Brave+New+World+Notes+1.0

Mauricio Ortiz English Notes
 * __Notes__**

· The Motto is Community, Identity, and Stability o Community- Part of group no loneliness o Identity- Even though there is community, there is uniqueness o Stability- safety, balance, the stability is reliable o None wants to be thrown off a community, but there is also a difference between people no t everybody is the same. And also there can be chaos like fun, but also it is stable. || · Located in London in a lab · We find out the year if A.F. (After Ford) 632 · A.F. Means there is no spiritual leader, instead Ford is  · The director’s age can’t be determined · Alfas and Betas and Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons- were social classes being Alfas the highest and Epsilons the lowest · Embryos were classified before even being born · Alfas and Betas will be less amount than Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons · 96 humans from one embryo (progress) · Viviparous- naturally reproducing (having sex for children) is now considered old times · Each human embryo born from a same embryo was clones · Director explains Bokanovsky’s process is major instrument of social stability because everybody is the same · The principle of mass production at last applied to biology- a mass product a standard human PRODUCT · The amount of kids is like a competition · Life is planned before even born · Emotions are also fixed · Their emotion is they like what they do so nobody argues · Everybody likes and enjoys what they have been programmed to do || · Lenina uncommonly nice and has something going on with Henry || · 8 month old babies · They want to condition the babies · “Instinctive” hatred- not instinctive, instead they are conditioned · He doesn’t want the babies to read so they don’t find out about their lower class. · They only care about money · A love of nature keeps no factories busy · They hate the prairies, but they like country sports · Economics is what matters · Everything expensive and complicated to spend more money || · Make babies have sex · Little sexuality in our time now it is encouraged and it happens that they are sexually active since they’re very small · Mustapha Mond is the leader and controller · Bernard Marx has unsavory reputation- he isn’t liked · World government · 10 world controllers- Mustapha is one · “History is useless” Ford · What would it be like if all (!st paragraph pg 35)was not there · 2 billion people and only 10 names · Freud- German father of psychoanalysis o Discovered unconscious mind o Ego o ID  o Super Ego- pressure by other people, cultures, morality, and religion o Says the problem is the super ego because it limits your behavior and your inner person can’t be free. o “Man needs to be free from the forces that limit him, especially in the area of sexuality” o Man’s problem come from repressed (that is over controlled sexuality) · You’re not supposed to be with a same person for a long time · Monogamy- one wife one husband · Hypnopadec proverb- everybody belongs to everybody else there is no monogamy · Lenina has been going out with Henry Foster for four months and not well seen · Life in the old days forced people to feel strongly and therefore couldn’t be stable. · Want low easy life stable · A perfect gentleman is someone who sleeps everybody · In this society stability is to have many men or women at the same time · What society wants to do is shorten the time between desire and fulfillment so there is stability · The moment you want something you get it  · Want to block emotions · Bernard Marx is lonely likes to spend time by himself- is a “weirdo” · When you’re alone you think- they don’t want people to think · Small was not elegant it was low cast · Fanny compares him to a cat · Bernard Marx is realizing this system isn’t as “perfect” · Nine Years War AF 141 o Weapons of mass destruction o Terrifying war it was so bad people were begging for stability o Those who protested were killed with gas o History was destroyed || Kartik Chhabra Honors English 9A May 2, 2011- Chapter 6 Part 1 May 3, 2011- Chapter 6 Part 3
 * First Paragraph || · By the first paragraph we see there is only one government- “World State’s Motto”
 * First Chapter || · There is a fertilizing Room where babies are being made
 * Pg 4- 2nd Paragraph || · People who know their job is the right way ||
 * Characters || · Henry and Lenina
 * Chapter 2 || · Pavlovian is about creating a standard behavior so if repeated kids will be scared of roses and books
 * Chapter 3 || · They make babies playing with complicated games so they keep on consuming crap
 * Lenina is hesitating to go with Bernard because he strange.
 * She was deciding whether she should go to the North Pole with Benito Hoover
 * Savage reservations: Native- American reservation
 * Is Huxley suggesting this society or is he criticizing?
 * Bernard, in the book, is the closest to our society today
 * "What's time for?" time was supposed to be wasted and Bernard saw time as talking with people
 * Are the people in the book free?
 * The more you can see your conditioning the more you can break away from it.
 * And that's what Bernard is doing
 * Bernard shows his independence
 * Lenina preferred not to understand what Bernard was saying
 * Bernard changed towards the end of the date
 * He took 4 tablets of Soma and actually had sex
 * He told Lenina she was awfully pneumatic (like meat)
 * For Lenina, success in life, is being good meat
 * Bernard always misses Lenina, they never meet each other, they are not the same
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The next day Bernard was back to being him
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">He wanted a strong and good relationship, but Lenina didn't. Lenina was astonished
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard's disadvantages make him who he is
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard gets warned for not being with many girls
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">His character has been questionable
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">DHC felt uncomfortable when Bernard was really emotional about leaving the girl behind
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard get warned and the next time he does anything wrong he will be sent to Iceland in isolation
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard was happy when he left the DHC's room because someone had noticed him
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Hypnopaedic proverb: Progress is good
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard thought that Iceland was just a threat but he was actually going to Iceland

May 10, 2011: Chapter 8 March 11, 2011: Chapter 9 Chapter 10 May 12, 2011: Chapter 11
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">In the reservation 20 years earlier (the DHC was in the reservation and left a girl back in the reservation)
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Linda (the women who got left behind) had a baby named John
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">And Bernard is going to take John back and use him as blackmail device
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Because as soon as Bernard gets back he would be sent to Iceland
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">So Bernard is going to tell the DHC that John is his child
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John is better educated than almost all the people in the Brave New World
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Because he has read Shakespeare
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">While Lenina is on her Soma holiday
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard goes to get the paperwork, so that John and Linda could get in to the Brave New World
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Right now Bernard is clever staying on top of everything.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">He needs higher authority than the DHC, and that is Mustapha Mond.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard needs to save his butt
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John breaks into the room while Lenina is on her "soma" holiday, and goes through her stuff
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">He is fascinated by her stuff (perfume, scarf)
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John is ashamed to un-zip Lenina's zippyjamas.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John quotes Shakespeare, while Lenina quotes the hypnopedic proverbs
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">This shows the contrast between John and Lenina
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John does not un zip Lenina because he followed his morals
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">He had a code of conduct, respect the woman
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The DHC was going to kick Bernard because he doesn't behave like everyone else
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">He didn't behave traditionally
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Linda is overdosing with Soma, because an overdose of Soma can kill you
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard was treated with respect, he was not told that he was an alcohol child.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">**The soul** as an entity independent of the physical environment
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"The Soul" (John): Something spiritual, some thing not made of "matter"
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"The Soul" (Brave new World): Simply an expression of brain function (materialism)
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"The Soul" (scientists): Consciousness
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Lenina goes out with John
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Like Bernard and Lenina, John and Lenina don't connect
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John did not like the movie, while Lenina enjoyed it
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John thought the movie was //ignoble// and //base//

May 16, 2011- Chapter 12 Chapter 13
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Key Points:
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> humiliation of Bernard/ Bernard was taking advantage of his fame and now he is back to his negative aspects
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> Helmholtz going beyond the limits (writing poems, and thinking)
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> "The purpose of life was not the maintenances of well being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness" Mustapha Mond Page 177.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Mustapha Mond, thinks that "A New Theory of Biology" is ingenious but should not be published because it might de-condition the upper class, and might make people think.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">First purpose:"Happiness as the sovereign goal" - World State Moto- Lenina is coming from here- Mustapha Mond wants people to go here
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Second purpose:" intensification and refining of consciousness" - John is coming from here- Mustapha Mond does not want people to go here
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Helmholtz calls Shakespeare a "marvelous propaganda technician"
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Lenina is talking about intervals, and that's what the World State is trying to eliminate longer intervals
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Lenina takes a half gram of soma and goes to John and tries to seduce him
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John wanted to show that he was worthy of Lenina, but Lenina did not understand it
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Lenina and John don't connect
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John is talking about marriage, but Lenina says "what a horrible idea"
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">When John is quoting Shakespeare Lenina does not understand him
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Instead of looking at Lenina as something worthy he looks at her as an Impudent strumpet

May 18- Chapter 14 May 20- Chapter 15 Chapter 16
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Nobody comes to the dying are because the World State doesn't want people to connect with the dying
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"Love" (for John): emotional/ feeling, connection, understanding, loyalty, commitment
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"Love" (for Lenina): entertainment, sex
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Linda dies and John is mad because she always saying Pope's name
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John get's really angry at the one of the kids and pushes him
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John does not like Soma, and wants people not to take it
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John goes to the Hospital and tells everyone to stop taking Soma
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">And then starts to take the Soma and throw it out the window
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">It's sacrilegious: What John is doing
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;"> John is punching little kids, and Helmholtz helps him
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard is too afraid to jump into the fight
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">He is to afraid that he might get into trouble
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The Police comes and stabilizes the fight
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">A voice started to speak, the same voice that was heard in the solidarity service
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Bernard tried to sneak out the room after the fights
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The meeting with Mustapha Mond
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Mustapha Mond is calm and not angry with them
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">John is surprised that Mustapha Mond has read Shakespeare
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">And John is mad because they didn't publish the books
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The books are old and that's why they didn't publish it
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Old things are attractive and the World State does not want the old things they want to give the new things
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Why is old bad?
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Promotes consumerism
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"old" has to do with: thought, history, passion

May 20: Chapter 16
 * Love is serious and destabilizing thing
 * "People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get"
 * Happiness looks squalid
 * "Truth is a menace": Threat, danger
 * God exists, but in the World State God does not exist
 * Mustapha Mond is talking about independence, nobody is independent
 * Independence is an unnatural thing
 * Because you are always depending on other people
 * Why don't the young "look for God"?
 * Why do the old "look for God"?
 * The old people are worried about what's after they die. They see more clearly. They are not so distracted by the stuff of youth.
 * Why don't the Brave New World people "look for God"?
 * The Brave New doesn't look for God because they are independent.
 * "You plant what you harvest": Means--> you will get what you deserve.