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08/27/2014

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Full Title
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Brave New World
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Author
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Aldous Huxley
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Type of Work
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Novel
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Genre
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Dystopia
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Language
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English
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Time and Place Written
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1931, England
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Date of First Publication
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1932
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Publisher
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Chatto and Windus, London
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Narrator
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Third-person omniscient; the narrator frequently makes passages of “objective” description sound like the speech or thought patterns of a particular character, using a technique usually called “free indirect quotation.”
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Climax
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John incites a riot in the hospital in Chapter 15.
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Protagonists
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Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John
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Antagonist
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Mustapha Mond
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Settings (Time)
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2540 a.d.; referred to in the novel as 632 years “After Ford,” meaning 632 years after the production of the first Model T car.
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Settings (Place)
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England, Savage Reservation in New Mexico
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Point of View
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Narrated in the third person, primarily from the point of view of Bernard or John but also from the point of view of Lenina, Helmholtz Watson, and Mustapha Mond.
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Falling Action
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Chapter 18, in which John isolates himself in a lighthouse and punishes himself; it ends with an orgy and his suicide.
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Tense
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Past
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing does not play a significant role in the narrative.
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Tone
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Satirical, ironic, silly, tragic, juvenile, pedantic
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Themes
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The use of technology to control society, the incompatibility of happiness and truth, the dangers of an all-powerful state
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Motifs
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Alienation, sex, Shakespeare
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Symbols
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The drug soma is a symbol of the use of instant gratification to control the World State’s populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society.
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