The Mothers Suyuan Woo The central event in Suyuan’s life is the loss of her twin baby daughters. In a desperate attempt to save her babies from the Japanese troops advancing through China, Suyuan leaves them by the side of the road. Soon after, she meets her second husband, Canning […]
Read more Character List – Page 2About Hemingway’s Short Stories
The selection of stories in this volume is based on the stories found in high-school and college literature anthologies that ranked them as not only the best of Hemingway’s short story output but also as the ones taught most frequently in high-school and college American Literature courses, as well as […]
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Introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets A sonnet is a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the rhyme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg, with the final couplet used to summarize the previous 12 lines or present a surprise ending. The rhythmic pattern of the sonnets is […]
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It was not until the 1976 publication of Maxine Hong Kingston’s mystical memoir of her San Francisco childhood, The Woman Warrior, that Asian-American writers broke into mainstream American literature. Even so, ten more years had to pass until another Asian-American writer achieved fame and fortune. The Joy Luck Club, Amy […]
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1. Write a short sequel to Brave New World, exploring the life of Helmholtz and Bernard on the Falkland Islands. What kind of world do the banished men find? Is it truly free, or just another kind of conformity? Is one character more adaptable than the other? Create your sequel […]
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1. Although they were raised very differently, Bernard Marx and John the Savage are both dissatisfied with the society of the brave new world. What qualities do the characters have in common? How are they different? Compare their strengths and weaknesses. 2. In some ways, Linda and Lenina are the […]
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A.F. Huxley’s term, following all the dates in the modern era (“After Ford”). abjection a state of misery and degradation. agaves plants of the agave family, such as the century plant. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon the names of the castes of the dystopia. They are the first five letters […]
Read more Study Help Full Glossary for Brave New WorldCritical Essays Brave New World Revisited: Further Thoughts on the Future
Brave New World has been called a “novel of ideas,” because Huxley takes as his primary focus for the fiction the contrast and clash of different assumptions and theories rather than merely the conflict of personalities. In Brave New World Revisited, Huxley dispenses with the fictional construct altogether and lets […]
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In the first chapter, the D.H.C. proudly explains the biochemical technology that makes possible the production of virtually identical human beings and, in doing so, introduces Huxley’s theme of individuality under assault. Bokanovsky’s Process, which arrests normal human development while promoting the production of dozens of identical eggs, deliberately deprives […]
Read more Critical Essays Society and the Individual in Brave New WorldAldous Huxley Biography
At Aldous’ birth, the Huxley family and their relatives already commanded literary and philosophical attention in Victorian England. Huxley’s grandfather, biologist T. H. Huxley, gained recognition in the nineteenth century as the writer who introduced Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to a wide public and coined the word “agnostic.” The […]
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