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Digvijay Pandya, Lovely Professional University Unit 19: Aldous Huxley—Brave New World: Detailed Study of Text-II

Unit 19: Aldous Huxley—Brave New World: Notes

Detailed Study of Text-II

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
19.1 Detailed Study of Chapters 10–18
19.1.1 Chapters 10–12
19.1.2 Chapters 13–15

19.1.3 Chapters 16–18
19.2 Summary
19.3 Keywords
19.4 Review Questions

19.5 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Explain the detailed study of text of chapters 10-18 of Brave new world.
• Discuss summary and analysis of all chapters.

Introduction

The book Brave new world is a masterpiece of genius. There are uncivilized people living on
reservations and a women named Linda and her son John get to leave the reservation. Linda
is happy to be back in the civilized world. While John is having fun he is also very disgusted
about soma, because he found out that when his mother was still in the Brave New World she
had to take some. I can tell you why Linda and John are on the reservation—the director of
the conditioning centre got Linda pregnant and he left her there, because he didn’t want
anybody to find out what he did to poor Linda. And when Linda gave birth to John she didn’t
care about him at first, but she learned that John is her son and she has to take care of him.
As I was saying they go into the civilized world and John finds out that the brave new world
isn’t what he thought it was. After a while John finds out that his mother died while she was
on a soma vacation. It says in the book that soma is a drug that keeps everybody happy, but
John doesn’t like the way it is used and what effects it has on people. And I forgot to mention
that I saw the movie and it wasn’t very interesting as I thought it would be. But I thought that
the movie should have been ranked a three star ranking. As I was saying while Bernard and
his friend are waiting for John, John is at the hospital throwing soma out the window, because
he wants everybody to know what the world is like that there in at that point in time. The so
called utopia is actually a world that everybody has no freedom, everybody in the Brave New
World have to obey all of the laws and if there is anybody that is different they will get into
really big trouble. I have read the book and it is a lot longer than the movie so I suggest that
anybody that reads this should read the book The Brave New World.

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