"Brave New World"

In Brave New World, the novel starts out with a passage based on a description of a room. It seems like just the description of a room, and the revelation of what that room is used for. However, it’s also so much more than that. It’s packed with imagery, metaphors, similes, and tone. All of these literary devices then flow together to create an opening to the novel which creates the setting and helps set up the key theme of the novel.

The opening of this paragraph has an interesting start by starting with imagery and all the literary devices to pull the reader in so they will want to read more.

Based on the first sentence, “The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north.” (1) The author gives the audience three pieces of information: size, location, and aspect. It’s ‘enormous’, it’s on the ‘ground floor and it faces north. From this, the audience can then take away that the room is apparentl enormous and north-facing.

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This sentence then uses the literary device of imagery by describing the room with necessary details. The second sentence proves how the author uses tone, “Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, (1) ” the author opens the sentence with the word ‘cold’. Opening with this word can create a tone not only for the writing style but to go along with the imagery of the room that the author is describing.

This then causes the readers to think that the room is not just a cold temperature, but cold in the same way as someone being heartless or lacking in feeling.

As the scene goes on the room goes into a deeper meaning with the adjectives used and imagery used to create the room for the audience to better understand what the author is meaning when he talks about the harsh thin light that is glaring through the windows. This adds to the interpretation of the deeper meaning behind the room and the effect it’s produced. The literary devices used can often contradict meanings and effects based on the writing style. The light continues to be the subject of the next adjective and verb, the light is “hungrily seeking some draped lay figure” (1). The light almost comes to life as described, it almost takes on a life of its own. Becomes capable of a sensation such as hunger and actions that allay it which is almost seeking human characteristics.

The people in this room, the workers are rendered inhuman by the imagery and I have come to realize, by the cloning process by which they’ve been created and in which they are now engaging. This shows how inhuman this world is in this novel. The brave new world is populated by the living dead as described, “their hands gloved with a pale corpse-colored rubber” (1). The humans are just one more clone in their world. They are so dead that they kill the light which finds them, “The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.” (1). But this is not the end of the light. It may be frozen and dead, but it turns into a ghost and so has a certain type of living-on, “only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance” (1). The only things in the room to have life are the laboratory instruments, not the human beings who operate them.

Overall the introductory paragraph at the beginning of the novel provides a deeper meaning based on imagery, tone, similes, and descriptive words. When this paragraph is first read, nothing can come to it as having a deeper meaning but when closely read this paragraph provides proof that the introductory paragraph is about the room and how everything is dead inside and the tone itself is cold and not warm and welcoming as some of the audience might think.

Writer’s Memonot-so-well

When writing this SA, I overall had a little bit of a tough time because when we first started reading Brave New World, I didn’t understand the book,picketheiroutcomes and therefore picking out a scene and having to look at it closely and really examine it was hard. I found a scene that made the most sense to me but I am still not entirely confident with my choice. However disregarding that, I feel as if I did good with choosing quotes, I had an easier time when it came to finding quotes and describing the deeper meaning about them. As for the outcomes that I used then writing this SA, I felt that I used mostly outcome two and three. Outcome two because I was reading and re-reading and analyzing the text in a deeper way which caused me to gather more information about the text. Outcome three because I was engaging in analysis and again considering different meanings and points of view from the text. In the end, I feel I did a good job pulling together the whole essay. It was hard because of my well apparentlyapparently understanding of the book but it came together in the end