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Homework over holidays until November 13th 2012

  • Finish / Write your Reading Diary / Scrap book
  • Minimum requirements/questions to be answered:


  • Write a review of BNW according to handout (do not include pt. 2 - summary!)

  • Characterize two characters – one male, one female (round or flat, relation to each other?. Include typical quotations and explain why they are typical!
  • Collect information on what life was like "before Ford" – that is before this "Brave New World"!
  • What are the principles/aims of this new society/world?

If you ask people what counts in life and makes it worth living, they will often come up with these answers:

  • family/relationships
  • happiness
  • feeling/passion
  • love
  • freedom
  • equaility
  • friendship
  • truth
  • art
  • peace/stability

What role do these values play in the utopian society of Brave New World, or in what form do they appear? (Cf. chapter 16/17)[part of your reading diary]


  • How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?
Write an outline + a short dialogue of John's or Lenina's ideal evening![part of your reading diary]

Chapters 12+13

  • Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]


Chapter 11

  • Write a realistic diary entry for John's diary in which he notes down all the things he doesn't understand or like about the new world! - Use these notes as a starting point, but refer to the book!



Read chapter 18!

  • How do you like/understand the end of this dystopian novel?


  • (Re-)Read chapter 16!

If you ask people what counts in life and makes it worth living, they will often come up with these answers:

  • family/relationships
  • happiness
  • feeling/passion
  • love
  • freedom
  • equaility
  • friendship
  • truth
  • art
  • peace/stability

What role do these values play in the utopian society of Brave New World, or in what form do they appear? (Cf. chapter 16/17)[part of your reading diary]



  • For Tuesday
  1. Read ch. 14
  2. How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?
Write an outline + a short dialogue [part of your reading diary]


  • Read chapters 12+13 for next Friday!
  • Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]

  • Read chapter 11
  • Write a diary entry for John's diary in which he notes down all the things he doesn't understand or like about the new world! - Use these notes as a starting point, but refer to the book!
  • Tuesday October 2nd: read ch. 8 and 9
Chapter 8 (p. 118-120)
- How similar are Bernhard and John really?
- What do you think of Bernhard's scepticism in the last sentence of ch. 8?


  • Read chapters 6 + 7 , Compare Bernhard and John in their way of seeing things and in terms of their position in society. What do you think about Bernhard's behavior and his motives?
  • Worksheet: Narrators and points of view
  • Friday: narrator + point of view in 3 texts on worksheet, too, how is style (formal/informal) linked to narrator/point of view mark relevant passages
  • Tuesday: read ch 4 + 5 , find good examples of narrator + pov