https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x Novel Themes en-us 2023-04-27 16:59:12 UTC 2025-10-15 16:54:24 UTC hello@padlet.com kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570697204 5. Happiness
6. The App]]> 2023-04-27 17:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570697204 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570699115 1. The Apple Wheel Video
2. 1984
4. The Crosswalk
6. The App
7. Huxley]]> 2023-04-27 17:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570699115 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570700222 2023-04-27 17:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570700222 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570700542 3. Consumerism for Beginners
5. Happiness

Chapter 1 Stuff:
From what I could tell a few things I could add from there would be well...everything. Specifically the way people are born. Or should I say bread. It's so inhuman and I believe it was said somewhere they purposely give them achlocol in the 'fertilization' process so that they're dumb and are happy to be in pointless jobs like Jack in a Box or some other things. They have no free will and it's frightening. 

"The Predestinators send in their Figures to the Fertilizers" -pg 10]]> 2023-04-27 17:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2570700542 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2574624991 We are shown how this company is able to make their own workforce out of making their own social classes that will do what they are assigned to so that they can work on making their systems more and more efficient. We see the process in which they go through to mass produce people and how they alter each so that they come out with a specific result such as when they put some of the embryos into alcohol so that they are altered enough that they won't be able to function enough to resist the system, but also function enough so that they can help the system move along. " Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol; consequently burgeoned again and having budded--- bud out of bud out of bud--- were there after---further arrest being generally fatal--- left to develop in peace"(pg.6)]]> 2023-05-02 04:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2574624991 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2576126902 In this chapter we see how they condition the babies so that they fear certain things, so that later on in life they stay away from those objects or things that associate with certain objects. Using this technique they are able to control the different societal classes in this chapter we can see how they make some classes afraid of nature and in turn the country. The usefulness of this fear is so that the workers that they have in factories won't go off into the country using more time away from their jobs, and instead they make them afraid of nature but like sports that are done in nature, so that they can benefit off of the products that they would need for those activities. " " We condition the masses to hate the country," concluded the Director. "But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus." (pg.23)]]> 2023-05-03 03:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2576126902 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2576184864 In "wombs" such as this, Gamma, Deltas, and Epsilons are given alcohol treatment to affect their physical and mental development. The future world state citizens have not only been predetermined to fulfill specific roles but have also been arranged to enjoy those roles regardless of how fundamentally unnatural they are. Female reproductive are also strictly controlled by the state before they are born, showing their cost of happiness through dehumanizing the population.

"for particulars, as everyone knows, makes for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils" pg .4]]> 2023-05-03 04:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2576184864 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2577469090 SO FOR SOME REASONS THIS DIDN'T SAVE SO THIS IS ACTUALLY THE 2ND TIME IM DOING THIS. Forgive me if this is half-arsed

Yada yada yada more things that are inhumane and terrible stuff stuff stuff. We go more into how they deal with alpha, beta, delta, and the rest of them. To be exact how they keep them in the mindset they want to and control them. One is with the 'important kids' they play audio in their sleep to make sure they know not to associate with delta's and the other low kids. While actively CHOOSING WHAT THESE KIDS SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT LIKE. To maximize benefit and lower risk. I don't need to explain how this fits into my topic.

Another funny thing to mention is the topic of how people used to reproduce came up and everyone almost had a meltdown with the 'birds and bees' talk. Nothing important but it was funny.

"A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature." -pg 23]]> 2023-05-04 00:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2577469090 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2577478535 I am not kidding when I named this chapter stranger chapter. The start of this one was...unique and most definitely strange. Couldn't really find anything that perfectly fits under my topic so i'll just talk about the strange things.

How the hell did these guys think that letting kids 'Play Smex' a good idea? They were out here running about showing off their you know what's like it was nothing to be concerned with. Then they go onto a long talk about how they can't believe a few hundred years ago such a thing was very hush hush and wasn't talked about with many. Like-the hell? All that aside the thing I don't get is how they're so okay with this but LITERALLY IN THE LAST CHAPTER, they almost has a meltdown with the birds and bees talk. The math ain't mathing here and I'm going to get to the bottom of it...

"Strange" pg 30

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What? That's it, it fits the theme for this chapter...ehehehe...okay but just in case you want an actual quote here.
"Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine." -still page 30]]> 2023-05-04 00:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2577478535 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578473676 We witness the industrialism that this world revolves around first-hand as we find out that human beings are artificially produced in factory lines. Gone are the days of procreation and childbirth, babies are now grown in bottles, split into thousands of identical twins, and biologically modified to perfectly suit their castes, environment, and profession. 

"From eight to ninety-six buds, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress." - pg 6]]> 2023-05-04 15:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578473676 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578473837 The World Leader's main goal is to push the consumption of goods as much as possible which is possible by the rampant industrialism established by their god, Ford. This is achieved through genetic engineering and conditioning that causes the lower castes to hate things that might keep them from working, such as flowers and books, but still invent a way for them to consume transport by making them hate the countryside but love countryside sports. 

"The mind that judges and desires and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!" -pg 29]]> 2023-05-04 15:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578473837 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578586268 And they say the perfect sequal doesn't exist. Welcome to Part 2 of the Stranger Chapter, the StrangEST chapter. Now I have some real juicy things to add to my hoard of Total ism. So we know this place if very futuristic and 'perfect' but guess what. They have a literal PEOPLE ZOO filled with people like us. Like they live like present day people. I am just...baffled. Once again don't need to explain why this fits my them. All it takes is some certain gas and we have another ww2 situations on our hands.

"Because I do wnat to see the Savage Reservation" -pg 48

The People Zoo is called the Savage Reservation by the way.]]> 2023-05-04 17:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578586268 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578588423 In this part of the chapter we see how the government has made it so that whenever someone feels the slightest bit of inconvenience in their mood they are trained to go to get it fixed by a doctor and get hormones and drugs put into them to supposedly fix them.  A way that we are shown that the government's influence is working is when Fanny tells Lenina to start going out with more people because that's what they are told to live like and Fanny even warns her that she can get into trouble if she doesn't go along with their system. "I've been feeling rather out of sort lately," Fanny explained. "Dr. Wells advised me to have a Pregnancy Substitute." "But, my dear, you're only nineteen. The first Pregnancy Substitute isn't compulsory till twenty-one." (Pg. 38)]]> 2023-05-04 17:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578588423 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578596389 Industrialism precedes everyday life as we observe the way young children are encouraged to engage in 'erotic play' that desensitizes and gets them used to adulthood. We also notice how uniform their world structure is set up, "In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Discarnate voices called from the trumpet mouths. "Main Day-shift off duty. Second Day-shift take over..." -pg 34]]> 2023-05-04 17:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2578596389 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579788609 This chapter it talks about how the World state conditions gammas, deltas, and epsilons as babies by showing them flowers and books. They do this by making them touch and look at these objects but then get mildly shocked. The purpose of this is so the babies can reject desirable things. World state citizens are conditioned to desire things that advance the interests of the state, not their own. Happiness is less important than ensuring that people continue to consume goods and maintain industrialism which strengthens the state.

"They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers" - pg .22 ]]> 2023-05-05 16:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579788609 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579793479 Switching back and forth between the lecture garden and the scenes in the changing rooms allows us to feel engaged in the world state society. In this chapter, the children are being manipulated to believe that promiscuity is normal. If this rule is not followed then they are looked at as immoral. 

"For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterward, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal; and not only abnormal, actually immoral, and had therefore been rigorously suppressed" - pg .32
 ]]> 2023-05-05 16:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579793479 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579798849 In this chapter we see another way that the world government controls the people. We see how they have taken down historical monuments and museums, along with all books. The public doesn't get to have an opinion on the past because the government tells them what to think based off of what they are allowed to be told and what they are allowed to see. Because they don't have these different monuments and structures in their world they don't have to look at their surroundings and find the beauty in their world and instead has to believe what they are told. "Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150." (Pg. 51)]]> 2023-05-05 17:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579798849 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579800209 In this chapter, all of the world state society can be described as an effort to eliminate the individual from society. That doesn't mean the elimination of all people but the conditioning of those people so that they don't really think of themselves are individuals. Individualism imposes opinions and abilities and is suppressed as much as possible by the World State in order to maintain a perfect and stable society. 

"we also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings" pg .13



]]> 2023-05-05 17:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579800209 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579805945 Firstly I would like to say your grading for my last entries are wrong. I've covered all my topics, even made it funny, and had it relate to my own topic. But whatever.

So my mood has taken a hit so no funny today. We get that one beta girl talk to our short bernard about some mexico plans. He getting embarressed because she's very loud and open about it and wanting to date him. They walk and enter an elevator, go to the roof and some talk about a golf course being here might be a good idea. Then we get Bernard talking with another alpha and get some insight on how stuck up the alpha's and beta's are. What I mean by that is how privileged they are and how little they care how good they have it, the worries around them, and the treatment of the other classes. There is no real dystopia signs here that I can include other than maybe how many people these guys sleep with. It's very concerning. IF THIS GETS 1 POINT LIKE THE REST IM STARTING A FIRE and for Legal reasons that's a joke

Right a quote, here have this you rude 1 point giver 
"My word," said Lenina, "I'm glad I'm not a Gamma." -pg 63]]> 2023-05-05 17:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579805945 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579815067 Towards the end of this part of the chapter we see how the technology is so universal that people casually hop into their helicopters to leave. When Lenina and Henry Foster are leaving they see what is called the Red Rocket as they fly by and acknowledge that it came in from New York and how late it was. We also see how impactful the control that they have on the public is because of a moment where Bernard comments on how the sky is looking amazing, but Lenina goes straight to talking about how the sky looks good for obstacle golf. "There's the Red Rocket," said Henry, "just come in from New York." Looking as his watch. "Seven minutes behind time," he added, and shook his head. (Pg.61)]]> 2023-05-05 17:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2579815067 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2580512045 In this chapter, Bernard finds it uncomfortable that Lenina is trying to set up a date in public. This shows his nonconformity with the Worlds state morality. Bernards's differences stand out in this chapter as Lenina can't understand his reactions because she is conditioned to accept the standards of the state. 

"Hadn't we better talk about it somewhere else?" pg .58]]> 2023-05-06 19:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2580512045 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2580517681 In this chapter Lenina and Henry's date is an authentic illustration of conditioning at work. Every feeling of their date is in compliance with the State. They consume goods and engage in public entertainment. They also make sure not to conceive children and avoid any emotional entanglement. 


"Anyhow," he concluded, "there's one thing we can be certain of; whoever he may have been, he was happy when he was alive. Everybody's happy now." pg .75

]]> 2023-05-06 20:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2580517681 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2581526683 Something as taboo and sacred as sex in our world has been turned into an easily-accessible commodity. The slogan, 'everyone belongs to everyone else' is repeated again and again as a way to dissuade monogamy and commit to a relationship as that would go against the industrialism of human contact and likewise, emotions, such as soma, a potent drug is illicit in everyday use and spread amongst peers when someone is oddly 'glum'. "You look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma....one cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy." -pg 60]]> 2023-05-08 05:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2581526683 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2582399723 3. Consumerism for Beginners
5. Happiness
8. Media]]> 2023-05-08 17:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2582399723 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2582404722 In this part of the chapter the use of control is showed through the way that they clearly and publicly have a bureau of Propaganda and how it enforces people to only talk about superficial subjects, and not the underlying issues of their lives. We also see another example of how people have issues with people that are in anyway different from one another in their groups. We hear how Helmholtz is being inspected and criticized by his higher ups because he is too intelligent and is doing better than the rest in his area of expertise. "Able," was the verdict of his superiors. "Perhaps," (and they would shake their heads, would significantly lower their voices) "a little too able." (Pg. 67)]]> 2023-05-08 17:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2582404722 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2584117512 Huh, how different these two are compared to the rest of these cattle. On that note we go into our first topic of how Helmholtz is an absolute CHAD! The man is rejecting the norm out of his free will. Refusing to be around woman who are clearly interested and after him. Not only that but he's cutting himself off from many other's for slightly similar reasons. And Bernard is with him all the way with this. Now we get into how dangerous of a situation they're in and why it relates to my topic. They're not only actively rejecting the norm but also discussing it and coming up with ideas against it. That sort of stuff is highly illegal. Yes, you heard me correctly. Simply discussing the problems of their society is illegal and could get them punished. Hence why they end up doing so in secret at Bernard is on edge as they do so. Wrongly hearing someone eaves dropping when he was just being a worry wort. All that said don't think a perfect society would be against such a debate. Hell even with the many problems america has allowing yourself to speak your mind is completely free.

"I'm sorry," Said Bernard, feeling and looking uncomfortably foolish. "I suppose I've got things on my nerves a bit. When people are suspicious of you, you start being suspicious with them." -end quote pg 70]]> 2023-05-09 16:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2584117512 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2584143114 This part of the chapter shows us how fast pace everyday for these people are and how they have been conditioned to keep going without a break to think. We see how they have made also come up with this technology to collect the chemicals that gets released from the crematorium, so that they can recycle it back into the plants. There is a section in this part of the chapter that we see Lenina having a flashback about her as a little girl waking up hearing the conditioning boxes that teach them certain phrases to say and memorize. "Lenina remembered her first shock of fear and surprise; her speculations through half a wakeful hour; and then, under the influence of those endless repetitions, the gradual soothing of her mind, the soothing, the smoothing, the stealthy creeping of sleep." (Pg. 74)]]> 2023-05-09 17:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2584143114 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851060 There isn't much of an example of industrialism & consumption in this chapter except for Bernard consuming transportation as provided by a lower-caste, which he has a hard time commanding because of his smaller stature that is unbefitting of an alpha. 

"He opened the door of his lock-up and called to a lounging couple of Delta-Minus attendants to come and push his machine out on the roof." - pg 64]]> 2023-05-10 17:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851060 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851233 Industralism is rampant in this chapter as we start off with Henry and Lenina flying in a helicopter over a crematorium where phosphorous is collected from burning bodies for fertilizer. A prime example of how in this world, the deceased aren't respected as individuals, but rather repossessed by the system to put them to best use even after passing on. Consumption is also shown through the abuse of soma to the point where the two are completely oblivious to the world, and Lenina has to take contraceptives to continue to have meaningless sex.

"Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds." - pg 77 ]]> 2023-05-10 17:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851233 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851381 In this world, even something like religion has been turned into a form of industry as service is mandatory within a required time span. The so-called sacred acts of worship consist of indulging in a ton of soma and getting into a massive orgy so that even the most resistant to the New World rule gets distracted by pleasure through consumption. 

"The loving cup had made its circuit. Lifting his hand, the President gave a signal; the chorus broke out into the third Solidarity Hymn." - pg 82]]> 2023-05-10 17:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851381 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851686 In this chapter, Bernard reveals the flip side to the world states philosophy that everyone is happy now. Bernard decides to visit his church group. In the group, they pass around soma and take it while chanting "ford". As this is happening Bernard feels disconnected. Bernard takes the soma even though he hates the feeling. I feel like this chapter focuses on how important Ford and sex are to the world state. 

"Yes, I thought it was wonderful,” he lied and looked away; the sight of her transfigured face was at once an accusation and an ironical reminder of his own separateness. He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began, more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety. Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being" pg. 86]]> 2023-05-10 17:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2585851686 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2586206766 In this part of the chapter we see that their version of church is used to make sure the public stays as far away from being an individual as possible.  While Bernard is in this session we see how the control that everyone is under does not apply to him and he feels that separateness from the rest of the group. This chapter shows us overall some of the different extreme ways that the government has controlled the public in different subtle ways and some very obvious ways.]]> 2023-05-11 00:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2586206766 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587501787 What a new kind of strange this was. Nothing you could have said would have prepared me for this abomination of a chapter. I reeeeeally don't want to talk about this so I'll make this brief. Church is bad, even worse then the church we already have. For context if you aren't having enough sex in your life then basically you're forced to go into church and have...question group activities with everyone else there. Bernard is one of the people who needs be there and take part of this. And so that's what they do and that's literally the summed up uncomfortable chapter. I guess this relates to my topic because they force to be a part of a 'religion' and take part of this. Which is something a place like america doesn't force. 

"He's comming!" -pg 82 pg 83 and literally every other chapter page. This uh...this word is said a lot here...]]> 2023-05-11 16:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587501787 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587526908 In this chapter, Lenina wants to visit the Savage reservation but the only person that she knows that has access to it is Bernard. Bernard wants to be alone with Lenina and just talk but she thinks it's odd. She recalls the time she got Bernard to go to Amsterdam with him and on their way back he hovered the helicopter over the ocean to observe nature. She did not like the feeling but Bernard did. Lenina feels free in the state's version of happiness but Bernard does not.

"But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example, not in everybody else's way" pg. 91]]> 2023-05-11 17:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587526908 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587528500 In this chapter we see the effects of consumption on an individual up close, as Lenina Crowe, who's used to having many things going on to distract her, is forced to endure silence as Bernard takes her to gaze at the night sky. For someone who was raised and conditioned to consume media, content, items, every second of the day, even when asleep, Lenina is absolutely miserable as her brain can't comprehend being by itself for even just a moment.

"She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black floam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds. "Let's turn on the radio. Quick!" - pg 90]]> 2023-05-11 17:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587528500 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587536674 Within these two parts of the chapter we have Bernard trying his hardest to get through Lenina's conditioning and trying to get a discussion more than the phrases put in her mind by the sleep teaching. We see to the extent at which the conditioning works with Lenina that with all of the nice scenery that Bernard tries to take her to isn't working and by the end Bernard gives up on her and gives into taking soma. We listen to a discussion between the Director and Bernard where a permit to the New Mexico reservation sets something off in the Director's mind that makes him relive and talk about events that had happened over twenty years ago, and from this we see how there are some things that can get through the conditioning. "I actually dream about it sometimes," the Director went on in a low voice. "Dream of being woken up by that peal of thunder and finding her gone; dream of searching and searching for her under the trees." (Pg.97)]]> 2023-05-11 17:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2587536674 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2588968236 This part of the chapter we see that the Director has decided to find a replacement for Bernard to control the issue of Bernard knowing his secret. We get to see how after the bad news Bernard goes back to taking soma and going back into old habits, while we also hear how the warden tells Lenina and Bernard about how deadly the fences are and that it would be instant death if someone were to touch them. There is a comment made about how the civilians of the reservation are tame, because they have been taught to be so through experiences with conflict. "they're perfectly tame; savages won't do you any harm. They've got enough experience of gas bombs to know that they mustn't play any tricks." (Pg.106)]]> 2023-05-12 16:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2588968236 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2589116790 This one is much less strange then the last chapter but is sorta sad in a way. For starters I feel really bad for Bernard here because in the first part he's trying to be all romantic and nice to his. Who he's actually tried to prepare for and cares about. Doing all this nice stuff to making their date perfect but every time he tries she just brushes him aside. I don't even know this chicks name but I hate her. Don't care what kinda developments she gets, hate her and thats final. Eventually he does the 'normal' thing and takes this happy pills to just tolerate her existence. And honestly, fair play. Also pills, not perfect society relates to my topic.

Part two is more well its much better then the last one. It also furthers my hate for that one chick Bernard was with. Moreso it talks about his boss this time around. Getting some good old lore in this one. The short of it is that his boss exposes himself and gives Bern a good bit of information to use against him. Real big brain play there man. Outstanding move, really.


]]> 2023-05-12 19:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2589116790 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2590443930 This chapter continues as Bernard and Lenina visit New Mexico. They meet with the warden of their reservation. The warden explains to them that there is no escape. Bernards calls his friend Helmholtz and finds out director is trying to replace Bernard and send him to Iceland. Bernard wonders what it would be like to have a great affliction without taking soma, and Lenina persuades Bernard to take some soma. They fly to the valley of Malpais, where the reservation is located. They see electrocuted animal corpses around the fences. 

"The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life" pg. 104


]]> 2023-05-15 01:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2590443930 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2590875163 Bernard talks to the Director in order to obtain permission to visit the savage reservation. The Director launches into an out of character personal story where he describes a similar experience when he was younger, a rendezvous with a Beta woman where she suddenly went missing. After extending all the resources possible and still unable to find her, he expressed a hidden sense of somberness that he immediately dismisses because it would reinforce the idea that he could've had feelings for her, which is unspeakable in the New World.
"Because, after all, it's the sort of accident that might have happened to any one; and, of course, the social body persists  although the component cells may change." - pg 97]]> 2023-05-15 07:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2590875163 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2591628139 The savage registration. I'd like to start off by saying that the sole fact that they keep people in basically zoos is already terrible. Therefore I don't need to explain how this related to a dystopia. Our wonderful Bern and son of a *insert word here* what's-her-ugly-face cause i don't know here unimportant name head to the savage registration. Recall this was the whole reason what-her-ugly-face agreed to go with our lovely Bern in the first place. That and it appears Bern is getting sent to iceland. If im remembering correctly I guess blackmailing his boss didn't have the effect he wanted it to. End of the chapter they just leave. With a horrific thing said to us. They gas the people in the savage registration to make sure these people don't try anything fishy. SOUNDS A LOT LIKE A CERTAIN WAR THAT HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO WHO ALSO USED SUCH GAS! This basically confirms my claim that this relates to my topic. Oh also there's an electric fence around them that'll insta kill em if they try to escape.

"They've got experience with gas bombs to know they mustn't play any tricks." -pg 106 also note THEY'RE LAUGHING as they say this. ]]> 2023-05-15 16:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2591628139 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2591773090 In this chapter while in the reservation we find the woman that the director had lost a long time ago and see that she has a child. We see that the conditioning has held pretty strong in Linda, but not so much in her son John. We also see how Lenina learns that people get older than they do back home and that is because of the technology of keeping them young. We see the issues that especially Lenina has with seeing how the people in the reservation live because she had lost her soma bottle. "because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then crack! the end." (Pg. 111)]]> 2023-05-15 18:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2591773090 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2593394934 Holy hell what a reveal. So recall that in the past few chapters we discovered that Bern is getting exiled. Or his boss is trying to exile him because he hates him. To iceland by the way. If you also recall that the Boss fumbled BIG time. Telling Bern a secret which he would use against him in order to try not to be exiled. This secret you're wondering? Its how he left his date for dead and didn't look back. With that little refresher out of the way we jump back to present day and Bern trying to use his information to his advantage was a bust because he hears he's being exiled. But wait, here's where this chapter comes in. That lady that his boss left for dead is *alive*  and not only but has a kid. This changes everything because Bern now has proof. This proof of which going against everything this 'perfect' society values. Now to tell you how this relates to my topic. They exile people. Must I say more?

"Linda" -pg 118 I couldn't really find anything else that fit so i just put the womans name here.]]> 2023-05-16 16:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2593394934 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2593550105 This chapter we see John talk about his experiences in the reservation, he talks about the way that the conditioning that Linda had gone through made it difficult for the both of them to survive and thrive among the rest of the people. We get to see that Linda doesn't actually know the process in which she was a part of back home when trying to to explain certain things to John she can't find any explanation to give. John is able to find his own way of controlling the way he feels and the way he sees the way he is treated by finding reason in reading and doing some ceremonies on his own time since the rest won't let him join in. "What are chemicals?" he would ask. "Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all that sort of thing." "But how do you make chemicals, Linda? Where do they come from?" "Well I don't know. You get them out of bottles." (Pg. 130)]]> 2023-05-16 18:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2593550105 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595151887 We get to see what John gets into when left by himself and how he breaks into the room that Lenina is sleeping in. We get to see how he reacts to some of Lenina's items and how he seems amazed by many of the things that everybody in the world probably takes for granted that john finds interesting and spectacular. He finds himself looking through some of Lenina's things such as slippers and perfumes that he has never seen before. In the beginning of this chapter we see how Bernard is deciding to get his plan formed, by going straight to Mustapha Mond for a permit to take the two from the reservation and get control over the Director by using the knowledge of Linda and Johns existence. "at ten thirty-nine he was speaking to his fordship's fourth personal secretary; at ten forty-four he was repeating his story to the first secretary, and at ten forty-seven and a half it was the deep, resonant voice of Mustapha Mond himself that sounded in his ears." (Pg.141)]]> 2023-05-17 18:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595151887 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595459223 In this Chapter, Bernard and Lenina get a tour of the reservation. Both get to watch the ritual. This ritual asks the gods to make it rain so their corn can grow. After the tour, they meet John the Savage. They also meet Linda, John's mother. 

"Even though he was so beastly to him and wouldn't let him do all the things the other boys did" pg. 122]]> 2023-05-18 01:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595459223 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595459414 In chapter 8 John tells Bernard a story about his earliest memories. These memories are what created John. Unlike John and his memories the World State is designed to ensure citizens don't have their own personal memories. Instead of loss or sadness that might interfere with their usefulness to the State, citizens always get what they want. So their life is always perfect no strong memory will interfere with their conditioning.

"He was also crying because people were so beastly and unfair, and because he was only a little boy and couldn't do anything against them" pg. 126]]> 2023-05-18 01:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595459414 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595459503 This chapter is very odd. While Lenina is asleep Bernard convinces Mustapha Mond to take Linda and John back to London. The only reason he comes up with this plan is so he doesn't get sent to Iceland. Meanwhile John visits their house thinking Bernard and Lenina have left without him. He cries for about an hour but then decides to check the window. He sees Lenina suit case so he grabs a rock to a throw at the window. After breaking the window he climbs in and starts messing with Lenina stuff inside the suit case. After messing with her stuff he checks the other room and watches Lenina sleeping. This part of the chapter was really giving me stalker vibes. At the end Bernard finally returns.

"The bird was too dangerous. His hand dropped back. How beautiful she was!" pg. 144]]> 2023-05-18 01:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2595459503 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2596511867 God dammit this didn't save and send so forgive me for making this very short and get to the point. Linda has a kid, she's a terrible mother very abusive alcholic all that bad stuff. Too ashamed to go to one of the guards to get out of the savage registration because she has said kid. Anyway she keeps living like the its the 'perfect world' and sleeps with a ton of dudes. Karma strikes back and the woman of said men jump her and beat her up. Now there was a more detailed explanation after this for my thoughts but I ain't doing that because padlet didn't send my thing so I'll make it brief. While this doesn't excuse Linda's behavior my hatred lies within the terrible system that they live with. Every problem with this place is is traced back to the system. Yeah a very clear dystopia.

"Turned into a Savage!" -pg 127]]> 2023-05-18 16:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2596511867 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2596548891 The Director in this chapter thinks that he has all the control over Bernard when Bernard is called in and declares in front of everyone working that Bernard will be exiled to Iceland because of the acts against their society's beliefs. When the Director asks Bernard if he has anything to say about the accusations he brings in Linda as she explains the situation and how they know each other we see how that control the Director once thought he had started to slip as the workers stared on and laughed at the situation. As the Director becomes embarrassed Linda brings in John which makes the whole situation worse with John calling him "Father". Turning towards the door, "John!" she called. "John!" He came in at once, paused for a moment just inside the door, looked round, then soft on his moccasined feet strode quickly across the room, fell on his knees in front Director, and said in a clear voice: "My father!". (Pg. 151)]]> 2023-05-18 17:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2596548891 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2597837458 As Bernard's victory against the Director has gotten out to many people it got to his head and became what he used to despise in people, which was people having so much power and control. He even at one point gloats about how many women he has been with in the last week, this contradicts the way he felt before where he would think to himself that the way that Lenina was with a lot of guys was disgusting and disrespectful to herself. In the time that John and Linda have been in civilization Linda has been continuously drugging herself with soma to escape from the judgeful eyes around. John had been taken around everywhere to see the different technology they have and as Bernard says in the letters that he had sent Mustapha Mond that John wasn't very interested in what they had to show him. "After the scene in the Fertilizing Room, all uppercaste London was wild to see this delicious creature who had fallen on his knees before the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning-- or rather the ex-Director, for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards and never set foot inside the Centre again". (Pg. 153)]]> 2023-05-19 17:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2597837458 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2599375971 In this chapter, Bernard is exiled from the director. He is exiled because he is considered an enemy of the state since he prefers his own individuality. After confronted he brings in Linda. Linda confronts the director. I feel like this chapter is dark because nonconformity is shown as the worst. 

"he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself" pg.149

]]> 2023-05-22 03:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2599375971 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2599376149 In this chapter John the Savage is getting used to the world state culture. He feels out of place when he notices a bunch of people that look the same. He realizes that the world states culture is very different compared to his. In this chapter we also learn that Lenina has feelings for John the Savage.

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.” pg. 166

]]> 2023-05-22 03:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2599376149 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2600375033 Bernard shows John the many different buildings and rooms in which they use to teach the children and condition them a certain way. John gets to see the different technology that people use in their everyday lives many of which John is confused about or appalled by. We see how Lenina and Bernard's experiences with this new found popularity has been different for the both of them where Bernard is feeding into it and enjoying his new benefits, whereas we see how Lenina is feeling as if she is being fooled in some sort of way. We also see how she is getting more and more interested in John and she ends up singing a song, but by the end John and Lenina disagree about a movie or video they had watched and it seems as if she feels rejection for the first time. "It's wonderful, of course. And yet in a way," she had confessed to Fanny, "I feel as though I were getting something on false pretenses." (Pg. 165-166)]]> 2023-05-22 17:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2600375033 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2602125006 In this chapter, Bernard and many people face some sort of humiliation. Bernard faces humiliation because John refuses to attend Bernard's event. This causes Bernard's reputation to fail these important people to him. Mustapha Mond also faces some sort of humiliation towards himself because he reads a paper that is against the world state's rules and realizes that it is dangerous to the world state. Helmholtz also feels some sort of humiliation but happiness as he reads a poem that has a solitary meaning to it. Solitary is looked at as rebellious in the world state. 

"What should have been the crowning moment of Bernard's whole career has turned out to be the moment of his greatest humiliation" pg. 176]]> 2023-05-23 18:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2602125006 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2602220960 This chapter shows how even with the heavy conditioning that everyone has there is still the possibility for unhappiness in everyone including someone in the highest authority such as Mustapha Mond. As we see Bernard holding a party where there is a lot of influential people there, but the situation turns wrong when John argues with Bernard about leaving his room and come out to see everyone at the party. We see how Lenina continues to stay in her sadness with the rejection from John from the last chapter and starts getting in her head more and more about how the reason John doesn't want to leave his room is because of her. This is probably the biggest sign that as much as the world is made to be a happy place there is nothing that can stop people from getting themselves hurt in some ways and it shows that Lenina is having real feeling for John and not the surface level feeling that they are all taught to feel. Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent Passion Surrogate treatment-- a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea. Her heart seemed to stop beating. (Pg. 174)]]> 2023-05-23 20:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2602220960 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2603665878 So I can't really think of anything that really fits into my topic so I'll just rant. Is what I would say IF I WASN'T A LEGEND. So our boy John ends up breaking into the room of Leinina and going through all of her stuff. Which I have to say is minorly concerning. Like breaking into anything in general is bad but he get's to some...shenanigans....Anyway we continue to see how he reacts to all of the things he comes across and what most people seem to take for granted. Oh also as a side now Bern begins his master plan to save himself with the knowledge he has.

"Then suddenly he found himself reflecting that he had only to take hold of the zipper at her neck and give one long,strong pull"]]> 2023-05-24 18:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2603665878 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2603676845 In this chapter the entire thing can be summoned up in "How the turns have tabled" because we have the best No you moment from Bern. Summed up the Director thinks he has the upper hand with Bern as he ounces to a few other council or whatever people of Bern's 'crimes' or failures or whatever and how he'll be exiled to iceland. Which I will say again, for a 'perfect society' YOU SHOULDN'T EXILE PEOPLE. But here's the twist. Bern is prepared. He reveals to everyone about the director's crimes about the person he left for dead and his child. Which really only worsens with John keeps calling him 'Father' every 5 seconds. And yeah...the Director just got served.

"Father!" -pg 151]]> 2023-05-24 18:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2603676845 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2603791363 And now we have the aftermath of this glorious big brain play by Bern and it's rather sad to be honest. For starters Bern has let this victory get to his head. And I mean really get to his head to the point where I'm going to call him anti-Bern now. Now we get to the even sadder topic of the matter. The victims of all this Linda and John. Remember how her whole reason for staying in the savage registration was because she didn't want to feel ashamed for having a child. And now sure the director might be screwed but so is Linda. As she is overdosing on soma to hid away from everyone's judgmental looks. John's just getting a VIP tour of the place and he's fascinated by it. So nothing bad about about that. For now at least


]]> 2023-05-24 20:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2603791363 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2606393678 We get to see how the grief that John goes through makes him angrier and angrier to the point where he tries to start a riot and throw out all of the soma and tell the people in the hospital that soma is poison and it will kill them if they don't stop taking it. Eventually when the police come in to stop the situation from getting any worse, they use some soma vapors and conditioning music boxes to calm the people down. We end up seeing how they can control the people so bad that they make sure that some of the classes can't understand the idea that they are imprisoned by the world and the drugs they are given. "Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapor into the air. Two more were busy round the portable Synthetic Music Box. Carrying water pistols charged with a powerful anesthetic, four others had pushed their way into the crowd and were methodically laying out, squirt by squirt, the more ferocious of the fighters." (Pg. 214)]]> 2023-05-26 17:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2606393678 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2606396030 And now we get the world tour with our lovely Bern. Who is giving John the much needed personal tour of the world that they live in. Showing him how kids are raised in their different groups and how much technology they have compared to the Savage Registration. Another thing we get is some character development from John's mother. I totally didn't forget to her name and I'm not going to go back and check. They actually begin to bond ever so slightly but alas they have another falling out about something they watched yet again. 

"Things like what John? Like this Horrible Film." -pg 170]]> 2023-05-26 17:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2606396030 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2606400585 As John is expecting Helmholtz Lenina is at the door drugged up on soma and when they start having a discussion about how they feel John tries to tell Lenina how he feels, but Lenina misunderstands what he is telling her and tries to move in on him and this shows how any sign of love seems to the public as feelings of lust and can't understand the idea that one person can care for another so much over others. ]]> 2023-05-26 17:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2606400585 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2607362139  In this chapter we see John go through this terrible experience of having to see his mother Linda die in front of him. As he sits there with her children are brought in for their death conditioning and as they come in we see how they treat Linda who is in pain and is dying and how their conditioning makes it so they are desensitized from ever feeling something such as grief. As Linda stirs awake John hears her call out for Pope, this angers John into squeezing her hand tighter. Linda starts to have problems breathing and as John goes to find a nurse to help Linda, she is dead by the time that they get back. This experience fuels John's hatred for this civilized world in which has now killed his mother. "Linda astonished and rather alarmed the. A group stood clustered at the foot of her bed, staring with the frightened and stupid curiosity of animals suddenly confronted by the unknown." (Pg. 202)]]> 2023-05-28 23:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2607362139 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609375335 Once again shows how strange and terrible this dystopia is. Here how this chapter plays out. John can't even get out how he feels about Lenina without things going from 0 to a 100 real quick. When he tried to get around that he cared for her but not in the 'romantic' way she couldn't get her head around it and tried making a few moves on him. How can this so called 'perfect' society continue to reveal something so clearly flawed with it with each and every chapter."

There aren't any lions in England"-pg 190
Not really related to it but couldn't find something good to fit here]]> 2023-05-30 16:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609375335 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609395348 After the attempt of inciting a revolution, John and his cohorts are brought directly to the director, Mustapha Mond. Here we see in full display the extent of John's disgust and contempt for society with all its industrialism in the form of rows and rows of identical human machines mindlessly working without ever questioning their post. Not only that but we witness how John despises the consumption that's promoted through soma, the feelys, and when Lenina propositioned him for pleasure.

 "...the remembered image of those long rows of identical midgets at the assembling tables, those queued-up twin-herds at the entrance to the Brentford monorail station, those human maggots swarming round Linda's bed of death..."]]> 2023-05-30 17:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609395348 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609395508 Well I think this marks our first death in the book. Emphasis on think because this book has been so 'meh' i can't even remember most of the book in general. Anyhow in this chapter we have some death. Finally spicing up this bland book up a few. Our poor John having to witness this first hand and feuling his already growing hatred for this 'perfect society' as he wasn't able to get a nurse to come help her in time. 

"He felt hot tears welling up behind his eyelids as he recalled the words and Linda's voice as she repeated them."-pg 201]]> 2023-05-30 17:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609395508 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609440398 This chapter as a whole is packed with a lot of information about how the world is controlled and the reasoning and behind it. Mustapha Mond in this chapter tells John, Bernard, and Helmholtz about why it is they are there and what will be happening to them as a punishment. He shows us how they would rather keep truth and beauty to keep the sense of happiness for the world, blissfully not knowing what else there is to find in the world of knowledge. We also have a point where Mustapha Mond tells the group how he used to be how they were and he gave it up to be controlled by his wants to control. "I was given the choice; to be sent to an island, where I could have to on with my pure science, or to be taken on to the Controllers' Council with the prospect of succeeding in due course to an actual Controllership. I chose this and let the science go." (Pg. 227)]]> 2023-05-30 17:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2609440398 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610766257 In this chapter, Mustapha Mond and John discuss religion and the absence of God in the New World. Mustapha explains how religious sentiment is useless because, in the perfect society, everything has been perfectly curated so there is no reason to feel pain or misery, thus there is no reason to want a God that serves as a reminder for those things.

"...all men, will find that independence was not made for man--that it is an unnatural state--will do for a while, but not carry us on safely to the end..."]]> 2023-05-31 16:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610766257 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610775537 2023-05-31 17:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610775537 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610775644 2023-05-31 17:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610775644 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610776173 2023-05-31 17:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610776173 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610776260 In this chapter 16 John, Bernard, and Helmholtz are gathered in the controller's office to wait for the judgment of Mond. As they were waiting, John wandered restlessly at the books on the shelves. He finds nothing that interests him. Mond asks John if he likes civilization and John responds with a no. This shows that this dialogue revolves around the world states reasons for prohibiting anything that involves free thoughts. 

“But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art" pg. 226

]]> 2023-05-31 17:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610776260 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610776363 Unlike chapter 16, whereas they talk about human experiences, in chapter 17 they discuss religion. They talk about god and how important he is. Mond shows John the bible which leads him to questioning a lot of things about god. For example, if its natural to feel the existence of God. 

"Art, science- you seem to have paid a fairly high price for happiness," said the Savage, when they were alone. pg. 230]]> 2023-05-31 17:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610776363 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610789368 We get an idea of why religion has been taken out of the world state, and how Mustapha Mond sees it as an issue if it were to be in the civilized world. We see that the world state doesn't like the idea of religion because it would mean new ideas that would lead some people to be unhappy with the way they live and the way that they see what they've been conditioned to see and want. The public doesn't get a say in what they do and don't believe, they are told to believe in certain things and they as they are told without hesitation. "Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? ..." Mustapha Mond checked him. "But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now..." "How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage. "Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all."]]> 2023-05-31 17:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2610789368 knguyen2182_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2612026657 2023-06-01 16:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2612026657 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2612040373 In this chapter as we see Bernard and Helmholtz being sent away and onto an island to be punished. As much as John wants to be sent to the islands as well Mustapha Mond takes that choice away from John and says that he must stay in civilization for further observation for the experiments. In John's anger he decides when he gets back that he will take back control for himself and exile himself to somewhere he can be alone and cleanse himself of civilization. As he is able to cleanse himself and enjoy doing tasks that take time and patience it is soon taken away once people find him and call in reporters. We see how John's sense of control is taken away from him time and time again. After those weeks of idleness in London, with nothing to do, whenever he wanted anything, but to press a switch or turn a handle, it was pure delight to be doing something that demanded skill and patience (Pg. 247).]]> 2023-06-01 17:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2612040373 ethernandez1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2613117379 Okay I take back what I said about this book being boring. These last two chapters really start picking things up real fast and now im invested. Okay enough talk to the summary. John starts a riot is literally the entire chapter. But it doesn't work because the group he's trying to help riot with him doesn't understand what 'freedom' is and they simply don't do anything. Hemlholtz was there too I think and actively helped. Bern is being a little rat and hiding away. Which further proves how bad this society is. That these people who John is trying to help can't even comprehend anything he's trying to do and end up not taking this chance to break free. Now I'm going to do something I don't usually do and praise this...society they live in. For the way that they handle this. Instead of using bullets and shooting when things get out of hand like our government. They opt out and use nullifying gas that makes the rioters, just John and Helhotz, losing feeling of their body and harmlessly dealt with. Which is one of the most brilliant ways to deal with a riot without hurting or killing anyone. THATS THE ONLY PEACE OF PRAISE THEY'RE GETTING FROM ME.

Note: Think some of people did riot but just didn't get too far with it cause lack of reason and such now that I'm reading back looking for a quote

"Will you come quietly?" Asked the Sergent "Or must we anaethetize?" -pg 215


]]> 2023-06-02 16:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2613117379 jicastro1001_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2613135592 In this final chapter we see how John finally at some point gets to get the crowd of people to leave, but they come back with much more overcrowding with people on the ground and in the sky. The crowd tries throwing items at John as if he was a zoo animal and yelling at him to do a whip stunt, within this time we see how John is frozen with this disbelief of his anger and the loss of control that he thought he had gained. At some point when Lenina lands John ends up giving into his anger and lashing out at her as the crowd comes in more and is enjoying the sight, we see John lose himself as his anger takes over and wakes up the next morning deciding to do the only thing that he feels he as control over. (Pg. 259) The door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors. Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet".]]> 2023-06-02 17:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2613135592 kavalencia1011_2 https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2614360594 In the final chapter, John is seen as an animal because he goes viral after a film is released about him. He is doing acts these people have never seen before and when the film is released it attracts more people toward John. John is unaware of what's happening and slowly starts going crazy. When the crowd gathers to watch John does his ritual Lenina arrives. John whips her. After a while, the crowd starts doing an orgy porgy which John participates in. The next day, he took his own life. 

"I ate civilization... It poisoned me... I was defiled and then... I ate my own wickedness" pg. 241]]> 2023-06-05 04:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ethernandez1001_2/dci37kt2pd7hf67x/wish/2614360594