Brave New World #6 part 1

Summary: Lenina thinks that Bernard is very odd and doesn't know if she should vacation with him, but decides to anyway. They have clearance to go to the Savage Reservation because Bernard is a Alpha-Plus psychologist. They go on the date and Bernard wants to do things like walk around which Lenina finds ridiculous, they go watch some wrestling, then leave. In the helicopter Bernard hovers over the water because he just wants to look, Lenina doesn't like the empty looking ocean. Bernard won't take soma, Lenina thinks he is weird. But then he takes 4 soma at his place and the two sleep together. Bernard regrets it because he wonders what it would be like to delay the impulse.

My interpretation: This chapter is showing Bernard's individuality. In this society it isn't normal to just walk around and think about things. He wants to see what would happen if he delayed the impulse instead of acting on it like a child. He wants to be an adult in a world where everyone is basically a child just acting on their impulses without any thought at all. This is just how much the government controls them.

Literary Elements: I don't know what this would be called but the book says, " A gramme in time saves nine." I'm pretty sure its a stitch in time saves nine...so thats something;  Bernard loves Lenina but needs to take Soma to sleep with her  situational irony, perhaps;

Vocabulary: blasphemy- noun- action concerning God or sacred things; cajolery- noun- persuasion by flattery or promise