April 23rd

1. For Wednesday/Thursday- Be through Chapter 8 in Brave New World. We will have a quiz over the first 8 chapters.

2. Characterization: The manner in which the author creates a character.

Characters are the vehicle of the author's purpose/message in a book. As we experience a character we learn what to do/think/react... or what not to do/think/react. Though an author can explicitly describe a character (physical descriptions, personality traits.. and how we should ingest these offerings), now that you are reading more nuanced texts, the characterization is often implicit (we must ingest characters' dialogue, interactions with other characters, perspectives, etc. in order to come to conclusions of purpose).

Brave New World Characterization Presentation

 You will be creating a fabulous Google Presentation which will show your analysis of the major characters of Huxley's Brave New World.

The characters you will need to address for this project are: Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Hemholtz Watson, Mustapha Mond, and John the Savage.

 In your analysis, you will need to address the following:
1. What historical individuals served as inspiration to each character's names? Research. Cite sources.
2. How is Huxley using that historical individual to create his character? Have they been created to mirror certain characteristics or to contrast them?
3. A general explanation of who the character is within BNW.
4. 2 personality traits that accurately depict each character within the book. Think to personality traits.. not results of the trait. Psychoanalyze them, Dr. Freud.
5. 2 VERY accurate quotes PER TRAIT from BNW. Cited correctly.
6. Explanation of how the quote represents the specific character.
7. For EACH character, you will need a "final analysis". This means YOUR personal explanation of relevance and purpose of this character... how Huxley is using him/her in the book... What are we supposed to learn from them? How do they support Huxley's purpose for writing BNW.
8. For each character, you will need to settle on a real-life individual that you feel would best "play" this character. Upload their image with each character and explain why you chose this individual to represent this character.

This characterization study is due to Google Classroom by May 1st at 7:30 AM.