BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 6 ]---|>

CHAPTER SIX

Part 1 Summary: Lenina can't get over how odd Bernard is. She struggles with the decision on whether to stick with Bernard and go to the Savage Reservation, or head up to the North Pole with Benito Hoover. However, she had already been to the North Pole before, and didn't really have a good time, besides, she hadn't been to America but once, so she sticks with her original plan.
She then tries to get Bernard to do something with her. Swimming and a dinner? No, Bernard thinks there will be too many people there. Electro-Magnetic Golf? No, that's a waste of time. Then, somehow Lenina convinces him to watch a Wrestling match with her. Bernard is pressured by Lenina to take some soma but Bernard refuses, even when he stops the helicopter to think. After some troubling words (in Lenina's perspective) he takes some soma and Lenina and Bernard fly to Lenina's house to have sex. (Which Bernard regrets the next day.)

Part 2 Summary: Bernard goes to talk to the Director about getting a permit to take himself and Lenina to the New Mexico Savage Reservation. The Director is uneasy, and tells Bernard of when he took a girl there once twenty years ago. In a very long story, he tells Bernard of the girl going missing without being found by search troupes. He even reveals that he has had recurring nightmares about her even to that day. He then forbids Bernard to go due to reports of outlandish behaviour, and if he doesn't present himself as a respectable Alpha, he will be exiled to a Sub-Centre in Iceland. Bernard leaves the office feeling like a rebel and goes back to tell Helmholtz of the ordeal. Much like when Bernard told him of Lenina and his plans to go to New Mexico, Helmholtz shows no interest in Bernards boastful rebellious act.

Part 3 Summary: Bernard and Lenina are on a rocket and fly to Sante Fe where they stay in a hotel overnight. Lenina is thrilled due to the sheer amount of amenities that the Hotel has to offer. She loves it and wishes that they could stay here, although Bernard takes this literally and says that she has the choice to stay while he goes alone to the Reservation. She is somewhat offended, and is of course going. Later, they need to the signature of the Reservation Warden for the permit. They find him, and he goes on to Lenina about useless facts and trivia about the Reservation. Bernard then realizes he left his Eau de Cologne tap on in his bathroom which will be a heavy price to pay when he gets back to London. He is eagar to phone Helmholtz, but the Warden won't shut up about the reservation. He talks and talks and talks and talks and talks and talks until he can break away for a short moment. He gets to the phone and Helmholtz picks up. He tells him to turn off the scent tap, but Helmholtz has some news for Bernard as well. The Director is looking for someone to replace him. He also said, in public, that he was going to be exiled to the Sub-Centre in Iceland. He gets depressed yet again because at first he had thought nothing of the Director's threat. Now that it was coming true, he was really appalled. Lenina gives him a couple grammes of soma to cure his sadness. They then get inside a helicopter that will take them to a pueblo where they can be a part of one of the Savage rituals/dances. Then they fly over all of the New Mexican towns with Bernard asleep. Upon landing, Bernard wakes up and Lenina is taking suitcases out of the helicopter, and the Pilot reassures Lenina that the savages won't hurt them while they are vacationing.

Vocabulary:
Brachycephalic - (adj.) describing a head as broad as it is front to back as it is side to side.

Solecism - (n.) A breach of good manners or etiquette.

Literary Elements:
Allusion:
Jean-Jacques Habibullah ---> Names of several Afghanistan Kings/ Arabic for "Beloved of God."

George Edzel ---> George Engel; German anarchist

A gramme in time, saves nine ---> A Stitch in time saves Nine ---> an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 

Why Chapter is Important:
More insight to Bernard's individuality in Part 1; him despising most things that New World citizens usually do, when he stops the helicopter over the water just to think to himself, his uplifted mood when being considered a rebel. 

Part 2 seems to be a big foreshadow of what may happen to Lenina at the Savage Reservation.

Bernard must get exiled to Iceland should he return to London. Inciting Event?!?

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 5 ]---|>

CHAPTER FIVE

Part 1 Summary: Henry and Lenina finish up their date at the Obstacle Golf. They then hop in the helicopter and fly back, passing a Crematorium on the way. This is where Lenina begins to question and think about some of the castes problems. However, Henry redirects her, and she forgets her train of thought. Once they land, they go to a night club after taking a bit of soma, and there are a whole bunch of couples there too dancing in a soma-induced frenzy.

Part 2 Summary: Bernard occasionally goes to a Solidarity Service (Every other Thursday). He was already late and somewhat anxious. However, when he arrives at the place where the Service is held, he finds that he is indeed not the last one there. Unfortunately, in his rush, he selects a seat at random and is forced next to Morgana Rothschild. She has a very scary unibrow which frightens Bernard, hinting at his own physical insecurities. After all the people arrive, the service begins in a crazy, zealous soma ritual. Everybody gets really into the Ford and his coming except Bernard, yet he pretends to be, just to sort of fit in and not feel awkward. (Which goes unsuccessful, because afterwards, he feels even more isolated and miserable as before.)

Vocabulary: Pullulation - Pullulate is a verb that means to germinate or sprout from. Describes the sprouting of the lower-castes coming when the Alphas and Betas approached the monorail.

Allusions: (Lots of them O_o)
Big Henry ---> Big Ben, the huge Clock!

Malthusian ---> Thomas Robert Malthus: 1766-1830's British political economist. Theorized the dangers of overpopulation would preclude endless progress towards a utopian society.

Fifi Bradlaugh ---> Charles Bradlaugh = Political Activist and Notable Atheist. (Irony in the fact Fifi shares this last name yet attending a somewhat religious ceremony.)

Morgana Rothschild (Has a freaky Unibrow) ---> Morgan La Faye?

Joanna Diesel ---> Rudolf Karl Diesel, German Guy that made the Diesel Engine.

Sarojini Engels ---> Friedrich Engels; German philosopher & right-hand to Karl Marx in the study of communist theory
                         ---> Sarojini Naidu, an Indian freedom fighter and activist.

Herbert Bakunin ---> Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary and popularized the Anarcho-Collectivism doctrine.

"Twelve of them ready to be made one..." ---> 12 Disciples

Tom Kawaguchi ---> Possible allusion to either Kiyotake Kawaguchi; a WWII general and/or Matsutaro Kawaguchi, and 20th Century novelist with published works around the same time as some of Huxley's books.

Clara Deterding ---> Henri Detereding, supporter of the Nazi party and pioneer in the oil industry.

Orgy-Porgy ---> Georgy Porgy (Nursery Rhyme, Children's song)


Why Chapter is Important: This chapter shows what most citizens do in the New World. A lot of the events revolve around the use of soma and how happy it makes its users. There are also some pretty severe uses that go into rituals such as the one that Bernard attended.
The activites also mirror what is acceptable in our society, dancing and rituals using heavy drug use (soma) are the norm and fit into the daily lives of all the citizens of the New World. However, in our society, these are only events that the strange, crazy, and looked-down upon people would partake in and would be severly punished if found out.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 4 ]---|>

CHAPTER FOUR
Two-Part Chapter!
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Part 1 Characters: Lenina Crowne, Henry Foster, Bernard Marx, Benito Hoover

Part 2 Characters: Helmholtz Watson, Bernard Marx,

Part 1 Summary: Lenina comes into the lift in order to try to find Bernard Marx. Many men look at her and greet her. She enjoys the attention yet, shallowly wishes some of them didn't have little qualities about them. (This guy has too big of ears, This guy is too hairy, yadda, yadda, yadda.) But when she finds Bernard, she says that she agrees to go to the Savage Reservation with him and openly converses about sexual relations which embarrasses Bernard. Lenina doesn't understand this, but she bids him farewell, for she is going on a date with Henry and is already late. (This puts Bernard further into a bad mood.) Benito Hoover then runs into Bernard and notices him looking 'glum' and offers him some soma. Bernard rudely and silently turns down his offer and walks away. Meanwhile, Henry and Lenina fly the helicopter on their way to Obstacle Golf.

Part 2 Summary: Bernard, after some hassle with some people from other castes gets his helicopter ready and flies to the Bureaux of Propoganda. This is where his friend, Helmholtz Watson works, writing and teaching. Bernard and Helmholtz go to Bernard's helicopter after Helmholtz fending off a couple of ladies. They fly away to Bernard's apartment and discuss some things. Helmholtz begins to tell Bernard about a weird feeling inside him, a feeling of being unfulfilled. He assumes there must be more to life then writing propaganda and being with so many women. Bernard insists that everything is good with Helmholtz, but Helmholtz insists that he isn't as important as he could be. All of a sudden, Bernard senses that someone is listening in on their conversation, and signals Helmholtz to be quiet. Helmholtz sneakily, tip-toes to the door, and flings it open to reveal nothing.

Literary Elements:
Symbols:
Helicopters - - - The helicopters played a somewhat important role in the chapter, shuttling around Lenina and Henry in Part one and Helmholtz and Bernard in Part 2.
The ability to fly is usually seen as a big freedom, which is somewhat of a contrast of the actual freedom that the citizens have. They don't realize that they're predestined to take a particular path in life, and the helicopters really resemble their freedom, when really it is dramatically limited.


Allusion:

Helmholtz Watson ---> Hermann von Helmholtz
     -Helmholtz Watson being a writer trying to evoke some sense into the babies while they are in their hypnopaedic stages of development, correlates with the German physicist Herman von Helmholtz who marvelled in the field of pitch notation, resonance and certain other things regarding the sense of sound/hearing.


Why Chapter is Important:
Part 1 is really the first time out of the Hatchery and the first glimpse of what really goes on in the life of a new world citizen. It also holds the agreement of the Lenina to go to the Savage Reservation with Bernard later. This big setting change from London to New Mexico will probably be important in chapters to come. (Perhaps this is where the inciting event will take place?)

Also, in Part 2, we are introduced to Helmholtz Watson, who is like Bernard in the sense of individuality and the allowed intelligence to think to themselves. However, Bernard's physical shortcomings are contrasted by Helmholtz having the ultimate, desired appearance. Also, where Bernard despises his appearance and wants to fit in with the others and be seen as the Alpha he truly is, Helmholtz is essentially what Bernard wants to be visually, yet mentally and emotionally, Helmholtz feelings a longing for something more that he feels he won't be able, or have the power to achieve.

Another thing I noticed, which I have a feeling is a huge foreshadow is the scene in Bernard's Apartment where Bernard tells Helmholtz that he senses someone listening in on their conversation. Bernard does nothing but raise his finger, and Helmholtz goes into sneak mode and tip-toes across the room to investigate. This has to have happened before and they might've been caught discussing things against the World Controllers and they are on edge; fearing should anyone find out what they were discussing.

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."