Literature Analysis

Sorry for the lateness on this literature analysis, but first better late than never, and second better turned in late and done well then turned in on time and done half-assed.

1. Exposition:
The beginning of the book starts with the author describing the factory to kids who are on a tour. The Directer is leading the tour and the readers soon realize that the Director is very stern and educated. In the factory humans are being breaded in order to create many at a time and many that are similar. The humans are conditioned and brainwashed to believe a certain way. They are taught by repetition that is played while they are sleeping. They find parents as something that is not normal and believe all of their species is the same and should fulfill their responsibilities. The humans are split up into species based on their strength, like Alpha, Beta, Delta, etc. Lenina, Bernard, Henry and the Director are all introduced and are the main characters until John is introduced. Lenina sleeps around with Bernard and Henry, but has this ongoing attraction to Bernard, who is not very liked or seems odd to most.
Rising Action:
Bernard is one of the men in the story who does not really fit in with his species. He was born different from the other people, which is the driving force to his upcoming opinions. While Bernard and Lenina are on a date, Bernard begins to tell Lenina that she should be different from everyone else and is implying that she should go against the conditioning. Everyone is taught to live the Director's way of life, but in this moment Bernard is taking his first step at going against that way of living. Lenina is freaked out by this and wants nothing to do with it. Bernard is called in to talk to the director, who tells him to stop acting like this, but then slips into a personal story about his past. This story encourages Bernard to travel to the area and find the lady that the Director had been sleeping with, but had somehow disappeared. Bernard takes Lenina to the place where he might find the lady.
Conflict:
When Bernard and Lenina arrive at this place they come across this lady who knows their lifestyle and had lived it once. This lady is very friendly with them and talks with them about it very openly and in front of the people from her "world." Bernard soon realizes that this lady has a child and the child is the Director's son. The Director's son is John, who goes to the Brave New World with Bernard. While in the Brave New World John fights this battle between keeping with his life and tradition or conforming to the Brave New World. Bernard has been vanished from the world for his treason against the Director's rules.
Climax:
The climax of the story happens when John, also known as the savage, attracts a major crowd at the cabin he is living in. He starts by whipping himself, then when Lenina comes to help settle him down,  he starts to whip Lenina. John, the savage, is doing this in front of the entire crowd of people, who are cheering him on and encouraging him to keep going. During the whipping, John is yelling Orgy, porgy over and over and over again. At this moment John has let the Brave New World take him over. He had made a fool of himself in front of all of the people and had given into the traditions of the Brave New World.
Falling Action/Resolution:
The people go in to find the savage the next day, but find that he had hung himself. He had done this because he could not live with himself for going to the "bad" side and for the embarrassing scene he had been apart of the night before. Although the Brave New World had taken over him, he chose that he would rather be dead than live in this type of world. For him, The Brave New World won by taking him over, but it also lost because he didn't allow himself to live that lifestyle. For Bernard The Brave NewWorld won in that he was unable to change the minds of the people, but he won in that he didn't have the live the lifestyle he found unfit for him and got to escape the conditioned people.
The narrative shows the purpose of the author because it shows how easy it is to conform when there is so much pressure around you. It shows that no matter how much you question your values and your beliefs, societies pressures can overtake you and change the person that you are. The author was showing that Bernard stood up for what he believed in and made a change, but the savage was unable to fight off the pressures and eventually gave in. The characters contrasted the different paths that could have been taken.
2. The theme of this novel is the loss of individualism through technology and societal pressures. Technology is not only taking over the lives of the people in this book, but is also something that is very dominate in our world today. The characters are run by technology because they start in a technological device that determines the destiny of their life. This idea also ties into the fact that our society cannot be perfect without losing our humanity and individuality. This whole story is about losing ones own sense of an individuality, in order to create an overall society that is run "successfully."
3. The tone of the novel is satirical, which is shown in this line, "Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." Page 7 In these sentences the author is making fun of this application and being sarcastic.
"A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels. Each of them carried a notebook, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately scribbled." Page 4 These lines show how the author creates a juvenile tone in which he warns upcoming generations of what they will face if they don't make a change.
The author also displays a pedantic tone because of his attention to detail in describing the Brave New World. This is very important because the detail plays an important role in the plot of the story. "Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction...to undergo Bokanovsky's process." Page 5-6
4. a) "Wintriness responded to wintriness." Page 3 This is an example of repetition.
b)  "The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber." Page 3 This is an example of a metaphor which compares the white the workers where to the color of a corpse.
c) "Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips." Page 4 This is an example of imagery because the author paints the picture in the reader's mind of what the Director looks like.
d) Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages.." Page 5 This is an example of personification, which is used very often throughout the story.
e) "As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity." Page 140 This is an example of symbolism because soma resembles a happy place and something to escape to when things get bad.
f) "Zip, and then zip; zip, and then zip; he was enchanted." Page 143 This is an example of onomatopoeia and contributes to the pedantic tone.
g) "My father! Pale, wide-eyed, the Director glared about him in an agony of bewildered humiliation." Page 152 This is an example of irony because when a father sees his child for the first time you would expect him to be happy, not embarrassed.
h) "'Which will finish her off in a month or two,' the doctor confided to Bernard." Page 154 This shows that the story was told in third person omniscient. The quotations show how the narrator knows the thoughts of others.
i) There is a common motif of sex. This is because parents are non existent, so the adults turn to sex as something that is just there, not for love or for a bond. The adults do things with no strings attached because that is what is expected of them.
j) "'...all wear green,' said a soft but very distant voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, 'and Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta Children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.'" Page 27 This is an example of repetition because it is repeated into the children's heads millions of times so that they will eventually believe what it is saying.

CHARACTERIZATION
1. "'He's so ugly!'" said Fanny." "'And then so small.' Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste." Page 46 This is an example of direct characterization and how everyone saw Bernard Marx.
"'Of course he does. Trust Henry Foster to be the perfect gentlemen-always correct...'" Page 42 This is an example of direct characterization on how society saw Henry Foster.
"'But I do,' he insisted. 'It makes me feel as though...' he hesitated, searching for words in which to express himself, 'as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?'" Page 90 This is an example of indirect characterization. It shows how Bernard is different than everyone else and wants to feel a sense of individuality.
"'Kill it, kill it, kill it...' The savage went on shouting. Then suddenly somebody started singing 'Orgy-porgy' and, in a moment, they had all caught up the refrain, and singing, had begun to dance." Page 258 This is an example of indirect characterization and shows how John or the savage gave into the Brave New World.
2. When the author is describing things he uses long and complex sentences and when the author is dealing with characters he uses dialogue. This is because the author uses fine detail so the sentences are full of many brief statements with particular details from the scene, but when the author is discussing a character he just wants the reader to understand the thoughts of the character.
"Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction-'the operation undergone..." Page 2 This sentence goes on for the rest of the page and on to the next page just describing all of the details of the scene.
"'My good boy!' The Director wheeled sharply round on him. 'Can't you see? Can't you see?' ..." Page 7 This is dialogue which shows what type of person the director is and gives insight into his character.
3. John and Bernard are both the protagonists of the story and they are both dynamic. Bernard starts of the story allowing the society and its pressure to control his life, but as the story develops he recognizes his desire for individuality and makes it become a reality. John also changes because in the beginning of the story he could not believe the lifestyle of the conditioned people and completely disagreed with it, but as the story moved on John gave into the pressures of society and conformed to the Brave New World. Both John and Bernard are round characters. Bernard is very complex as he is the odd one out from the beginning of his life and goes through this contemplation in his mind of whether he wishes to change himself or continue to be like everyone else. He is not the same as everyone else like all the other characters in this story, but rather one who decides to change himself. John is the same way he is very confused and in the beginning some of creativeness and individuality but later falls into the trap and becomes just another conditioned person.
4. I feel like I had read a character. It is really hard to feel like I've met a person when all of the characters are the same except a few and when it is hard to get connected to the book itself much less a character. It was difficult for me to get into the book because I didn't like what was happening in it and could only think about how to prevent that from ever happening to our society. Although John and Bernard were different and could have been potential characters that I would see as a person, it was still difficult because the main focus was still on conforming to the society and not being an individual. I felt no matter how hard the characters tried they would still never be truly individual because they were surrounded by so many conditioned people. "Drawn by fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet." Page 258 This line is how the whole book is written and it hard for me to connect with any of the characters when all I can think about it the conditioned ones.