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What is the mood of this novel?
Do you find this novel saddens you in any way?
Why?

The mood of "Brave New World" is very negative. You can barely find the happy part in the book. It's very miserable, depressing, and sad. In the novel, there are only sad events. There are part when Linda, John's mother dies, when John dies at the end, and also, when Lenina cries because he can't get loved from John. All the people in the New World doesn't have right, they are not free. They have caste system which is very miserable. Low levels, such as delta and Epsilon, they are badly mistreaten. They were born like slaves. But they don't know that they are being mistreaten because they use the drug, soma. They are conditioned to like that. To me, I think the part where John got mad and throws soma rations out of the window, was very depressing part. John doesn't fit in to that New World and can't exist until he gets sends to jail, or island. Living in normal world and move to this New World, where people are born by machines, where people have to eat the drug, and where you have to worship the science with caste system, would be very odd for him. And these events lead him to commit suicide at the end. That is really depressing mood. What a shocking ending!

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What is the climax of this novel?
What happens?
How do the events of this novel make you feel?

I think there are a lot of climax in this novel. To pick the highest point, I think it is when John got mad. It is when John tries to stop the distribution of the Soma to Delta. John is from the Savage Reservation, where soma is not provided. Soma is a medicine that people eat whenever they feel depressed. In other word, you can call it "drug". People eat this too often, they get addicted to it, until they can't live without it. People in New World always use this drugs. But John doesn't get fit into that culture which makes him get mad. He gets sent to the island with Bernard. This event makes me feel very mad. I hate the New World people's culture. To say it in word, I think it's very rigid and solid. If I was in John's situation, I would do same thing as him. I would not be able to stand and do something crazy, to criticize the world. John threw the soma rations out of the windows, and I would do the same thing. I am really afraid that our future might turn out like this.

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Who are the main characters in the novel?
Do you like them?
Why or why not?

What is special about them?

What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

Lenina- She works in the Conditioning Center of the World State. She brings John to the New World. She falls in love with John. But I think she's kind of selfish. She always puts herself first. I think she relies too much on soma, the drug.

John - He's from the reservation, outside of the New World. He gets braught to the New World by Lenina and Bernard. He has a lot of conflict with Bernard. He's son of the director of the New World and Linda. He's special because he wasn't born by the machines. I really like him since he's normal. He also likes Shakesphere's novel. He doesn't fit in well in the New World and comits suicide.

Bernard - When he was young there were some mistakes which led him to be pysically wrong. He has too much of his individual thought, I think. He brings John to the New World with Lenina. At the end of the story he goes to the island with John

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Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel?What are they, and how do they relate?Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?



In the novel, lives were created by machine, scientifically. Humans don't born the babies but the machines, robots do in the story. In the reality, in these days, one of the biggest issue is cloning. Scientist make a same creatures by cloning people's DNA. Scientists say that this will help the world's cure and cure the diseases that can't be cured easily. But I think this is very wrong. Making a new life creature, since they have a life, I think they have a right and thought. They should be just like as humans. They can also feel the pain. It's taking away a creatures right. We should think another ways for cloning even if it's very good for curing. There are another current situation in this book. In the book there are five caste; Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. In these days there are still slavery system which I really don't agree with. I think when people are born, they are equally free. There should be no things as slaves. They have no rights to be equall like the others. For example in Korea, there existed slavery systems long time ago. Also, in US, there were another slavery system as African-Americans came in. Even though it got much better in these days, there are still some problems, like India. We should abolish that system.

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What is the major theme of this novel?

Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

The book "Brave New World" was a tough book for me. I barely understood the story. I think the main them of this novel is only happiness can't make people happy. In our lifetime, there are a lot of happiness and sadness that we experience through. We feel really good if while we experiece happiness. In the other hand, we feel bad while experiencing sadness or madness. We always expect to have on happiness in our life, but not sadness. We never want to have sadness. Do you think the life would be easy if there is only happiness? I don't think so. I think sadness make the happiness. If there is no sadness, there should be no happiness. If we are alway happy, it would be a boring life. We would feel no more importance of happiness.

I think this is very important to teenagers. It's important especially for those who are in adolescene when they have a lot of resistance. Teenagers will grow up and be the citizens of the world. While growing, there would be a lot of hard times. They should think that this slump of life is also important. Not only happiness is important, but sadness is also very important.