Monday, March 4, 2013

Brave New World (4 and 5)


  • The name Benito Hoover, every time I look at it from a historical perspective I think of President Hoover who abandoned the people during the Great Depression. (Allusion?)
  • Rhetorical Question - "Dared he face that risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal?"
  • Vernacular - "Delta-Minus" is a common term used by people in a like class to Bernard Marx (Last name historic reference to Marxism)
  • Allusion - Fleet Street is a real street in London
  • Characterization - of Helmholtz Watson (Sherlock Holmes best mate)being really attractive and not unlike Bernard Marx in the smarts department, while also showing the effect of "mental excess" on the body for Marx

  • Dialogue and Omnicient Point of View - allowing for indirect characterization by the author though sharing the thoughts of the each after an exchange of ideas between these two who are in mental excess
  • Foreshadowing - that something big is going to happen with Helmholz who "I've got something important to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power." Once he figures it out... stuff is gonna go down!
  • Parable - when Helmholz thought "He wished Bernard would show a little more pride." I believe it is about his intellectual abilities that are more than average.
  • Extended Metaphor - Sexophonists (enough said right!?!?) every action they made was recorded like that of the greatest music conservatory. 
  • Lyric from the Sixteen Sexophonists to the Orgy-Porgy used
  • Motif - Morgana Rothschild's eyebrow
  • Full description of a 'climax' and party in the Orgy, waiting for him because he's coming... we get the point where this metaphor is going

    Thanks Mackenzie

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