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 book
BNW cover observations
● Babies in test tube and pill caps
● Human brains big replaced with machines
● Futuristic settings; modernized tall buildings
● people locked up, lack of creativity
● Drugs (pill caps)
● Baby brain: not a fully grown person: manipulation of younger minds
● Man with a whip, pills, heads, blood, torture
○ Cover brainstorm ideas
■ Babies being scientifically made in test tubes
■ Programmed to act a certain way based off the pills they have to digest
■ Being controlled by pills
■ Technology controlling the brain
■ Advancements in technology
■ Free thought being eliminated/ not being able to choose what they do for
the rest of their life
■ A rebellion
■ Manipulation of the younger mind
■ Super human and sub-human
■ Creating a new generation, getting rid of old thought, how many
generations and programming will it take to get rid of the old thought?
OCTOBER 13, 2018
‘Brave New World’ predicted today’s world better
than any other novel-Scotty Hendricks notes
04/20/22

● Mass media, passivity, and how even an

intelligent population can be driven to gladly
choose dictatorship over freedom.
● Predicted modern life
● Bnw offers a nightmare world, that we've moved towards over the last century
● Dictatorship that relies on force
● Future world is a utopia unraveling into a dystopia
● Sci-fi
● Bnw is the best sci fi book
● Henry ford made the first car: model T
● Author thought it would be important to include Henry ford: assembly line moves to
consumerism
○ In BNW the author views Henry Ford as the god (“oh ford!)
○ A conversation about religion and the effect it has on people- included in the
book
● Everybody is happy all the time using genetic engineering, has a drug that keeps people
happy (soma) - drugs come in different forms-addiction
● Pavlovian conditioning is going to b used: doing something to get a reward and you
continue doing whatever you're doing to get the reward again
● Everyone's stays happy to keep them quiet, obedient, not remember the past, under
control, everyone stays productive and working,, won't have time to do anything else
● In this society under the religion of henry ford is it is encourged you buy alot for no
reason, being sexual promiscious,and all times avoiding unhapiness
● How does being sexual promiscious encourage having a perfect world?
● Super happy there is no thinking
● The human assembly line is still a far off fantasy and the concepts that work are already
here
● Humans are created on an assembly line- mass produced
● Choosing the gender of your baby is already happening in the world
● Baby design is already here
● Characters in BNW enjoy endless distraction
○ Is this true for us today in this generation?
● No one is bored, “the idea of enjoying solitude is taboo”- most people are encouraged to
go to parties every night
 ● Distraction is something we use to not face the problems and issues of our daily lives
○ Binge watching
● Soma is made to cause euphoria, enjoyable hallucinations large doses: can be used as
a tranquilizer
● Soma is handed out in doses based off what someone else thinks you need
● Soma is government controlled
● No choice to not take it
○ Expected to take the drug
● Stability is partly based off employment
● People are forced to work so they don't have free time to think about their condition
● Huxley wants consumerism pointlessly keeping us chasing after things that we think we
need to be happy as a distraction from exploring other things
● Constantly working and buying
● Dictatorship used as a form of government-everyone's happy bout it
● Argues that decentralization of power means to restore the value of democratic
government to the typical person who might realize thor vote is meaningless

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was a prediction of a nightmare he thought we would be safe
from for at least a few hundred years when he wrote it in 1931.

Dystopian literature
● Q: what gets in the way of perfection?
○ A: self- interest, political differences/ different values and perspectives, emotions,
complacency: no drive, instability, morals & values, breeding/ conditioning,
free-will, sexuality, self- expression, dissatisfaction, consumerism, and addiction
● Q: What is the purpose of the dystopian genre?
○ A: to prove that we aren't perfect, it warns us about the future
 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Chapter 1

Focus: Introducing the World State

Two reminders:

● Please 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? Collect terms/vocabulary related to World

Add page numbers: 3, State and define.
● Director of hatchery and conditioning Add page numbers: 4,
(DHC)-3 ● Fertilizer: job -4
● Everyone is good and happy -4 ● Fretsawyers and stamp collectors:
● Motto: community, identity, stability backbone to society -4
-4 ● AF: after ford -4
● Worker levels of creation: alphas- ● Labelors: heredity, date of
betas, gammas/deltas/epsilons (dunked fertilization, membership of
in alcohol for varying levels, less and bokanovsky group-10
less intelligent) -4 ● T for males-13
● “Bokanovskys process is one of the ● Circles for females-13
major instruments to social stability”-7 ● Destined to beom freemartins get a
● question mark, black on a white
ground-13
●

What questions come to mind as you read
chapter 1?
Add page numbers that keep track of
when this question came to mind: 3,
● Why is the building faced north
○ Is there purpose to this -3
● Why is everyone looking the same -3
● Why would you want people to be
uintellingent
What predictions do you have about the
potential issues/problems within the World
State creation?
Add page numbers: 3,
● Very modernistic buildings -3
● Central london hatchery and
conditioning center is where workers
are “born” -3
●