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Concetti Chiave

  • Brave New World is a novel of ideas where the message is prioritized over plot and characters, focusing on philosophical and dystopian themes.
  • The book serves as both a critique of contemporary society and a prophetic warning about the potential consequences of technological and social trends.
  • Huxley's characters are not fully developed, as the emphasis is on conveying the novel's overarching message, similar to the approach of Dickens.
  • In contrast to Orwell's 1984, Brave New World presents a dystopian society where individuals are controlled through propaganda and technology rather than overt violence.
  • The narrative style includes a third-person narrator with free indirect speech, using technical language and irony to convey complex ideas.

Indice

  1. Tipi di romanzo
  2. Scopo del romanzo
  3. Confronto tra BNW e 1984
  4. Narratore e stile

Tipi di romanzo

Kind of novel:

novel of ideas -> the message is superior to the plot and to the

characters

philosophical novel -> ideas are more important than the plot

science fiction novel

anti utopian/ dystopian novel -> it criticizes present society and it describes the worst possible society if the present conditions remain the same

prophetic book -> it anticipates some elements of future societies (human cloning, genetic manipulation, people’s conditioning through mass media)

Scopo del romanzo

Aim:

to criticize present society (technology; cold war)

to warn (as Orwell and Owen)
In common with dickens:

documentary realism

social issues (political, scientific)

message

Dickens’ characters are flat, there are no round characters because he didn’t go deeply in the problems to find the causes.

Huxley’s characters aren’t real round characters because the message he wanted to communicate is superior to the plot.

Confronto tra BNW e 1984

BNW Vs 1984 (by Orwell):

dystopian novel (realistic descriptions, details, criticism of society, message)

society vs individuals -> society dominates individuals and forces them to adhere the system through violence and conditioning. How? Through propaganda (slogans and mottos) and technology (electric shocks and telescreens and science)

hierarchical society

Bernard Marx vs Winston Smith -> both hero and anti-hero

Importance of memory to control the past and so the present and the future

Importance to identify an enemy to keep people together and to keep the power

Narratore e stile

Narrator and style: 3rd person narrator; free indirect speech; shifts the point of view according to the characters involved; bitter irony; difficult language due to the presence of technical words.

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