https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u Brave New World en-us 2019-01-11 18:38:56 UTC 2019-02-20 20:31:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://poshmark.com/listing/HOW-TO-READ-LITERATURE-LIKE-A-PROFESSOR-5a3b1148fcdc31a20100a890 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322263757 2019-01-18 18:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322263757 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322264107 2019-01-18 18:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322264107 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322264519 2019-01-18 18:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322264519 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322264778 2019-01-18 18:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322264778 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322265675 2019-01-18 18:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322265675 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322267646 2019-01-18 18:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322267646 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322267833 2019-01-18 18:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322267833 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322268197 2019-01-18 18:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322268197 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322268893 2019-01-18 18:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322268893 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322269409 He wanted luck, he wanted it, he wanted it. When the two girls were plying dolls in the nursery, he would sit on his big rocking horse, charging madly into space, with a frenzy that made the little girls peer at him uneasily. Wildly the horse careered, the waving dark hair of the boy tossed, the eyes had a strange glare in them. The girls dared not speak to them. . . . He knew the horse could take him to where there was luck, if only he forced it. . . . At last he stopped forcing his horse into the mechanical gallops and slid down.]]> 2019-01-18 18:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322269409 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322271267 2019-01-18 18:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/322271267 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/325093857 Fertility Symbol- A phallic object used in rituals to symbolize procreation.
Oedipal- Freud's theory about desire felt for opposite sex parent.
Depravity- Moral corruption.
Prurience- Paying too much attention to sex.]]> 2019-01-28 18:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/325093857 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/326860230 This chapter covers allusions to sex in literature and film, and how they relate to the theme/messages of the work. It also focuses on symbols for human sexuality, such as rolling landscapes, tall buildings, falling down stairs, knight's lances, waves, campfires, fireworks, curtains, trains among many more.]]> 2019-02-01 19:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/326860230 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/326863924 While the last chapter was about using other things to allude to sex, this chapter is about using sex to allude to other things, such as freedom, sacrifice, and control. The author presents multiple examples of sex being used in literature to propel other plot points. Notably, the author brings up a novel with a main character that the reader is supposed to find revolting. The character is shown indulging his depravity through sex, thus establishing this trait.]]> 2019-02-01 20:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/326863924 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/326868791 In Brave New World, Huxley uses the Freudian interpretation of what drives humanity. Freud believed that everything that we do as people was driven by sex, and this is how the citizens of the World State operated. Sex was used in the World State to instill a sense of entitlement for instant gratification. This attitude being held by nearly everyone in the novel is what allows the World State to continue functioning.]]> 2019-02-01 20:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/326868791 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327416242 "The lift was crowded with men from the Alpha Changing Rooms, and Lenina's entry was greeted by many friendly nods and smiles. She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them." (chapter 4) This quote supports that sex is a casual, meaningless act that is idolized by the citizens of Brave New World. Lenina also casually discusses her date with Bernard and asks freely if he still wants her.]]> 2019-02-04 17:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327416242 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327421524 "Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?" enquired the Assistant Predestinator. "I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects." (chapter 3) This quote means that simulated sex helps to dehumanize the whole act. The aim is to eliminate all emotion from the act so that, as Mustapha will later explain, loyalty to the state is never in competition with loyalty to an individual. The more sex is prevalent in society, the less important it becomes along with the feelings attached to it.]]> 2019-02-04 17:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327421524 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327516596 "Charming, charming," murmured the Director and, giving [Lenina] two or three little pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself.The author hints at the promiscuity in the society before the audience can even see the whole picture."]]> 2019-02-04 20:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327516596 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327521931 "'We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,' she answered. 'But now it's switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.' The Director walked slowly down the long line of cots. Rosy and relaxed with sleep, eighty little boys and girls lay softly breathing. " Huxley shows the reader just how commonplace sex is within the World State by showing children being indoctrinated to be promiscuous.

]]> 2019-02-04 20:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327521931 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327527135 "For instance," she hoarsely whispered, "take the way they have one another here. Mad, I tell you, absolutely mad. Everybody belongs to every one else—don't they? don't they?" she insisted, tugging at Lenina's sleeve.  Like Lenina, Linda is defined by her sexuality—the women are essentially mirror-images of each other, but they reflect the differences between their two worlds.]]> 2019-02-04 20:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327527135 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327527804 "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. Bottled, they crossed the street; bottled, they took the lift up to Henry's room on the twenty-eighth floor." One of the purposes of sex in the novel is reducing alone time to stifle any independent thought. Soma is often used to increase the detachment from reality]]> 2019-02-04 20:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/327527804 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330027077 "I thought we'd be more… more together here—with nothing but the sea and moon. More together than in that crowd, or even in my rooms. Don't you understand that?" This quote has Bernard trying to introduce the unfamiliar idea of emotional intimacy to Lenina, which doesn't really connect with her, as she's under the impression that there is nothing to do as an individual away from the rest of society.]]> 2019-02-11 18:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330027077 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330030391 One day, when he came in from playing, the door of the inner room was open, and he saw them lying together on the bed, asleep—white Linda and Popé almost black beside her, with one arm under her shoulders and the other dark hand on her breast, and one of the plaits of his long hair lying across her throat, like a black snake trying to strangle her. ]]> 2019-02-11 18:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330030391 ds014276sl https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330032930 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… He shut his eyes, he shook his head with the gesture of a dog shaking its ears as it emerges from the water. Detestable thought! He was ashamed of himself. Pure and vestal modesty…  John feels the way he does about sex because he escaped hypnopaedic sleep conditioning. Instead of thinking promiscuity is acceptable, he values chastity and monogamy. He adopted these values from Shakespeare. ]]> 2019-02-11 18:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330032930 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330068390 "'You made me have a baby' she screamed above the uproar. There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not knowing where to look." Although sex is very commonplace as recreation in the World State, it is heavily tabooed(almost unheard of) to actually give birth to a child, as this is a consequence of sex and does not fit with society's values of instant gratification with no ill effects.]]> 2019-02-11 19:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330068390 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330076829 "In the cinematographic twilight, Bernard risked a gesture which, in the past, even total darkness would hardly have emboldened him to make. Strong in his new importance, he put his arm around the Head Mistress's waist. It yielded, willfully. He was just about to snatch a kiss or two and perhaps a gentle pinch, when the shutters clicked open again." After finding acceptance and even fame from the World State, which had previously made him feel like an outcast, Bernard's actions begin to fall more in line with what is normal within the book's society.]]> 2019-02-11 20:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330076829 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330079877 "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. 'Perhaps it's because he doesn't like me,' she said to herself. And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn't like her. He didn't like her… " This is the first time Lenina has ever experienced rejection, and it's an unfamiliar and very painful thing for her. In the World State everyone is indoctrinated to believe that polygamy and romance are taboo. Rejection is completely unheard of in the World State, while by contrast John experienced an abundance of rejection in the Savage Reservation.]]> 2019-02-11 20:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330079877 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330963582 "Well, if that's the case," said Fanny, with decision, "why don't you just go and take him. Whether he wants it or no." With this statement, Fanny seems to be suggesting that Lenina rape someone. Within the context of Brave New World and within the World State, everyone belongs to everyone else, and all desires are instantly gratified, there is no concept of rape.]]> 2019-02-13 18:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330963582 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330966479 "Her lips moved. 'Popé!' she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face. Anger suddenly boiled up in him. Balked for the second time, the passion of his grief had found another outlet, was transformed into a passion of agonized rage. 'But I'm John!' he shouted. 'I'm John!' And in his furious misery he actually caught her by the shoulder and shook her." When John's mother mistakes him for her lover in a stupor,  John becomes furious and begins shaking his mother while screaming at her. John is constantly struggling with his identity throughout the novel, and when his own mother does not recognize him, he goes over the edge.]]> 2019-02-13 18:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330966479 ds017541jq https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330967197 "Do you like babies? Yes, babies. Mewling and puking'" he added, exasperated by their bestial stupidity into throwing insults at those he had come to save. The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity;they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. "Yes, puking!" he fairly shouted. Grief and remorse, compassion and duty-all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less human monsters. (Huxley 217) This explains how even though babies how sometimes cute, they can use their control to take away people's freedom and happiness. And people have to stick with them because it's the way of life.]]> 2019-02-13 18:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330967197 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330982158 " And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand." This statement by Mustapha Mond ties into the themes of power, control and freedom. Mond is the only person in the novel that has full control of his actions, but he chooses to accept the artificial happiness that the rest of the citizens have no choice but to live through. ]]> 2019-02-13 18:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330982158 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330986317 2019-02-13 19:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/330986317 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331016165 2019-02-13 19:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331016165 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331018082 2019-02-13 19:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331018082 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331020834 Classical and Operant conditioning are the two ways to raise a child and teach them certain behaviors. In “Brave New World”, Huxley clearly states that everything that the inhabitants learn is taught from classical conditioning, when they are young, still fetuses, they are submitted to electroshock therapy to condition them to think a certain way about certain things. They are also continually conditioned with operant conditioning to take soma to stop them from feeling anything that might upset the balance of the community and the society as a whole.]]> 2019-02-13 20:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331020834 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331021554  "Chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices." This quote describes the World State's attitude towards sex perfectly. The people are taught to expect instant gratification, and the World State provides it for them, creating a docile society.]]> 2019-02-13 20:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331021554 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331021589  This article is just one of many real life examples that we can find showing that what Aldous Huxley was writing about in his book is happen in real time. Although it is not the extreme that Huxley has portrayed in his book, “Brave New World”, it does not mean that in the future it could happen. ]]> 2019-02-13 20:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331021589 ds011166cs https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331026192 "Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so inextricably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet." In this statement, John uses Lenina as a personification of all of the immoral things in the World State, and he severely beats her as a result]]> 2019-02-13 20:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331026192 ds006161js https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331027129  Huxley used "Brave New World" to warn about society and what some of the problems that are happening during his lifetime could get worse and eventually become the worst possible outcome from the situation. This TED Talk is about how people show not being ashamed of casually sex, something which the inhabitants of the World State enjoy, especially Lenina. ]]> 2019-02-13 20:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ds006161js/jkms5sozk82u/wish/331027129