Brave New World

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Brave New World #9 and #10

Summary: Bernard and Lenina go back to their hotel room. Lenina takes three soma, which is more than usual, but she needs it after the time on the reservation. She is out for about 18 hours, giving Bernard enough time to go to Malpais and ask the World Controller for permission to bring Linda and John back to London. His reasoning for this is due to "scientific interest". He goes to speak with the warden and acts like he is friends with Mustapha Mond and that getting this permission is not a big deal. JOhn sneaks to Bernard and Lenina's hotel and thinks no one is there. He breaks in and starts rummaging through Lenina's bag, going crazy over her perfume. He sees her sleeping in bed and marvels over her beauty.

In London everyone at the Hatchery is hard at work, the Director and Henry discuss Bernard. Henry thinks the BErnard does good at his job, but the controller says it is better for one man to suffer than to subject many others to his corruption because of his great intelligence this is his greater social responsibility. Then Bernard shows back up and the Director has everyone stop the work they are doing and listen to him. He makes the announcement to everyone that Bernard is not living his life right, he has "heretical" views on soma, has an unorthodox sex life, and refuses the teachings of Ford. Linda comes running inside and throws herself at the Director saying how he made her have a child, but he denies it. John comes in saying, "My father!" repeatedly. The Director then runs away.

Interpretation: Rising action. Bernard's future is looking bad for a minute there when the director calls him out, but then he turns right around gives him a slap in the face with his revelation of John and Linda. Lenina's taking os all the soma shows yet again, how much control it has over people. It is like the illegal drugs we have today. You take it and are out, which isn't good, but in Brave New World it isn't bad to be out that long.

Literary Devices: Allusions: "My Father!" that is an allusion to God it's also an irony because there is no religion in this world,
Irony: the director scolds Bernard for living an "unFordly" life, then Bernard brings out his love child who is calling him father,

Vocabulary: 
pensive- (adj) dreamily thoughtful; peritoneum- (noun) membrane lining abdominal cavity; ignominy- (noun) disgrace; coquettish- (adj) flirtatious woman

Brave New World #8

Summary: Bernard and John sit outside and talk. John tells him stories of his childhood, which are unlike anything anyone else has to say because he a) had a childhood, and b) wasn't created in a test tube. He remembers a man coming over to be with his mother but she won't with John there, so he his forcibly removed. He has images of being in a room with women making blankets and his mother being upset because they were such savages. Linda sleeps with a man named Pope' who brings over lots of alcohol. Then there was a wedding in the village that made him sad because he was in love with the bride. John feels alone in the village because he can't partake in the village ritual. bernard understands feeling alone in your world because he feels the same way. He asks John to go back to London with him. John is so excited and then Linda wants to come too, but Bernard thinks she's repulsive. then he decides that he can use it to his advantage to bring both savages.

Interpretation: This chapter begins the inciting event, John is going to London. Bernard is probably going to try and use the two savages to get back at the director for trying to locate him to iceland. This chapter shows that John had a childhood, it wasn't great, but it was something that most people in this world didn't have at all, because they were created. Most people when describing their life would be describing almost the same thing as someone else, but not John.

Literary Terms: allusion to Macbeth "...to-morro, to-morro...", an allusion to ROmeo and Juliet- the first sonnet Romes says to Jules,

Vocabulary: lecherous- (adj) excessive sexual desire; precipice- (noun) nearly vertical;

Vocab Words

Superfluous
(adjective)
needless

Prodigious
(adjective)
extraordinary in size

Pallid
(adjective)
pale, faint in color

Vivacious
(adjective)
lively

Pituitary
(adjective)
abnormal size

Viviparous
(adjective)
bring forth living young

Abject
(adjective)
hopeless

Indefatigable
(adjective)
untiring

Apoplectic
(adjective)
intense enough to threaten

Ruddy
(adjective)
healthy red color

Brave New World #7

Summary: Lenina and Bernard are on the reservation. Lenina doesn't like it, the guide is smelly, and "cleanliness is next to Fordliness". She sees an old man and is horrified, Bernard has to explain that they prevent people from getting like that. She has had enough and wants some soma but doesn't have any so she has to face this without it. They witness a whipping ritual where a boy is whipped as he walks steadily around a pit of snakes. Lenina is crying because this is just terrible when a white savage approaches them. He knows about the outside world and can speak to them, thus shocking Bernard. He complains about not being able to partake in the activity because he's white, then he see's Lenina and he's smitten with her. The savage tells a story of how his mother, Linda, came from the outside world and had a child with a man (the director?). This means Linda is the girl who was lost (that foreshadow happens). Linda still has ways of the outside world in her and was mistreated on the reservation for sleeping with all the women's husbands.

My interpretation: This chapter is part of the rising action. This savage is the child of an outsider and not just any outsider, but the Director. I believe that this could also be a potential foreshadow, his mother tried to condition him but it didn't work.

Literary Stuff: allusion- "...that damned spot..."- alludes to Shakespeare, situational irony- sleeping around in the outside worl is okay, but not on the reservation (which is just like our world)

Vocabulary: undulating- (verb) move with wavelike motion; ophthalmia- (noun) eye inflammation; innocuous- (adj) harmless;

Brave New World #6 part 3

Summary: Lenina and Bernard go to the reservation after staying in a very nice hotel that she liked. While on the tour Bernard worries that he left the cologne tap going and that it was going to cost a fortune. Lenina was on some soma and listened absently to the reservation warden talk about it. They keep talking aimlessly and Bernard is worried about the cost of the cologne. He calls Watson to ask him to shut it off, he agrees, and tells Bernard that the director is looking for his replacement. Bernard  is shocked that Iceland would really happen. Lenina convinces him to take 4 soma which is more than is normal. They get in a plane and cross the border, Bernard sleeps. then when he is getting the tour he laughs at the fact that animals never learn to avoid the electric fence, even though he wouldn't normally laugh at something like that.

I think that this chapter kicks of the inciting event, because now Bernard is like "Oh imma be fired!" so everything after this will be the actions building up to the climax. We also see that while he is an individual he can't get through this without soma.

Literary Terms: Irony- on the reservation people still have children the old way, which is the way that people in our world have children, but to them this isn't normal.

fulminated (verb) explode with loud noise

inexorably (adj) unalterable

Brave New World #6 part 2

Summary: Bernard is at the Director's office afraid that he will get into trouble for asking to visit the Mexico Reservation. The Director signs off on it and starts to reminisce about his time spent there, which isn't something that you do in this world, you don't look back at the past. Bernard is curious so he doesn't point out the errors in his way. When the director was there he went with a girl who got lost, but when Bernard expresses sympathy he is quick to say that he wasn't attached to her at all. The Director then begins to scold Bernard and says that if he keeps acting like a child he will send him to Iceland. Bernard isn't scared of this threat, he feels like a rebel and he goes to tell Helmholtz what happened. Watson likes Bernard but hates that he boasts. 

My Interpretation: The section is foreshadowing something that happened a while ago to the Director. Also shows how Watson feels about Bernard that he doesn't really like his boasting and self pity. Could hint at a potential conflict between the two later on. Still the exposition. 

Literary Elements: Foreshadow- the Director's lover that he lost and "didn't have feelings for";

Also him threatening to send Bernard to Iceland; Watson's distaste for Bernard's personality. 

Vocabulary: Abject-adj- bad, unpleasant; Infantile- adj - of or occurring around babies; Indecorous - adj - improper