English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Brave New World, Unibrow, Italian Fascism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1028F/G
• Professor: Gabrielle Ceraldi

Document Summary

Fanny and lenina are having a conversation about the wrongness of her dating henry. The dynamic between fanny and lenina is familiar but backwards: If it had been our society, lenina would have been cheating on foster and it would have been talked about in the same way. Conventionality is the highest compliment in that world being exactly like everyone else is important. Encouraged to see bnw as totalitarianist inspired by stalinist russia, but there are signs of italian fascism and american capitalism. Leisure activities are encouraged to have a lot of equipment. If all of the things that they enjoy are dependent on manufactured technologies, it makes them love the state and contribute to consumerism. If you hate nature, you"re not going to move out into nature to be independent. Mustapha mond (42) society responded to the rise of development by attempted to restrict consumption.