Analysis Of Lenina Crowne

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Roberto Flores #14065
Mrs. Day
British literature and Composition P.1
April-28-104
Brave New Worlds Lenina Crowne

A typical day for a citizen would include working a meaningless and monotone job, exchanging nonsensical banter with workmates and friends, and the occasional mass orgy and near-violent sexual encounters. To most modern day human beings, this lifestyle is ludicrous and wild as well as a catastrophe waiting to happen. However, Lenina Crowne, a sexual heroine, is simply following these civil ‘norms’ because of her conditioning, ‘upbringing’, and what has been imprinted upon her through her environment. She is, in most respects, the spitting image of what the World State wants in its citizens. Lenina, through her lack of depth as well as personality, her promiscuity, and thoughts on life and death, epitomizes the values of the world state.
From the moment the reader is introduced to Lenina, she is portrayed as a floosy and clueless girl who simply cares about two things; sex and material objects. This in itself is the perfect outcome that the World State has tried to perfect through its endless research. All of the conditioning and sleep-teaching has amounted to Lenina Crowne. Her thoughts, her words, and her actions are almost an extension of the World State itself. Her thoughts on soma, for example,”…do remember that a gramme is better than a damn(55, A. Huxley).” This in itself is a
Flores II conditioned quote that Lenina has learned through her lifespan, which was dictated by the World State. That in itself is a perfect parallel between Ms. Crowne and the society she lives in...

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...een as natural and fitting to ‘absurd’ advances of romance and closeness. At one point within the novel, Lenina seems to exhibit natural and unconditioned human behavior, but only for a fraction of a second. Ms. Crowne is horrified at the sight of blood and such savagery when a boy begins to get whipped, and all seems natural and sober to her, however, immediately she craves soma and an escape, which is the epitome of a World State citizen and their brain capacity. Not only this, but her attempts at relating and bonding with John the Savage fail miserably as she ends up closing herself off to him, through her childish actions towards him. While her actions may seem childish and rash to a reader, Lenina, in ‘Brave New World’ she is quite normal and sane to react in her way. She is simply a product of her surroundings and her creator. She is the World State in a human.

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