Maci Lechtaler

4/21/2022

Period 6

BNW: Pre Reading and Chapter 1 Notes

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.
Book cover prediction:
~Pills used to control people
~Eggs meaning they are born to do a specific job
~All created to be the exact same like clones
~Create the economy they want
~Dystopian Literature<<written with the purpose of being a warning>>
~Want for a perfect Utopia/World order
~Human experience does not allow perfection
~Punishment and Consequences
~Hope of a perfect world
~What happens when you don’t conform
~Conditioning new generations
~No personal value/just a piece of the society
~Humans are not created through sex, but through eggs and sperm

Brave New World Predicted our Actual World (Article Notes):

~Scotty Hendricks 2018
~How did the book predict today's world better than anything else?
~1931 Historical Context:
-WWI 1914-1918
-1920s self expression, entertainment, alcohol, wall street/economy
-1929 stock market crash
-1931 economic depression, Marxist=communism, Growing power= Hitler, Stalin,
Musolini, in other European countries
-your either super happy to have a great job or super happy to have a terrible job
- one religion ( the Fordist religion) God is Henry Ford, created idea of the assembly
line=worker and work
 -creating people the say way they make things, in a assembly line production, creating in
test tubes
-only purpose for entire world state is creating workers
-enslaved population loves being slaves
-no hope for change

Things that keep us from being perfect~

● Emotions= Love
● Individualism
● Free will
● Money
● Relationships
● Family
● Mistakes
● Personal growth
● Intelligence
● Curiosity
● Exaggeration
● Anger
● Need for power and control
● Pride
● 7 deadly sins

*PURPOSE OF DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE= warn to prevent*

- People now are able to detect down syndrome which has led to abortions
- The drug Soma in small doses causes euphoria, medium causes enjoyable hallucinations,
and large is a tranquilizer.
- This drug Soma is government issued meaning you have to take it.

EMPLOYMENT
-everyone must be employed
- no more shortcuts for work, like machines and such
-if we stay busy enough then we do not need to think
-happiness is the only correct mental state and this will lead to more money
-grieving for loved ones is problematic
-will we get to the point where we will allow someone to control us or will we not allow it
CHAPTER 1

What is the World State? Add page Collect terms/vocabulary related to World
numbers. State and define. Add page numbers.
● It is a modern city like New York it ● Social Stability(7)- the degree to
is built up with skyscrapers (3) which a society and its institutions
● Motto - community, identity, stability remain predictable and reliable.
● D.H.C Director of Hatcheries and ● Bokanovskified egg(7)- speeding up
Conditioning (4)
the maturation of unfertilized eggs
● AF: After Ford (4)
● Alphas (6) from an ovary, is used to produce
● Betas (6) massive numbers of a genetic
● These 2 are the superhumans (6) group
● Caste- one of the hereditary social
● Gammas (6) classes in Hinduism that restrict
● Deltas (6) the occupation of their members
● Episolons (6) and their association with the
These 3 are mass produced 1=96 (7) members of other castes.
Mass production of things and work (7) ● A.F.= After Ford, Henry Ford's
These 3 are pons levels of intelligence (7) assembly line is revered as
● Mass production applies to
god-like
biology(7)
● The five castes are Alpha, Beta,
Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon
● Alpha and Beta never undergo the
dividing because it weakens the
embryos
● Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon
undergo the Bokanovsky process
which develops 96 identical
humans.
What questions come to mind as you read What predictions do you have about the
chapter 1? Add page numbers that keep potential issues/problems within the World
track of when this question came to mind. State creation? Add page numbers.
● If they are having sex how are thye
not makig babies? ● Soma although offered for euphoria it
● How do you make sure that humans may cause sterilization. (7)
only have sex for recreation rather ● People
than intimacy?
● When is the
use/abilities/moderations of science
over using?
● How were humans supposed to be
created?