Brave New World, Chapter 4, Blog #5

Summary- Part 1. Lenina goes up to Bernard in an elevator and talks about there trip to New Mexico. He was embarassed that she was talking about their Sexual life in public. She then wanders off to go and meet Henry. They then fly of in Henrys helicopter and see futuristic London. Benito walks up to Bernard and offers some soma and with out saying anything he Bernard walks away. Then Lenina and Henry were flying in the helicopter and they sees some Gamma Girls and says she is glad she isn't a Gamma.

Part 2. Bernard was walking to his helicopter and thinking about how lenina had asked Henry about their private lives in public. Even thouh she behaved like any other women in the society should have. He then told some Deltas to go push his plane out onto the roof. He wondered if people respect him just because he is a Alpha. He then Flies to the Bureaux of propaganda to see Helmholtz Watson. Helmholtz and Bernard start talking anf think someone is listing at the door.

Importance: Part 1. Who Bernard Marx is, how Marx dosen't fit in,  What the World is.
Part 2. The compare and contrast of two people who dont belong in this world.


Lit. Terms: Allusion: Benito Hoover. - Benito Mussolini- Italin Politician who led national Fascist party and is creditid for being one of the key figures in th creation of Facism.

Vocab.: Ruminating- Verb- To think or meditateRuminating- vb. to think or to meditate

Brave New World, Chapter 3, Blog #4

Summary- The Directer takes the students to the garden were hundreds of naked children are playing sexual games. Then the director explains how back in the Ford's day it was frowned upon for adolecents to be participating in those kinds of activities. Then a shady man comes up, the students don't know who it is. The director then introduces him as Mustaphe Mond, one of the ten World controllers. He then starts to explain history in Ford's day. Then, you see flashes of about five different conversations. Mond is teaching history and how people used to have a mom and dad, and how they live now is more successful. Henry and the Predestinator are talking about Lenina and Fanny. Lenina and Fanny are talking about how Lenina has been seeing Henry and only Henry for four months. Fanny then talks her into going out with Bernard Marx.

Vocab.- Vivparous- ADJ. Used to describe a being that has it's young develop inside the body instead of in an egg.

Lit. Terms- Allusion- Polly Trotsky- (Irony) Leon Trotsky

Brave New World Notes

Brave New World Notes!

Characters
Mustaphe Mond- Mond means world
Polly Trotsky- (Irony) Leon Trotsky
Bernard Marx- Karl Marx
Lenin(a)- (Irony) Valdimir Lenin
Benito Hoover- Benito Mussolini- Italian Politician


Many Allusions to Shakespear
Title come from the Tempest
5 allusions to Romeo and Juliet in future chapters

Themes to Think About
Freedom and Confinement
Isolation
Identity
Spirituality
Suffering

Side Notes
Huxley---> Modernism--->



Chapter 3
Everybody belongs to everyone else- No marriage, date more than one person at a time.
Consumerism- Buy New things get rid of the old ones.
Soma- Drug/ Make you calm/ takes care of everything

They realized that controlling people by violence did not work (thats why there is no violence in this world)
Conversations
1.) Bernard-->Lenina (Henry Foster)
2.) Lenina/Fanny-->Everybody belongs to everybody
3.)Mustapha Mond- DHC
4.)Henry/- Lenina and Fanny


Chapter 4 
Part 1
Importance- Who Bernard Marx is, how Marx dosen't fit in,  What the World is.

Characters: Bernard Marx, Benito Hoover, Lenina, Henry Foster

View Of London
    -Futuristic
Bernard Marx inwardly is not happy
    - He feels inferior due to is hieght
    - Doesn't like the superficial view of "every one belongs to everyone"
    - Doesn't like Soma
    - Seems to dislike people

Part 2
Importance- The compare and contrast of two people who dont belong in this world.

Characters: Helnholtz Watson, Bernard Marx

Helnholtz Watson- B. of Propaganda

Helnholtz/ Bernard- difference
      - Helnholtz
             -Bigger, stronger, faster, Better one of the Alphas
      - Bernard
             - Worst Alpha in Physical appearance
Helnholtz/Bernard- Similar
       - They are both Individuals

Chapter 6

Savage reservation
    

Brave New World, Chapter 2, Blog #3

Summary- In the beginning of chapter 2 they go into the Nursery. They see a group of 8 month old Deltas. They are being taught to hate flowers and books by the nurses placing them in front of them then when they go near them an alarm sounds, and the babies then suffer a mild electric shock. Then afterwards the nurses put the books and flowers in front of them and they won't go near them. The director said they do this process 200 times. Then the director tells a story of how they came up with a new way of programming the children. The director then leads them into a room with some Beta children. All the children are sleeping, then a voice comes on saying, "...all wear green. Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with the Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta." The are doing this to the children to make them remeber, then after go on to a more advanced lesson.

Importance- The Importance of this chapter is to tell us the different ways they program the children. By making them not like the objects because an alarm sounds and it shocks them or by hypnopaedia.

Lit. Terms- Ford- Which comes from Henry Ford who founded Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford was famous for having an assembly line. This alludes to the the eggs going through an assembly line. In the book every time Ford is said, it is like god to them. The director says "Our Ford's first T-Model..." he makes a T on his chest with his fingers. Because of this his a religious Symbol.

Vocabulary-  Viviparous- Adj., ringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes.

Hypnopaedia-Noun,  the learning of lessons heard during sleep

 

Brave New World, Chapter 1, Blog #2

Summary- For the rest of chapter 1 we figure out what they do to the embryos. They predestine and condition them to be what the government wants. Either World controllers or Sewage workers. The grown up embryos have no idea that they were programmed as embryos to do what they do. 

Lit. Terms- 

Vocab.- 
    Caste- Noun.  An endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank,  occupation, economic position

Vocabulary Words #4

Magnanimity- Noun. The quality of being high-minded; noble
                     - The magnanimity of the man was proven when he gave all his clothes to a homeless shelter.

Mollified-  Verb. To soften in feeling or temper
                     - The lady mollified the dog's rage by giving it a treat.

Adage-  Noun.  A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation
                    - After I would fail in something my grandpa would always tell me an old adage like, "don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Castes-  Noun.  An endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank,  
occupation, economic position
                  - The man living on the street belongs to the  poor caste, so the queen is higher in the social scale.

Ignominy- Noun.  Disgrace or dishonor
               -  The ignominy of being a 13 year old, 2nd greater made her suffer until she kiled herself.

Cajolery- Noun.  Persuasion by flattery or promises
                 - The woman's cajolery to me made me want to get up and get her a glass of milk.

Axiomatic- Adjective.  Self-evident or obvious
                  -  It is axiomatic that dogs bark.

Ruminating- Verb.  To meditate
                     - By the pool you could hear Jade ruminating about it being to hot.

Intrinsically- Adjective.  Belonging to a thing by its very nature
                   - Mapi is intrinsically short.

Precipice- Noun.  Cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
                    -As I was climbing on Mount. Rushmore I slipped of the precipice of George Washington's nose. 

Brave New World, Chapter 1, Blog #1

Summary- So far a group of students are touring a Hatcher. They are so foucused on copying down notes from the "Bokanovsky Process" they are barely looking up. They are showed the process of the "Bokanovsky Process." Which is a process in which they clone from 70-90 people from one egg.

Vocabulary- Soliloquizing- Noun, an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by onself.


Lit. Terms-