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¡Week 4! Chapter 12-15

In this week I have to analyze the plot of the book, hence, the plot is a literary element who describes the main part of the story. According to Brave New World, I establish that its plot is not a single idea, but, a group of many sections or subtopics. The concept of utopia and dystopia:  These concepts are badly understood or badly executed, the World Controllers have a wrong idea of what is perfect and they didn't understand that is impossible to have a perfect society. There will be always some disagreement, in regards to ideologies or desitions. How people entertain themselves and make fun of what's different: I think the author by expressing this idea, implicitly, is making a critic of the society.                 The use of technology: Maybe Huxley wants to critic also the technology, as in the book these tools are the most important thing in the World State, they depend on the technology, the technology cont...

¡Week 3! Chapter 7-11

This is my fourth entry, in which I'm going to concentrate in a symbol of the book but first, I would like to talk about these curious chapters. John is portraited finally and is awesome that he is the son of the mysteriously disappeared girl that went with the director, Thomas, who is John's father but I think that Bernard passes a limit with his revenge because John has nothing to do with the problems between the director and Bernard. Also, we can see that John and Lenina get involved, not having sex, but they are mutually confused, John feels something but Lenina is like, unstable because I think she's beginning to feel something. Now, I would like to analyze the symbol of Ford and the symbol of the modified cross, that are related by their meaning. Ford is the deity of the book like we can appreciate in a quote on page 45  "We have the World State now. And Ford's Day celebrations, and Community Sings, and Solidarity Services."  (Huxley, 1932, pg 45)....

¡Week 2! Chapter 4-6

This is my third entry. I'm gonna talk about a character of the book that catches my attention but first, I want to share my comments about these 3 chapters. They are different than the last ones, now, we can see reasonable persons and two opposing forces in the book: the persons that have the privilege of using their intellectuality and the ones who are guided by the World Controllers and are under Soma effects. On the other hand, the first 3 chapters only described the world characteristics and average persons (also why and how they remove feelings, emotions, and possible personalities as well as their addiction of sex). Now, the characters that are more interesting in these chapters are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson. I want to talk about Bernard. In the firsts chapters, he is shown as a rational person (an alpha plus) but in these chapters, he expresses as a person who can fight against standardized society " 'Did you ever feel,' he asked, 'as though yo...