BNW- blog 4

Chapter 3

Summary- 

The director takes the interns into the garden where the children are participating in sexual games. The director begins to tell them about back in Ford's day it was frowned upon for adolescents to be participating in such activities. Then, a dark shady fellow walks up. The students are confused at the strangers presence when the director introduces him as Mustapha Mons, one of the ten World Controllers.

Mond then goes on to explain history in Ford's day. Then, you see about flashes of five different conversations between Mustapha and the students, Lenina and Fanny Crowne, Henry Foster and the Predestinator, and Bernard Marx and himself (eaves dropping on Henry and the Predestinator) with the hypnopadic trumpets in the background.  

Mond is teaching the interns about history and how the people used to have a mother and father, and they lived in homes, and how it didn't work and how the way they live now is much more successful. Lenina and Fanny are talking about how it's wrong that Lenina has been seeing only Henry Foster for four months. Fanny talks her into putting herself out there for more than just Henry and Lenina decides she is going to go out with Bernard Marx. Henry and the Predestinator are discussing Fanny and Lenina, comparing the two women. Henry tells the Predestinator to 'try out' Lenina as if she were a pair of shoes. Bernard over hears their conversation and is disgusted that the two men are talking about the women like pieces of meat.

Vocab-

Viviparous -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

Allusion- Bernard Marx- Karl Marx

Allusion- Lenin(a)- (Irony) Vladimir Lenin

Metaphor- "His voice was a trumpet." 

Situational Irony-

Children are engaging in sexual play at a very young age and it isn't considering strange or wrong.

People are disgusted at the fact  that humans used to give birth to one another.

People should date more than one person at a time because it is considered wrong if one is not promiscuous

Important Info-

"History is more or less bunk..."  Henry Ford

What Ford is saying is that we need to live in the present not the past.

Mustapha Mond- Chosen World