![]() ![]() The warm glory of afternoon sunlight made him start and blink his eyes. The liftman was a small simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron. Whisk, Passion whisk, Requiem whisk, Symphony whisk … Brave New World Excerpts for Analysis Set #2 Whisk, the cathedrals whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal. Whisk–the place where Italy had been was empty. Whisk–and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk–and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jerusalem and the Middle Kingdom–all were gone. He waved his hand and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Knossos and Mycenae. ![]() Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently–though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. “Just to give you a general idea,” he would explain to them. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Brave New World Excerpts for Analysis Set #1 Scroll to the bottom of this post for printable PDF worksheets of these Brave New World quotes. I group these Brave New World quotes according to the reading schedule that I follow: Reading 1: Chapters 1 through 3 Each example has special importance in terms of historical context, theme development, key elements, craft/style, or structure. Here are the Brave New World excerpts that I use to get students thinking critically, analyzing, and discussing. To utilize Brave New World excerpts for close reading and analysis, you must first identify the best examples. ![]()
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