Brave New World Chapter 8

Linda, like so many other characters/tropes, is a misfit in the Land of Misfit Toys. She does not understand Native culture, nor does she try to. She simply sleeps with every man on the reservation, and then wonders why the woman hit her.

And John is the one who suffers for it. He's the one who takes the brunt of the mother's promiscuity, and he's the one who is constantly picked on for being different.

I like Huxley's reference to Miranda from The Tempest because it absolutely fits in this situation.

March Literature Analysis

I chose Atonement by Ian McEwan. The biggest reason being that my sister, after watching the movie, kept pestering me to read it. Eventually, I grew sick of her pestering and decided to watch it. I came in with low expectations, thinking it nothing more than a shallow chick-flick like The Notebook. Needless to say, I didn't set my expectations high enough. That movie was actually a pleasant surprise! And, figuring that there's no such thing as an original screenplay unless you're named Christopher Nolan, I had a hunch this was based off a book. And sure enough, after I saw "Adapted screenplay" you can bet I was quickly scrounging the Internet to look at the book and see if the movie stuck with it or forged its own path. From the looks of it at the beginning chapters, the screenplay writers have stuck with the source material.

Brave New World Chapters 4 and 5

Chapter 4

Direct characterization - "Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority."

Foil - Hemhotz's physical and mental talents are showcased as a way to contrast Bernard, a man that, while smart, suffers from a relatively short stature and lack of confidence. Bernard is also perfectly aware of his "disfigurements" and is embarrassed by them. Hemholtz, in comparison, was completely unawares until recently. 

Foreshadowing - "Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using–you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?"

Similie - "Like aphides and ants..."

Chapter 5

Rhetorical Question - "Do you know what that switchback was?" he said. "It was some human being finally and definitely disappearing. Going up in a squirt of hot gas. It would be curious to know who it was–a man or a woman, an Alpha or an Epsilon. …

Refrain - "Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!

Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?

  Skies are blue inside of you,

  The weather's always fine;

For

There ain't no Bottle in all the world

Like that dear little Bottle of mine."

Repitition - "Good-night, dear friends. Good-night, dear friends." The loud speakers veiled their commands in a genial and musical politeness. "Good-night, dear friends …"

Lit Terms Applied

When it comes to lit terms, I am somewhat in the middle. I know a good portion of them (such as synesthesia, synecdoche, zeitgeist, rising action and my favorite of all: satire) but there are others (looking at you metonymy, expressionism, postmodernism) that I simply can't wrap my head around. Especially postmodernism. Seems like an excuse for the artistically untalented to claim that their work is actually art and not just scribbles on a piece of paper.