![]() ![]() He’s more individually minded then other people in the New World. He’s an alpha plus, but he’s too short for an alpha plus. During the book John starts hating the so-called civilization of the New World, which eventually leads to John hanging himself.īernard Marx: Bernard is an outcast in the Fordian civilization. Linda had been left there after becoming pregnant (which in modern civilization wasn’t done). When they go back to the ‘civilized’ world they take Linda and her son John with them. Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne, two employees at the Centre, take a trip to the reservation in New Mexico, the only place where modern civilization isn’t a fact of life. The Brave New World begins with a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Outline of the story (background information: setting) “When the individual feels, the community reels.Number of pages: 195 (actual book excluding foreword (1946)) Possible words removed: “Civilization”, “sterilization” Possible words removed: “social”, “persists”, “component”, “cells” “The social body persists although the component cells may change” Speaker: John Meaning: Preferred having the struggles of a regular human than having the World State brainwash youWhen: In response to Mustapha’s assertion that people in the World State prefer comfort over inconvenience Possible words removed: “comfort”, “God”, “poetry”, “danger”, “freedom”, “goodness”, “sin” I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” Speaker: JohnMeaning: Referring to the lying happiness that is at the World StateWhen: After Bernard says that his life before this success was unhappyPossible words removed: “unhappy”, “false”, “lying” “Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here” Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: Individual is unimportant in the World State as anyone can be easily replacedWhen: While talking to Henry about the danger of Bernard’s different behaviorPossible words removed: “heinous”, “unorthodoxy”, “individual”, “Society” Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual it strikes at Society itself” Murder kills only the individual - and, after all what is an individual? We can make a new one with the greatest ease - as many as we like. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. “Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Speaker: LeninaMeaning: Referring to Bernard and is saying he has finally come to his sensesWhen: Bernard feels her upPossible words removed: “Ford” Speaker: LeninaMeaning: Proves that Lenina is no different than any other high-class person, bashing the lower-classWhen: When Lenina and Henry discuss how people in the World State are crematedPossible words removed: “Alphas, “Betas”, “Gammas”, “Deltas”, “Epsilons” ![]() “But queer that Alphas and Betas won’t make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there” Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: Refers to hypnopaedia and that people are built upon the ideas of the StateWhen: During the tour (says this to the students)Possible words removed: “child”, “adult”, “suggestions”, “State” But all these suggestions are our suggestions! Suggestions from the State” The mind that judges and desires and decides - made up of these suggestions. The adult’s mind too - all his life long. “Till last the child’s mind is these suggestions and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. Foster refers to the conditioning process during the tourPossible words removed: “happiness”, “virtue”, “unescapable”, “social”, “destiny”` Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: World State controls everyone, reduced freedom equates to happinessWhen: After Mr. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny” “And that that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do. ![]()
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