Brave New World
Jessica, Victoria, Lisa
Structure
 Introduction
 Book
 Brief overview of Aldous Huxley
 Summary of the Plot
 First Chapter
 Caste – System
 Bokanovsky Process
 Persons
 Movie
 Director
 Scene
 Conclusion
 Dystopia or Utopia?
The Brave New World
 2049 a. Chr.  war for nine years with chemical and biological
weapons
 Propaganda against natural reproduction  artifical reproductive
technique
 Intention: Freedom and happy people
 In year 632 After Ford ( Henry Ford = God)
 Totalitarian system
 control
Aldous Huxley
 * 26 of July 1894 in Surrey (Great Britain)
 † 22 of November 1963 Los Angeles
 Famous author
 Degeneration of eyesight
Summary of the Plot
 Brave New World  „The World State“
 Cold, dead and sterile atmosphare
 No different countries
 „Community, Identity, Stability“
 Humans:
 conditioned to fit in the world state
 Social System
 Produced by „Bokanovsky Process“
 No own thoughts
 „Soma“  drug, produce a joyfull effect
First Chapter
 Guide tour through the „Central London Hatchery“ and „Conditioning
Centre“
 Director  leading a tour group of young students around a lab,
explains scientific process
 Creating people for particular castes in society
 Bokanovsky Process
 Feed the embryos with special substance
Caste – System
•Highest case
•Highest level of
intelligence and
attractiveness
Alphas
•Human intelligence,
but not like Alphas
Betas
• manual workers
Gammas
• No social function
• Workers
Deltas
• no human
intelligence
•workers
Epsilons
• Twins, dressed in
mandatory khaki
Bokanovsky Process
 Eggs „bud“  creates up to ninety – six embryos from each bud
 Grow into a human being
 One of the major instruments of social stability
 Epsilons and Deltas
 Solution of the whole life problem
Persons
 Lenina Crowne:
 She‘s a Beta, perfect citizin of the Brave New World, ambitous
 Red hair, very pretty
 Bernard Marx:
 Alpha, intelligent, physically smaller as „normal“ Alphas  more
or less no respect from the others
 Has his own thoughts  social problems, respect
 Melancholic
 Helmholtz Watson:
 Alpha, very good looking, high intelligence, „chill mood“
 Support Bernard and a good friend of John
Persons
 John:
 „the wild“ , son of the Director and Linda
 Outsider
 He was born in the reservation
 He loves Shakespear
 Linda:
 Johns Mother and a Beta
 Storm  got lost  Indians found her, while she was pregnant
 Desperate to return to the Brave New World
 Director:
 Father of John  scandalous in the Brave New World
Movie - Director
 Burt Brinckerhoff
 * 25th of October 1936 in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania
 Actor, director, producer
 Movie:
 Filmed in year 1980
 For the first time shown on NBC on 7th March 1980
 It was released to the public 1998
Scene
 the teacher shows a film about the past
 they have a perfect society now
 all the human thoughts are negative and repulsive
 End: they make a discussion about the complex sexuell
versions
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhCh-BX3GE
Utopia or Dystopia
What do you think…
?
Links
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(1998_film)
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley
 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/
 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ne_neue_Welt#Figuren
Pictures: Google  Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Book