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Burgmann, Mark J. "Fearing an inhuman(e) future the unliterary or illiterate dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3612.
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Illerhag, Erik. "Life or Death: Biopower and Racism in Huxley´s Brave New World." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26762.
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Aldous Huxley´s Brave New World describes how a totalitarian power has taken control over both body and mind of the whole population. A hierarchical caste system, where a person´s role in society is predetermined long before birth, maintains stability together with brain-washing methods and propaganda. Huxley expressed his fears of what might happen if science was used for the wrong purposes, and wrote his futuristic novel Brave New World in the beginning of the 1930s, inspired by the turbulent world around him. It was a time preoccupied with race and classification of populations, which ended in the disastrous Holocaust. Huxley´s novel is equally important today when eugenics is on the comeback and democracy is challenged by nationalist and populist movements. This essay will consist of a close reading of Brave New World, analyzed from the perspective of the theories of French philosopher Foucault. He launched his concept of biopower in the 1970s, where he linked a negative use of controlling citizens with state racism. The focus of this essay will be to explore how biopower and racism are used by the totalitarian state in the novel to maintain control of the population. The argument will be made that racism, internal division and exclusion are vital tools to achieve that purpose.
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Fredriksson, Erik. "The Human Animal : An Ecocritical View of Animal Imagery in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23625.
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The early twentieth century saw the beginning of modern environmentalism. Intellectuals dreamed up solutions to the world’s problems and hoped for a better future being made possible by advances in science and technology. However, Aldous Huxley produced Brave New World which, as this essay argues, mocks the enthusiasm of his intellectual peers. The dystopian novel depicts a future in which technology dehumanizes the population, and uses a great deal of animal imagery to make this point. This essay analyses the use of animal imagery from an ecocritical perspective arguing that the “pathetic fallacy” is reversed. By examining the use of biotechnology and central planning in the novel, and applying the ecocritical perspective that humanity and nature are part of a whole, this essay argues that society resembles a farm for human animals, which is partly expressed by Huxley’s use of the image of a bee colony. The argument is presented that Huxley satirizes his environmentally concerned peers by depicting a totalitarian state which, though unconcerned with environmental issues, echoes the eco-fascist methods proposed by the author’s friends and family.
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Chizmar, Paul Christopher. "Miranda's Dream Perverted: Dehumanization in Huxley's Brave New World." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1335827209.
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Franzén, Martin. "Deconstructing Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World’s Ambiguous Portrayal of the future." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70827.
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This research presents a deconstructive analysis of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World. As a literary work, it is most commonly considered a dystopian visualisation of the future of modern civilisation. This essay reveals a more ambiguous reading of Brave New World by deconstructing and presenting the aspects of the novel which pertain to the classification of the novel as both dystopian and utopian simultaneously. This conclusion of ambiguity is presented to negate any notion that the novel can be classified as a definitive representation of either a utopian or a dystopian portrayal of the future.
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Dündar, Hayri. "Dystopia as a vital peek into the future : The importance of dispatching antiquated morals and establishing new ethics." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14737.
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This essay analyzes and tries to untangle the meaning and intention of dystopian literature, by analyzing two novels (Neal Shusterman‟s “Unwind” and Aldous Huxley‟s “Brave New World”). From this analysis, whether or not the futures portrayed in dystopian literature relate to our own future is riddled out, furthermore the importance of the authors‟ intention is debated and a conclusion is reached. As the dystopian future unravels, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation, to mention a few factors, find their own place in the new world; this essay tries to establish their roles in the new society. When discussing the characters in the novels, Bourdieu‟s theories on fields, habitus and social capital are used to figure out what they are competing for and in what ways they struggle for the reward. Furthermore, the development of dystopian imagining is discussed and its function as a reflection of contemporary society and the state of science. Delineating the roles of social classes in dystopias is an important task in figuring out whether social power still reduces minorities depending on class or gender. Our antiquated morals and ethics aren‟t suitable anymore and need to be reformed; this is discussed based on dystopian literature and the image of the future. Furthermore, this essay gets into detail with the reduction of man and by what means we are enslaved and made to believe in the faux utopias. In the end, the conclusion reached is that dystopian literature delivers a hefty and important point that needs to be heeded and used as a rare look into the future.
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Rebelo, Maria Raquel de Gouveia Durão Pina. "Entre a civilização e a selvajaria : os estereótipos do nativo americano e o selvagem de Brave New World de Aldous Huxley." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/14514.
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A presente dissertação apresenta, num primeiro momento, um estudo dos estereótipos do Ameríndio - nomeadamente o Bom-Selvagem e o canibal feroz e amoral -, formados pela mente branca europeia e americana numa atitude de contraponto entre culturas. Este estudo, baseado em textos representativos de várias épocas, serve de base à deconstrucção satírica que aldous Huxley faz desses estereótipos e à subversão das categorias discursivas oposicionais nas quais eles assentam e que levaram à distinção entre a selvajaria e um mundo dito civilizado. Através da personagem John, the Savage na obra em estudo, o autor irá relativizar os conceitos de primitivismo e progressivismo, bem como as idealizações e posições extremistas quanto à américa e seus nativos.
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Rebelo, Maria Raquel de Gouveia Durão Pina. "Entre a civilização e a selvajaria : os estereótipos do nativo americano e o selvagem de Brave New World de Aldous Huxley." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000101358.
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A presente dissertação apresenta, num primeiro momento, um estudo dos estereótipos do Ameríndio - nomeadamente o Bom-Selvagem e o canibal feroz e amoral -, formados pela mente branca europeia e americana numa atitude de contraponto entre culturas. Este estudo, baseado em textos representativos de várias épocas, serve de base à deconstrucção satírica que aldous Huxley faz desses estereótipos e à subversão das categorias discursivas oposicionais nas quais eles assentam e que levaram à distinção entre a selvajaria e um mundo dito civilizado. Através da personagem John, the Savage na obra em estudo, o autor irá relativizar os conceitos de primitivismo e progressivismo, bem como as idealizações e posições extremistas quanto à américa e seus nativos.
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Kringstad, Johan. "From Alphas to Epsilons : A study of eugenics and social caste in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World from a biographicalperspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-62645.
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AbstractThis essay discusses the concepts of eugenics and social caste in Brave New Worldin relation to Aldous Huxley, from a biographical perspective. The essay analyzes how events and personal relationships of Aldous Huxley have influenced the depiction of the concepts social caste and eugenics in his novel Brave New World. Using sources which recount the travels and the personal encounters that Aldous Huxley made throughout his life, this essay makes comparisons and draws conclusions as to how these eventsand relationshipshave affected the depiction of social caste and eugenics in Brave New World
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Casagrande, Eduardo Vignatti. ""Each one of us goes through life inside a bottle" : a reading of Brave new world in the light of Zygmunt Bauman's theory." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141236.
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Esta dissertação propõe uma leitura do romance Admirável Mundo Novo (1932) de Aldous Huxley sob a luz dos conceitos de Zygmunt Bauman da Modernidade Líquida. A narrativa ocorre em uma Londres futurística no século 26, no ano 2540 de nossa Era Comum, ou – na narrativa no ano 632 AF (Após Ford). Subjacente ao cenário distópico de avanço tecnológico e organização altamente desenvolvida, porém, os temas discutidos no romance remetem à circunstância do tempo e lugar de sua produção, o início dos anos 1930, em um contexto de desenvolvimento industrial, tensão política e crise econômica. Nesta pesquisa, eu busco a resposta para a seguinte pergunta: “De quais maneiras a ficção de Huxley antecipa o tipo de sociedade seus leitores vivem no tempo presente, três-quartos de século após sua publicação? Com ajuda das teorias do Professor Zygmunt Bauman, eu construo minha interpretação das metáforas encontradas no romance, que prognosticam as atuais condições de capitalismo de mercado livre, consumismo, obsolescência programada que determinam a ética, a estética e a forma de pensar de nosso tempo presente. As hipóteses de Bauman concernem a liquidez do mundo atual, no qual nada deve durar muito. Esta premissa gera um grande número de consequências, tais como: fragilidade dos laços humanos, pensamento crítico superficial e supremacia dos contatos virtuais sobre ocontato de fato entre as pessoas. A dissertação está dividida em quatro capítulos. No primeiro, eu contextualizo o conceito de distopia. No segundo, eu trago a contextualização necessária sobre o tempo, a obra e o autor. No terceiro, eu introduzo os conceitos de Bauman sobre modernidade sólida e líquida e os conecto com o estudo de Admirável Mundo Novo. No capítulo IV, apresento minha leitura da obra. Ao final da pesquisa, espero encontrar respostas para a questão proposta estabelecendo inter-relações entre os aspectos ficcionais do romance e os traços sociais de nosso tempo atual.The present thesis proposes a reading of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) in the light of Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of Liquid Modernity. The plot of the novel unfolds in the futuristic London of the 26th century, in the year 2540 of our Common Era, or – in the narrative – in the year 632 AF (After Ford). Underlying the dystopian scenario of technological advancement and highly developed organization, however, the themes discussed in the novel actually address the circumstances of the time and place of its own production, the beginning of the 1930’s, in a context of developing industrialization, political tension, and economic crises. In this research, I pursue the answer to the following question: “In what ways does Huxley’s fiction anticipate the kind of society its readers would be living in at our present time, three quarters of a century after its publication?” With the help of Professor Zygmunt Bauman’s theories, I build my interpretation of the metaphors found in the novel, that prognosticate the current conditions of free-market capitalism, consumerism, programmed obsolescence, that determine the ethics, the aesthetics and the ways of thinking of our present times. Bauman’s assumptions concern the liquidity of the contemporary world, where nothing is meant to last long. This premise generates a number of consequences such as overconsumption, frail human bonds, superficial critical thought, and supremacy of online over factual contacts among people. The thesis is devised in three chapters. In the first, I contextualize the concept of dystopia. In the second, I bring the necessary contextualization about the time, the work and the author. In the third, I introduce Bauman’s concepts of solid modernity and liquid modernity and connect them with the study of Brave New World. Finally. In Chapter IV, I present my reading of the novel. At the end of the research, I expect to find the answers to the posed question by establishing critical interrelations between the fictional aspects of the novel and the social features ongoing in our present time.
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Touzani, Hamza. "Itinéraires d'Aldous Huxley et de George Orwell à travers l'étude de Brave new world et de Nineteen eighty-four et leurs rapports au contexte actuel." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040205.
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Cette thèse concerne les carrières d'A. Huxley et de G. Orwell à travers l'étude en commun de leurs deux ouvrages respectifs Brave new world et Nineteen eighty-four. Elle incorpore trois parties : la première est consacrée à l'étude des contenus des deux ouvrages. Le premier chapitre étudie les personnages de Brave new world et de Nineteen eighty-four. Le deuxième chapitre traite des valeurs, des visions du monde et des institutions des sociétés futures qu'ils contiennent. La deuxième partie est, elle, consacrée à l'étude des contextes dans lesquels G. Orwell et A. Huxley ont écrit leurs deux romans en question. Le premier chapitre porte sur les biographies des deux auteurs et sur l'influence des contextes socio-politiques sur Brave new world et Nineteen eighty-four. Le deuxième chapitre contient l'étude des influences écrites : littéraires, scientifiques, politiques et philosophiques sur A. Huxley et G. Orwell et leurs œuvres. La troisième partie étudie les rapports de Brave new world et de Nineteen eighty-four au contexte actuel. Le premier chapitre contient une sorte de diagnostic de la société moderne à la lumière des mises en garde et des anticipations de Huxley et d’Orwell ; le deuxième incorpore des solutions et des alternatives (tout en les comparant avec celles des deux écrivains en question) aux diverses crises de la société industrielleThe thesis deals with a study of the literary and intellectual itineraries of Aldous Huxley and Georges Orwell through the analysis of two of their literary works: Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four. The thesis is divided into three parts, the first of which presents an analysis of the two novels's contents. A discussion of the plots and the characters of brave new world and nineteen eighty-four was provided. In addition to this, a study of the values, visions of the word and the institutions of the futures societies imagined by A. Huxley and G. Orwell has been largely discussed. Concerning the second part which is in itself divided into two chapters, it discusses the social and historical context in which the two authors have written their two novels. More explicitly we find a study of the biographies of the two writers as well as the impact of the socio-historical context on Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four. Equally important, I have discussed the literary, scientific, philosophical and political influences on A. Huxley and G. Orwell and on their literary products. A study of Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four's relation to the contemporary society is the theme of the last part. It consists of a diagnostic of the modern society compared to A. Huxley and G. Orwell's anticipations in Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four
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Desjardins, Olivier. "A BRAVE NEW BUILDING. Réédition expérimentale et design d'information." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27118/27118.pdf.
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Hachtel, Julia. "Die Entwicklung des Genres Antiutopie : Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Scott McBain und der Film "Das Leben der Anderen" /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3008882&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Kringstad, Johan. "From Alphas to Epsilons : A study of eugenics and social caste in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World from a biographical perspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-62584.
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Harris, Clea D. "The Germ Theory of Dystopias: Fears of Human Nature in 1984 and Brave New World." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/699.
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This project is an exploration of 20th century dystopian literature through the lens of germ theory. This scientific principle, which emerged in the late 19th century, asserts that microorganisms pervade the world; these invisible and omnipresent germs cause specific diseases which are often life threatening. Additionally, germ theory states that vaccines and antiseptics can prevent some of these afflictions and that antibiotics can treat others. This concept of a pervasive, invisible, infection-causing other is not just a biological principle, though; in this paper, I argue that one can interpret it as an ideological framework for understanding human existence as a whole. Particularly, I believe that authors of prominent 20th century dystopian novels applied the tenets of germ theory in order to explore the potential “pathogens” that furtively exist within the human mind. These pseudo-germs are various human tendencies that, when left “untreated” by governments, create nonnormative members of society. In the eyes of dystopian regimes, it is precisely this nonnormativity that poses a lethal threat, in that it challenges the continued existence of society with the current ruling body at the helm. In this paper, I trace love (both sexual and familial) and individuation (as a function of social hierarchy, recreational activities, and the use of language) as social disease-causing pathogens in George Orwell’s 1984 and in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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Dunphy, Patricia. "Den nya generationen: Dystopisk reproduktion : En tematisk genusanalys av Karin Boyes Kallocain, Aldous Huxleys Du sköna nya värld och George Orwells 1984." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5700.
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The three dystopian novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Kallocain by Karin Boye and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell have been highly discussed amongst literary critics and scholars. Although these works are well-known, some themes have had very little or no recognition. Biological reproduction is a recurring subject in dystopian literature. Although it is not the main theme in the novels, it is a very important part in dystopian culture and dystopian society. By focusing on reproduction and the structure of gender roles in these three dystopias, I hope to bring to light something that's been in the shadows for a long time i.e. the women of dystopian society. I will address the role of nature and technology in terms of reproduction by using Pia Maria Ahlbäck's theory of the heterotopia. Later, I will discuss the problems and possibilities of the role of women in biological reproduction.
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Kuzmina, Irina. "Inscription du mythe dans le roman français, anglo-saxon et russe du XXe siècle." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005VERS005S.
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La thèse Inscription du mythe dans la littérature française, anglo-saxonne et russe du XXe siècle (" L'Emploi du temps" de Michel Butor, " Brave New World " d'Aldous Huxley et " Lolita " de Vladimir Nabokov) est consacrée à la présence du mythe relevant du sacré dans la littérature occidentale du XXe siècle. Il s'agit d'une étude comparative de la figure du labyrinthe, dont une marque est l'écriture labyrinthique, qui se substitue à trois autres mythes repérés dans les œuvres du corpus : Saturne, représentant l'héritage gréco-romain, Lilith, issue de la culture judéo-biblique et l'Utopie ou la Cité idéale, archétype universel qui connaît bien des avatars en Occident. Une telle comparaison devient possible dans le cadre des études sémiotiques considérant le mythe, système sémiologique second, qui, comme tout langage, se fonde sur le caractère paradigmatique du signeThe thesis Presence of Myth in 20th Century French, American and Russian Literature (Michel Butor's “L'Emploi du temps”, Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World” and Vladimir Nabokov's “Lolita”) is consecrated to the presence of myth referring to the sacred in modern western literature. It is a comparative study of the labyrinth image transcribing itself, in particular, through labyrinth writing, which substitutes itself to three other myths found in the analised novels – Saturn coming from the Latin heritage, Lilith stemming from Biblical and Judaic culture, and Utopia, universal archetype with its countless metamorphosis in Western culture. Such a comparison is possible within the framework of Semiotic studies considering myth, like any language, as a secondary semiological system basing on the paradigmatic nature of the sign
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Wojciekowski, Mauricio Moraes. "Utopia/distopia e discurso totalitário : uma análise comparativo-discursiva entre Admirável Mundo Novo, de Huxley, e A República, de Platão." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17521.
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Esta Dissertação de Mestrado examina o tema Utopias/Distopias e o discurso totalitário em duas obras de caráter e gênero distintos: A República, de Platão (Filosofia), e Admirável Mundo Novo, de Aldous Huxley (Literatura). Tendo como objetivo principal a comparação de elementos narrativos, temáticos e ideológicos encontrados nessas duas obras, utiliza como metodologia a análise embasada em referenciais da Literatura Comparada e da Teoria da Literatura (Narratologia e a Tematologia), da Análise do Discurso Francesa, dos estudos da obra de Platão e de estudos sociológicos. Esta análise segue a sequência de apresentação dos pressupostos teóricos, análise das obras de Platão e de Huxley (em seus aspectos internos e externos), para, finalmente, apresentar um quadro comparativo com os discursos totalitários retirados dessas obras - discursos esses que são analisados em pormenores. Por fim, esta Dissertação culmina com a compreensão de que o tema utopia/distopia, e os discursos acerca dele, não se restringe somente à literatura ficcional, mas pode ser encontrado em estudos filosóficos e políticos, e no nosso dia a dia.This thesis examines the theme of Utopia/Dystopia and the totalitarian discourse in two works of different nature and genre: Plato's Republic (a work of Philosophy) and Brave New World (a work of Literature) by Aldous Huxley. The thesis' main objective is to compare narrative, thematic and ideological elements. In order to perform this analysis, the author will make use of methodologies taken from Comparative Literature, Literary Theory (Narratology and Thematology), the French school of Discourse Analysis, studies on Plato's works and sociological studies. After presenting and explaining those theoretical references, the author shall perform an analysis of Plato's and Huxley's works, considering their internal and external aspects; afterwards, a final analysis shall be performed, comparing the totalitarian discourses contained within those works. After examining minutely those discourses, the thesis concludes by stating that the theme of Utopia/Dystopia is not restricted to fictional literature; it can be found, also, within the frame of philosophical and political studies, and in our day-to-day lives.
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Leth, Corina. "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16223.
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The aim of this essay is to provide an answer to the question "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?". It will show that meaningful concepts such as sexual satisfaction, pleassure, passion, love, bonding, procreation and family are handled as threats in dystopian societies described in well-known novels as We, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four . It will explain how the conflict between the collective and the individual influences peoples' sexuality. It will also show how leading powers in the three dystopian societies use different methods to remove the significanse and functions of sex. It will suggest meaningless sex is a means to control the masses in a collective and that meaningful sex is an act of rebelion against the state..
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Bessa, Maria de Fatima de Castro. "Individuation in Aldous Huxley's Brave New Word and Island: Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-73QMQ3.
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Aldous Huxley´s novels Brave New Word (1932) and Island (1962) share utopian/dystopian tradition, depicting imaginary societies and solutions for the basic problems of the human existence, with Brave New Word showing a catastrophic view of a society of the future and Island an optimistic one. Both novels present a marked concern for the way the social organisation affects the indiviual and his quest for self-realisation. This point allows us to analyse them using C.C Jung´s theory of archetypes and examine how far the novels ilustrate the process of individuation. This process, accoridng to Jung, conducts us towards becoming whole individuals, and eache of its steps is associated with a certain archetype that presents specific characteristics. The archetypes of indiviuation are the persona, the shadow, the wise old man and wise old woman, and the self, and since it is the ego that deals with the problems these archetypes raised, it has been included in the analysis as well. The investigation compares the features of these archetypes with certain elements in the novels, notably characterisation, plot, and setting, and shows that there are similarities as well as discrepancies. According to classical Jungian tehory, is possible to establish thar Island showd a better illustration of a person's journey towards indifviduation than Brave New Word. Post-Jungian theorists have revised some of Jung's concepts, giving a different view of the archetypes and of the process of individuation itself, and in this case, Island seems to be closer to these new formulations than Brave New Word. Individuation, ins this case, does not refer to an ain to be achived at end of your life, but to a series of meaningful experiences throughout life. Finally, it is also possible to establish a connection between the way the process of individuation is show in the two novels and the social context in which they were written .
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Lupold, Eva Marie. "Literary Laboratories: A Cautious Celebration of the Child-Cyborg from Romanticism to Modernism." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1339976082.
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Picot, Jean-Pierre. "Contribution à une étude de l'imaginaire chez quelques écrivains des XIXe et XXe siècles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20012.
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Autour des voyages extraordinaires de jules verne, cette contribution envisage un corpus dont la coherence se veut d'ordre psycho-thematique : le voyage comme exploration de la mort, et l'ecriture comme voyage fantasmatique. Des lors, le voyage n'est plus seulement le reve d'epuiser les ressources de la mappemonde, mais aussi un reve d'utopies : utopies de l'ailleurs, de l'amour, du futur, d'un accord nature-societe-utopies qui se voient contraintes, devant les ingerences du siecle, a l'exorcisme paradoxal que constituent les diverses contre-utopies : mal moral explore par le recit policier ou le recit fantastique, souvent associes ; mal politique envisage tant en fonction des blocages imposes au desir, que des trop reelles oppressions d'une histoire titubant a l'aveuglette- tandis que la science-fiction tente d'y voir clair dans la stochastique du futur. D'ou la dilection de notre travail pour les differentes formes de la litterature des limites, celle qui, sachant que le monde n'est que notre representation, se soucie peu des normes d'un pseudo-realisme reducteur. Merveilleux, fantastique, science-fiction, utopie et contre-utopie, poesie et exploration du mal sont donc autant de manieres de dire, non pas l'absurdite, mais le sens infini du monde. Que la transcendance debute par l'ecrit, tel fut peut-etre, du premier au dernier de ces textes, notre fil conducteurThis thesis is a corpus centred round jules verne's voyages extraordinaires and its coherence is meant to be psychothematic : travelling is seen as an exploration of death, and writing as an imaginary journey. Thus, travelling is not merely a dream of exhausting what a map of the world may offer, but also a dream of utopias : the utopias of the extraneous, of love, of the future, of a harmony between nature and society - such utopias are forced into the para- doxical exorcism which the various counter-utopias have formed: a moral evil explored by detective of fantastic narratives, a political evil seen as a repre- hension of desires and as the oppression inflicted by history- meanwhile science-fiction tries to see through a hazardous future. Hence our preference for the various aspects of the literature of limits, which, aware that the world is only our weltanschaaumg, is quite heedless of the rules of a reducing pseudo-realism. Therefore, the wonderful, the fantastic, science-fiction, utopias and counter-utopias, poetry and the exploration of death are as many ways of expressing not the preposterousness but the infinite significance of the world. Let transcendency begin with writing, such was, perhaps, our clew, from the first to the last of these texts
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Fanning, Sarah Elizabeth. "Changing fictions of masculinity : adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, 1939-2009." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8524.
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The discursive and critical positions of the ‘classic’ nineteenth-century novel, particularly the woman’s novel, in the field of adaptation studies have been dominated by long-standing concerns about textual fidelity and the generic processes of the text-screen transfer. The sociocultural patterns of adaptation criticism have also been largely ensconced in representations of literary women on screen. Taking a decisive twist from tradition, this thesis traces the evolution of representations of masculinity in the malleable characters of Rochester and Heathcliff in film and television adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights between 1939 and 2009. Concepts of masculinity have been a neglected area of enquiry in studies of the ‘classic’ novel on screen. Adaptations of the Brontës’ novels, as well as the adapted novels of other ‘classic’ women authors such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell, increasingly foreground male character in traditionally female-oriented narratives or narratives whose primary protagonist is female. This thesis brings together industrial histories, textual frames and sociocultural influences that form the wider contexts of the adaptations to demonstrate how male characterisation and different representations of masculinity are reformulated and foregrounded through three different adaptive histories of the narratives of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Through the contours of the film and television industries, the application of text and context analysis, and wider sociocultural considerations of each period an understanding of how Rochester and Heathcliff have been transmuted and centralised within the adaptive history of the Brontë novel.
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Reinhard, Maria. "Brave New World: The Correlation of Social Order and the Process of Literary Translation." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4146.
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This comparative analysis of four different German-language versions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) shows the correlation between political and socio-cultural circumstances, as well as ideological differences, and translations of the novel.
The first German translation was created by Herberth E. Herlitschka in 1932, entitled Welt – Wohin? Two further versions of it were released in 1950 and 1981. In 1978, the East German publisher Das Neue Berlin published a new translation created by Eva Walch, entitled Schöne neue Welt. My thesis focuses on the first translations by both Herlitschka and Walch, but takes into account the others as well.
The methodological basis is Heidemarie Salevsky’s tripartite model. With its focus on author and work, commissioning institution and translator, it was developed as a tool to determine the factors influencing the process of literary translation. Within this framework, the translations are contextualized within the cultural and political circumstances of the Weimar and German Democratic Republics, including an historical overview of the two main publishers, Insel and Das Neue Berlin. With reference to letters between Herlitschka and his publisher Anton Kippenberg at the Insel Verlag, secured from the Goethe und Schiller Archiv (Stiftung Weimarer Klassik), titles and subtitles as paratextual elements of the Herlitschka versions are examined. An overview of Lawrence Venuti’s and Hans Vermeer’s approaches to the notions of domesticating and foreignizing provides further theoretical tools to assess the translations. Venuti rejects the technique of domesticating translation as, in his opinion, it constitutes an act of violence against the source language, which is contrast with Vermeer’s perspective, according to which the alternatives are equivalent. In Vermeer’s opinion, both the domesticating as well as the foreignizing translation do not destroy the source culture. Another fundamental theoretical principle is Otto Kade’s claim that the affiliation of a translator to a certain social system and identification with a certain ideology are evident in his or her work.
The thesis includes a study of the afterwords in the East German versions, which display an intent to create distance between the society of the novel and that of the translator. These paratexts function as a tool for censorship and at the same time as a means to circumvent it. Chapters 1-4 and 16 is selected for intensive analysis. It becomes obvious that the different socio-political situations influence the outcome of the translations. One of the most striking differences between them, Herlitschka’s translocation of the original setting, is identified as a parodistic device. An analysis of the themes of gender, race and sexuality further answers what kinds of factors influenced the process of literary translation, what kinds of modifications appear and what causes them. Herlitschka’s work displays a tendency to intensify traces of misogyny and racism, and to tone down descriptions of sexuality, phenomena which could not be found in Walch’s text.
The conclusion links to Margaret Atwood’s introduction to the most recent Canadian edition of Brave New World and identifies the examination of the two key German translations of the novel as an extension of her argument, pointing to the novel’s relevance for contemporary times, transcending geographical and linguistic borders to include readers in all modern societies and cultures.
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Chiu, Ya-Ching, and 邱雅菁. "The Affirmative Nightmare:The Dystopian Self-Other Relation in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71424801942149551635.
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Abstract Revered as one of the most essential writers in the twenty century, Huxley successfully prophesizes a futuristic dystopia to his readers by his masterpiece, Brave New World, where human beings are dehumanized under a post-capitalized society due to “enlightened” high-technology. Through the lens of the Enlightenment, infallible technology serves as the essential catalyst that triggers the death of day-dreaming utopia and causes the birth of nightmarish dystopia. Man’s hubris to surpass God’s power enables Him to appear “man-forsaken.” Yet, the consequence of man playing God resembles the catastrophe of the Tower of Babel, allegorized in the Bible: man eventually receives a devastating blow from God just before accomplishing his goal. One cannot help asking, “When mankind holds the key to the secret of God’s creation, does it entail that God’s mystery is thus unveiled?” Numerous dystopian critics and novelists have gloomily forecasted the opening of this “Pandora’s box,” only this time, along with all the world’s evils, Hope escapes as well. This thesis aims to explore how the Self, a rendering of the progress-worshipping Enlightenment, represses the voice of the Other, and pushes itself to a genuine dystopia. In this satirical futuristic allegory, the very return of the Other demonstrates that the aggrandized novelty of the Self orients the Fordian Society toward “regression,” instead of toward “mature adulthood.” In other words, these “zombies” are happy in that they do not know and will never know how tragic their lives really are; their biggest sorrow resides in their impossible awareness of this sorrow. This thesis uses a three-stage deconstructive approach to investigate the complication and subtlety of the dystopian Self-Other relation in Brave New World. Firstly, the Self triumphs to repress the Other. That is, in this section I will discuss the ways how the enlightened Fordian regime reins in its civilians’ hedonism with ubiquitous domination. The New Worldians are convinced that they live in a utopia, an earthly paradise, which mankind has dreamed of inhabiting for centuries. With the perfect help of technology, they assume that they have succeeded in escaping from all others. Secondly, the hierarchy between the Self and the Other will be reversed. The return of the repressed Other, in the form of the Indian Savage Reservation, enters the picture and through one of its members, John, we are able to gain this new perspective on the Fordian society. The dichotomy exposes the false happiness of the Fordian Society, which is sugarcoated by the totalitarian dystopian government. Finally, this binary-opposition relation will be deconstructed. Here, the interdependent relation between the two is elaborated upon, and the affirmative meaning by the challenge of the Other to the Self is demonstrated. With regard to the mysterious element (time), the boundaries between the fixed binary parallels in this book are blurred. This dystopian Self-Other relation issues a warning via the Self’s response to the singular demand of the Other. In a nutshell, the aim of this thesis is to show that what Brave New World offers us is an “affirmative nightmare” which will continue to haunt our logos-oriented progress and civilization in the 21st century.
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Kuo, Chin-Jung, and 郭晉榕. "The Quest for the Authentic Life in Aldous Huxley'' s Brave New World and George Orwell'' s Nineteen Eighty-Four." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n8vgdy.
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This dissertation intends to study the quest for the authentic life in both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this dissertation, I attempt to examine how Huxley and Orwell criticize the modern trend toward dehumanization and how both writers assert the value of the authentic life in their individual dystopian novels. In the twentieth century, the rise of totalitarianism and the development of science and technology threaten the independence of the individual. In their respective dystopian novels, both Huxley and Orwell reflect this crisis of the death of individuality in the modern world and warn us against it by portraying the quest of the characters for an individual meaningful life. On the other hand, the rise of existentialism also reflects the human desire to live a life of authenticity in this excruciating modern condition. Philosophers like Heidegger and Sartre all try to assert the value of the individual authentic life in this modern world where traditional values seem no longer sufficient to guide the individual in his life. Thus, it seems that the four authors Heidegger, Sartre, Huxley and Orwell all share the concern for the freedom of humans in the modern world. To them, an authentic individual life has a value in itself. It overrides the past utopian concern for rational order that overlooks the freedom and independence of the individual. The introduction focuses on presenting the major tents of Heidegger’s and Sartre’s ideas on authenticity. In his Being and Time, Heidegger mentions the characteristics of a life of fallen-ness, the individualizing effects of anxiety, the call of conscience and the authentic life. And in his Being and Nothingness, and Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre emphasizes the freedom of the individual to define himself through his own free choice of actions. In their individual philosophical works, both of them emphasize the freedom of the individual to take the initiative to create an authentic life. Chapter two focuses on a comparison between three works, Plato’s The Republic, Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four. In my discussion of their similarities and differences, we try to point out both Huxley’s and Orwell’s reflections on the modern world and their implied criticism of Plato’s utopian ideals which can be taken advantage of by the modern dictators. Chapter three treats Huxley’s dystopia Brave New World as essentially an anti-existential world in which there exists no possibility for the individual to lead a truly authentic life. Through the characters’ rebellion, Huxley suggests to the reader that the true authentic life consists in the quest for beauty, love and truth. Chapter four focuses on the protagonist’s quest for the authentic life in Orwell’s dystopia Nineteen Eighty-four. By starting a diary to keep a faithful record of the past, by developing a love affair and joining the Brotherhood to revive the past authentic life, Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith actually serves as the novelist’s alter ego to express his ideal for the individual authentic life.
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Hsieh, Meng-Tsung, and 謝孟宗. "In the Year of Our Ford:Domination and Resistance in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93599083970630055281.
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Aldous Huxley is no novelist, many critics argue. Their biting criticism, however, does not blight Huxley’s reputation as an accomplished writer. In fact, Huxley has become immensely popular to readers, both in and out of academic circles, around the world. Of all Huxley’s novels, Brave New World is most widely read and thus merits sustained scholarly examination. This thesis, focusing on domination and resistance, marks yet another attempt at analyzing this novel of perennial popularity. I will discuss “domination” and “resistance” from aspects like technology, culture, politics, gender, and religion. The three main chapters can be seen as an integral whole, one complementing another. And they can be viewed separately as dealing with specific issues. Chapter II copes with technological domination of the new world government, discussing how such inventions as biotechnological conditioning, sleep teaching, feelies and soma turn human beings into mindless parrots and automatons. It also discusses the Fordean and Freudian ideologies that account for the misapplication of technology. Chapter III deals with cultural domination as symbolized by the new world and the primitive Indian Reservation. And Chapter IV aims to discuss resistance to dehumanizing power, delineating an alternative society to the oppressive worlds in Huxley’s novel. In addition to its thematic concerns about domination and resistance, this thesis also includes discussion on Huxley’s techniques. Moreover, it draws on theorists like Foucault and Said, arguing that it is fruitful to combine Huxley’s 1932 tour de force with modern-day critical theories.
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LING, QUAN, and 凌銓. ""Utopia"-a dehumanized world under totalitarian rule:a comparative study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and the Chicom regime." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02582737429534051000.
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ERTELOVÁ, Jitka. "Konec civilizace a Ostrov: Analýza utopického a anti-utopického světa v dílech Aldouse Huxleyho." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-254063.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse two novels written by Aldous Huxley an anti-utopian novel Brave New World (1932) and a utopian novel Island (1963). The examination of both Huxley´ s works is based on the analysis of literary genres. The thesis outlines difficulties concerning a precise definition of the terms "utopia," "anti-utopia," and "dystopia." The genesis of the genres is also briefly mentioned. The thesis also deals with both common and distinct features of the genres. Because of the purpose of the analysis regarding Brave New World and Island, the thesis includes Huxley´ s other works (essays and novels), dystopian novels Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and a utopian novel Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells.
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Chamberlain, Marlize. "The carceral in literary dystopia: social conformity in Aldous Huxley’s Brave new world, Jasper Fford’s Shades of grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26525.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-127)This dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social conformity as a disciplinary mechanism of the ‘carceral’ – a notion introduced by poststructuralist thinker Michel Foucault. Employing poststructuralist discourse and deconstructive theory as a theoretical framework, the study investigates how each novel establishes its world as a successful carceral city that incorporates most, if not all, the elements of the incarceration system that Foucault highlights in Discipline and Punish. It establishes that the societies of the texts present potentially nightmarish future societies in which social and political “improvements” result in a seemingly better world, yet some essential part of human existence has been sacrificed. This study of these fictional worlds reflects on the carceral nature of modern society and highlights the problematic nature of the social and political practices to which individuals are expected to conform. Finally, in line with Foucault, it postulates that individuals need not be enclosed behind prison walls to be imprisoned; the very nature of our social systems imposes the restrictive power that incarcerates societies
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Aguirre, Stella Guedes Nascimento. "Euthanasia : a study of the age long controversial issue in Thomas More’s Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Brian Clark’s Whose Life is it Anyway?" Master's thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/449.
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Bakič, Pavel. "Obraz médií v britských dystopiích." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-329193.
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The thesis aims to give an overview of the treatment of media in texts that have formed modern dystopian writing and to which new additions in the genre necessarily relate. This set of texts consists of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and When the Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells; first chapter substantiates this selection and proceeds to define the concepts of "media" and "dystopia". Second chapter is concerned with the understanding of history in dystopian societies and shows that the very concept of historicity is undesirable for a totalitarian state, which seeks to blur history and reduce it to a three-point schema "before the Event - the Event (revolution) - after the Event". Closer analysis then shows that the Event itself can be divided into a further triad that has to be completed in order to pass into eternal post-Event society. Third chapter describes the use of citizens as media and shows that while Huxley's society uses what Michel Foucault calls "biopower" to achieve this goal, Orwell's society rather uses the concept of "discipline". Fourth chapter turns to printed media a the privileged role they are ascribed in the novels: The authors see literature as an embodiment of individuality and, at the same time, as a guarantee of tradition established by an...