Chapter 1

• "A squat grey building..." (3).

• Describes the building as "only" 34 stories high. Insinuates the idea that
buildings in this time are built up, not out. May mean there is no space in
the city they reside in
• "Wintriness responded to wintriness" (3).
• Wintriness: Extreme lack of warmth
• "These, he waved his hand..." (5).
• Incubators display the idea of children being grown artificially
• "...very young, pink..." (5).
• Pink?
• "...and stamp collectors..." (4).
• Why are stamp collectors the backbone of society??
• "Begin at the beginning..." (5).
• Why are they writing every single thing down?
• May suggest that this process is very important to the functionality of
society
• "...one adult—normality" (7).
• They are growing humans in test tubes, but sees it as normal
• "...by scores at a time" (8).
• They purposely create huge sets of identical twins
• Can inform that everyone looks the same lol
• "...it takes thirty years..." (8)
• This society cares a lot about wasting time
• "No longer anonymous" (10)
• The embryos are distributed anonymously and then assigned a name an
identity
• "...gallery above gallery..." (11).
• The facility is in fact built up
• "...black on a white ground" (13).
• The process of creating humans in a test tube is very intricate and detailed
 • "...future Directories of Hatcheries..." (13).
• Are there no world leaders in this society?
• "Consider the horse" (14).
• WHAT HORSE
• "...sexually mature at four..." (15)
• My prediction about the society being obsessed with time is right, but
why?
• "...predestined to emigrate to the tropics..." (16).
• They are conditioning them to grow up and work
• "...unescapable social destiny" (16).
• Ironic because it is a "destiny," but is also unescapable

Chapter 2

• "...also apoplectic..." (19)

• Apoplectic: overcome with anger; extremely indignant
• "...with eight-month babies..." (20).
• They all look exactly alike
• "Offer them the flowers..." (21)
• The babies are conditioned to hate books and flowers
• Form of censorship
• "A love of nature..." (23).
• All of this conditioning—to hate books and flowers—is so that these
children grow up to be more efficient at the jobs they will be forced to
work
• "You know what Polish is..." (23).
• Polish, French, and German are dead languages
• "And 'parent'?" (23)
• The students all blushed at the thought of a human being having parents
• "And Epsilons are still worse" (27).
• So... they use the practice of sleep-teaching to pit the children of certain
groups against other groups. They would end up hating the other children
without knowing why
 • "...before the child can speak" (28).
• Being made in a test tube or a womb, a baby's developing brain still has so
much potential to be molded in any way that these companies want it to
be. In turn, they use it to their advantage to make these robot like child
workers who will obey everything they say without question
• "Oh, Ford!" (29).
• Am I missing something, who's Ford bruv??

Chapter 3

• "...to do nothing whatever to increase consumption" (30).

• This society is very obsessed with consumption and money
• "Just kids" (30).
• Children playing sexual games is seen as normal
• "...if anything's at all abnormal" (32).
• If people see anything out of sorts, they are sent to someone to see if they
are psychologically okay
• "Twenty years old?" (33).
• The legal age of consent in real life is around 18 due to the development
of a child's brain because a child cannot consent to sexual activities with
anyone. In this society, they do not care about that and allow them to play
sexual games because they do not develop any differently from other
people
• "That smutty word again" (36).
• The people of this society cannot imagine what living in a home, with a
family, mother, father, or other siblings is like—no matter how hard they
try
• "How I loathe intravenals..." (38).
• Why do they not like intravenals?
• "...without having another man..." (41).
• The opposite of what society was like when this book was written. If a
woman were to have an affair with more than one man during her
 marriage, she would be written off. In this society, if they do not have
more than one man, they are shunned or looked at weirdly
• "...ought to be more promiscuous..." (43).
• Encouragement to be a certain way
• "I'm surprised you haven't had her" (44).
• They all just... have sex with each other
• "Bernard ground his teeth" (45).
• Bernard does not like the idea that men can have whoever they want
whenever they want and vice versa. Okay I like him
• "...go on being viviparous" (46).
• Viviparous: bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body
of the parent

Chapter 4

• "Bernard's pale face..." (58).

• Bernard is uncomfortable talking about sex with Lenina in front of other
people, even though she had done it with almost everyone in the elevator
• "...without ever touching soma" (60).
• Soma is a drug given out to all the people in this society. In small doses, it
makes people feel good. In large doses, it creates pleasant hallucinations
and a sense of timelessness within the taker
• "...cures ten gloomy" (60).
• The people of this society are able to measure the amount of sadness
within themselves
• "I'm glad I'm not a Gamma" (63).
• This is a clear example of the way sleep-teaching has made its way into
their everyday society and how it has trained them to think a certain way
• "...of his physical inadequacy" (64).
• Bernard has an inferiority complex lmaoo
• "I'm taking Lenina Crowne to New Mexico with me..." (68).
• He doesn't even want to do anything with Lenina. The inferiority complex
is jumping out bruv </3
 • "...the artificial impotence of asceticism" (69).
• Asceticism: severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of
indulgence, typically for religious reasons
• I thought they did not believe in religion?

Chapter 5

• "Even an Epsilon..." (74).

• Trigger of when she was younger and listening to the sleep teaching that
all the children were forced through
• "...said Lenina, with conviction..." (74).
• Conviction: a firmly held belief or opinion
• Even though she was forced to think that Epsilons were lower than
everyone else, she also truly believed it
• "...there followed a gradual deturgescence..." (76).
• Deturgescnece: state of relative dehydration necessary to maintain the
transparency of the cornea of the eye
• "...world of soma-holiday" (77).
• Everyone at this party took a dosage of soma which is making everything
around them so amusing, bright and joyful
• "…Lenina did not forget to take all the contraceptive precautions..." (77).
• The women of this society have been trained to take all of these
precautions to ensure they do not have children that are not bore from a
test tube. It has become second nature
• "Even Bernard felt himself a little melted" (81).
• Soma will affect everyone, even those who do not want to be affected
• "When Morgana Rothschild..." (81).
• Rothschilds: Wealthy Jewish family that rose to success in the 1760s. A
part of the 13 giants. They control the banking businesses
• "The loving cup had made its circuit" (82).
• This cup passing ritual is kind of cult-like
• "...their bowels seemed to move within them..." (83).
• They poopin themselves lol
 • "...was Morgana's eyebrow" (86).
• When Bernard lies, he has a slight twinge to his eyebrow that he tries
desperately to hide. Does this mean that Morgana was lying when she said
the coming of Ford was wonderful?

Chapter 6

• "Talking? But what about?" (89).

• The idea of being alone with a person without the motive to have sex is
disturbing to the people of this society
• "A gramme is always better than a damn" (90).
• Implies that it is better to be high off of soma and not have a care in the
world than to be sober and care too much
• "Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?" (91).
• Bernard feels that they are not free and are enslaved by their own
happiness. He wants to be able to feel sad without being told to take a
gramme
• "...an inviting and voluptuous cajolery" (92).
• Cajolery: coaxing or flattery intended to persuade someone to do
something
• "Everyone says I'm awfully pneumatic..." (93).
• Pneumatic: (in regards to people) full of air, which could be related to
things that are big, soft, and bouncy like shoes, chairs, and girls' breasts
• "Like so much meat" (93).
• Bernard has a habit of comparing the girls of this society to meat. May
mean they are brainless, or naïve, or treated as an object for sex
• "Not at once, not the first day" (93).
• He wants it to be like the past where having sex on the first "date" was
taboo
• "...with an expression so profoundly miserable..." (94).
• He is upset that he enjoyed having sex with her, but he really only enjoyed
it because he was high off of soma
• "...was rather tonic than depressing" (98).
 • Tonic: giving a feeling of vigor or well-being; invigorating
• Bernard did not care about getting screamed at by the director and instead
found it invigorating because he finally felt that he was going against the
system
• "...in an expression of rapt attention" (101).
• Rapt: completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing
• Lenina is completely mesmerized by the Warden's face, but she is not
listening to anything he saying
• "…in the reservation..." (102).
• They are talking down on reservations and the people who live on them
• "...savages won't do you any harm..." (106).
• They talk about the Natives as though they were animals.
• Racism against indigenous people even exists in this world—as advanced
as they are😍

Chapter 7

• "...three hundred feet to the gunwale" (108).

• Gunwale: the upper edge of the side of a boat or ship
• "...huge feather diadems exploded gaudily round their heads" (109).
• Diadem: a jeweled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty
• "She had never seen anything so indecent in her life" (111).
• Ironic considering she asked Bernard to have sex with her in the middle of
an elevator full of men she had already had sex with... girl please
• "...an old woman with ophthalmia and a disease of skin distracted her from her
indignation" (112).
• Ophthalmia: inflammation of the eyes; especially conjunctivitis
• "I don't like it" (112).
• I hate her. Why does she think everything she hates will just accommodate
to her and end??
• "...so were the clothes and the goiters and the skin diseases and the old people"
(113).
• Goiters: swelling of the neck
 • "...nailed to a cross" (114).
• Depiction of Jesus Christ
• "Why wouldn't they let me be the sacrifice?" (116).
• The boy being whipped mercilessly was an act of sacrifice, probably to a
god of some kind
• "The multitudinous seas incarnadine" (117).
• Multitudinous: very numerous
• Incarnadine: a bright crimson or pinkish color
• "The mere suggestion made Lenina shudder" (120).
• Civilized people lack empathy 😀
• "Everything they do is mad" (121).
• Even though this woman has acclimated to the way that the natives live,
she still longs for the life she had in the “civilized society”
•
• "...just because I used to have them sometimes" (122).
• "Having" anyone they wanted is normal to the civilized, while it is awful
to the natives. Maybe they are not the civilized ones they believed
themselves to be 😀

Chapter 8

• "...all the men who came to see Linda" (125).

• He's bringing his feeling of not liking women being "meat" to the
reservation
• "Linda taught him to read" (129).
• Talking about how Linda taught John how to read now
• "...and it seemed to be full of nonsense" (131).
• Ironic because she just said that William Shakespeare's writing was all
nonsense. To each their own, I guess?
• "A man can smile and smile and be a villain" (132).
• A man can smile and be amiable to those around him, while also having
another agenda
• "...they gave him a reason for hating Pope" (132).
 • Before Bernard went to the reservation, he hated many things about where
he lived and had no way or answer as to why. He just did. After learning
all these words and ways to express his hatred, he now has a reason.
Maybe this is why he decided to take Lenina to New Mexico
• "He had only to take one step, one little jump" (136).
• He's contemplating suicide because he feels trapped—the same way that
Bernard does now
• "...one's bound to be lonely" (137).
• He feels that if he does not fit the societal norm or what is accepted, they
will be alone forever. Maybe the two civilizations are not so different after
all
• "O brave new world" (139).
• UGH. ICONIC

Chapter 9

• "...that sounded in his ears" (142).

• Bernard just got back and already he was up and at work
• "Noiseless on his deerskin moccasins..." (142).
• A person from the reservation made it to the "civilized"
• "Her eyes," he murmured..." (144).
• He's in love with her
• "Her eyes, her cheek, her gait..." (144).
• Is he reciting Shakespear??

Chapter 10

• "The security and stability of Society are in danger" (149).

• They blamed it on Bernard because he has a different view of sex, does
not like taking soma and is all around different from everyone else
• "In Iceland, he will have small opportunity..." (149).
• They're banishing him to Iceland
• "...coquettishly smiling her broken and discolored smile..." (150).
 • Coquettish: Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual
attraction; flirtatious
• "Of course I knew you; Tomakin..." (150).
• THE DIRECTOR OF HATCHERIES IS THE FATHER OF JOHN
• "She flung the obscenity like a challenge..." (151).
• Obscenity: The state or quality of being obscene; obscene behavior,
language or images
• Obscene: offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and
decency.
• "My father!" (151).
• That is the reason he is half-white and hated the man that his mother
would sleep with. He knew who his real father was

Chapter 11

• "...or rather the ex-Director" (153).

• He resigned out of embarrassment???
• "But aren't you shortening her life by giving her so much?" (154).
• Bernard once said that no one lived long enough to see themselves age and
were basically preserved in the beauty of their youth. Is this how they
ensure they stay youthful and pretty for the entirety of their lives?
• "Eternity was in our lips and eyes" (155).
• He's reciting Shakespeare again!
• "...that Bernard was offended" (157).
• He is starting to care about how many women he sleeps with?
• "...to be much attached to her..." (161).
• Bernard is trying to disprove the fact that children have emotional
attachments to their mothers, by backing up his discomfort with the idea
of conditioning
• "...He's curious, you know..." (161).
• Is he implying that she should have sex with him?
• "...when the shutters clicked open again" (163).
 • Why is Bernard acting like this, when he started off angry about women
being treated like meat
• "I wish it weren't" (166).
• Lenina wants to have sex with John, but wasn't she just disgusted by the
civilization that he is a part of??
• "Liked him more and more" (166).
• She be catchin feelings
• "...wildly anti-social tête-à-tête..." (169).
• Tête-à-tête: a face-to-face meeting or conversation between two people,
usually in an intimate setting; a head-to-head
• "...it was ignoble" (170).
• Ignoble: not honorable in character or purpose
• "...he hardly even looked at her" (170).
• John may not look the way the other natives do, but he is still native and
the fact that Lenina found a movie amusing that demonized and made fun
of people that looked like him may have been extremely hurtful