Lenina Foreshadow

Furthermore, throughout the film Wolfgang Becker also uses Cultural aspects of East Berlin and West Berlin. Wolfgang Becker also shows the differences between East and West living. In Goodbye Lenin Alex found it difficult to keep the reign of GDR alive, as East Berlin was becoming into West Berlin. Alex’s mother Christiane was making things more difficult for Alex as the supermarkets were emptied and it was almost impossible to find the food Christiane wanted e.g. Spreewald Pickles and Globus Peas (00:42:10). Alex uses old bottles and bottle labels that were found in the rubbish dump and fills them up with western food he buys from the supermarket (00:41:31) one reason behind this is so Alex’s mother Christiane does not find out about the changes

Furthermore, their maternal attitudes balance each other. Lenina is unable to grasp the concept of motherhood because of her “Beta- Mindedness,” a result of her conditioning. Linda, like Lenina, is unable to fully understand being a mother as well. Linda expresses obtrusive attempts at motherly affection. For example, she constantly refers to John as “baby” and says “come and lie down, Baby” (Huxley 111). Linda’s motherly affectation is a result of her being engulfed by shame, and causes her to feel the need to play a caring mother.

Set at the end of the Cold War in East Germany, the movie Goodbye Lenin is the story of a young man, Alex, trying to protect his mother, Christiane, who just spent the last eight months in a coma. Christiane is a personification of the values and ideology of socialism. She carries them out in her interactions with society, and is very hopeful towards the success of the regime. During her absence, the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the German Democratic Republic leads to a radical and turbulent change in society: the fall of socialism and the triumph of capitalism. Because of the shocking effect of such information and the danger of another heart attack, Alex creates for Christiane an ideological form of socialism. Fundamental themes in the movie are the difference between ideal and reality of socialism, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the transition to free market capitalism. Such themes are carried out through a juxtaposition of an ideal society and its reality in the form of a constructed reality of socialism. This idealized version of socialism served as an oasis from the chaotic transition from a problematic socialist regime to free market capitalism.

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

Lenina is a woman who works in the embryo store of the hatchery. She represents the ideal citizen of the world state, and she undergoes a change in character towards the end of the novel. She begins as a conforming World state citizen, midway she feels some degree of love for John, then at the end she contributes to the death of John. At the beginning of the novel Lenina is the epitome of the world state female, and the world state citizen. She seems to be quite Vapid, a clear description of this was in the discussion between Henry Foster and the assistant Predestinator. Henry says ’Oh, she’s a splendid girl.Wonderfully pneumatic. I’m surprised you haven’t had

In the novel, the Soviet citizens were forced to look up to Stalin when he actually made them suffer. Nowadays, people think of Stalin as a bad person and leader, they immediately think of how awful he was and what he did. People have changed their view on communism and their type of leadership. As an example, in the novel Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Sasha the main character looks up to Stalin as a leader. A passage from the book is, “When I imagine Comrade Stalin reading my letter, I get so excited that I can’t sit still.”pg. 4 This shows that Sasha really looks up to Stalin. When I told my mom the title of the novel, she immediately thought about the bad things Stalin did. This is an example of how social changes occurred from when Stalin was a leader to today when he is known as a bad

Linda’s exile experience was very alienating for her. What Linda thought was normal in her old life was now looked down at on the Reservation. Linda was unable and unaware of how to live a normal life on the Reservation due to the conditioning at World State in her old life. In the Reservation, Huxley stated that “nobody’s supposed to belong to more than one person. And if you have others in the ordinary way, the others think you’re wicked and anti-social” (121).

In the novels, Brave new world published by Aldous Huxley in 1932 and Three Day Road published by Joseph Boyden in 2005 two characters are changed drastically throughout the duration of the novels. Lenina in Brave new world changes from a submissive and promiscuous woman of the World State to an emotional woman, showing her the potential to defy her conditioning. Elijah in Three Day Road cracks under the pressure of the war and changes from a defiant boy to a menacing assassin. Both authors are using these novels to comment on how strongly we are influenced by the environment which surrounds us.

There is another important character by the name of Lenina. Lenina is from the World State and decided to go on a tour with Bernard to the Savage Reservation. On the Savage Reservation people age, give birth, and experience death. While being on the Savage Reservation Lenina absolutely hates it, the smells and sights of new things never seen before appall Lenina to the highest extent. In the World State it is so clean that giving birth and growing old does not exist. But in Malpais, the emotional pain of giving birth and dying are still the essential part of human life. Also in this chapter Lenina and Linda meet. The reader will notice that Linda could have been in Lenina’s shoes if under different circumstances. What I mean by that is that Lenina and Linda are almost like a double mirror. Lenina is living the life Linda would have had if The Director did not leave her behind that dreadful day.

This quote talks about how Lenina woke up in one of her naps or when she was sleep and realized that they were teaching her through her sleep. I feel like this is why her personality is different than other people in the book. I feel like she seems more great full than other people for not being a lower cast because she knows how horrible their job is. Maybe because she wasn't asleep all the way through the teaching session that the thing they were repeating over and over again didn't stay permanently stay in her memory like the other people. And the fact that it scared her when she realized this probably didn't help either. (117)

The audience can also sympathize with Lenina as she’s sleeping. According to what John said, she is helpless and cannot do anything if something bad to occur (lines 42-44). As a result, the audience can react in Lenina’s defense as John tries to touch her. Huxley

On the other hand, Linda’s intellectual ability is on an entirely different scale, for the most part. Linda began with all the same hypnopædic suggestions as Lenina but her life in the reservation caused her to lose some of that knowledge. Linda was able to adapt to the life in the reservation. When Linda is talking to Lenina about cleanliness and when she first arrived she mentions, “But of course they didn’t understand. How should they? And in the end I suppose I got used to it,” (121). This quote

This again shows Lenina's attempt to escape from the harsh reality of her brainwashed society. All the times that Lenina resorts to soma use, it is due to a recognition that her life and world are not perfect and in control, but rather full of people who have no grasp on real freedom and control. Though she does not directly fight the power that dominates society, her apperception of the problem exhibits a greater intelligence and understanding of the Brave New World.

The purpose of this analysis is to show how the themes of the novel are loosely based on the events in the soviet union, and the similarities between the world of big brother and Joseph Stalin’s communistic leadership.

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection