Thesis Statements

Patterns (repetitions)

Analysis Notes and Observations: -The use of soma regularly, citizens of London take soma everyday to go on a holiday and to relieve all of their stress and bad feelings. -How mechanized everything is in the book, from the music to the food. -Technological advancements such as the "Bokanovsky Process", the helicopters, and the feelies. Sex is also emphasized in the book and how everyone is shared.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why does Huxley bring back the drug soma through out the book? -Why does Huxley depict the setting as highly sophisticated, mechanically. -With a large portion of the machines taking over what we would usually do today. - What is Huxley trying to tell us with the technological advancements in this book, how do they affect the people in the book.

Thesis Statement: -Through the extreme use of the drug soma and the advancements in technology, Huxley uses Brave New World as a warning of what our world might become. With this being said we see Huxley's negative out look on technological advancements in the future.

Word Choice

Analysis Notes and Observations: -When describing the story Huxley uses long words. -The dialogue is very short and concise. -Huxley also uses scientific words to describe most things. He talks about people and the social classes honestly. -A lot of describing words. -Repetition of words. -The citizens learn rhymes about soma and other things.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why does Huxley use short words to describe people and long words to describe the setting, and machines? -Why does Huxley not use a lot of literary techniques, besides imagery? -What is the purpose of adding in the rhymes taught through sleep learning?

Thesis Statement: -Huxley's contrasting word choice between dialogue and setting creates a detached sense of life for the technologically advanced citizens of London. -Proving the point that technology does not create community.

Structure

Analysis Notes and Observations: -The story goes chronologically from beginning to end. In the book there is one flashback in which we learn about the Savages life and his mother, Linda. -There are also not a lot of shifts in time and the pace of the book is pretty steady.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why does the author only have one flashback in the book about the Savage? -What is the point of putting the structure chronologically? -Why are there no big jumps in time in the story?

Thesis Statement: -Huxley structured Brave New World chronologically with a steady pace to show how monotonous each passing day is, showing that a society with many restrictions cannot grow or change.

Narrators

Analysis Notes and Observations: -The narration type in this book is third-person omniscient. -We know all of the characters thoughts. -The narrator also focuses on a few main characters (Bernard and the Savage). -We also see the views of Lenina, Helmholtz, and Mustapha Mond, but not in great detail.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why is the narrator all knowing? -Why does the narrator focus on Bernard and the Savage? -What is Huxley trying to prove by focusing just on Bernard and the Savage? -Why did Aldous Huxley incorporate the ideas of Lenina, Helmholtz, and Mustapha Mond in the story?

Thesis Statement: Aldous Huxley narrates the lives of two outcasts from different societies to show how universal acceptance is (in this case nonacceptance). This shows that the fundamentals of two completely different communities are still the same even though they may have grown in opposite directions.