Brave New World Notes

• book about future
•  negative utopia
• dystopia
• government controls people
• pay attention to how the government controls people and ask yourself if it is effective
• is it more effective than F451?
• there is an outsider
• someone who you will see who is different and how they intimidate society
• BLOGGING
•  Summary in own words
• talk about characters
• literary elements
• irony
• symbol ect. 
• mottos
• Interpretation of elements
• Significant events
• meaning
• Vocabulary
• look up words you don't know!
•  Explanation
• Why is the chapter important?

Chapter 3


History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today."


Exposition
Main Character ???? <----  Inciting Event
               [Role of the Outsider]


Mustapha Mond- Chosen World
Polly Trotsky-(Irony) Leon Trotsky (
Bernard Marx- Karl Marx:
Lenin(a)- (Irony) Vladimir Lenin




Many Allusion to Shakespeare
Title comes from the The Tempest
5 allusions to Romeo & Juliet in future chapters


Themes to Think About
Freedom & Confinement---(Irony)
Isolation
Identity
Spirituality
Suffering




Huxley--->Modernism


Methods of Control
No violence




Everybody belongs to everyone else- You are supposed to be dating multiple people


Consumerism- You are supposed to buy new things are get ride on the old thing (Ending is better than mending)


Soma- drug that is supposed to take the place of religion and alcohol


They realized that controlling people by violence did not work
          (That's why there is no violence in this world)


Chapter 4

• Part 1
• Characters
• Bernard Marx
• Benito Hoover
• Lenina
• Henry Foster
• View of London
• Futuristic London
• Show the World of London
• World supposed to be happy 
• Bernard is not happy 
• Feels inferior because of his height
• Doesn't like the superficial view of "everyone belongs to everyone
• Doesn't like soma
• Seems to dislike people 
• At least certain people
• Importance
• The comparison between people who fit into the world and Marx
• Who Bernard Marx is?
• What the world is like and how Marx doesn't fit in
• Part 2
• Characters
• Helmholtz Watson
• Works at Bureaux of Propaganda 
• Bernard Marx
• Helmhotz/Marx
• Bernard is the worst Alpha in physical appearance
• Helmholtz is the definition of Alpha
• They are both individuals in a world where there are none
• They are both thinkers
• Marx also has something he needs to say but he hasn't vocalized that yet
• Helmholtz knows he needs to say something but he doesn't know what it is yet.
• Importance
• The contrast and comparison between two people who don't fit into the world