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

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

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

4 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

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

6 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?

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

8 Brave New World Lesson 11 I tell thee I am mad In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair;' Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice, Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink, Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is harsh

9 Brave New World Lesson 11 NOVEL AND THE THEATRE

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

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

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

13 BERNARD AND MUSTAFA MOND
Brave New World Lesson 11 BERNARD AND MUSTAFA MOND

14 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

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

16 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.

17 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?

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

19 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?


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