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Brave new world6/8/2023 When Bernard and Lenina bring the two back to London, John serves as the mouthpiece for the conflicts between the Reservation, which still abides by traditional values, and the technocracy of the World State. In typical totalitarian regimes, total control is used to create a society that benefits the privileged few. On the Reservation, they meet Linda, a former citizen of the World State who had stayed behind, and her son John, born through a “viviparous” procreation, a scandal in the World State. Brave New World flips traditional ideas of dystopia and totalitarianism on their heads. He is accompanied by Lenina Crowne, an attractive foetus technician. Bernard Marx, a petty and depressive psychiatrist who works for the Hatchery, is sent on a mission to the New Mexico Reservation, where “savages” live. It is a society that rests on consumerism and collectivism and has a rigid caste system. Fun Fact: Kurt Vonnegut admitted to ripping off the plot of Brave New World for Player Piano (1952), claiming that Brave New World’s plot “had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We.'"īrave New World follows a few characters as they live their lives in the seemingly utopian World State metropolis of London.Notable Adaptations: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Brave New World for SyFy.Main Characters: Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, John, Linda, DHC, Mustapha Mond.Themes: Utopia/dystopia technocracy individual vs.
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