Brave New World

Brave New World Chapter 1

1. The World State's motto is "COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY."

2. Bokanovsky’s process is comprised of one egg which will bud, proliferate, and divide. From 8 to 96 buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. The Director calls it the "major instrument of social stability" because if they were able to Bokanovsky indefinately there would be identical machines.

3. The doctor wished to keep the Epsilon "embryo below par" because the surrogate goes round slower, therefore passing through the lungs at longer intervals; therfore giving the embryo less oxygen. The lower the caste the shorter the oxygen.

4. Mr. Foster means that the embryo's future is unavoidable because they are taught at a young age what they are destined to do. This connects to Rack 10 because the next generation chemical workers were being trained to tolerate lead, caustic soda, tar, and chlorine so when they are older they can be apart of ther inescapable social destiny since they can tolerate the chemicals.

Brave New World Chapter 2

1. Babies sent to the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms develop an "instinctive hatred of books and flowers" because everytime the baies touched the flower, they would be shocked and when they touched a book a siren would go off, creating fear or pain to the child causing them not to like flowers or books. They are conditioned to hate these things because they are harmful to the society.

2. The State Conditioning Center is where all the children are taught while they are asleep.

3.  Hypnopaedia is sleep-teaching. These early experimentors were on the worng track and believed that Hypnopaedia could be made an instrument of intellectual education while children were sleeping. Hypnopaedia could not be used as a science because science cannot be taught unless you know what it’s all about. Hypnopaedia was used for moral education.

4. The Caste system works by the Delta, Alpha and Gammas wear a different color. The Delta children wear khaki, Epsilons wear black, Alphas wear grey, Gammas wear green. The Deltas, Alphas and Gammas are learning to dislike the other classes because of the colors they wear and they are also taught to love themselves.

5.  The director means that wax adheres, incrusts, and incorporates itself with what they fall on, making it all one scarlet blob; unlike water which wares away at it until there is nothing left.

Brave New World Chapter 3

In Chapter 3, we begin to learn about how the World State. Please explain how the following areas are different in the World State as compared to our world in 2010.

A) Sex, Monogamy & Romance-  In the World State their children are encouraged to have sex at a young age and they are discouraged to only have it with one person. They are also discouraged of only having strong feelings for one person. In our world in 2010 having sex at a young age and with many different people is highly discouraged but romance is encouraged with only one person.

B) Sports- In the World State the children are allowed to play erotic games and also sports which are proven to increase consumption and require apparatus. In 2010 children are encouraged not to play extreme games not until they are much older.

C) Entertainment-The World States entertainment consists of Savage Reservations or educational matters while in our world our entertainment consists of non educational activities.

D) Parenthood- In the World State mother, father or family mean nothing to the children. In 2010 those words mean security and looked upon as a high figure.

E) Materialism- The children in the Elementary Class Consciousness are conditioned to be materialistic. They are conditioned to love flying and  new clothes, anything to increase consumption. In 2010 some children can be materialistic however not to the extremes of the World State.
F) Religion- In World State thier religion revolves around “Our Ford”. In 2010 there is a variation of religions and people can choose what they want to belive.

G) Intoxicants- In the World State intoxications are thought of as good things which should be used daily. In 2010 intoxicants are not encouraged and are frowned upon.

Finally, to the best of your ability, provide a brief history (a paragraph) of how the World State came to be.

 The first reformers came along and offered to deliver the world from ‘horrible emotions’, but the world wouldn’t have anything to do with them. The old governments and religions would not allow this new idea to come to place because of their old values. Then the Nine Years’ War began in A.F. 141, which was the fight between the old world and the new world with anthrax bombs destroying the old world. After the war was the great Economic Collapse in which the world had a choice between World Control and destruction. Also Consumption was then the center for rebuilding. Eventually, the change was made over to The World State by use of propaganda.

Brave New World Chapter 4

Part 1

1. Lenina is puzzled about Bernard Marx because he is very shy and dislikes soma. He is an individual and thinks differently.

2. Lenina learned from hypnopaedia, "I’m glad I’m not a Gamma”, “What a hideous color khaki is”.

3. Lenina and Henry go to Stoke Poges to play Obstacle Golf.

Part 2:

4. Bernard Marx is distressed about his physical appearance because he is a Beta and should be looking down upon Deltas but instead he looks at them as equals.

5. Helmholtz Watson is a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering and he is alson an Emotional Engineer.

6. Bernard and Helmholtz Watson are both outcasts because they both know they were idividuals.

7. Helmholtz is troubled because he feels that he has a power inside him that wants to come out.

Brave New World Chapter 5

1. Michael Pollan would most likely question whether or not the cattles are fit for food.
2. I think that their night only consisted the two of them stating everything they learned from hypnopaedia as a form of conversation.

3. I think Huxley uses the word "pneumatic" towards some female characters because maybe he is trying to say that woman are important in a society as air is to breathe.

4. Solidarity Service is where a group of 12 people go every other Thursday to dedicate soma tablets, drink strawberry ice-cream soma, and sing hymns to the Ford. Bernard feels that he does not get the full pleasure of the ceremony like everybody else does.

Brave New World Chapter 6

Part I

1. Lenina think Bernars Marx is strang because when Lenina offers to go swimming, Bernard does not want to go because he thinks their will be a large crowd. She also offers to go to the Electromagnetic Golf, Bernard considers that a waste of time. Lenina thinks this is strange because he prefers to be alone and talk which Lenina is not used to doing.
2. "A gramme in time saves nine", "Remember one cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments”, 'I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everyone’s happy nowadays","Even Epislons are useful", These are somewhat like the saying we use today: "turn your frown upside down".

3. "Alcohol in his blood-surrogate" is Fanny's explanation.

Part II

4. The director told Bernard that he too was curious about the reservation but he lost his girl there and still has dreams of it. Bernard felt uncomfortable because he heard this awful story of the director's life and he was not used to this because he didnt know such things.

5. The director threatens Bernard by sending him to Iceland if he doesn't watch his behavior. This elates Bernard by the “intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance”.

Part III

6. The warden describes the reservation as"To touch the fence is instant death", "There is no escape from a Savage Reservation", "no communication whatever with the civilized world", "infectious diseases"