Brave New World and Sir William Shakespeare

Part 1: John the Savage profile

John the Savage lived in the reservation in New Mexico and his parents were Linda and Thomas (Tomakin, that was the name that savages give to him) the DHC, he is barely a savage because he know how to write and read; also that bring him bad consequences, he is discriminated just like his mother Linda.

When Bernard Marx arrives to the reservation he established a conversation with John, and he felt that they were similar in many ways, Bernard decides to take it to the place he lives because he found that the name of his father was similar to the one of the DHC; also going to the place that John always wanted to visit because his mother told him great things about that place.

Part 2: Comparison between Brave New World and The Tempest

John the Savage                              Miranda

Helmotz Watson                             Prospero

Mustapha Mond                             Ariel

To begin with I will compare Miranda from The Tempe sans John the Savage from Brave New World; we can say that both of them kind of live away from the society Miranda lived in an island, because he was exiled with his father Prospero; and John lived in a savage reservation in New Mexico because his mother Linda was abandoned. John lived with his mother at the reservation and he doesn’t know anyone who was civilized, and rejected by the ones that he lived with; Miranda never have seeing a human being apart from Caliban (spirit) and his father.

To continue I will compare Prospero from The Tempest and Mustapha Mond from Brave New World. Prospero is the father of Miranda and the Duke of Milan, and Mustapha Mond is one of the ten world controllers; we can say that both of them were very important and powerful in their society. A point of contrast here is that Prospero lose all his power and importance because he was exiled and in that island only lived him and his daughter.

Finally I will compare Ariel from The Tempest and Helmotz Watson from Brave New World, both of them are secondary characters, but at the same time help to the development of the history. Ariel is one of the two spirits that Prospero live in the island with and he do all the task that Prospero ask to him, and Helmotz have a feeling of discontent with the World State and share this feeling with Bernard Marx.

Imagery of Brave New World

List of words:

Squat grey, cold, enormous, thin light, frozen, pale corpse-coloured rubber, polished tubes, pallid shape.

This description of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre give me a very cold impression of the society in those times. The society on those days obviously was not conscious of the emotional elements or care about the humans feelings, the images that come to my when I read the paragraph are very unemotional and creepy because of words like squat grey and cold, also I think about a laboratory but related with the elements that I talk before.

 To conclude the people on those times we could say that they only care about technological and scientific advances and don’t care about humans emotions or feelings. 

A Contextualised Biography

Aldous Leonard Huxley

    He was born in 26 of July of 1894 near Godalmin, Surrey, England. His parents were Leonard Huxley English school teacher and Julia Arnold, he had three brothers Julia Huxley a half-brother Andrew Huxley they both were outstanding biologists. Aldous third brother named Noel Trevelyan Huxley, who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression. He pulled himself harder because all his family was important and he also wanted to be recognized.

    What we could say about his educational background is that his mother was his teacher, because he was blind, he studied in a school named hillside after hillside Huxley was educated at Eton College, once his eyes recovered he was able to study English literature at Balliol College. 

    Crome Yellow(1921), Antic Hay(1921), Those Barren Leaves(1925), Point Counter Point(1928), Brave New World(1932), Eveless in Gaza(1936) After Many A Summer(1939), Time Must Have a Stop(1944), Ape and Essence(1948), The Genius and the Goddess(1955), Island(1962).

   The events that obviously influenced in Huxley life was the dead of two of his nearest familiars, his nearly blindness leaves him aside from the first world war, the event that obviously change his way of thinking was the early dead of Julia Arnold his mother, when he was only 14 years old.

    Huxley made a request (written) to his wife Laura saying ”LSD, 100g, intramuscular”, she injected him an injection at 11:45am and a second one a few hours letter; he dies aged 69, at 5:20pm on 22 of November of 1963. How Huxley died at the same day that John F. Kennedy. 

Comparing Ads

Ob. look for two ads one from the 60´s and the other from the XXI century.

We look for a cigars brand called lucky strike.

This is the  one that we chose from the 60´s, in the ad we can see a woman Amelia Earhart the first one that tried to do the first air travel around the world. The intended audience is woman that want to succeed in their life and nervous and stressed people that waited for amelia at the image shows "nothing else couldnt help them more to calm their nerves and anxiety than L.S. cigarettes", the stereotype that we can see is a heroic woman, the relation in ad/time that is crearly portrayed in the image is that in that time the cigarette was supossed to don't have health risk as the ad said "No throat irritation-no cough".

The intended audience of this one is any people that os over 18.To continue this is the ad from the actual times what we can say is that is more abstract than the other one, the most important difference between the two ads is that this one is against selling the product, how can i explain this, the goverment forces the companies to put in their ads or ciagerette boxes that they produce many diseases like cancer, so they are promoting it but at the same time they have to tell that what they are sealing is risky to the health.