Duración:
- 09′
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
- Resolución:
- 1920x1080 píxeles
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- 125.63 MBytes