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By Aldous Huxley

Summary of Chapters 1 and 2

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Chapter 1 and 2

Location: Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.This is a centre for artificial fertilization and development of human embryos.

Time: A.F 632 (F stands for Ford-the fictional God in the novel.)

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Overview

DHC is giving a tour to a group of students.

The class are studying the process of human development from fertilization to childhood.

The tour is divided into 5 rooms where different tasks are completed during the development process.

Embryos move along a conveyor belt through the centre for 267 days.

Human embryos are divided into 5 Castes. These castes are separated due to intelligence.

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Caste System

Highly intelligent ,Highly-skilled workers.Wear Grey.

Moderately intelligent, Skilled workers.Wear Mulberry.

Low intelligence, semi-skilled workers.Wear Green

Very low intelligence. Machinists.Wear Khaki.

Illiterate. Wear black

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Room 1 – Fertilizing Room

I. Eggs are artificially fertilized in a “soup” of spermatozoa.

II. Embryos are inspected for abnormalities.

III. Embryos undergo the “Bokanovsky Process”

IV. Put into incubators.

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Room 2 – Bottling Room

I. Embryos covered in peritoneum (Lining of a pig’s stomach).

II. Embryos are put into a saline solution.

III. “Podsnap’s technique” is introduced. Produces many more eggs from a single ovary

very fast. About 11,000 siblings in 2 years from one

ovary.

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Room 3 – Labelling Room

I. Embryo bottles are labelled to determine:

1. Heredity (what ovary it came from).

2. Date of Fertilization

3. Gender, T for Male and O for female

4. Infertile Females are called Freemartins and are labelled with a ?

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Embryos are “predestined” to 1 of the 5 castes.

Conditioning of Embryos begins.

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Chapter 2

The tour from the Director continues.

We see how babies are conditioned after they have been Decanted (Born)

Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning is introduced

Babies taught to dislike idea of family, fun and leisure to improve work rates.

Hypnopedia and sleep teaching are used to condition babies.

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BRAVE NEW WORLDCHAPTER 3

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CHARACTERSThe main characters in the chapter are:D.H.C. who is The Director of the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre and who is showing the building and facilities to some students.The Controller, Mustapha Mond who is “The Resident Controller for Western Europe” (one of the ten controllers in the world) who introduces and explains to the students about the philosophy of the World State.

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Henry Foster who is an Alpha male of the World State.

Assistant Predestinator

Lenina Crowne a ‘pneumatic’ girl from the World State.

Fanny Lenina’s friend

Bernard Marx a strange member of the Psychology Bureau, who acts and thinks differently from the others.

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SUMMARY Chapter 3 explains three different

situations happening at the same time.

The first one takes place in the garden.

The others share the setting: the baths and the changing rooms.

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In the first scenario:About six hundred children are playing a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy in the garden. They play sophisticated games because they are conditioned to consume a lot.Some other children are playing erotic games, which was abnormal and immoral before the time of ‘Our Ford’. Students laugh at this.The Director explains to students that now it is normal not to have intimacy, which was restricted in the past.* “Everyone belongs to everyone else”

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Summary Chapter Summary Chapter 44

Brave New World, Albert SerratBrave New World, Albert Serrat

Lenina and Bernard, are planning a trip Lenina and Bernard, are planning a trip to a savage reservation in New Mexico, to a savage reservation in New Mexico, where people live like in the old days. where people live like in the old days.

Bernard is a psychologist but although Bernard is a psychologist but although he’s a important man in the ideal society, he’s a important man in the ideal society, he feels an outsider because he is he feels an outsider because he is different from the other Alpha+, he’s different from the other Alpha+, he’s shorter than them.shorter than them.

After this, Bernard talks with a man After this, Bernard talks with a man called Benito Hoover. Benito is a very called Benito Hoover. Benito is a very kind man and he offers some soma to kind man and he offers some soma to Bernard, as he noticed he feels sad.Bernard, as he noticed he feels sad.

Soma is a substance that people take to Soma is a substance that people take to feel better, which has no side effects.feel better, which has no side effects.

Bernard gets annoyed an refuses it.Bernard gets annoyed an refuses it.

Then Bernard, meets his good friend, Then Bernard, meets his good friend, Helmholtz Watson , who feels an Helmholtz Watson , who feels an outsider, like Bernard, and feels that he outsider, like Bernard, and feels that he has some ideas , which he doesn’t know has some ideas , which he doesn’t know how to write with the exact words . how to write with the exact words .

While they’re talking, Bernard feels as if While they’re talking, Bernard feels as if someone is listening to them, but when someone is listening to them, but when Helmholtz opens the door of the Helmholtz opens the door of the apartment there’s no one there.apartment there’s no one there.

Chapter 5 •Death is important for society. •Each class member is happy to belong to that class, and does not want to be in another. •Soma is used to overcome any shock. It does not solve the problems but hides them in sleep and unconsciousness. •Everybody does what society wants, even if that is not exactly what they want. Their liberty is conformity. •Solidarity Service.

Chapter 6 •Everything must be public. There are no secrets because if somebody does something secretly it is not shareable and therefore he has done nothing: “That mania for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all” •History loses its meaning. All that comes from the past is negative. •Conditioning: –Conditioned characters: Loss of identity, repetitive behaviour –Non conditioned characters: Dynamic, creative •Mental development has been kept at a childish level •Superficial and brief relationships- total dominion over emotions •Map of New Mexico •The reserve: –images –comparison with a Lager

Brave New WorldAldous Huxley

chapter 7 & 8

structure

1. summary of chapter 7 & 82. analysis of both chapters3. short characterizations4. comparison book- movie5. comparison reservation- world state

chapter 7

- Lenina and Bernard visit oft the reservation as a common trip- community celebration at the reservation- pounding of drums - man whips a youth until he collapses- Lenina horrified- Bernard interested and fascinated- meeting John - introduces Lenina and Bernard to his mother Linda- Linda from the other place outside the reservation/ suffered an injury/

rescued by some Indians- tells a lot about herself/ her attitudes/ the past

chapter 8

- Bernard interested in John’s life John tells him a lot about his childhood- Bernard asks John if he would like to go to London with him

motive: wants to embarrass the Director by exposing him as John’s father- John accepts, but only when Linda is allowed to go too Bernard

promises- he asks if Bernard is married to Lenina, but Bernard tells him that he’s

not

analysis

- Bernard’s role as protagonist continues in this section

- appears less like political rebel, more like social rebel believes that changing society only way for him to fit in

- very important: meeting of Bernard and John beginning of events negative consequences for both

- Linda’s experiences on Reservation demonstrate dependence of World State citizens towards “civilization”

- Linda on arrival: helpless- examples: doesn’t know how to cook or clean,

horrified of taking care of a child- turns to mescal as replacement for soma only

method for dealing with unpleasant situations

characterizations

Bernard Marx

- thin and very small, even though he’s an Alpha- very intelligent- works in Psychology Bureau of the Central London Hatchery and

Conditioning Centre specialist for hypnopeadia- outsider, because he doesn’t feel confident as other people- others say, when he was still bottled, someone accidentally poured

alcohol in his blood surrogate- likes to be alone, other People think thats strange- doesn't like taking soma wants to think clearly- interested in culture of reservation- thinks about social problems, the treatment of women

Lenina

- belongs to Beta-Class- beautiful, red haired- works in centre of brood rearing and breeding standards- most time happy, because of soma- relationships to Bernard and John first collapse in contrast to them she

thinks relation with feelings= abnormal thing- at reservation: disgusted of old man, mothers with babies, Linda and John- sad/ hurt that John does‘nt flirt with her take the initiative but John

does‘nt react

- later: after exploring the "other world“ rebel against the World State (everyone belongs to everyone else)

John

- son of Linda and the director childhood:

- grown up in reservation, outside the World State, listening to Linda’s fabulous stories about the other place

- felt isolated and rejected, partly because Linda slept with so many men, partly because people of the village never accepted him

- began to read books Shakespeare became his favourite book, started reading avidly until he could quote passages by heart plays gave voice to all of his repressed emotions

Linda

- John‘s mother- grown up in World State get pregnant from director banished - misses World State, civilization, soma- hated by women of the village because she had sex with their men one

day she was beaten with a whip by 3 women- Linda’s lover: Popé brought her an alcoholic drink called mescal

began drinking heavily

comparison book- movieBOOK MOVIE

-normal arrival with the helicopter +afterwards they have to go a specific distance on foot

-crash Lenina and Bernard alive; just pilot injured-cars coming hope of help-after fight: other people leaving; one guy stayed John-brings them to reservation

-strange celebrationyoung man is beaten until he collapses-John wants to be at the place of the injured guy; wants to feel pain

-no celebration at the reservation-John still has some ritual wounds + doesn’t want to talk about

-Lenina doesn’t like the reservation and the village people-also doesn’t like Linda-is cautious about John

-Lenina very interested in John’s life-has no aversion towards Linda

comparison reservation- world state

RESERVATION WORLD STATE

-no technology, nature, books like Shakespeare

-mainly technology

-unrestrained knowledge -security and order

-emotions, love -everyone belongs to everyone

-families: women are getting pregnant, children have mother and father

-children are created scientifically in bottles

-natural aging and illness -no aging, no diseases

-humans have to manage problems

-BNWorlders take soma if something doesn‘t work as it should

presentation by Caroline Halwas and Nele Tretow

In cooperation with Vivien Schulz, Jolin Neuß, Henrike Buchardt,

Marie-Pauline Wiechmann, Michelle Siatkowski, Vanessa Ernst

Chapter 9In chapter nine Bernard, John, Linda and Lenina is back in London after being in the savage territory. Lenina, who found the territory

very disturbing, takes Soma that will make her sleep for at least 18hours. So she has gone on Soma holiday. Bernard can´t seem to go to

sleep and in the morning he decides to go to Santa Fé and get thebusiness and information done about his guests that he brought with

him. He there speaks to Mustapha Mond about why these people are soimportant to research. Mond agrees with Bernard and send him away to

the Warden of the Reservation office where he get the papers aboutLinda and John.

John who is new in the “other” world somehow gets the feeling that hehas been left by Bernard and Lenina and breaks down. But he gets backup and goes into the room where Lenina is taking her holiday. He nowgets these sexual feelings about her. He goes through her clothes andlooks at the zippers of different items of clothes. She is layingthere on the bed and he starts looking at her.He is reciting pieces from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet about howher hands, lips and body looks like laying there. He is struggling toprevent himself from touching her but comes to senses when he realisesthat it would defile her. As this is happening Bernards helicopter isarriving back and John feels even more guilty and runs away and hides.

In this part of the book John is introduced for the first time totheir world, which of course is overwhelming for him. He is quiteamazed by their world, thinking about it as a utopia, seeing the bestparts about it, and not everything else.

In this chapter morale is important. You can notice it when John isabout to touch Lenina. But he comes to his senses and changes hismind. This is because he doesn’t want to defile her. This has to dowith morale and with what is right and wrong. What becomesincreasingly clear, is how different the two worlds are, since Johnstruggles NOT to touch her, and anyone else would have felt that theyshould do it.The question is whether you are happier doing things in a slowrestricted way or in a fast, non-private way.

Chapter 10In chapter ten we get to go back to the factory where all the babies

are being produced. The director who has decided that Bernard is to besent to Iceland has arranged a meeting with Bernard in the Fertilizing

room. He has decided to send him away because of his behaviour and hisway of going against ford and society. He describes it as “Sacrificing

one individual for the greater good of the society is no great losssince the Hatchery can churn out dozens of new babies.”

When Bernard arrives the director gets the attention from everyone inthe room. He then speaks openly to the Bernard colleges about why and

where he is being sent away. Bernard gets one chance to say why heshould stay it he takes it. He then brings in Linda and to the peoplein the room this is a frightening experience. Linda who looks dirtyand has a crooked smile and doesn’t fit into their society terrifies

them. Linda who’s had a baby with the director openly says this soeveryone can hear, making them very interested since the director has

broken an important rule in fathering a child. He denies this ofcourse in front of everybody but John comes in and shouts “My father”.Everybody else in the room is now laughing about the humiliation andit’s too much for the director and he runs out with his hands pressed

against his ears.

Here there are both utopia and dystopia events. They sort of go intotogether here. Because the Director sees his purpose of keeping theperfection that is in London. He sees that the best way of doing thatis to send away Bernard and then making sure that his idéas of what isright and wrong doesn't spread on to others. So here we get a glimpseof how the world should be Utopia. But we also get another view whenLinda and John comes in. Because we now get to see what could go wrongwith the way they are living. This is what frightens the staff in thefertilizing room. You get to see how fragile the world of ford is.