Hailey Carolan

Period 3 ERWC
4-20-22

This module divides the novel into three main sections:

● 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 reader perspective
2540- setting of the book

Book covers: Noticing babies in pill caps, people being consumed by machines, futuristic
settings, people in cages, lack of creativity, drugs, fetus brain, manipulation of younger minds,
blood

Predictions:
- New technology is taking over
- Someone taking control over people
- Programed to become something
- New way of thinking
- No more free will
- Rebellion eventually
- Manipulation of younger people
- Getting rid of old thoughts ***

Brave New World’ predicted today’s world better than any other novel, High culture, October 13,
2018, Scotty Hendricks
- Warns us of dangers of mass media
- Genre of Sci -fi
- Utopia will unravel bit by bit to a dystopia
- Best book to argue what is happening in our world today
- Henry Ford is god in the book
- Religion and how it affects peoples thinking
- Everyone is happy all the time, not allowed to be unhappy
 - If you are unhappy you are given a drug
- Entertained continuously
- Genetic engineering
- Capitalism vs Communism
- Loves slavery
- In this society underneath this Fordist religion is you buy a lot and sexually promiscuous
and avoid unhappiness
- Don’t have to do any thinking
- Mass producing humans
- Favorite pill = Soma
- First level is euphoria
- Next hallucinations
- Tranquilizer
- Expected to take it have no choice
- Dictatorship is going to be used as a form of government and everyone is going to be
happy about it
- People sit back and wait to be told what to do by the people who have power
- One television and is programmed by the government
- Watch propaganda from friendly faces
- Employment:
- Everybody can work so they have no free time
- Consumerism, have to keep buying products even when they don’t need anything
- Distractions
- Always fill time with activities
- Don’t need to worry about being bored
- Can't enjoy being alone
- Goes to parties all the time

What gets in the way of a perfect world (Utopia):

- Self-interests
- Emotions
- Political Differences
- Complacency
- Instability
- Morals
- Breeding/conditioning
- Free will
- Sexuality
- Self-expression
 - Consumerism
- Addictions
Purpose of dystopian literature= Warns Us
Chapter 1
Focus: Introducing the World State
Two reminders:
● Please be try your best as a reader to do your own thinking and learning!!!
● Refer to the book as often as possible by keeping track of page numbers.
What is the World State? Add page
numbers.
- Modern- “Building only 31
stories high pg 3
- Everybody is all dressed the
same in all white
- Director: director of the
hatcheries and conditioning also
called DHC
- “Everyone is good and happy”
pg 4
- World states motto: community,
stability, identity pg 3
- Bokanovsky’s process= major
instrument to social stability pg
7 sent pg 10
- Millions of identical twins pg 7
- “Nearly eleven thousand
brothers and sisters in a hundred
andx fifty batches of identical
twins pg 8
- Labeling of tube includes date
of fertilization, hereditary,
named, and membership of
bokanovsky group pg 10
- Embryos are shaken into
familiarity with movement pg
12
- Only 30% of female embryos
develop normally the others get
a dose of male sex hormone and
become free martians pg 13
Collect terms/vocabulary related to World
State and define them. Add page numbers.
- Central London Hatchery where
workers are produced pg 3
- AF: After ford
- Alpha and betas
- Gammas, Delta, epsilons- dumps
these embryos in alcohol in
varying levels- they become less
and less intelligent pg 6
- Bud: embryo? Pg 7
- Ovary: hundreds of sets of brothers
and sisters come from one pg 8
- Bottling room pg 9
- Embryo Store: where tubes are
- Social predestination room. Pg 11
- Decanting room pg 12
- Bed of peritoneum: where embryos
grow? Pg 12
- T for males, and circle for females,
and a question mark for free
martians pg 13
- Heat conditioning pg 16
- Purple eyes pg 16
- Standing on heads pg 17
- Decanting room pg 18
 - Decrease some embryos oxygen
pg 14
- Individuals sexually mature at 4
and fully grown at 6 pg 15
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What questions come to mind as you What predictions do you have about how
read chapter 1? Add page numbers that the potential issues/problems within the
keep track of when this question came World State creation? Add page numbers.
to mind.

- I'm confused as to if they are - I think people might start to

explaining the stages of what question Bokanovsky’s process. Pg
embryos go through? 7
- I also think maybe people will start
to wonder if all this is normal. Like
the amount of identical twins Pg 8
or how they create free martians pg
13