Friday, July 8, 2011

Answer me this....

While reading this novel some questions have been plaguing me so I figured I might as well blog them and see if you have some good answers. So here it goes...

  • What's up with the cover? 
  • How the heck does it relate to the book?
  • Was this  the original cover? If so did Aldous Huxley pick it himself?
  • Why did he decide to title it Brave New World?
  • Why did he write this book?
  • Where did the idea for it come from?
  • Did he believe a world like the one described would be best? (If so all my blogs are incredibly wrong)
  • Where/how did he get/come up with the material for this book?
  • Was alcohol really put in Bernard's blood surrogate?
  • Was Linina killed when John the Savage attacked her or just badly injured?
  • Why does Helmholtz put up with Bernard's incessant whining?
  • How did life on the Island turn out for the two men?
  • Did John kill himself because of his love for Lenina or all the attention from society or a combo or something completely different?
  • Is Mustapha Mond supposed to be evil?
  • Is there even supposed to be a sense of good and evil in this book?
  • What was the reasoning behind the name choices for the characters?
  • Who in their right mind thinks it's ok for toddlers to experiment sexually with one another?
  • Why give Ford such an important role?
I'm sure more questions will come to me later, but this is all I have got for now.

1 comment:

  1. Sweet! Now I don't have to come up with discussion questions for class! Thanks, Ana!

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