NARRATIVA INGLESE Linda could be seen as a character who doesn’t want to be a character, who is ashamed to be a human being.

LINDA LIKE ROBINSON CRUSOE NARRATIVA INGLESE LINDA LIKE ROBINSON CRUSOE

NARRATIVA INGLESE John has a past and feelings to remember: looks like a human being more than the others

MESCAL VERSUS SOMA: NATURAL AGAINST SYNTHETIC DRUGS NARRATIVA INGLESE MESCAL VERSUS SOMA: NATURAL AGAINST SYNTHETIC DRUGS

Everything is told in free indirect discourse NARRATIVA INGLESE Everything is told in free indirect discourse

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Shakespeare as a Bible Woolf and War NARRATIVA INGLESE Shakespeare as a Bible Woolf and War

CULTURE AND UNHAPPINESS NARRATIVA INGLESE CULTURE AND UNHAPPINESS

Gender contrast: woman sleeps, man acts. Brave New World Lesson 11 Gender contrast: woman sleeps, man acts.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR FRREDOM FROM HAPPINESS? Brave New World Lesson 12 FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR FRREDOM FROM HAPPINESS?

MUSTAFA’ MOND: IS THERE A PURPOSE IN LIFE? Brave New World Lesson 12 MUSTAFA’ MOND: IS THERE A PURPOSE IN LIFE?

MOND’S DOUBLE PERSONALITY: IS IT PLAUSIBLE? IT IS DEFINITELY NECESSARY Brave New World Lesson 12 MOND’S DOUBLE PERSONALITY: IS IT PLAUSIBLE? IT IS DEFINITELY NECESSARY

A NEW TRIANGLE: JOHN BERNARD HELMHOLTZ Brave New World Lesson 12 A NEW TRIANGLE: JOHN BERNARD HELMHOLTZ

Can Lenina be in love? How can love creep in the perfection of BNW? Brave New World Lesson 12 Can Lenina be in love? How can love creep in the perfection of BNW?

John is attracted by Lenina Brave New World Lesson 11 John is attracted by Lenina

Brave New World Lesson 11 The Director and Bernarnd: the plot not as development but as unfolding of an existing truth. The detective novel

Brave New World Lesson 11 The 18th century myth of the “good savage”: Shaftesbury (1671-1713) versus Hobbes (1588-1679): against the belief in the original sin.

Brave New World Lesson 11 Bernard and girls: successful and traditional. No hint anymore of a desire to restrain himself.

A new tour around BNW. The two pillars: the factory the college Brave New World Lesson 11 A new tour around BNW. The two pillars: the factory the college

LENINA AND JOHN: TWO OPPOSITE LANGUAGES Brave New World Lesson 11 LENINA AND JOHN: TWO OPPOSITE LANGUAGES

Brave New World Lesson 12 The turning point: Bernard’s dinner with the Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury. John refuses to turn up. He locks himself inside his room just as later on Lenina will lock herself inside her bathroom. It’s all presented in a comic vain but in the end it will be tragic.

Brave New World Lesson 12 Where do we draw the line between who we are and what we have? Our clothes, our house, car, money: would we be the same without our belongings?

Why is John so upset? SPIRITUALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM? Brave New World Lesson 12 Why is John so upset? SPIRITUALISM VERSUS MATERIALISM?

DO I HAVE TO BE UNHAPPY IN ORDER TO BE HAPPY? Brave New World Lesson 12 DO I HAVE TO BE UNHAPPY IN ORDER TO BE HAPPY?

Brave New World Lesson 13 Of all sources of anguish, death is certainly the greatest and potentially the most destabilizing one. BNW must control the entire cycle of life, both birth to death

Brave New World Lesson 13 Why was John called to the hospital? A special treatment? Again there’s a clash between the reality of BNW and the requirements of narration.

Brave New World Lesson 13 Everything is grossly exaggerated, but there’s a serious element of truth: for us too death is becoming less and less of a tragic event – more like a biological step. Separation between the fear of suffering and the anxiety about a possible afterlife.

Brave New World Lesson 13 An inversion of values: one would think that the mentioning in this context of the Other Place refers to heaven or anyway to some kind of afterlife, but no, the Other Place is simply BNW. Paradise is now, and to die means to leave paradise: an awful prospect.

THE DEATH OF LINDA IS A WATERSHED FOR JOHN Brave New World Lesson 13 THE DEATH OF LINDA IS A WATERSHED FOR JOHN

62 DELTAS AND JOHN: ORDER, CONSENSUS AND THE MESSAGE OF FREEDOM Brave New World Lesson 13 62 DELTAS AND JOHN: ORDER, CONSENSUS AND THE MESSAGE OF FREEDOM

Brave New World Lesson 13 THE DELTAS ARE ALL DOPED. BUT IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND LENINA’S OR BERNARD’S SOMA?

Brave New World Lesson 13 MOND’S 3 POINTS: 1) Art and instability: an inseparable link. 2) Inequality is at the foundation of stability 3) Science is dangerous