Brave New World Essay(Draft)

John, the Savage, is the character in the novel, Brave New World, which is alienated from society because of his values and beliefs. John believes in freedom and choice while, the society he lives in rejects values like these because the society has different moral values and assumptions for its citizens.

            The society in Brave New World has moral values that differ greatly from John which leads to his alienation. The moral values that society find imperative and essential to society are promiscuity, respect of the hierarchy, hatred of sexual reproduction, and happiness through soma. John is alienated from society because he believes that the society that now exists is not the society that his predecessors believed was correct and righteous. John also believes that people need to experience sadness and mourning to truly be happy and that soma doesn’t result in true happiness because it is a drug which causes the citizens of society to stay in subjugation. When, John is encountered by Lenina and she tells him that they should engage in sexual intercourse; he realizes that she is a whore which angers him because the love promised to him by Shakespeare was a lie, which frustrates him.

            The society’s assumptions in Brave New World are nowhere similar to John’s which leads to his alienation. The society’s assumptions of its citizens are it to follow the law, avoid reproduction, no relationships other than sexual ones, and to never question the class you belong to. John doesn’t agree with these assumptions which explain his constant criticism of the society’s culture. The Director is disgusted when he realizes he is John’s father which angers John because the Director leaves after he discovers this, leaving his mother in depression. John and the society’s assumptions of its citizens are most different in their view of how people should be governed.

            John believes in freedom and choice while, the society he lives in rejects values like these because the society has different moral values and assumptions for its citizens. John is pushed into alienation because he believes that the society in the book is inaccurate in their moral values which conflict with real-world values. John is also pushed into alienation because society’s assumptions of its citizens do not contain the best interest of its citizens but it contains the easiest way to control and subjugate its citizens. John, the Savage, is alienated from the rest of society from the beginning which is why when John dies at the end of the novel, the reader is not surprised when he commits suicide after having intercourse with Lenina and breaking one of his own laws.

              

Brave New World (9&10)
Simile- "Joy flared up like fire within him." p.142
Repetition- "The zippers on Lenina's spare pair of viscose velveteen shorts were at first a puzzle, then solved, a delight. Zip, and then zip; zip, and then zip; he was enchanted." p.143
Imagery- "Very slowly, with the hesitating gesture of one who reaches forward to stroke a shy and possibly rather dangerous bird, he put out his hand. It hung there trembling, within an inch of those limp fingers, on the verge of contact." p.144
Setting- "From the Social Predestination room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewing warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood." p.146

Brave New World (8)
Dialect- "Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all that sort of thing." p.130
Simile- "The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken." p.131
Repetition&Simile- "But now he had these words, these words like drums and singing and magic. These words and the strange, strange story out of which they were taken." p.132
Imagery- "All alone, outside the pueblo, on the bare plain of the mesa. The rock was like bleached bones in the moonlight. Down in the valley, the coyotes were howling at the moon." p.136

Brave New World (7)
Setting- "The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green-the river and its fields." p.107
Imagery- "On the prow of that stone ship int he centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais." p.107
Personification- "Suddenly it was as though the whole air had come alive and were pulsing, pulsing with the indefatigable movement of blood." p.108
Diction- "It was all oppressively queer, and the Indian smelt stronger and stronger. They emerged at last from the ravine into the full sunlight." p.108

March Lit Analysis Choice
For March I have decided to read Moby Dick because I have heard this book referenced a million times from movies and people and I want to know what all the hype is about. I also want to read this novel because it is an American classic and I feel it is a great read for my final literary analysis of high school.

Brave New World (6)
Repetition- "Odd, odd, odd, was Lenina's verdict on Bernard Marx. So odd, indeed, that in the course of the succeeding weeks she had wondered more than once whether she shouldn't change her mind about the New Mexico holiday." p.87
Imagery- "She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds." p.90
Syntax- "He began to talk a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous nonsense. Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible. "....to try the effect of arresting my impulses, " she heard him say. The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind." p.93

Lit Terms Applied
Today's literary terms test was very difficult because of the time restraint you had with every slide. It was very annoying because every time I would begin to spot a literary term the slide would change. I almost put my pen down and quit but, I gathered myself and concentrated at the task at hand and I did the best I could in the time allotted to me.

Brave New World (4&5)
Repetition-"Go down," it said, "go down. Floor Eighteen. Go down, go down. Floor Eighteen. Go down, go...." p.59
Simile- "The summer afternoon was drowsy with the hum of passing helicopters; and the deeper drone of the rocket-planes hastening, invisible, through the bright sky five or six miles overhead was like a caress on the soft air." p.59
Characterization- "The chubby red face of Benito Hoover was beaming down at him-beaming with manifest cordiality. Benito was notoriously good-natured." p.60
Analogy- "Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds lolled on the blue air above their heads." p.61
Setting- "An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight. Every two and a half minutes a bell and the screech of whistles announced the departure of one of the light monorail trains which carried the lower caste golfers back from their separate course to the metropolis." p.72