Brave New World Double Entry Journals Essay

It was because virtu to each one(prenominal)y 3 centuries ago completely classes of peck were conditi wholenessd to like record and transportation but that meant on the weekend they were unproductive so straightaway they be conditioned to like transportation and country sports, which means they equable consume transportation. Pg. 30 Human beings use to be. he hesitated the blood hasten to his cheeks. Well, they used to be viviparous. What does viviparous mean? The context of it in the leger meetms to be like a bad word would be straightaway to say. After this line it says Born.Viviparous (of an animal) Bringing forth hold up young that admit developed inside the body of the parent. (Dictionary. com) I was right wing it meant to take over kids, BNW battalion are so used to babies being be born and dont k forthwith what its like for someone to knock over birth. Pg. 32 Moral education, which ought n forever, in all circumstances, to be rational. The D. H. C. expre sses the idea that incorrupt education is accepted in the golf-club. However, those morals are determined by The World Controllers. Reasoning, fate, or God do non play a role in moral education.Nothing is to ever be base on proper reasoning and peculiarly emotion. Pg. 34. Till at support the childs take heed is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the childs mind. And not the childs mind only. The adults mind besides all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and nail downs- repair up of these suggestions. hardly all these suggestions are our suggestions The Director ab tabu shouted in his triumph. Suggestions from the State. Everything the people hark back or demand to do is from the state. People brush offt/arent allowed to think for their selfs.They are told what they do and dont like. The Director seems very proud about how the state can decide on what the kids are to know/learn. If you think about it closely this is al close to done in todays parlia mentary procedure. Schools are all set per region in the dry land and things are chosen on what kids should learn, and what is morally right/wrong. Pg. 35 Nowadays the Controllers wont approve of any young game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games. wherefore would the controllers not allow a game that is simpler than any menstruation games? every(prenominal) games must be more complex in how it works than current ones to be approved. Is this done to make people who invent things to think harder alike make it more complex that in turn, the people are intellection harder and able to hopefully produce better things for the parliamentary procedure? Pg. 35 twain children, a tiny boy of about s charge and a smallish girl who might withdraw been a year older, were playing, very sternly and with all the focused attention of scientists intent on a beat back of discovery, a rudimentary s exual game. Charming, charming the D. H. C. repeated sentimentally. Is it just me or is it weird that the society pushes promiscuously on kids age 7 and 8. overly the theatre director seems to enjoy watching the two kids erotic behavior. Pg. 35 This myopic boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play. .. And so, she went on, turning back to the Director, Im taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. Just to see if anythings at all abnormal. by chance there isnt anything wrong with the boy, BNW society is basically forcing little kids to explore/have sex with each former(a). What can the superintendent of psychology tell you other than that the kid doesnt ant excessively have sex. It is also creepy that they all look the exact same. Pg. 39 Our crosss record is bunk. History, he repeated slowly, is bunk. I know in real life Henry Ford said something along those lines History is more or less bunk. Its tradition. We dont want tradi tion. We want to live in the demonstrate, and the only history that is worth a tinkers damn is the history that we make today. (Chicago Tribune, 1916). Pg. 41 Ive been feeling rather out of sorts lately, Fanny explained. Dr. Wells advised me to have a Pregnancy comforter. But, my dear, youre only nineteen. The first Pregnancy Substitute isnt compulsory till twenty-one. Since no one in the society has children it seems as though once each female turns 21 they have a pregnancy substitute to mimic pregnancy. This is maybe done so no one has an odd urge to have a baby. Pg. 42 Again? Fannys kind, rather moon-like face took on an ironical expression of pained and disapproving astonishment. Do you mean to tell me youre still going out with Henry Foster? In the society it seems like a very big disapproval of people especially to date/marry.People are only supposed to go out together one night, have sex, and be done with each other that is why Fanny is questioning Lenina. Pg. 45 Af ter all, every one belongs to every one else. This keeps coming up throughout the book that later on all everyone (belongs/works) to/for everyone else. The society here shows that they believe everyone is equal. why would they make protest class groups for the society? Pg. 47 They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle- vista he was a da Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. Thats why hes so stunted. So in the BNW society to stunt the growth and brainpower of need groups they put alcohol into the blood that is transferred over the embryo to stunt the growth. In todays time research has been shown that if you drink alcohol when enceinte a baby can be born with birth defects or have a mentally disorder. Pg. 48 The Nine geezerhood fight began in A. F. 141. . The Nine Years War, the great Economic Collapse. There was a choice between world Control and destruction. Between stability and . It can be inferred that the conflict broke out in Europe, affected most of the planet, and caused massive physical damage.It is repeatedly state that chemical and biological weapons were used during the war, particularly in mass air-raids against cities. Following the war, the global thrift collapsed and created an scarce worldwide economic crisis. The new world leaders tried to forcibly impose their new ideologies on Earths populations. This met with widespread resistance, including large-scale riots. Realizing that they could not force people to adopt the new lifestyle, the World Controllers kind of united the planet into the One World State and began a halcyon campaign of change.This campaign included the closing of museums, the suppression of almost all literature published before 2058, and the destruction of the few historical world monuments that had survived the war. Pg. 51 Ending is better than mending There are many meanings to this statement. One could be the clear one that when you have an old duette of clothes to throw it out instead of trying to fix it. This helps the BNW economy by people always spending money to buy new clothes.A second point I took from this quote was with the Nine Years War that it was better to end and restart how the world worked than trying to organise the planet and trying to pick up from where we were before the war. Pg. 51 The approach of Our Fords first T-Model . At first I thought their god/creator was some guy named Ford but now Im peaty sure Huxley implies that it is Henry Ford. I stated this because Fords first model of car he made was called the T-Model. (Wikipedia) Pg. 64 Its not enough for the phrases to be good what you make with them ought to be good too. He is telling him that it doesnt matter if the phrases are good its how you make them good. He is implying the idea of using your mind and not what is given to you. Future Rebel? Pg. 67 Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after were dead. Making plants grow. Even after your dead the society still uses you for its personal gain they take your body and its turned into fertilizer for crops to grow Pg. 75 Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peaceOrgy-porgy gives fire. This is talking about and orgy.The last stanza of orgy-porgy gives release as the violent passion surrogate, the surrogate pregnancy and the soma, is a bell ringer that the World State has not been able to completely annihilate from valet de chambre nature. There is still some need for liberation, a need to witness strong emotions that have not been completely wiped out through conditioning. Solidarity avail is one of many mechanisms used to channel state of the excitement, so that they present no threat to state power. Pg. 77 Not more than half(a) a dozen people in the whole Centre had ever been inside a Savage Reservation.As an Alpha-Plus psychologist, Bernard was one of the few men she knew entitled to a permit. For Lenina, the opportunity w as unique. What is a savage reservation? Is it an landing field where they keep a group of normal people like you and me in todays time? In case something goes wrong or for emergencies they can have back up DNA. Pg. 78 In a crowd, he grumbled. As usual. He remained obstinately gloomy the whole afternoon wouldnt talk to Leninas friends (of whom they met dozens in the ice-cream soma ostracize between the wrestling bouts) It seems like people in BNW like too be in crowds and together.But Bernard seems like the only person who doesnt like to be with groups of people. Is this because of something going wrong when he was in a test tube? Pg. 84 Dont imagine, he said, that Id had any indecorous relation with the girl. Nothing emotional, nothing long-drawn. The director is thinking that Bernard is thinking the director had more than a sexual kinship with the women he brought to the reserve, which is against BNW rules in the society because after all everyone belongs to everyone. Pg. 88 fivesome hundred and sixty thousand square kilometers, divided into four unmistakable Sub-Reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence. Why would the reservations have to be subdivided and need for instant death electric fences? Maybe each reserve has a different race and they want each race to be separate and to protect their own traditions and culture. It is maybe also for science to not be able to get in to the people in the reserves.