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1. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. D.H.C. is the director who administrates the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. 2. A 34 story building that is short and broad and grey. 3. A.F. 632- tells me that he is on high rank of the social class 4. Bokanovsky Process involves shocking an egg so that it divided to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings. 5. "Community, Identity, Stability." 6. Every embryo is labeled and kept track of here. Also contains all relevant information. It is not necessary. Social classes always exist anyways. Chapter II. 7. A nursery where children are conditioned. 8. Because the babies are like products. The babies are outcomes of production. Products are displayed on shelves and products are "unloaded" from trucks and conveyor belts. 9. The children are so young; they should not be tormented like that. They need books to learn and flowers are a beautiful thing. These objects should be pleasant, not feared. 10. To make people spend more money in the city. The countryside is free, and only money is spent on transportation. 11. Hypnopaedia is learning while asleep. Children can hear conversations, etc. Chapter III 12. Because the more equipment, then the more resources used, and then the more money will be spent on the item. 13. The 'sexual" stuff is considered morally right. 14. Mustapha Mond is the Resident Controller for Western Europe, and one of ten World Controllers. He tells the students that "History is Bunk" to explain why the students are not aware of the history that the DHC explains to them. 15. He says that strong emotion, inspired by family relationships, sexual repression, and delayed satisfaction of desire, goes directly against stability. With out stability, civilization cannot exist. This instability caused by family life led to wars and disease. 16. Lenina Crowne and Fanny Crowne are both friends. Lenina is a vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. 17. Stability is the primal and ultimate need. There is no social stability without individual stability. 18. Bernard Marx is and Alpha Plus. He does not like the Obstacle Golf, he spends time alone, and he is a victim of down-syndrome. 19. Lenina thinks Bernard is nice and sweet. He asked Lenina to the Savage Reservation. 20. Soma reminds me of alcohol and it is like a drug that gives the characters a "holiday." 21. Because a little girl was annoying the D.H.C. Chapter IV 1. Lenina tells Bernard that she accepts his invitation to see the Savage Reservation. Bernard is embarrassed. 2. Bernard had alcohol in his blood surrogate. He is retarded or has down syndrome. 3. Things are always in place and right on time, just the way that people think things should be. 4. Helmholtz is a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. They both have a mutual dissatisfaction with the status quo and their shared inclination to view themselves as individuals 5. "All the emotions one might be feeling if things were different." Chapter V 6. Bodies are burned and turned into fertilizer. Fertilizer helps grow things better, like corn. A cemetery would be repellent because the bodies are not buried and remembered. 7. Soma. They become completely oblivious to the world around them. Yes, we do have music today. 8. Belief and ritual of mysticism. 9. The church. You should go to replenish yourself and be made perfect. Chapter VI 11. He wants to be alone with her to talk to her. She thinks it is an odd way to spend an afternoon. 12. "A gramme in time saves nine"," One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments." 13. He wants to be an individual, not part of a social body. Lenina will not understand. 14. He was upset about loosing the Beta-Minus. 15. He didn’t want Bernard to feel close to him and to teach Bernard a lesson. 16. Bernard is upset and he storms out of the room. I have felt this way. 17. The Warden says the Savage Reservation is "500 and sixty thousand square kilometers, divided into four distinct sub-reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence." 18. On the phone he learns that they may be among the savages already. Chapter VII 1. A metaphor, a ship and the color of a lion, ship compared to the sea. 2. She did not like it. She thought they smelled and they were "queer". 4. Because she never saw a man that old before. 5. It made her forget about the world and everything around her. 6. No 7. It would be a good experience, although I would be scared. 8. Self mutilation is not right and definitely should not be religiously taught. 9. He speaks perfect English. 10. Mother rescued by the Indians from the reservation 11. It could maybe be the most comfortable. 12. She gossips too much, so they don’t like her. Chapter VIII 14. He remembered in a huge dark room full with other children. 15. It made him a better person. 16. Through the Indian culture 17. They both have the same things wrong with them. 18. The kindness of mankind (certain people). Chapter IX 19. John has a secret crush on Lenina. She does have feelings for him, she just doesn’t completely realize it yet. I think they will get together. Chapter X 20. Bernard’s unorthodox behavior threatens stability. Bernard’s crimes, according to the D.H.C. are worse than if he was a murderer because the Hatchery can produce dozens of new babies 21. Bernard introduces Linda and john to the D.H.C. Linda accuses the D.H.C. of making her have a baby, and John calls him "father." The D.H.C. is embarrassed and his social standing is reduced. Chapter XI 1. They admired John for he forced the director to resign. No one cared about Linda. To say one was a mother was an obscenity; to say one was a father was a joke. She also was not a savage. She also was not attractive. 2. Decided to keep her on soma for eternity. 3. He suddenly became important because he was now John’s guardian. 4. Bernard’s instant gain of class bothered Helmholtz and the girls he was getting from the instant attention. 5. Bernard wrote out the word in full length and lectured the Mond. 6. Corresponds to Shakespeare. 8. They do not fear death. It is known as a matter of course. 9. She is benefiting from the Savage’s immense celebrity. The Young Women’s Fordian Association asked her to give a lecture about her experiences, she was also invited to the Annual Dinner of the Aphroditeum Club, and she appeared in the Feelytone News. 10. Far more real than reality. The feely movie had stereoscopic images, sensations, and scents. John did not like the "horrible" film. 11. John and Lenina were both disappointed. They both took to an object to relieve their minds of the night. Chapter XII 12. It affects them in that it humiliated and embarrassed Bernard and Lenina is disappointed. 13. The quote could refer to how he hates the "Brave New World". 14. This is not typical for Bernard. Bernard seems to be falling into unusual patterns and relies upon soma to relieve his humiliation. 15. A person always strives for happiness. This distracts one from achieving their happiness. 16. Helmholtz and The Savage. Yes. Yes. 17. Helmholtz has more desire to read Shakespeare. 18. Yes, because he is jealous of John and Helmholtz. 19. Not completely in tune, he insults and wounds John. 20. That the world needs some other kind of madness and violence. Chapter XIII 21. She wants to know what it is like to sleep with a Savage. Fanny tells her that is unseemly to become obsessed with one man and she should find another man to take her mind off of him. Yes, they do. 22. Reminds me of another era, yes. 23. Sad. Yes, classical case. Yes. Because she is under soma and she is horrified of him but she still wants on him. Chapter XIV 1. Park Lane Hospital for the Dying. 2. The nurse takes her time and questions him and assures his mother is in pleasant atmospheres. 4. Maggots are all the same and ugly" They are pests, nasty, and get into everything and they are no good. 5. The scents in the room remind her of childhood and she’s on a childish ecstasy. It is a childhood memory. 6. "God!" Chapter XV 7. He tries to save them from the "poison" meant to enslave them and he wants them to choose freedom over soma. This causes a fight because he rids of their soma. 8. No, it does not surprise me; all Bernard cares about is rank. He is hesitating because he is trying to fit into the World State social machine and change the way it works. Chapter XVI 9. That Mond reads Shakespeare’s The Tempest. 10. There has to be death. 12. Complete chaos 14. "Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy." 16. Because they are exiled to a place filled with the most interesting people in the world, individuals who did not fit in the World State Community. Chapter XVII 22. John and Mond believe that John’s wants will lead to unhappiness. Chapter XVIII 23. Plans to retreat to a place alone 25. John goes to a lighthouse on an island. I have read about others. I would want to go a volcano somewhere on the Hawaiian Islands to be alone. 26. He plants his own garden and performs rituals of self-punishment to purge himself of the contamination of civilization. 27. No he does not. 28. Reporters destroy his peace. 29. He fights thoughts of Lenina. 31. Yes, he notices. He hangs himself. 32. People tend to be curious in what they don’t experience or have not ever experienced. I have experienced this. Lenina is sad about this. They hit one another because they are insecure. 33. John’s decision was not the best. I do not think one should end his life to save things. He could have compromised and found a happy medium in everything. |