Brave New World

Chapter 1
1.The first sentence is strange because they say the building is grey and it sets the tone to be kind of lifeless which is pretty ironic considering they are giving life to humans. They also explain that this 34 story building is small which shows that it is in a place with fairly large buildings.
2. "Community, identity, stability" is presented in a shield which represents protection showing that their lifestyle is very reserved.They say this to try to force individualism and community even
3. There is no emotion once so ever while creating these life form. The place is just very dull which gives off a cold vibe.
4. Their main goal will always come back to getting happiness for themselves, whether that's buying it or receiving it some other way.
5. Before people are even born, their placement in the community has already been decided for them. Workers mass produce eggs to "be born" into a fixed category of Alpha's, Beta's, Gamma's, Delta's and Epsilon's. 
6. Bokanovsky's process was used because 96 human beings could grow instead of only one or two. His process is used so they can have more embryos growing from one egg.
7. Epsilons don't need human intelligence because they aren't required to think very much in the jobs they were created for.

Chapter 2

1. Babies and children get conditioned to learn the basics of what they will need to know as they grow up into adults. Hypnopaedia, the "principle of sleep-teaching," was the act of memorizing certain facts in your sleep.  
2. Delta's were conditioned to like nature, because it was thought that they would consume more transport. However, it prevented factories from being busy. They had to abolish the love of nature to keep people consuming products and keeping factories in business. People were conditioned to love country sports, but it was made sure that all country sports entail the use of elaborate apparatus. 

3. Learning about history is discouraged because if people know about the past they can compare and make people of Ford's time question their lifestyles. Ford wants people to live and consume in the present, he believes history is unimportant.  
4.  Alpha's are the smartest, are used to invent and run the country, and wear grey. Beta's are less intelligent than Alpha's, but are still considered upper-class. Gamma's wear green, Delta's wear khaki, and Epsilon's wear black. The last three caste's have a mental disorder due to lack of oxygen and are used for manual labor.  
5. The upper-class students have been conditioned to look down upon the caste's below them, but to be happy with their own. 

Chapter 3  
1. Naked children play ball games. Children are conditioned to start having sex at the age of seven, and learn how to act and treat others in their castes.
2.Our world is looked down upon because not everything was based on increasing consumption. With each new and complicated game or toy that was invented, the next one had to be more challenging, and people started always waiting for the next best thing. 3. Games are not created unless they bring something new and interesting to stores.

4. There is the potential to get hurt with these things, which leads to unhappiness, which the leaders don't want. 5. Children have been taught to start "erotic play" very young, so by the time they are adults, sex is so common that is weird to go without. Sex is portrayed to us as a sacred thing that you do with someone you care about.
6. Mond is the one who decides what to tell people about history and how to word things so people will be disgusted at the thought of the way we live.
7. Lenina has been with the same man, when the usual time limit is about a week. Bernard Marx is smaller and this makes him insecure because he is an Alpha.
8. He switches between different conversations very quickly and they become as big as one sentence then we switches to a different character speaking.
9. Soma is a pill that people take to keep them from getting emotional. It keeps them "happy".
10.People don't age, they take pills to prevent them from looking older, and die at the age of 60.

Chapter 4
1. He probably works all day, doing work no body else wants to do. People look down upon him and are thankful they aren't Epsilon-Minus'.
2. Some make fun of him but some Alpha's feel sorry for him because it is thought that he may have had alcohol in his blood surrogate and that is why he is different.
3. She and Henry Foster took his helicopter to Stoke Poges to play Obstacle Golf. Then they go to Henry's apartment and go across the street to Westminster Abbey Cabaret. After this they go back to Henry's apartment and take soma caplets and have sex.
4. Lenina is very vocal about her feelings for lower castes. "I'm glad I'm not a Gamma", is an example of something she says proving she looks down upon them and is glad she is of the higher castes.
5. It is thought that when Bernard was in a tube, a worker put alcohol into his blood surrogate by accident and that is why he grew up smaller than the average Alpha. He just wants to fit in and be normal for once.
6. Helmholtz has a mental excess which causes him to be thought as "a little too able." he feels like there is something else in the world, something more important that consumption, but he doesn't know what it is. He is the opposite of Bernard because Bernard is physically defective while Helmholtz it physically too able.

Chapter 6
1.Because it allows you time alone in your own head. Also, being lonely makes people feel unhappy, which is avoided at all costs.
2. Bernard talks a lot about the ocean and how calming and peaceful he feels when gazing out into the waves. This makes Lenina feel very uncomfortable, to feel inspired about something to ordinary.
3. Bernard says that they don't have freedom indirectly. He will usually say something sarcastic about it when Lenina says one of the phrases they heard when they were conditioned. 
4.With Bernard giving in to Lenina's begging, taking a few grams of soma, and sleeping with her.
5. It means to not have any responsibility.
6. He notices that Bernard is different, therefore must have to be monitored closely. He warns him not to question society and act the way he is expected to act, or else he will be exiled to Iceland.
7. The story shows that the director has made mistakes in his past, in leaving with Linda somewhere in the reservation, that he is not necessarily proud of.
8. Helmholtz is annoyed with Bernard's childish behavior and emotions. 
9.There is no escape from a Savage Reservation, and children are born into it and will live there for their entire lives.
10. Malpais is the town and rest house where Lenina and Bernard stay. This is where they watch the sacrifice and where John and Linda live.


Chapter 7
1."The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust."
2. Lenina is afraid of the indian guide because he is associated with this unknown and queer place. Her feelings were reciprocated, with the guide being described as "hostile and sullenly contemptuous."
3. The streets were dirty and dusty, and villagers walked by in feathers and wearing deerskin shoes, holding snakes. Lenina is shocked and scared at times, and Bernard is fascinated in many of the things he sees, but is shocked along with Lenina.
4. They witness a sacrificial ceremony. This is considered to be an honor. Lenina sees the blood and what in her eyes is torture and cruelty.
5.An eagle -- Pookong, and Jesus Christ.
6. He is different because his mother Linda was born through a bottle but she was left at the reservation and gave birth to him at Malpais, and he has lighter skin and hair. He wants to fit in with the other indians, but clearly doesn't. He seems embarrassed, and shy when he notices Lenina watching him.
7. She traveled to the Reservation with the director a long time ago, but she got lost and he left without her. She accidentally got pregnant and horrifyingly gave birth to her son John. He pities herself and her life in Malpais, is ashamed for having a baby. Lenina pities her for doing these awful things she has been conditioned to be disgusted with.

Chapter 8
1. He had a tough time finding acceptance in the native boys, so much of his time was spent by himself. He has a close relationship with Linda, and feels protective of her around other men.
2. Because she has been conditioned to think family is wrong and even though she has love and appreciation for John, she is disgusted with herself for having a baby.
3. Neither of them are treated with kindness or acceptance. Linda is shown no respect by men, and John is clearly an outsider.
4. John wants to be educated and be happy in his life.
5. Linda would talk very highly about the Other Place, how you could go flying anytime of day, that there was no such thing as sadness, and how everything was beautiful and happy.
6. John connects with Shakespeare because it speaks to him and he is able to make connections to his own life. He relates Linda to the women sleeping on a bed in Hamlet, and Pope with Hamlet's uncle. John also sees Bernard as Prospero from the Tempest.
7. To discover time and death and God means to fully understand the purpose of life.
8. They are both outsiders in their own community and are continuously striving for acknowledgement. They gravitate towards each other because they see the similarities between them.
9. Bernard sees fame and recognition through the Savage, and becomes corrupt and greedy and uses him.

Chapter 9
1. Mustapha Mond sees the "sufficient scientific interest" in bringing the Savage to London.
2.John connects Lenina with Juliet and himself as Romeo. He believes she is above him and that he is not worthy of her.

Chapter 10
1. The DHC told Bernard to meet him in the Fertilizing Room because "it contains more high caste workers than any other." The director wants to do this because Bernard is very smart, and with that comes moral responsibilities. The director is afraid that Bernard will corrupt people with his ludicrous beliefs.
2. Because "unorthodoxy threatens more than life of a mere individual, it strikes at Society itself."
3. Linda acts warmly to the director as she is reacquainted with him. She tries to convince him that it is the same Linda from years ago. He is disgusted with her appearance and acts as if he has never known her. The spectators laughed at the humiliating joke.

Chapter 11
1. John is mysterious and unknown because he was born on a reservation. Linda is a mother mother who has grown fat, and ugly over the years.
2. Bernard finds himself of an importance that he was never experienced before. It is because he has connections with the Savage that he is suddenly so popular. He uses John's popularity to get girls and to make his fellow alpha plus' jealous. Helmholtz shows no interest and Bernard is insulted and doesn't want to be friends with him anymore.
3.In a soma holiday. She takes as much as 20 grams a day and is thought to only live another 2 months.
4.With new-found confidence that he never used to have before he met the Savage. He owes all of his unknown fame to John.
5. He is angry that Bernard is trying to lecture him, but then his emotion changes to mirth, because he realizes how clueless and idiotic Bernard really is, and decides to teach him a lesson.
6. John is disgusted with the ways of the World State and ends up "violently retching" because he finds this lifestyle so nauseating. 
7. John learns the different culture and think it's funny.
8. Children come to see a death as part of their conditioning to accept death as nonchalantly as if they were going to a feely.
9. Lenina thinks John is very attractive and senses he is uncomfrotable around her, but she catches him watching her sometimes too.
10. He thinks the film is horrible and ignoble because of the violence and inhuman-ness.

Chapter 12
1. John was feeling used because Bernard was using John's fame to attract envy from his peers and to make himself feel special. This means that Bernard is made to look like a fool when he has to tell everyone that the Savage will not appear. 
2. She had a strange feeling of "anxious exultation". Like she was anticipating her next encounter with him. She feels this way because she may have real feelings for him. She felt lifeless when she found out that she wouldn't see him.
3. John feels like he has requited love for Lenina, but she isn't capable of love in return. He reads Romeo & Juliet because he feels the same way as Romeo does for Juliet.
4.I dont think John has made such an impact on her that she has a different mindset, but atleast she has began to stop and take notice of the natural things in the world like the moon.
5. He reads and decides if the papers get published or not. He doesn't want it to be published because he doesn't want the people to think because he wants them to be happy.
6. Bernard is not popular anymore. John and Helmholtz don't like Bernard anymore.
7. Helmholtz gets in trouble because he shares with his students hypnopedia. It is dangerous because now the students now know the secrets of hypnoapedia. He did it because he wanted to see the students reactions!
8. Helmholtz thinks Shakespeare was ok until he read Romeo and Juliet, he thought it was silly.
9. Helmholtz thinks emotion needs to present in writing.

Chapter 13
1. Lenina acts crazy upon her emotions. Lenina wants to make love to John but John is running away.
2. Lenina really likes John and seduces him.
3. John likes Lenina and wants to get to know her more. John wants to kill a lion and marry her.
4. John tries to run away from Lenina. John responds this way because he respects her too much to just go have sex with her. John wants to be in a serious relationship with her.

Chapter 14
1. The hospital for the dying is pretty pleasant because they've been taught that dying isn't that quite scary.
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3. She never really took great care of herself and she drank too much.
4. He was in denial and he went back to those memories of when Linda sang to him.
5. The Delta children are at the hospital because they were conditioning them to like death. He thinks it's dumb and sad.
6. Death isn't terrible because they were conditioned since they were young that it wasn't. For an individual it means that when that time comes for them to perish they won't fear it and will accept it happily.

Chapter 15
1. Recurs means that john liked the brave new world before, but now he found it out he thought it was grouse.
2. John interferes with the soma distribution because he thinks it is poison. John says it is poison because you are not free when you use soma.
3. You are a slave if you use soma and free if you don't. You lose your manhood if you become a slave to Soma and there is no liberty where there are slaves.
4. He thinks they are slaves. 
5. Bernard and Helmholtz show how opposite of the spectrum is from John.
6. The soma was replaced and people were very emotional. To be happy and good means to be together and enjoying each others companies without being under the influence of some sort.

Chapter 16

1. Bernard is starting to realize how terrible the world he lives in is. He acts this way because there is evidence all around him of how terrible his world is.
2. John doesn't like civilization because it makes people not think for themselves.
3. Old and beautiful things are forbidden because they are different from high art and happiness.
4. Tragedies can't be written now because they make people sad. Death is necessary for tragedy.
5. Art in the new world includes happiness. It can't mean sadness. Helmholtz decides what can be published and what can't.
6. Mond says that liberty, happiness, and stability are all needed for a society.
7. Mond explains the caste system by saying that we all need different levels of people for a society. I sort of agree with this because some people help other people grow but no one should be looked down on.
8. There would be no one to do the dirty work.
9. Science must be constrained because it will keep advancing and people will keep advancing and could become dangerous. I agree.
10. Mond chooses to serve other people's happiness because he loves people. He really is just in it for himself.
11. Helmholtz does not want to go on an island.

Chapter 17
1. Mond talks with John alone to share his opinion of religion.
2. Their religion discussion is very personal. John argues that religion gives hope to civilization. Mond says that religion is dangerous because you lose your youth.
3. Mond believes that the role of God is very high and mighty and just restricts people. It is related to the self because the self has no control over what it does or no identity.
4. Solitude is important to help determine your spirituality.
5. John argues that men have been degraded because he uses a different set of standards than Mond. From happy and hardworking to a low life.
6. Self-denial is not something you can help yourself with you need a stronger power to help you, chasity is your personal choice, and nobility and heroism come from people's perspectives of you. John would partially agree with me and Mond would think I'm nuts.
7. Soma is basically their god.
8. It means to work hard for your riches and if you oppose them you don't work hard for them.
9. John is saying that you can't buy civilization.
10. John says yes to comfort, God, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, sin, and ultimately unhappiness

Chapter 18
1. John mixes mustard and warm water to throw up.
2. He goes to an island and stays in an abandoned lighthouse to be self sufficient and punish himself for his sins to be forgiven by god.
3. What he is doing is not very healthy but the society he was living in didn't make his standards.
4. John flogs himself because he is punishing himself for thinking selfishly.
5. He thinks about sexual thought of Lenina which causes him to get very upset with himself.
6. What makes the film so popular back in London?
7. Lenina wants to talk to John but John thinks she is trying to seduce him.
8. The crowd cheers as John flagellates in front of them and he whips Lenina
9. John hangs himself because he believes there is no other way out of the torture he has already been through.

Brave New World Notes

Chapter 1
-London environment, skyscrapers, and big mottos all set the tone
-shield: symbol of protection
-ironic how lifeless a Fertilizing Room can be
-"For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils."
-they don't question authority

MY MODERNIST

I have selected Mark Twain because I have enjoyed every single story I have read by him. He is by far my favorite writer and my two favorite books are by him.