Final Study Guide

1) Be able to outline the Plot

Exposition- 

The director is explaining to the students how the hatchery works.

Meeting Bernard, Lenina, Henry Foster,

Nursery

Inciting Event-

John~ Leaving the Reservation

Rising Action-

Meeting John & Linda

John's life story

Bernard confronting D.H.C.

Bernard is put in charge of John making him popular (Bernard changes here)

John is taken to see the society (John changes here)

John & Helmholtz meet (instantly like each other)

John goes to feely with Lenina and hates it

John refuses to go to Bernard's party making everyone hate Bernard again

Lenina throws herself at John

John pushes her away

John gets phone call from Hospital for the Dying

Linda dies right in front of John

Climax-
The riot over soma

Falling Action-

John, Helmholtz & Bernard are arrested

They talk with Mustapha Mond & learn what society had to give up to be stable

Bernard & Helmholtz are sent to an island

John is sent to live in a lighthouse

John beats himself and a reporter films it

Everyone flocks to see John

John whips Lenina

Resolution-

John hangs himself

2) Know the importance of the following people:

Bernard Marx~Outsider, Dynamic character, finds & brings back John. At first he is disgusted with society but changes with his acceptance. Bernard isn' accepted into society & rejects it.

John~Outsider, Son of Thomas and Linda. He is the product if two societies, but has been given the morals of Shakespeare. He is at first fascinated w/society but later comes to be disgusted by it. Only character in the whole book that actually tries to change people, but he fails quickly. Helmholtz Watson~Outsider. The writer. He is superior physically & mentally, but rejects society. He is the exact opposite of Bernard.

Linda~ John's mother. Linda shows people what happens when you leave the society. She becomes a symbol of mothers. She never forgets the society. Her conditionings are so engrained on her, that even when she is put into a different society she doesn't change.
Lenina~ The image of what society wants their citizens to be like. There should some sort of Love interest between Lenina & John but there's not.  
DHC~Runs the Hatchery. He is John's father. Bernard sees a moment of sadness in the Director & this causes the Director to want to punish him. It also shows that there is humanity and possible hope in these people. There is something underneath all the teachings that is still human, the people just need to find a way to break free. Mustapha Mond~ One of the 10 world controllers. He gave up his happiness to make sure everyone else is happy; which insures social stability. (World State's Motto: Community, Identity, Stability) 
Henry Foster~Represents a perfect citizen of the Society. 
Fanny Crowne~Represents a perfect citizen of the Society
Popè~ He is supposed to show you that life on the Savage Reservation is not that different than life in Brave New Wo




3) Discuss BRAVE NEW WORLD as a 3-part structure
1.) Intro to society & Bernard, Lenina, DHC, Mustapha
2.) Reservation, Meeting John
      Comparison & Contrast w/Society & Savage Reservation
3.) Conflicts in Society
     John/Bernard


4) Give examples of the following themes:
The Meaning of Freedom~ They are trained from birth to think they are free / People are encouraged not to have relationships. Relationships are about creating bonds between people. If people have alliances then they can band together & overthrow the government.

Individual vs. Society~ John is not exiled because he is not part of society. He is viewed as an animal at the end on the book

The Meaning of Power ~ The citizens are controlled by World Controllers. Even though the World Controllers are in a position of power, they have no true happiness.
 


5) Discuss five ways people are controlled in this society

   Keep People Happy and Content 

    1.) Embryo- decanted, or conditioned for caste and job

    2.) Hypnopaedia  

    3.) Soma

    4.) Ban of literature, science, and religion

    5.) No families/ everyone either sterile or on birth control

    6.) Consumeration

    7.) No relationships (as in romantic relationships) Everyone belongs to everyone

    8.) People don't age, everyone is kept in a juvenile self-centered pov.

  

6) Discuss the title and how its meaning changes throughout the course of the novel

John
First- On his way to the new world, A good new place. Marvelous creatures. Second- Decanting place. sees all the deformed epsilons and see twhat the lower caste membbers are conditioned. He uses the quote out of digust right before he vomits

Third- Right after Lindas deathJohn sees all the deltas going in for their soma rations. John standd up and quotes shakespear and preaches the dangers of soma. He is still digusted but also angry aboouse lindas death.

7) Does this novel contain any elements of hope? Why or why not?For a quick instance the reader thinks there is hope for John. He is sent to live in a lighthouse, alone. All he ever wanted was to be alone.

8) Why is Shakespeare used so often?

Only Book john has read and enjoyed is Complete Works Of Shakespeare. Bases his life off it. Learned all his morals from it.

9) For a world that lacks history and literature there are many, many allusions to both (perhaps Huxley means something by this): list at least three literary and three historical and discuss their meanings. 

Literary- Romeo and Juliet- John- Romeo, Linda- Juliet

               Tempest- Brave New World (Title)
               Macbeth- "Do you see that damned spot?" John asks this in reference to the blood on the ground of the hut after the ritualistic whipping at the Savage Reservation. 
History- Henry Ford- ("Our Ford")
              John Broadus Watson ("Helmholtz Watson")
              Bernard Marx- Karl Marx, George Bernard Shaw

10) Who is FORD? Why is he an important Symbol of this society?
Ford is God. Ford refers to Henry Ford, creator of Ford Motor Vehicles and the assembly line. The assembly line is a good way to mass produce something, it also takes the humanity out of the product. Before people had to do everything.

11) Discuss the why everyone is similar.

Everyone is similar because most embryos go through the 'Bokanovsky Process'. Everyone is conditioned to like what they do and like what the society has to offer them

12) List two symbols other than FORD.

Soma- Control

Linda- symbolizes all mother. only one who has berthed a child. Motherhood is a bad thing. 

John whipping himself- Perification

13) List three ironies.

1.) Kids having sex

2.)Mothers being disgusting

3.) Nurses wont help linda. teach kids death is just something that happens.

14) Discuss death in this novel and the deaths of the following:
 John-  He just wants to be left alone. Hates this society. Outsider in both society. 
Linda-  No one cares. Nurses wont help her. 
The average person in this society- They are just gone. No once cares. 


15) Is Mustapha Mond really powerful or is he controlled by society as much as an yone else? 
I dont think Mustapha is truly powerful. He gave up his happiness to make everyone else happy. And when everyone else is happy you have a stable community. 

Brave New World, Chapter 18, Blog #19

Summary:
When Helmholtz and Bernard go to say good bye to John, he wanted to go with them but Mustapha said no, and that he had to finish the experiment. John is then taken to live in a lighthouse. He chose this lighthouse because it is far away from people. Once he gets there. He thinks he doesn't deserve it. The next morning he still feels he is undeserving. So he plants a garden. He realizes he is having a good time and so he then starts thinking about his dead mother. One day three Delta-Minuses drive past the lighthouse. They see john whipping himself so they go back to the society and tell everyone. A couple days later. Reporters started coming. The first reporter got drop kicked so every reporter after was a little more conscientious. One day John started to think about Lenina. To keep himself from thinking bad thoughts, he jumped into a thorny bush and thinks about his dying mother. But it didn't work so he started whipping himself. As this is happening a reporter is hiding a gets everything on camera. He makes a movie out of it and everyone goes around john. They start throwing peanuts and yelling, "we want the whip." John then goes toward the crowed with the whip when a helicopter come and lenina and Henry comes out. He then starts to run at leneina and starts whipping her. John then wakes up the next day and remembers everything. Later reporters show up for interviews and find him hanging just under the crown of the arch way.a


Vocab:
velveteen: Noun, a cotton fabric with a pile resembling velvet. 

Lit. Terms:
Allusions:
Americans of Malpais
Shakespeare


Chapter Importance:
John kills himself because he doesn't want to deal with this society. He just wanted to be left alone.

Brave New World, Chapter 17, Blog #18

Summary:
John tries to explain the religious views of the people on Reservation, but there are no words to describe them. Mustapha pulls out The Holy Bible. John asks Mustapha why all of these books are band. Mustapha tells him they are too old. No one would understand them because God doesn't exist. Mustapha reads the books and then explains why there is no God today. Mustapha believes that there probably is a God. John asks, "Isn't it natural to think there's a God?"  Mustapha says Well it may have been instinct in the past, but in Brave New World they create feelings by certain conditioning. John brings up the point that being in solitude often brings up thought of a higher power. Mustapha says they got rid of solitude. John then says that maybe God is punishing today's society. Mustapha realizes that from John's point-of-view of this state of society now is bad.


Lit. Terms:
Allusions:
The Bible
Shakespeare- King Lear
Othello


Chapter Importance:

We Learn that there is no religion in this society. They are conditioned to think there is no god. With god there is sadness and sadness would cause an unstable society, which means society would crash.

Brave New World, Chapter 16, Blog #17

Summary:
Bernard, John and Helmholtz are brought to the Controllers office. Mustapha Mond comes in and asks john questions. They begin talking about how he had the option to go to an island like Bernard and Helmholtz. Bernard immediately starts acting weird. Mustapha sends him to be given soma to calm down. Mustapha tells them what he had to give up to become a World Controller, and the things the society had to give up to become stable. Helmholtz asks Mond if he can be sent to an island with terrible weather. Mustapha then agrees. Then Helmholtz goes to check on Bernard.


Vocab:
Flivver, Noun-Older Slang . an automobile
Chapter Importance:
We discover what the society had to give up to become stable and learn how Mustapha became a World Controller.  


Lit. Terms:
Allusions:
Othello

Brave New World, Chapter 15, Blog #16

Summary:
John left the hospital as delta workers are going out to get their soma rations. John starts telling them that soma is dangerous to their health.  John then tossed soma out the window. Then they started to charge him. Just in time Benrard and helmholtz arrive. Helmholtz helps John, but Bernard wonders whether or not he should help. The police then come with water guns full of soma and a synthetic music player,which has the Voice of reason. Everyone gets gets sprayed with soma and the Deltas start crying and kissing each other. John and Helmholtz then tell the police they are going to cooperate.  Bernard was then caught sneaking out the door. the police tell him he needs go with the police because he is friends with hemholtz and john.


Vocab:

Menacingly, noun,  something that threatens to cause evil, harm

Lit. Terms:
Allusions:
The Tempest -O brave new world that has such people in it


Chapter Importance:

Brave New World, Chapter 14, Blog #15

Summary:
John rushes Park Lane Hospital for the Dying. He goes and sees Linda which is sitting in her bed watching tennis. John then starts thinking about the good memories with his mother. A group of boys surrounded Linda's bed. They asked what was wrong with her and why was she so fat. John hits one child and the nurse gets angry. Linda fallen asleep then started to  mumble something about Popè. John was so angry that all he can think about is all the bad memories about Linda and the Reservation. John tried to shake his mother out of her sleep. Linda realizes its John but in her mind she is on a some-holiday with Popè, and John is interrupting. Linda then starts gasping for air and dies. John ran for the nurse and started to cry. The nurse doesn't understand why John is freaking out. A boy keeps John if Linda is dead.

Vocab:irresolute- adj, doubtfu

Lit. Terms:

 
Chapter Importance:

We start to understand how society views and handles death. 

Brave New World, Chapter 13, Blog #14

Summary:

 Henry Foster invites Lenina to a feely but she says no. Later in the changing room, Lenina tells Fanny that she is confused about John. Fanny tells her to go over to johns and have him decided whether he wants her or not. When the doorbell rings, John hopes it's Helmholtz, but it is Lenina. John trys to tel her that he loves her but onlu nonsensse comes out. She started getting annoyed so she just asked him if he liked her or not, and he said yes. John then starts talking about marigae and it freaks lenina out so she kisses him to shut him up. Lenina walks started undressing and putting her body on to him. he pushed her away and called her a whore. She feel to the ground and John told her to get out before he kills her. Lenina tries to escape to the bathroom, but John slaps her. She locks herself in the bathroom while John  reciting Shakespeare to himself. The phone rings and john runs out of the room. So Lenina runs out and goes home. 

Vocab:

Lupus, noun, a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heals slowly and leave scars.

Lit. Terms:

Allusions:

Tempest

King Lear 

Chapter Importance:

John and Lenina finally express their feelings. But John wants to take their relationship more emotional, but Lenina wants a physical relationship. 

Brave New World, Chapter 12, Blog #13

Summary:

John locked himself in his room because he doesn't want to go to Bernard's party. Bernard tells all of his guests that the Savage won't be making an appearance. Everyone is mad. All the women feel like they had been used and the men were furious because they were tricked into being nice to Bernard. The Arch-Songster is angry that someone would play a joke on him. He tells Bernard to change his ways. The other guest stormed after him. Bernard began to cry but then took four soma tablets and went to bed. The Arch-songster took Lenina back to his place for sex, but Lenina had to take soma to be able to go through. Bernard is back to his self pitty self. John tells him that he prefers this Bernard than the popular Bernard. Helmholtz has decided to take back Bernard. We learn Helmholtz was getting in trouble with the authorities, he was reading some rhymes he made up that are about being alone. Bernard introduces John to Helmholtz and they immediately hit it off. It made Bernard jealous because everything has to be about him. John then starts reading Helmholtz Shakespeare. John, Bernard, and Helmholtz got together frequently. Bernard would say a ridiculous comment very time helmhotlz and john were talking. John was reading  a passage from Romeo and Juliet about Juliet, when Helmholtz bursted out laughing. John locked away his Shakespeare book in a drawer.

Vocab:

Magnanimity, noun- generous in forgiving an insult or injury

Lit. Terms:

Allusions:

Romeo and Juliet

Tempest

Chapter Importance:

Bernard figures out no one really likes him for him. They just liked him for john. And john  and helmholtz start to hit it off.