Brave New World Ch 5

Chapter 5
-Lenina and Henry fly over a crematorium
-take somas
-oblivious to the world around them
-remember contraceptives
-solidarity service
-pass around soma and while playing rousing hymns
-orgy porgy
-Bernard feels more isolated

Brave New World Ch 4

Chapter 4
-Go down go down (repetition)
-sexual description (simile)
-sexual encounter (extended metaphor)
-looking into distance ( extended metaphor)
-Rook? (rhetorical)
-benito hoover
-size is a universal ideal
-Bernard feels out of place
-gets made fun of for being different
-Helmholtz is similar to Bernard
-curious of other life besides what they're taught

Brave New World Ch 2&3

Chapter 2
-torture the babies to train them
-taught the babies not to like books or flowers
-flowers kept them from transport
-not supposed to like nature
-tried to teach kids in their sleep
-kids repeat what they heard in their sleep
-hypnopaedia to train the kids

Chapter 3
-children involve in erotic play
-Mustapha Mond: on of the top ten world controllers
-young girls take contraceptives
-no families or mothers
-everyone belongs to everyone else
-Lenina has been with Henry for four months
-this is frowned upon
-she needs to be with another man besides just one man
-Lenina has found another man to engage with Bernard Marx
-they don't get old

"This is Spinal Tap" vs Huxley

Both Hauxley and this video "commercial" guy take an original piece and add into their preamble that they took something special and really wanted to emphasize that the original piece made an imprint on them. 

They aren't changing anything about the piece, but in a way taking the time to comment their opinions on the work that they enjoyed so much. 

Just like Huxley did to a brave new world, he didn't change any sort of central theme, message and tone because changing the book would change the whole central message. There's a point and reason into keeping the imperfections just so we can see how different time can change our views/perspective on the readings. 

In the movie they had good examples of modernism, post modernism, and Romanism.

The rockers always dressed very low class and childish to represent their mom adolescent life and immaturity. 

Vocabulary List 6

Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.

Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).

Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved

or disproved; the main idea.

Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the         

author’s perceived point of view.

Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

Vernacular: everyday speech

Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

Zeitgeist: the feeling

Aldous Huxley

You told us to read an article on Aldous Huxley.... I googled his name and scrolled down quite far past the biographies and past the Wikipedia basic state of facts and I found this interesting website.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/books/review/what-would-aldous-huxley-make-of-the-way-we-consume-media-and-popular-culture.html?pagewanted=all


In this article published by Adam Kirsh and Jennifer Szalai they talk about how Aldous (even being born in 1894) predicted such an on-point prediction in how our society would be today.

In Adam's short blip he had said, "What has come true in “Brave New World,” to a much larger extent, is the liberation of sexuality. If you compare our generation to Huxley’s, there’s no doubt that we listen to more explicitly erotic music, wear more revealing clothing, form and break sexual attachments much more casually, and teach our children to be free from sexual shame — all things he predicted, queasily, in his novel. There may not yet be a musical instrument called a “sexophone,” but the Internet has done more to make sexual images, and sex itself, available than anything Huxley imagined."

Being a reader that has not yet read the novel and understood the true meaning and theme/moral throughout the story I cannot make an opinion on that observation, but just reading on Aldous' work I'm truly amazed and inspired I believe that to be 100% true. Sexuality has being such a HUGE role in our society today, most people very rarely acknowledge that. Just like Adam said, we listen to more explicit erotic music, wear more revealing clothes, form sexual relationships much more casually, watch and view images that are very risqué and teach our children proper etiquette based off our sexuality! Aldous Huxley seemed like an enormous inspiring man and I cannot wait to dive into his work reading his interpretations and opinion on an Utopian society.

Vocabulary list 5

Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.

Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.

Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.

Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.

Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.

Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

Vocabulary list 4

Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue.

Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.

Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.

Magic(al) Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday  with the marvelous or magical.

Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two different 

things imaginatively.

Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer

wants to take it.

Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work.

Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.

Metonymy:  literally “name changing” a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.

Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.

Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.

Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

Narrative:  a story or description of events.

Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.

Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.

Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its

meaning.

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.

Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo.

Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.