Kiran McWilliams

4/20/22
Period 3

● 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!!

Book covers:

● Babies in a pill like tube

● Head is gone which represents no brain or intelligence
● Machine as a head
● Brain of fetus

Predictions of the text:

● Government is controlling the society and trying to create a new generation to think differently
● Everyone is given a different purpose to do something
● Manipulation of young people
● Super human will take over sub-human

OCTOBER 13, 2018

‘Brave New World’ predicted today’s world better than any other novel
Scotty Hendricks

● Utopia → Dystopia (genre of sci-fi)

● Perfect society → society that falls apart
● Best novel to predict modern life
● Henry Ford = God!
● Henry Ford: assembly line, consumerism, religion
 ● Perfect world and always happy because everyone is conditioned to love what they do
● If you’re unhappy even a little, they give you the drug Soma
● Will keep everyone under control, can’t think about bad things in the past, stay productive
● In this society, underneath the Fordist religion it is encouraged that you buy a lot, are sexually
promiscuous, and avoid happiness
● They are strangely content with slavery even though they realize how they should be concerned
● Parents can choose their child's gender
● *Distractions
● They fill their time between work with endless distractions, never have to worry about being
bored
● Party every night

Utopia → Dystopia → why? → Human Experience!

● Self-interest
● Emotions → consumerism, addictions
● Different values/perspectives
● Complacency → insatiability
● Morals
● Breeding/conditioning
● Free will
● Sexuality
● Self-expression
? Purpose of dystopian literature = warns us!

More notes on article:

● 3 levels of soma: euphoria, hallucinations, and a tranquilizer
● Idea that dictatorship is going to be used as a form of government
● Only one television station to get news from
● Fewer choices makes things easier

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.
-Grey building (pg.3)
-34 stories
-Has the motto over the entrance:
Community, Identity, Stability
-Produces workers in bottles
-Director of Hatchery and Conditioning
(DHC)
-Good and happy citizens (pg. 4)
-A.F= after four
-
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?
Collect terms/vocabulary related to World
State and define.
Add page numbers.
Workers: Alpha, Betas → Gammas (less
alcohol), Delta (more), Epsilons (most),
makes them less intelligent
-Bokanovsky process
What predictions do you have about how
the potential issues/problems within the
World State creation? Add page numbers.
-Going off on chapter one, maybe at
some point there are going to be robots
because of the manipulation.