BRAVE NEW WORLD NOVEL (SYMBOLISM)

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Group 1

•Huma

Hafeez

•Huma Aslam

•Kinza

Ghafoor

•Sumaira

Bibi

International Islamic university , Islamabad

Aldous

Huxley

Portrayal of Utopian world set in the future …

Title of novel

Title has its own significance

It is taken from a line in

William Shakespeare’s play

The Tempest

“ how beauteous mankind is! Oh

brave new world that has such

people in it!”

The title is also used to symbolize imagined

worlds that might be desirable but are also

perhaps unrealistic…..

Symbols in brave new world

•Latin word

•Means sleep

•Symbolizes escape “harsh facts of reality”

•Symbolizes “powerful influence of

science and technology”

•Represents religion in a kind

of “sacram

ent”.

•Use of tablet ….

Henry T. Ford symbolizes

SYMBOLIZES GOD OR

CHRIST ...

PUMP OUT PEOPLE

CONDITIONED TO FIT

SPECIFIC JOB AND

CASTE !

CASTE SYSTEM

• TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS RESULTS

This society is named by Neil Postman

as a “Technopoly”

Supremacy of science and

technology !

TECHNOLOGY AS

REPLACEMENT OF FAMILY AND

LOVE ……… FOCUSES AROUND INDUSTRY ,ECONO

MY AND TECHNOLOGIC GROWTH ……

Pneumatic symbolizes

•Lenina’s body

structure

•Sexual

attractiveness

•Pleasure and

materialism

•Physical

characteristics of a

woman

Represents

the

continuation

of human

generation

•Lenina intends to seduce John• Conflict between John’s desire for love Lenina’s desire for sex illustrates….

Shakespeare’s plays

EMOTIONS

LOVE

FEELINGS

PASSION

CIVILIZED

UNCIVILIZED

Music has a

momentous effect in

the novel as it

works

as a rhythmic driv

e

which motiv

ates the

individuals to get

indulged in sensual

pleasure which starts

with a rit

ual of “

Orgy

-

Porgy

“Orgy’ refers to a wild

party characterized by

excessive drinking and

indiscriminate sexual

activity…..

Orgy-porgy…’ In their blood-coloured and foetal darkness the dancers

continued for a while to circulate, to

beat and beat out the indefatigable rhythm. 'Orgy-porgy…”

Zippers symbolizes

•Easy access for in

stant

Gratificatio

n of sensual

pleasure like butto

ns on clothes

…..

•Helps saving time !

Helps the awkwardness o

f

sex with the repetitive,

rhythmic almost musical

sound of the zippers …

Animal imagery

Symbolizes the degeneration of

humanity

“The curiosity of animals” John suicide …..is to

establish his identity as HUMAN BEING……

Separation between the

Civilized and Uncivilized world…

Symbolizes

A world of people subservient to their every desire and impulse……

Weathe

r Uncontrollable

Bottle

symboliz

es CONDITIONIN

G

AND SOCIAL

PRE-

DESTINATIO

N!!

ARTIFICIA

LLY

BORN HUMAN…

..

HATCHED IN

BOTTLE

S BY T

HE

BoKANoVSKY

PROCESS

ANY QUESTIONS …

.

U R WELC

OME TO ASK !!!

BYE BYEE !!!!!