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.

Frankenstein Quote Analysis

"I could not sustain the horror of my situation; and when I percieved that the popular voice, and the countenances of the judges, had already condemned my unhappy victim, I rushed out of the court in agony. The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom, and would not forego their hold"

Here we can see clearly that the theme is the guilt.

The monster is talking about her fellings and also what he is thinking about the situation that is hapening, he is there only lurking and watching what the court is going to do with Justine because they found in their pocket a picture that William had in his pocket before he was killed in the hands of the monster, he is doing a reflection and he felt guilty as we see in "but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom".

Paragraph Analysis

Y9 LANGUAGE A: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SENTENCE VARIETY
Obj:
To identify LOOSE and PERIODIC sentences in context.
To apply type of sentence structure in context.

Task: read the following extracts from MWS’s FRANKENSTEIN novel, chapter 16. Get in pairs. Carefully and comprehensively read all three extracts. Choose ONE and identify LOOSE and periodic sentences.
Discuss with your partner your choices and justify your reasons.
ANSWER the following question:
How do these sentences build the intended effect of the extract?
EXTRACT 2

"I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed, and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them; but, allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the exquisite beauty of the Arabian, these thoughts vanished, and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again, when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger; and, unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects. As night advanced, I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage; and, after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.”
purple=periodic
red=loose
The periodic sentence that is predominating in this paragraph try to kept the author reading because the main clause is at the end of the sentence, a good combination between the loose and periodic let the author keep interesed in what he is reading.

Frankenstein Questionary

1) In Frankenstein you can find many different elements of a horror story. What strategies and devices does Mary Shelley use to make the story scary? Use examples from the story.

Well the devices that Mary Shelley use is the diction and imagery, she also use literary figures to demonstrate what I am saying I will use some examples:

-diction: I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings. (Here we think that the is

-imagery: While I watched the tempest so beautiful get terrific.

-personification: Dear mountains! My own beautiful lake! 

2) How does Mary Shelley go beyond the usual horror stories? Think of other horror stories and their plot.

In the history that Mary Shelley creates is not like a common horror history because in the usual horror history the antagonist is bad you can’t change that but in the Frankenstein history the situation make you thing about the monster and how he evolve in the book. Also in the usual horror histories the monster tries to make suffer the person that he is trying to attack but in Frankenstein the monster is not in knowledge of what he is doing.

3) Who is the actual monster in Frankenstein? Why?

For me the monster in the story is victor and also the monster because victor don not take care of the monster because he scares of what he creates and he leave him alone with no knowledge about the world, but the monster also killed members of victor family and that make him bad.

4) What were the motivations for Victor to create the creature? Use examples from the story.

The motivation that victor Frankenstein has been the electricity because one day was a big storm and a tree near his house fell down. He was studying philosophy in the university but he suddenly change to anatomy because he was interested of creating life with the power of the electricity.

5) What responsibilities did Victor, as the creator, have towards his creature?

The responsibilities that victor have towards the creature is that he have to take care of him, feed , give him home, and teaching him all about what he have to know to leave in peace with the humans.

6) Why did Victor abandon the creature?

Victor abandoned the creature because when he a create it he scares because is not what he expect that is going to be.

7) Why do you think Shelley had Robert Walton tell Victor’s stor? Was this technique employed by Shelley as an effective way to tell the story?

Mary Shelley use Robert to tell the story because in my opinion she is trying to add more like a first person way to see what is happening in the book and adding personal feelings, definitely is a good way to tell the story.

8) To what extent is Victor’s story believable to Robert Walton?

9) Compare and contrast Robert’s and Victor’s goals and interests.

10) In the novel, Victor warns Robert that acquiring knowledge can lead to misery and destruction. What serious consequences might the acquisition of knowledge have?

Well everything have the good and the bad side if you acquire knowledge it depends on how you use it but just put in the case that you are attempt to create a new medicine that will help the people that have an X problem but let’s imagine that in the attempt only one thing go wrong you could create a new virus or other sick.

11) One of the novel’s conflicts is that the characters were unable to recognize the humanity of the creature. What qualities make us human?

What make us humans is that we have the ability of reasoning if someone put a human in a X situation you can reflect  and take care of what is happening, also that we have feelings.

12) What qualities make the creature human?

What make the creature human is that he have feelings the ones that are show in the book are that he says that he hates the humans and also that he fell alone.

13) Some critics use the story of Frankenstein as an argument against scientific technology that creates life forms; others argue that it is not technology itself but the use to which it is put that presents and ethical issue. What is your position?

The position that I will defend in this situation is the number two because I think that victor use the medicine in a wrong way he was trying to be like a god and that is not possible at least you are sure that the results are going to be what you expect, that type of medicine could be also with a big benefit if we studied well.

       14) Is the novel popular nowadays? Why?

      The novel is still popular nowadays because in the novel the author combine many aspects as the gothic literature, the science fiction(this is the first novel that is of science fiction genre), also that the novel has the creating life theme that is a theme of actuality.

15) How might you apply the story to today’s society?

Well we can apply the part that victor is a scientist and he is trying to create life we can apply that in the actuality that the biologist create new cells and change it with the old ones so they turn  normal again.