Notes:

● The World State: Chapters 1-6 introduce the setting, the main concepts, and the
main characters of the novel.
● The Reservation: Chapters 7-9 describe the experiences of Bernard and Lenina on
the mesa and introduce John, the Savage, and his mother Linda, who is from the
World State.
● The Savage in Civilization: Chapters 10-18 describe the experiences of John, the
Savage, as he attempts to live in what he calls a "Brave New World" quoting a
Shakespearean character Miranda from the drama The Tempest.

1931: aldous huxley writes novel

2022: our reading perspective
2540:setting of novel

Dystopian lit:
What gets in the way of perfection?
● Self interest
● Emotions-dissatisfaction, consumerism, addiction
● Differences in values/perspectives
● Complacency/insatiability
● Morals
● breeding/conditioning
● Free will
● Sexuality
● Self-expression
What is the purpose of dystopian lit?:
● IT WARNS US

Covers:
● Babies in test tubes
● Babies in pill capsules
● Humans with no heads/brains
● Modern buildings
● Drugs

Predictions
● Programed to act a certain way
● Humans made scientifically
● Evil
● Drugged to behave
● Advancements in technology
● Somebody in control of ALL
● No free will
● Rebellion
 ● Manipulations of younger people
● Super-human vs sub-human
● New generation, getting rid of old thought

‘Brave New World’ predicted today’s world better than any other novel
04/20/22
Scotty Hendricks
● Dystopia vs Utopia: utopia unravels into a dystopia-sci-fi
● Book is about a nightmare world that we have been creeping towards steadily
● BNW: Henry Ford+Sigmund Freud=GOD called the fordist religions
● Consumerism, assembly line, religion
● Genetical engineering
● People being kept happy by drugs if society fails them
● Drug called soma: addiction
● Everyone stay happy to keep them under control, quiet, obedient, and
PRODUCTIVE
● In this society underneath the religions some of the things that are encouraged is
sex, buying all the time, and avoiding unhappiness
● No thinking, no change
● Rich vs poor
● Baby design
● Endless distractions/no boredom/solitude: between hours at work
● Soma is used to keep people happy and obedient distributed by the gov,
required to take it.
● Constantly working and buying
● Dictatorship used as a form of government-everyone is happy about it

What is the World State? Collect terms/vocabulary related to World

Add page numbers: State and define.
● Community, Identity,Stability Add page numbers.:
● Modernistic city pg3 ● Broanovskys process: modern
● Director of hatcheries and breeding
conditioning/DHC pg3 ●
● Humans bred for the sole purpose of
working
● Everyones good and happy
● Humans made in incubators
● Different levels of creation
- alphas and betas
- Gammas, deltas, epsilons
● Sit in alcohol to make people less
intelligent
 ● Embryos kept in red light to mimic
natural growth?
● Gives some embryos less oxygen to
be below par
●
What questions come to mind as you read
chapter 1?
Add page numbers that keep track of
when this question came to mind.:
● Why are they creating humans in a
lab? Pg3
● People are made the same? No
differences in personality?
● Everyone's twins?
● Given a career while developing?
What predictions do you have about how
the potential issues/problems within the
World State creation?
Add page numbers.:
● Humans made in tubes, with artificial
feeding, people will see what's wrong
with that
● People will realize people are being
made dumber than the rest?