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| Chatto and Windus, London |
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| Third-person omniscient; the narrator frequently makes passages of “objective” description sound like the speech or thought patterns of a particular character, using a technique usually called “free indirect quotation.” |
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| John incites a riot in the hospital in Chapter 15. |
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| Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John |
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| 2540 a.d.; referred to in the novel as 632 years “After Ford,” meaning 632 years after the production of the first Model T car. |
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| England, Savage Reservation in New Mexico |
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| Narrated in the third person, primarily from the point of view of Bernard or John but also from the point of view of Lenina, Helmholtz Watson, and Mustapha Mond. |
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| Chapter 18, in which John isolates himself in a lighthouse and punishes himself; it ends with an orgy and his suicide. |
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| Foreshadowing does not play a significant role in the narrative. |
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| Satirical, ironic, silly, tragic, juvenile, pedantic |
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| The use of technology to control society, the incompatibility of happiness and truth, the dangers of an all-powerful state |
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| Alienation, sex, Shakespeare |
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| The drug soma is a symbol of the use of instant gratification to control the World State’s populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society. |
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