Name: Valeria Colmenares

Date: 4/26/22
Period: 6
BNW: Prereading 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 predictions
1. A central power that ascends over the world
2. Baby involvement
3. Murder
4. Something that takes over / power
5. Problems in society
6. Punishment or consequences
7. Producing more generations
8. Brainwashing
9. What happens when you don’t belong
10. No personal value
11. Not created by sex but by science through egg and sperm

Brave New World by Scott Hendriks

Title: Brave New World’ predicted today’s world better than any other novel
Notes:
 1931 historical context
o Depression
o Marxist – communism
 WW1 1914-18
 1920s
o Self-expression
o Entertaiment
 o Alcohol
o Wall street/economy
 1929
o Stock market crash
 Fordist religion
o God = Henry Ford
 Assembly line
o Population being made in a lab, in test tubes so there are always workers
 No families
 No concept of children or parents
 Enslaved population
 Stopped while the human assembly line described
 Concept of soma is their only drug
o Created for human consumption
o Government issued
o Moderate doses no choice on taking it or the dose amount
 Are we going to control or push back

Utopia
Dystopia
-why-
HUMAN EXPERIECE
? Purpose of dystopian literature = warn to prevent

 Emotions
 Individualism
 Free will
 Money
 Love (relationships)
 Family
 Mistakes
 Personal growth
 Intelligence
 Curiosities
 Anger
 Power/control
 Pride
 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? Add page numbers.

 Motto, community, identity, and Collect terms/vocabulary related to World
stability State and define.
 D.H.C = Director of Hatcheries and Add page numbers.
Conditioning
 A.F = After Ford
 Only the “good” ones will be picked
for their eggs and sperm for a bonus in
return
 Alphas Betas = superhumans
 Gammas, deltas, epsilons = mass
production 1-96 only for their
intelligence
 Mass production of things/work

What predictions do you have about the

What questions come to mind as you read
chapter 1? Add page numbers that keep track
of when this question came to mind.
 If they are having sex? How do they
not have babies?
 How do they keep sex as recreation?
 When is the use of science
overreaching?
potential issues/problems within the World
State creation? Add page numbers.
The potential issues/problems that may
happen within the World Sate creation is that
the people may want to think for themselves,
or what if they don’t want to work the job
they have anymore.