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факультета иностранной филологии
специальности (английский язык и литература)
Зинькова Наталья Александровна

BRAVE NEW WORLD

English writer and philosopher.
One of his famous novel is Brave

New World. This novel written in 1931.

Huxley said that Brave New World was inspired by the utopian novels of
H. G. Wells, including A Modern Utopia (1905) and Men Like Gods (1923).

languages, title is changed, sometimes to reflect their versions of

works:
French: The Best of All Worlds
German: Beautiful New World
Italian: The New World
Spanish: A Happy World
In Shakespeare’s time, “brave” meant “beautiful” or “good looking”

The title

Their goals are given to them.

best tool the government has for controlling its population. It

sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from realizing that there's actually something very, very wrong – the citizens of the World State are enslaved.

“You do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma.”

substitute the name of Henry Ford, the early twentieth-century industrialist

and founder of the Ford Motor Company, wherever people in our own world would say “Lord”. This demonstrates for technology—specifically the efficient, mechanized factory production of goods that Henry Ford pioneered that even at the level of casual conversation and habit, religion has been replaced by reverence.

632 years “After Ford,” meaning 632 years after the production

of the first Model T car.
 
Genre/ Characteristics: Dystopia
 
Significance of Opening Scene: The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Shows that people are made by machines.
 
Protagonists: Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John
  
List of main characters:
1.)Bernard Marx – an alpha male, takes John the savage to the new world, can be cruel
2.)Lenina Crowne - A vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery , blonde hair, becomes fond of John, in a relationship with Bernard.
3.)Mustapha Mond - The Resident World Controller of Western Europe, one of only ten World Controllers.