Huxley Interview Essay

The color black is actually quite the opposite of what it seems. By simply looking at it, one could easily point out that it is a color that is similar to all other colors. The truth is that black isn't a color at all; it's the absence of color that makes it visually look as if it is black. This principle, that what you think you're seeing is actually something else, can be used to apply Huxley's A Brave New World, to today's world.

Today's society is living in a mindset that is leading further into a Utopian society, although they think that they are not. For example, people would in general say that they are not being mind controlled. They are probably being negligent to the subconscious brain washing that occurs through commercials and advertisements. It affects your feelings towards the product, even if slightly and even if the person denies it. Media, technology, and science have all vastly grew and changed the way the world was. We think that were seeing the color black, but we actually are slightly dipping into what could be considered "A Brave New World."

Analysis-- Ch.2-3 of A Brave New World

Ch.2

• As the students are in their tour, the obvious future control is present through the "conditioning" of the citizens
• This program is an attempt to create a generation who is identical to the next, which is a form of control and order
• Human beings are being programmed to have certain qualities and to follow orders
• The importance of the individual is lost 
• Support leads directly to the World State, even off work hours

Ch.3

• The society and its sexuality is almost embraced
• Bernard seems to secretly not agree with the transformation sex has taken on
• Citizens are kept into check with criticism and a standard of how things should be and how they should work
• Adults and children are constantly monitored to detect that they are continuing to follow the conformation ideologies
• The system relies on supply and demand and keeps the focus between the citizens and the World State, which keeps them from disbanding or rebelling against the system and continuously thinking about their own life 

Literary Terms #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 persona.

Zeitgeist: The feeling of a particular era in history.

Vocab terms

exposition-beginning

expressionism-movement of expression
fable-animal story
fallacy-lie
falling action-wrapping up
farce-fake
figurative language-descriptive
flashback-back in time
foil-black and white
folk tale-local myth
foreshadowing-alluding to future
free verse-unstructured poetry
genre-category
gothic tale-dark tale
hyperbole-exaggeration
imagery-visual
implication-unsaid but known
incongruity-not the same
inference-knowing without being told
irony-very appropriate