BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 3 ]---|>

CHAPTER THREE

Ironic Allusions:

Polly Trotsky - - - Leon Trotsky
                                              
Bernard Marx - - - Karl Marx

Lenina - - - Vladimir Lenin
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All were revolutionaries in around the Communist movement, which Huxley named the characters this because of the irony of the classless Communist social system that Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky saw was right. This contrasts the story's society where the 'people' are classed into groups based on intelligence.
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Themes:

///Freedom & Confinement
///Isolation
///Identity
///Spirituality
///Suffering

Summary:
The Director takes the students outside to where there are whole bunch of children 'playing'. There is a talk about how games used to be played back in the 'Ford's' Day, however it is interrupted by a shadowy man coming into the field. The students are questionable, until the Director profoundly introduces the figure to the students. He is Mustapha Mond, one of the ten World controllers. 

Once he is introduced, he begins detailing previous life, how it was back when Ford was alive. Then a criss-cross of views begins to happen between Lenina and Fanny Crowne, Mustapha and the students, Bernard Marx and the Predestinator, Bernard Marx and himself (thoughts, and with the Hypnopaedic speaker whispering things into the sleepy heads of the Beta children.


Literary Elements:


Situational Irony:
Scattered throughout chapter. 
     -Children begin engaging in sexual 'play' at a very young age and it isn't considering strange.


     -People disgusted at the thought that humans used to give birth to one another


     -Fanny telling Lenina she needs to be more promiscious as seeing one man for a long time is not good. 


     -The antagonistic role mothers are portrayed as by Mustapha.


     -The disgust of family and how it was one of the main things wrong with the past's society.


     -The encouragement of a drug-like substance to be taken.


Metaphor:
     "His voice was a trumpet." The Controller's preaching's are blasted at the students like a trumpet, also making them feel larger, warmer...


Vocabulary:

Just because it's been used a lot:
Viviparous - (adj.) - Used to describe a being that has it's young develop inside the body instead of in an egg. (Thus, what mammals do.)


Why Chapter is Important:
The chapter goes into more depth through the background of the society. We meet one of the World Controllers for the first time, Mustapha Mond, who begins to talk to the students about the history of the new world. (Which he is allowed to since only the World Controllers are aloud to have literature. [Locked away in the safe])

We are also introduced to the antagonist and some other important characters for the first time. 


Through the erratic back and forth conversations between each set of characters in the society, it gives more insight into the confusion and just how crazy the society really is. However, it has a certain structure; Mustapha will begin to tell about the society of the past and how it used to have atrocious creatures such as mothers and relationships that consisted of just one person settling down with one person after a certain amount of years. Then this is put into action when the scene changes to Lenina and Fanny, where Lenina sort of embodies this monogamous relationship with a man named Henry, and is somewhat criticized by Fanny for not being as promiscious as the society intends it's citizens.

"No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stabilty,"

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 2 ]---|>

CHAPTER TWO

Summary:

The chapter begins with the Director taking the students to the decanting room. Here the babies are psychologically trained what to be afraid of and how no desire towards. In this case, it's flower and books. This way they have no desire for nature or for gathering information via books. Then there is another place where the Betas are taught through little speakers echoing things into their heads as they sleep. The chapter then ends with the Director getting really into a point he's making, slamming his fist down onto a nearby table, waking the sleeping/learning babies.
Literary Elements:

Introduction to Ford - Symbol === A messiah figure for the society, due to the assembly line which the society's human recreation process seems to emulate. 


Trumpet's mouths - Personification === describing the physical speakers teaching the sleeping Betas

Events: 

Death of Polish, French, and German languages === Everyone speaks a uniform language that keeps everything without confusion allowing easier control over the masses.

Vocabulary:


Hypnopaedia - (n.) The learning of lessons while asleep
Sibilant - (adj.) hissing sound or quality
Indefatigable - (adj.) incapable of feeling tired, or fatigued




Why Chapter is Important:
          By electrocuting the baby's, it shows just one more area of the mass produced citizens that society has control over. By controlling their likes/dislikes/fears, they have essentially made a consumer class who can be manipulated to spend their money wherever they please, or whatever economic area it is needed. Also the death of the Polish, French, as well as the German languages also show another area of society's control, due to having everyone speak the same language allowing for much easier manipulation among the people. And the last control technique we see in the chapter is the sleep-learning of the Betas. It pounds the information and opinions into the baby's heads while they sleep which is exactly like the shock therapy only applied less barbarically to those who were selected in the higher/more successful caste.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 1 ]---|>

CHAPTER ONE


World State's Motto: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY


Summary: The book starts out with a 34-story, grey building called the Central London Hatchery  and Conditioning Centre. Inside, a group of students are undergoing a tour of the facilities. These facilities are riddled with giant mechanisms responsible for mass production of human life. Although it is not just a breeding ground, it is where the new human beings are assigned their roles in life as well. Will they become one of the new leaders? Will they succumb to a career in the smelly pits of the sewers? The folks at the centre decide this and separate the new humans into 5 different groups. Alpha, which we assume is the caste for the intelligent, you'll-go-far-in-life people. These will be given the most care and most likely given as natural birth as possible. (Within reason. You wouldn't really call 96 embryos from one egg natrual...) Then there are the Epsilons which undergo oxygen deprivation to stunt the growth and development of the brain which disables them from having any intelligence or very little free thought. 


Literary Elements:
Simile: "Lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables."

Simile and Personification: "And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon." 

Significant Meaning/Events:

• Control of Birth
• Control of Intelligence
• Control of Destiny
• Control of Environment


Vocabulary:

Castes - Used in describing the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, & Epsilon as groups.

Why Chapter is Important:  

          Introduces the world and begins to detail the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre along with it's control on the people in the dystopian society. It starts telling how the people are created through a sort of bokanovskification (really hate that 'word') process that yields as many as 96 different embryos from a single egg. It gets pretty creepy when the description of the predestination comes in, where the society will purposely cut off oxygen to the brain of the soon-to-be-"human" in order to suppress it's right of intelligence thus making him/her more suited for dirty work in the mines or sewers.

Vocabulary Words (November 2nd - November 6th)

Magnaminity - (n.) A high-minded, generous, or noble act.
          "The man was elected president for the magnanimity of his groundbreaking contributions to pickle research

Mollified - (v.) To pacify, or soften one's temper, lessen someone's stress or anxiety.
          "The naive woman was pissing a student off so badly that if no one mollified his anger in time he would probably snap and do something he'd really regret."

Adage - (n.) Used to express a common experience or observation.
         "Papa told me that old adage the other evening, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.'"

Castes - (n.) Any class or group within a society sharing similar features or income.
          "The city was divided into economic castes as shown by the ridiculously high priced penthouses on the north end contrasting the disgusting slums and run-down shacks towards the freeway."

Ignominy - (n.) Disgrace, dishonor, a wrong-doing or a quality or trait this is deemed unreasonably or disgraceful.
          "Bob's ignominy was his unusual habit of wearing shirts with Swastikas on them during formal gatherings."

Cajolery - (n.) a persuasion of someone with heavy flattery
          "Thomson was not falling for Samuel's cajolery this time; he learned his lesson the last time he bailed him out of jail."

Axiomatic - (adj.) self-evident, or unquestionable
          "Ruple was axiomatic towards his pants being covered with blood, seeing as how he admitted to Stan's murder."

Ruminating - (v.) - to chew over and over again, or meditate upon, think/ponder.
          "The stubborn boy was ruminating his broccoli until his mother looked away just long enough for him to spit it out into the dog's food bowl. His confused mother started to ruminate on his awkward behavior."

Intrinsically - (adv.) naturally related to the pure essence of a certain object.(?)
          "Nick is intrinsically tall, and it scares all of the vertically-challenged fourth graders."

Precipice - (n.) - A situation of great peril.
          "World War III taking place in space was the first precipice to take place outside our world while also involving aliens."

Short Story Final Essay

In an essay (1-2 pages) with a well defined thesis statement and supporting evidence compare/contrast the following characters: The House/Henry

          It's pretty sad when you find yourself talking to someone who's not even there. Whether or not the person you're thinking you're talking to is alive or not arguably draws the line on the person in question's sanity. This is where I'll be adventuring, through the minds of two characters who both hold interactions with people who have passed away long ago. We'll see the comparisons between the two along with how they perceive their situations and what is different about how they act.

          These two characters are the House from Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains and Henry from Mark Twain's The Californian's Tale. Both believe to have people attached to them who are still alive. Regardless of any clues around them, they can't get the death(s) past themselves to make sense of any of it. With the House, there is a whole family that it used to tend to, feed, wake up, recite poetry to. It was quite the busy house catering to all those human's and without any indications that they had died after the nuclear war, it still persists in trying to please the now-deceased family. Henry, gives the whole situation a more mindful, human twist due to the fact he has been reliving his wife's last days on a return from a trip over the course of nineteen years. With her dead he, much like the House, doesn't alter his actions from any previous years.

        A plainly obvious difference between these two are the mind. The House was not programmed to feel or hold any emotions towards the family that it was designed to take care of. This is what makes Henry's condition a little more severe since we can assume that before his wife died he was an average, sane individual. Henry therefore has suffered some emotional injuries in the incident of his wife's death whereas the House is still in its intended programmed state, even with the lack of family presence.

        
       Since both the House and Henry have the false image of someone they cared for still in their brain/programming, is this the only characteristic they share? Well, it can be, however  there isn't a possibility for either of them to be like each other. When I say this, I mean the possibility of the House sharing the same mental instability as Henry due to the lack of a conscious mind. Same can be said for Henry because of his lack of programming and a motherboard, he has the ability to be driven crazy after a traumatizing experience in which he has had.

Vocabulary Part 2 (After the Ball)

Using five of the above words, describe the beating of the Tartar from the Colonel's perspective.



             "What a majestic evening!" I thought to myself after leaving the ball that night! And majestic it was; dancing with my lovely, elegant daughter, conversing with some of my closest friends, and even the little things like walking outside under the ethereal glow of the two o'clock moon. Yet, I feared that something would ruin my happiness; a small sense of disappointment foreboding was in the night mist. 

            And that's when I got the call. One of the privates under my command had informed me of a Tartar fleeing from our detainment site. There was a flame burning in the pit of my being seeing how this was the third attempted escape in the last week. My contempt for these blasted Tartars grew as my tolerance decreased, so an epic punishment was in need to show some of these hellions a lesson. I reported to the men in my platoon, and had them bring some rope, their rifles, and the batons we normally used to initiate the new recruits. I hand selected one of Tartars from the pen and tied him to the rifles of my two leading men. This detestable excuse of a human would be a sign of what would happen if any of them attempted to escape again. As for the one that did try to escape, I plucked our best rifle from the armory and shot him myself. Now it was time for the message to get put across to the Tartars, so we proceeded to drag him to the town square to let the beating ensue.

           

Vocabulary Words (Oct. 4 - Oct. 8)

Chagrin - (n.) a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or embarrassment.
         "Sadly to his chagrin, Jonathan was not elected for school president."

Detestable - (adj.) Abominable; hateful
         "The detestable mutant terrorized the wasteland because he hadn't looked like a normal human in six years.

Ethereal - (adj.) Extremely delicate, heavenly, celestial
          "Kyle described Darla as the most ethereal cheerleader that ever lived and asked her to homecoming."

Imposing - (adj.) Impressive due to great size.
          "The imposing statue of Paul Bunyan was criticized for scaring away children from the amusement park with his amazingly large axe."

Majestic - (adj.) of relating to unicorns, grand, holding great beauty, majesty.
          "After seeing the majestic unicorn, David devoted his life to worshipping it and studying its language."

Contempt - (n.) a feeling of hate, having despise for someone.
          "Despite the presents given to her, Shiela still held contempt towards Herald for trashing her dinner party last Wednesday."

Posterity - (n.) All descendants of one person
          "Grandma May's posterity was shown through her eleven daughters and fourteen sons who all had twelve kids each."

Sirens - (n.) Seductive half-woman, half-bird creatures that lure men to their death.
          "The sailor was lured to his death after he directed his ship's course towards the sirens."

Pluck - (v.) to pull off, or take from.
          "Alvin yelped and screamed as his mother proceeded to pluck the hairs off of his head."

Perspicacity - (n.) Keenness of mental perception, knowledge, or ability.
          "Having the perspicacity of a monkey isn't the best thing to put on a job application."