Beki Rivera

April 20 2022
Mrs. Jewell ERWC per 1
BNW Pre-Reading Chapter 1
Book cover predictions:
- No individuality between people
- Forfeiting individual freedom and become larger body of workers
- People are being controlled by a machine or society
- Moving into unknowns and evolve in the future
- Artificial intelligence and human creation
- Obsession with perfectionism
- Humans and emotions
- Humans are mortal and we are all going to die
- Relationships and love
- We make mistakes and can grow and learn from them
- We can be better at being human and get rid of things that slow us down
Title Brave New World is an allusion to a Shakespeare play (The Tempest)

‘Brave New World’ predicted today’s world better than any other novel by Scotty Hendricks
How did this novel predict today’s world the best?

● Even intelligent people can give over their lives if they believe someone enough
● A dystopian novel is a genre of writing which is an bad society
● BNW is a society where everyone is happy all the time and they use Pavlov conditioning
● They condition someone to want someone based on something else
● Control human by keeping them entertained
● To keep them happy gives Soma drug: drugs, marajauna,
● If people are distracted, you let our guard down and they will be able to control them in all ways
● Human experience gets in the way of being perfection
● To create the “World State” we get rid of the things that make us human; emotions, insatiable
appetites, basic survival= food, safety, shelter, and families.

Dystopian Nightmare Society

● World State: dictatorship strives for order
 ● People do not have to worry about problems of the world
● Henry Ford becomes the God since he established the assembly line
● They want to create a lot of humans and make sure they have a lot of jobs
● Sigmund Freud: encourages people to buy things, be promiscuous or be with a lot of people, and
want people to stay happy
● Dystopias will all fall apart
● “Enslaved population” people that know what is going on are okay with it all happening
● No hope for change

Similarities to world today

● People make choices to influence genetic makeup
● Can do screenings to decide if they want to have a disabled fetus or not
● Through IVF people can even choose the gender of their baby before they have it
● Most people can’t even go 30 minutes without checking their phones
● We have got rid of boredom like Huxley predicted
● We are choosing to use this distraction to avoid all the other things going on in the world

Drugs and addiction

● People are given the Soma drug that promotes happiness and gets rid of negative feelings
● We have antidepressants and other medication to numb us as well

Jobs and employment

● There is total employment and assures everybody can work since free time would give them time
to think about what is happening to them
● Mass consumption assures that everybody keeps using products that they don’t need
● People want to buy new things and throw out last years
● People who choose not to vote have no impact on their government

Media
● The different news networks are controlled by one side and you sometimes only watch what you
agree with and are not seeing all the sides at all
● Propaganda is use of social media to send out a message
● It is all controlled by the government so they can monitor what we see and believe
Decentralization of Power
● Huxley wants us to start figuring out what we are worshiping as a society
● We worship things that don’t have any value
● Only engage with others as an economic unit and not as human beings

Definition of Satire: Satire is a literary device for the artful ridicule of folly or vice as a means of
exposing or correcting it. The subject of satire is generally human frailty, as it manifests in people’s
behavior or ideas as well as societal institutions or other creations. Satire utilizes tones of amusement,
contempt, scorn, or indignation towards a flawed subject with the hope of creating awareness and
subsequent change.
For example, one of the most well-known satirical literary works is brave new world by Aldous
Huxley. In his novel, Huxley satirizes most of the social conventions and institutions considered
sacred and held dear by an “enlightened” Western society. This includes religion, monogamy,
social equality, and the blessing of childbirth. In the novel, these conventions and institutions are
turned upside down such that the characters embrace drug culture, social class separation, casual
sex, and governmental control. Huxley satirizes contemporary society in order to expose for the
reader its arbitrary and often hypocritical moral structures.
 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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.
-Main building: Central London Hatchery
and Conditioning Centre
-Motto: Community, Identity, Stability
-Workers in the same outfit and in an
assembly line (pg 3)
-Place where workers are created in mass
speed (pg 4)
-People’s only purpose was to work (pg 7)
-Hand picked certain people to donate
their eggs (Alphas and Betas) they want
them to reproduce.
-Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons are made
sterile so they do not reproduce, they just
want them to work. (pg 8)
-Embryos are put into groups early on and
then put in the Social Predestination room
to determine their use in society (pg 10)
-Only 30% of females are allowed to be
fertile (pg 13)
-All conditioning is done to make people
like their unchangeable social status (pg
16)
Collect terms/vocabulary related to World
State and define.
Add page numbers.
-London (pg 3)
-Year 632 A.F. (pg 4)
-A.F. = After Ford
-Director of Hatchery (D.H.C.)
-Fertilizers: Job was to fertilize (pg 4)
-Alphas
-Betas (superior, super humans, leaders)
-^^^^have been fertilized perfectly
-Gammas
-Deltas
-Epsilon (inferior = menial tasks)
-^^^^Bokanovsky’s process= G, D, E eggs
shocked resulting in “budding”, which can
turn one egg into no more than 96 identical
twins. (pg 6)
-They are doused in alcohol which kills
brain cells so as you go down the list they
get dumber and dumber (pg 7)
-People = Worker!
-Freemartin: A woman who has
deliberately been made sterile by expose
to male hormones during fetal
development (pg 13)
-perform heat conditioning on embryos to
make them love the heat since they have a
fear of the cold. (pg 16)

What questions come to mind as you read What predictions do you have about how
chapter 1? Add page numbers that keep the potential issues/problems within the
track of when this question came to mind. World State creation? Add page numbers.
-Everything seems so put together and
done to a T, what happens if just one
small thing goes wrong? (pg 11)
-If only alphas and betas reproduce, how
do they get gammas, deltas, and
epsilons? (pg 8)
-Someone might question the social
hierarchy, like a gamma, delta or epsilon
might not what to be inferior to the alphas
and betas (pg 16)
-Those that are smart enough to realize
what is going on, could rebel (pg 7)

-How do these people not understand -There may be a problem with all the
what is wrong with this whole process identical people in the world (pg 6)
when they are describing it in detail to
them? (pg 10)

-What happens if the conditioning goes

wrong and they aren’t conditioned to be
happy in society? (pg 16)