What is the mood of this novel?What happens?How do the events of this novel make you feel?
The mood of the novel starts out as rather heavy mood although the first five chapters are merely explanations of the Society. However, the descriptions of the Society, at least it made me feel heavy mood because it was so outrageous and made no sense if you were human being. Babies were electrocuted to be educated, people were manipulated to become either stupid or smart, and no moral existed. Then, the mood changes into a shallow but thick mood as Marx is introduced and the life in the Society is described. The shallowness of the mood and the Marx’s life takes the story to Marx almost getting kicked out of London. At that point, the mood is very dark, with the Marx’s actions going under the laws of the Society. Marx breaks some rules such as lack of sex life and not taking soma periodically. The director of the Society calls Marx and then tells him to watch his steps or he will be out of the Society. Alarmed, Bernard immediately looks out for anything that will make him to regain the reputation and goes over to the town of Savages. The mood of the story changes to almost like a mist, as the story goes deep into how the Director and Linda are related and how John was born. Then, the flashback describes how John learned to read, write poems and literature, learn spiritual things, gain human qualities, and morals of life. Then, John goes to the New World with Bernard, when the mood changes to a very chaotic mood. John’s trying to adjust to the new environment but he’s interrupted by many meetings arranged by Bernard and Bernard goes on enjoying his authority. Later, Bernard gets kicked out of London and John commits suicide at the end of the novel, which the mood is rather sad and hard.
The mood of the novel starts out as rather heavy mood although the first five chapters are merely explanations of the Society. However, the descriptions of the Society, at least it made me feel heavy mood because it was so outrageous and made no sense if you were human being. Babies were electrocuted to be educated, people were manipulated to become either stupid or smart, and no moral existed. Then, the mood changes into a shallow but thick mood as Marx is introduced and the life in the Society is described. The shallowness of the mood and the Marx’s life takes the story to Marx almost getting kicked out of London. At that point, the mood is very dark, with the Marx’s actions going under the laws of the Society. Marx breaks some rules such as lack of sex life and not taking soma periodically. The director of the Society calls Marx and then tells him to watch his steps or he will be out of the Society. Alarmed, Bernard immediately looks out for anything that will make him to regain the reputation and goes over to the town of Savages. The mood of the story changes to almost like a mist, as the story goes deep into how the Director and Linda are related and how John was born. Then, the flashback describes how John learned to read, write poems and literature, learn spiritual things, gain human qualities, and morals of life. Then, John goes to the New World with Bernard, when the mood changes to a very chaotic mood. John’s trying to adjust to the new environment but he’s interrupted by many meetings arranged by Bernard and Bernard goes on enjoying his authority. Later, Bernard gets kicked out of London and John commits suicide at the end of the novel, which the mood is rather sad and hard.
1 comment:
I liked the way how you used to word 'mist' in your entry. The mood does get sad in the end when the savage kills himself. The last paragraph of the book is written in way that makes you feel pity for the savage and sad about the struggle he had gone through in an attempt to change the world. The mood is indeed very heavy throughout the book. Society is a huge part of the world and dealing with that is definately not easy.
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