The conflict between community and freedom by https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley en-us 2019-01-11 18:35:52 UTC 2019-02-20 20:31:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://www.pinterest.com/pin/325948091752144464/ Community: definition ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/321385377 1) a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

2) a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
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2) the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
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Identity is in large part the result of genetic engineering. Society is divided into five classes or castes, hereditary social groups. In the lower three classes, people are cloned in order to produce up to 96 identical "twins." Identity is also achieved by teaching everyone to conform, so that someone who has or feels more than a minimum of individuality is made to feel different, odd, almost an outcast.

Stability is the third of the three goals, but it is the one the characters mention most often- the reason for designing society this way. The desire for stability, for instance, requires the production of large numbers of genetically identical "individuals," because people who are exactly the same are less likely to come into conflict. Stability means minimizing conflict, risk, and change.
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]]> 2019-01-16 18:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/321392194 The Caste System ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322300978 In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, there are five genetically-dictated castes that live in the New World. In the "utopia", the castes are named after the letters from the Greek alphabet, Alpha, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.
-JS]]> 2019-01-18 20:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322300978 Chapter 1 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322301247 "Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines"(Huxley 21). This  quote shows just how uniform life is in "Brave New World". Shortly after saying this, the Director says the mantra "Community, Identity, Stability."(Huxley 21). In the society presented in the book, people have been stripped of their identities and everyone is considered to belong to one another and their community. There is no individual freedom for anyone to enjoy. They are made out of the same model, nothing is different between them. They are not allowed to do anything other than what they were made to do, they are only a cog in the community clock, and when one cog breaks then and new one just need to take its exact place.

]]> 2019-01-18 20:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322301247 Alphas ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322302185 Alphas are the uppermost level of the caste system, they are split into Alpha Pluses and Alphas. Alphas are made for managerial positions.They have creative powers, but they have been conditioned to hate book and nature.
Ex. The Director of the Hatchery, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz.
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Ex. Lenina
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-JS]]> 2019-01-18 20:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322304773 Chapter 2 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322306491 "They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." (Huxley 26) With this statement, the Director admits that from birth, the citizens are conditioned to all like and dislike what the World State wants them to, thus removing a lot of the personal freedom that they had at birth.]]> 2019-01-18 20:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322306491 Chapter 3 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322306588 "Maniacally, the mother brooded over her children (her children)... brooded over them like a cat over its kittens; but a cat that could talk, a cat that could say, 'My baby, my baby,' over and over again." (Huxley 37-38) This quote shows that in this book the type of community that the people live in is to make lives miserably because the other person is miserable too.]]> 2019-01-18 20:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322306588 Chapter 4 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322306689 "Then a bell rang, and from the ceiling of the lift a loud speaker began, very softly and very imperiously, to issue its commands." (Huxley 70-71) This statement basically explains that there is no freedom where ever people, there is always something to force people to do things.]]> 2019-01-18 20:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322306689 Chapter 5 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322307801 "'Yes, everybody's happy now,' echoed Lenina. They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years." In the World State, negative emotions are suppressed in order to keep the people docile.]]> 2019-01-18 20:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322307801 Chapter 6 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322307938 "Half an hour later they were back in his rooms. Bernard swallowed four tablets of soma at a gulp, turned on the radio and television and began to undress." Bernard is shown taking soma in order to fit in with everyone else and dumb himself down,]]> 2019-01-18 20:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322307938 Quotes that support the theme "The conflict between community and freedom ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322309100 -J.S.]]> 2019-01-18 20:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/322309100 Chapter 7 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/327410115 "Everyone works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons..." This quote from Lenina demonstrates the high priority put on community and identity in the society. Social castes move from the Alphas, the most talented and beautiful people in society, to the Epsilons and Gammas, the world's laborers. 


]]> 2019-02-04 17:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/327410115 Chapter 8 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/327477648  "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one. Do you know, they shut me out of absolutely everything?" This quote from Bernard shows how the community driven society where everyone belongs to each other has isolated him because of his differences from the norm.]]> 2019-02-04 18:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/327477648 Chapter 9 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/327480669 “Murder kills only the individual and, after all, what is an individual?” The greater statement that this quote is taken from talks about the production process of humans in the World State. This part of the statement focuses on the fact that due to the mass production of humans, one person's life is extremely disposable.]]> 2019-02-04 19:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/327480669 Chapter 10 ds006460tg https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330018895 " With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. "We can make a new one with the greatest ease—as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself," he repeated. "Ah, but here he comes." (pg. 155) The process of mass production has rendered meaningless the life of any one person in the World State.  ]]> 2019-02-11 18:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330018895 Chapter 11 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330031078 "Just returned," explained Dr. Gaffney, while Bernard, whispering, made an appointment with the Head Mistress for that very evening, "from the Slough Crematorium. Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course." (pg. 170) In eliminating suffering from daily life, the World State has dehumanized its citizen—even to death. ]]> 2019-02-11 18:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330031078 Chapter 15 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330035621 "Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?" Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. "Don't you?" he repeated, but got no answer to his question. John moves quickly from the "ineloquence" of inexperience to the "fluency" of rage. Passion is not only a part of the human experience, but in fact enables the human experience—with passion, man can be an individual, can have an opinion, and can disagree, fight, and interact in a way that isn't otherwise possible.]]> 2019-02-11 18:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330035621 Chapter 12 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330037249 This time I thought I'd give them one I'd just written myself. Pure madness, of course; but I couldn't resist it." He laughed. "I was curious to see what their reactions would be. Besides," he added more gravely, "I wanted to do a bit of propaganda; I was trying to engineer them into feeling as I'd felt when I wrote the rhymes. Ford!" He laughed again. "What an outcry there was! The Principal had me up and threatened to hand me the immediate sack. l'm a marked man." Helmholtz seems unperturbed at his problem. This contrasts with Bernard, who flipped out when he learned he was going to get deported. Helmholtz's freedom, then, is a state of mind.]]> 2019-02-11 18:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330037249 Chapter 13 ds006460tg https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330043167 "Put your arms round me," she commanded. "Hug me till you drug me, honey." She too had poetry at her command, knew words that sang and were spells and beat drums. "Kiss me"; she closed her eyes, she let her voice sink to a sleepy murmur, "Kiss me till I'm in a coma. Hug me, honey, snuggly..." (pg. 198) Lenina's song compares love to soma.  It seems that both examples distract the citizens from reality and keep them from ever contemplating too seriously the nature of their very highly controlled lives through the World State. ]]> 2019-02-11 19:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330043167 Chapter 14 ds006460tg https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330075791 "Oh, God, God, God…" the Savage kept repeating to himself. In the chaos of grief and remorse that filled his mind it was the one articulate word. "God!" he whispered it aloud. "God…" (pg. 211) John turns to God not only because of Linda's death, but also because of the reaction to her death by others around him. It is this reaction that makes him realize how inhumane this community is.]]> 2019-02-11 20:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330075791 Chapter 16 ds006460tg https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330088256 "But why is it prohibited?" asked the Savage. In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else. The Controller shrugged his shoulders. "Because it's old; that's the chief reason. Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." (pg. 222) Mustapha essentially imprisons the citizens of the World State by removing their ability to choose. If they can't see any alternative to the present, they can't wish for anything different. This is why the past is dangerous; it offers alternatives.]]> 2019-02-11 20:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330088256 Chapter 17 ds006460tg https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330089767 "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last. (pg. 242)

 John finally puts the proper name on the freedom that he, Helmholtz, and (at one point) Bernard all claimed: the freedom to suffer.

]]> 2019-02-11 20:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330089767 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330971828 2019-02-13 18:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330971828 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330972503 2019-02-13 18:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330972503 Chapter 18 ds006460tg https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330972929 The Savage shook his head. "He wouldn't let me […]. He said he wanted to go on with the experiment. But I'm damned," the Savage added, with sudden fury, "I'm damned if I'll go on being experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the world. l shall go away to-morrow too." (pg. 244)

John is free from Mustapha's control because he chooses to. Any citizen in the World State could leave at any time, but if they have been conditioned not to leave their whole life it it begs the question if true freedom has been prevented and made impossible by the World State]]> 2019-02-13 18:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330972929 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330973546 2019-02-13 18:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330973546 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330978252 2019-02-13 18:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330978252 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330978645 2019-02-13 18:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330978645 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330979094 2019-02-13 18:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330979094 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330979681 2019-02-13 18:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330979681 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330981268 2019-02-13 18:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330981268 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330982292 2019-02-13 18:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330982292 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330983049 2019-02-13 18:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330983049 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330983923 2019-02-13 18:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/6y517711szxq/wish/330983923