English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Middle Ages, Dramatization, John Stuart Mill
12 Jan 2017
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English 1022 Week 4
Brave New World
October 4th
Paragraph #2 of the Novel
• The North is associated with cold and ultimately back in the middle Ages with Satan
• Intensely heated building
• Lay figure → what an artist uses to sketch the body of a figure
o The light is seeking the interior of an artists studio
• The light was frozen and dead like a ghost → reminds us of the Dead
• We are asked to contrast artistic creativity which the light seems to be seeking with the creation
that is taking place in this room
• That creation is nothing less or more than the creation of human beings using a technique that
looks extremely like a conveyer belt
Page 2
• The narrator is omniscient and yet the voice is male and upper class and English (uses the word
rather er often)
• He is the director but now the acronym is being used → this makes us apart of the students that
are listening to the DHC explaining the process
• Every move made by the DHC and every response is really our initiation through the lecture
technique
Page 3
• The analogy takes the manufactured human beings into the realm of animals
• Human beings are dehumanized to the reproductive processes of animals
• The way in which this horrific process of creating animals is described by the director in a
completely formal tone
• Evil becomes just ordinary
• I a sese here there is a earl eaple of the ost horrifi thig eig desried i atter of
fat ters so that it becomes acceptable
• Not just comparing the process to a production of animals but also to the production of plants
• Ford once said, you could have any colour you want, as long as its black
o What is showed, is the standardization of human beings
o A process of repetition and identical human beings in different categories
• Ford also sas: page 29 Histor is uk
Montage
• Comes from the cinema and the director Eisenstein → clipping two segments of film together
• The effect is that 1 + 1 =3 because we the viewer have to make a deduction
• Here is the society in which the rich are way up there and the poor are way down there
• We make a judgment about that society
Musicalization of fiction
• Weaving together of themes
• So introducing one melody and then another to work with it or against it
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