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Chapter 5

Summary-

Part 1:

Lenina and Henry finish their game of Obstacle golf and fly over to Henry's apartment building for dinner. On the way there they fly over the crematorium. As they fly over a smokestack, they are shot up into the air by a rush of smoke out of the stack. Henry tells Lenina that adult corpses are burned, and phosphorus is recovered from the burnt remains to help make plants grow. Lenina remembers walking up one night as a child and hearing the hypnopaedic phrases being whispered to all the children. Once they reach the apartment they eat dinner and have coffee and soma tablets. Lenina has two tablets while Henry has three. They walk through Westminster Abbey to listen to the band and dance. They take more soma and after the band dismises everybody they go back to Henry's apartment. Lenina asks him where he got her the Malthusian Belt because Fanny wanted to know.

Part 2:

Every other Thursday, Bernard attends Solidarity Serves. He is late but isn't the last one there. He quickly finds a seat that happens to be next to Morgana Rothschild. When the final three members arrive the President makes a comment on how they are late and starts the ceremony. The people are seated around the tablet in a male, female, male, female, etc. order. The President passes around strawberry ice-cream soma and soma tablets. These items get passed around the table for twelve versus of the hymn they sing. All of the participants felt as though something or someone is coming, except Bernard. He just can't get into it, so he fakes it. He does what everyone else does and says, he even took soma, which he doesn't like. One of the women ask what he thought of the experience and he lied and said it was wonderful. After everything was over he felt even more isolated than ever. The only thing Bernard can think of is Morgana's unibrow.  

Vocab-

Flivver- noun. Older slang, refers to an automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive and old

Solidarity- noun. union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests

Lit. Terms-

Irony:

"Bottle of mine, it's you i've always wanted!

Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?...."

It's talking about the soma, usually soma is decanted(poured from one container to another), not people.

Allusions:

Malthusian Blues- Thomas Malthus: widely known for his theories concerning population & its increase or decrease due to various factors

Twelve people in the Solidarity Service- the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ

Morgana Rothschild- Morgan le Fay(Morgana): a powerful sorceress in the Arthurian legend.

Fifi Bradlaugh- Charles Bradlaugh- a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists

Joanna Diesel- Rudolf Diesel: a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine

Clara Deterding- Henri Deterding: one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and for 36 years its chairman and the chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company. 

AND OR

Clara Ford: Henry Ford's wife

Tom Kawaguchi- Ekai Kawaguchi: a Japanese Buddhist monk, famed for his four journeys to Nepal and Tibet, being the first recorded Japanese citizen to travel in either country

Sarojini Engels- Friedrich Engels: a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx.

AND OR

Sarojini Naidu: child prodigy, freedom fighter, and poet. She was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

Herbert Bakunin-Mikhail Bakunin: a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism.

AND OR

George Herbert: a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest

Orgy-Porgy-Georgie Porgie: Nursery rhyme

Importance-

You see what people do with their lives at night. Both parts of the chapter show the affects soma has on people and how it is used to control peoples' moods to keep everyone happy, which creates a stable society.

Other Thoughts:

The famous London clock, Big Ben, has been changed to Big Henry.

Seeing Morgana's unibrow reminds Bernard of his own feeling of physical insecurity.

Bernard's Solidarity Sevice seems a lot like a relgious ceremony, which is odd for a world with out religion. 

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Chapter 4

Summary-

Part 1: Lenina talks to Bernard about their plans to go to New Mexico in front of group of coworkers, most of whom she has slept with. She tells him that she accepts his invitation to go to the Savage Reservation. Bernard is embarrassed that Lenina would talk about their private lives in public. Bernard suggests that they talk about it in private but Lenina has to get to her date with Henry. Lenina leave Bernard standin on the roof and walks toward Henry. Lenina and Henry fly off in Henry's helicopter to go play Obstacle Golf. 

Benito Hoover (a man that Lenina has dated) walks up and offers Bernard some soma and with out saying anything Bernard walks away.

Lenina and Henry are flying over London and Lenina is taking in the sites. Lenina notices Epsilons and Deltas and makes a comment on how khaki is a horrible color. She then sees some Gamma girls and Epsilons waiting to get on the monorail. She makes another comment on how she is glad she isn't a Gamma.

Part 2: Bernard is walking to his helicopter lost in his thoughts. He's remembering when he was deciding whether or not to ask Lenina out. He was a little disgusted that Lenina had chosen to ask Bernard about their private lives in public, though she had behaved like any on the women in the society should have. 

Bernard walking into the hanger where his plane is and tells the Deltas to push it out onto the roof. He thought about how being able to look into the eyes of a Delta was humiliating. He always wonder if people respect him just because he is an Alpha. He had to yell at the Deltas to hurry up because they had blown him off the first time. He flies to the Bureaux of Propaganda to see Helmholtz Watson. 

Watson is the definition of Alpha. He is powerfully built, tall and good looking; he was the Escalator-Squash
champion and has been with 640 different girls in the span of 4 years. Watson realized that all of that stuff was only second best, he wanted something more, he just didn't know what. 

Helmholtz and Bernard begin talking and at one point Bernard thinks someone is listening at the door.

Vocab-

Ruminating- vb. to think or to meditate

Lit. Terms- 

Allusion- Bentito Hoover: Benito Mussolini- Italian politician who led national Fascist Party  and is credited for being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.

Importance-

The chapter is broken into two parts. The importance of the first part is to show us how Bernard Marx is different than every one else. We also learn a little bit about who Bernard is which in turn shows us how he doesn't fit into the world. Part two, shows us how Bernard compares and contrasts Helmholtz, someone else who doesn't fit into the world.

Bernard and Helmholtz and both individuals in a world where everyone is supposed to be the same. They both have something to say but they have no idea what it is. They know that something about the society is off putting to them, that just can't figure out what.

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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

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