https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt Novel Themes en-us 2023-04-27 19:00:38 UTC 2025-10-16 00:13:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4be.png ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570837736 5. The Cross Walk 
6. The App
7. Huxley
8. Media]]> 2023-04-27 19:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570837736 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570837819 1. Apple wheel Video
2. Apple Commercial Video
3. Consumerism 
4. Happiness ]]> 2023-04-27 19:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570837819 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570840413 4. The Crosswalk 
6. The App 
7. Huxley
8. Media ]]> 2023-04-27 19:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570840413 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570841064 7. Huxley]]> 2023-04-27 19:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570841064 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570841169 2. 1984 
4. Crosswalk
5. Happiness]]> 2023-04-27 19:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2570841169 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2574554535 Anything below Beta and Alphas are predetermined for life. With little free will and intellegence, the lower class are doomed to be content in their target environment through the conditioning the predestination sectors.
"We condition them to thrie on heat, ... Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it" (16). ]]> 2023-05-02 03:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2574554535 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2574562435 Through the budding process, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons all have twins up to 96, with the same identity, appearance, being essentially the same fertilized eggs from the same sperm. These classes are severed of their uniqueness, being clones of the same factory or job, while Alphas and Gammas aren't subjected to halted cognition and budding.
"By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from 8 to 96 embryos ... but no  in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days" (7).]]> 2023-05-02 03:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2574562435 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2576266484 These students are learning how this place called the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre functions. There is this man called the D.H.C. showing them what they do there. Showing how they have control over the world and how they manage to have different classes of people. " Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!' ... "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." (7)]]> 2023-05-03 05:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2576266484 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2576280859 The students are now being taken to the conditioning sections of the centre. Where they will see all the babies that have been made in the hatchery. There will the different classes of babies being conditioned to be afraid of things that are not important for their destined future. "They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinctive' hatred of books and flower. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." ]]> 2023-05-03 06:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2576280859 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2577041874 In the conditioning and hypnopedia, each caste of children are rised to grow hatred and fear towards intelligence and beauty, and being discriminatory towards anyone out of their caste. Their happiness is predetermined and transfixed the day they are born.

"Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beaastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a beta" (27).]]> 2023-05-03 16:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2577041874 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578487933 In this first half, we learned that the current world abhores the idea of monogamy and close nuclear families. Now they promote polygamy, warping the ideology of dates and sexual acts into a casual and uncommited relationships
"And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long-drawn. Four months of Henry Foster, without having another man- why, he'd be furious if he knew... (41).]]> 2023-05-04 15:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578487933 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578726483 "Community, Identity, Stability. The pillars of the brave new world" (3). This represents how much the government values social control and conformity. The ultimate aim of the government is to establish a uniform society in which disagreement and revolt are nonexistent. The emphasis on these three pillars represents the government's efforts to maintain ultimate control over society by demonstrating the government's entire control over the population's thinking and actions.]]> 2023-05-04 18:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578726483 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578727047 "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever... And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid" (27). Lenina's acceptance of the caste structure of the World State shows a lack of individuality. She takes satisfaction in being a Beta rather than an Alpha, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon because she finds comfort in being a part of a certain social group. In a dystopian society where individualism is discouraged, the caste system's emphasis on uniformity and conformity discourages individuality and encourages people to conform to assigned positions and identities.]]> 2023-05-04 19:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578727047 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578727315 "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" (22). This suggests the government has been effective in teaching this hatred in citizens from birth. Government policies hold a higher importance on obedience and conformity, limiting people of the chance to pursue their own interests and passions. The emphasis on training and the loss of individuality shows how the government has complete control over society.]]> 2023-05-04 19:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578727315 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578727669 "Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games" (31). In the novel, new kinds of entertainment can only be approved if they are as intricate and complicated as those that already exist. In addition to limiting people's potential to innovate, this also strengthens the existing social order and power structures. In order to maintain population control, the government actively suppresses individualism and free thought.

]]> 2023-05-04 19:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578727669 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578737044 As the World Controller describes the world prior to their control, he states they know have everyone go through ectogenesis, normalizing the use of drugs in order to prevent aging. Without aging, they severed the risk of retirement, enlightentment, and education to rebell.

"Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, reitre, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking--thinking!"]]> 2023-05-04 19:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578737044 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578737257 The students are still on a tour of the hatchery and conditioning centre. They are going through corridors and looking at the kids playing these erotic games. As they continue listening to the D.H.C. there is an alarm going off telling all the people on shift that they are off and should switch with the next shift. It's like they are robots. "In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Discarnate voices called form the trumpet mouths. " "Main Day-shift off duty. Second Day-shift take over. Main Day-shift off...". (34)]]> 2023-05-04 19:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578737257 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578737848 The students are watching as the kids are playing these erotics games. They are being taught to not be ashamed or scared of being promiscuous. If any child is seen to not be comfortable with any of the games they are seen as abnormal or not right in head. "It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play. I'd noticed it once or twice before. And now again to-day. He started yelling just now..." "and so," she went on, turning back to the Director, "i'm taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. Just to see if anything's at all abnormal". (31-32)]]> 2023-05-04 19:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2578737848 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579812882 The student have now started getting tour from one of the world controllers. They are still near the kids and can start hearing these types of nursing rhymes. Though they aren't the audio just sounds like it and it keeps repeating themselves. The kids are being brainwashed through their sleep. " In the nurseries, the Elementary Class Consciousness lesson was over, the voices were adapting future demand to future industrial supply. "I do love flying," they whispered, "I do love flying, I do love having new clothes, I do love..." (48)]]> 2023-05-05 17:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579812882 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579833428 “Or the Caste System. Constantly proposed, constantly
rejected. There was something called democracy. As though
men were more than physico-chemically equal" (50). This demonstrates the rejection of any system that encourages the idea that people are different from one another. Democracy and the caste system are both regarded as being meaningless since they contradict the idea that humans are only physico-chemically equal. According to this quote, individuality is not respected in modern society, and any attempts to support it are quickly rejected.]]> 2023-05-05 17:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579833428 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579833502 The sexual acts in this society has been standardized in a way where polyamory is encouraged. As Lenina enters the lift, she recognizes several boy she slept with, which contrasts her interest for Foster.
""She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them" (57).]]> 2023-05-05 17:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579833502 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850427 In chapter 1 they mention a process called the  "Bokanovsky's Process". The process was as stated in the book "One egg, one embryo, one adult--normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress."(6). This is all stated by the director who concluded saying the process consisted of a series of arrest development. In their world the "Bovanovsky's Process" is one of the major instruments of social stability. ]]> 2023-05-05 17:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850427 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850621 "Alpha children wear grey. They work so much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta because I don't work so hard." (27). Chlidren in elementary schools are divided into groups determined by the color of their clothes. They have different titles and different reputations. Kids at a young age are already enclosing them into their own little circles. ]]> 2023-05-05 17:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850621 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850718 "He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period of time before the time of Our Ford. and even for some generations afterward, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed." (32). Certain acts have been normalized a bit within the entertainment industry, and its offsetting. It shows how an industry can change with time. ]]> 2023-05-05 17:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850718 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850773 On page 46 it reads "Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole". Why would England want to prohibit a teaching technique? I feel this is an example of the government conditioning their citizens to live a certain way and have them consume the things they want them learning and knowing. ]]> 2023-05-05 17:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579850773 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579853716 "Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches; the more stitches, the less dignity" (51). This illustrates how the government regulates citizens' actions and values. For example, society encourages purchasing new things rather than mending damaged ones to preserve a common look. It implies that society favors the achievement of economic prosperity more than the preservation of individual dignity, reflecting a culture that places a higher priority on productivity and efficiency than on human feelings and values.]]> 2023-05-05 17:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579853716 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579909184 "The buildings of the Hounslow Feely Studio covered seven
and a half hectares. Near them a black and khaki army of
labourers was busy revitrifying the surface of the Great West
Road" (62). This describes that technology and efficiency are valued above anything else, and manual work is degraded to the status of simple equipment. It dehumanizes the working class, who are viewed as separate components in a massive industrial machine. Additionally, the concept of "revitrifying" the road's surface conveys the image of ongoing growth even if it violates people's sense of dignity and individuality.]]> 2023-05-05 18:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579909184 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579909452 2023-05-05 18:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579909452 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579916118 Some of the workers from the centre are riding the lift up to the roof. Lenina is kind of reminiscing about the times she has slept with some of the other workers in the lift. Talking about how they all they own weird thing to them.  When they get to the roof there are a bunch of hangars each with a helicopter. " Henry had had his machine wheeled out of its lock-up and, when Lenina arrived, was already seated in the cockpit, waiting". (61)]]> 2023-05-05 19:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2579916118 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2581370658 Bernard personality is expanded more, showcasing his hatred to other Alpha's by their hypnopedia sayings and the conditioned. As a more unconditioned member of the World State, his ignorance only marks him as a outcast.
"What can be the matter with the fellow" ... "Touched his brain, I suppose" (60)]]> 2023-05-08 03:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2581370658 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2581456966 "You means all the emotions one might be feeling if things were different?" (69). Seeing them just start understand the meaning of emotions gets you thinking how they went about their feelings prior. They didn't know any better so where'd they get their definition of emotion. We're they fed information from the government or was it how they were raised and conditioned to be. ]]> 2023-05-08 04:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2581456966 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2582557583 Bernard is heading over to his best friend's place who happens to be a lecturer and a Emotional Engineer. There are newspaper for each person that is in certain groups. Each being written different because of their education level. "Three great London newspapers- The Hourly Radio, an upper-caste sheet, in pale green Gamma Gazette, and, on khaki paper and in words exclusively of one syllable, The Delta Mirror". ]]> 2023-05-08 18:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2582557583 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2582558492 "Not quite. I’m thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I’ve got something important to say and the power to say it–only I don’t know what it is, and I can’t make any use of the power"(69). This emphasizes the lack of individuality and sense of helplessness in the dystopian world. There is little room for creativity or independent thinking among the citizens because they are programmed to fulfill addressed roles. Their thoughts and emotions are also controlled by the state, leaving them with a general sense of unhappiness and unfulfillment.]]> 2023-05-08 19:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2582558492 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2582561211 2023-05-08 19:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2582561211 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2584276626 "Henry spoke with a happy pride, rejoicing whole-heartedly in the achievement, as though it had been his own. “Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we’re dead. Making plants grow" (73). This line from Henry shows how brainwashed everyone is in a dystopian society. Henry expresses pride in the idea that citizens can continue serving the community after they die, implying that a person's value depends solely on how useful they are to the state. It shows how a totalitarian regime only cares for productivity and efficiency, even in death, which is dehumanizing. Citizens lose any sense of identity and autonomy because the government has complete power over every aspect of life, including death.]]> 2023-05-09 18:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2584276626 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2584276965 Lenina and Henry left to go to a club. The band were playing on saxophones and around four hundred people were dancing. Each one of them had taken a soma, like it was the only thing that would allow the to have fun. "Five-stepping with the other four hundred round and round Westminster Abbey, Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday". (77)]]> 2023-05-09 18:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2584276965 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2584292081 Henry and Lenina are going on a date to a club. Henry is picking her up with his plane at takes his time to get there. On their flight, they notice the crematorium with its four chimney stacks covered in this crimson-red sign. To make sure people flying by see the stacks. They start talking about how even after death they are still helpful to mankind. They even managed to almost perfect the technology to use someone to help the planet. "On their way up the chimney, the gases go through four separate treatments. P2O5 used to go right out of circulation every time they cremated someone. Now they recover over ninety-eight percent of it"... "Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow"]]> 2023-05-09 18:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2584292081 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2585963511 Bernard goes to a church where they end up having a orgy. Where they also praise their lord and savior Ford . Drugging themselves with soma and chanting a song to praise Ford. "The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, "I drink to my annihilation," twelves times quaffed". (80-81)]]> 2023-05-10 18:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2585963511 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587679959 2023-05-11 19:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587679959 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680089 2023-05-11 19:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680089 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680188 2023-05-11 19:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680188 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680263 Bernard met with the D.H.C and for some reason the D.H.C decided to him about his past and about possibly being romantically in love with a girl. A girl he took to the savage lands and left behind because he couldn't find her. When he realized what he told him the D.H.C got angry at himself and took out on Bernard because he knew what he told him is extremely bad and could him in serious trouble. " Furious with himself for having given away a discreditable secret, he vented his rage on Bernard". (97)]]> 2023-05-11 19:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680263 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680315 As Lenina and Bernard went out before going to the New Mexico reserve, she often remarks on the convention's the world state conditioned her, to object Benard's nonconforming thoughts. While Bernard is doing her a favor of having their date be nothing more than a getting to know one another, she is terrified of his suggestions of seeking happiness outside of hypnopedic sayings. In the end, Bernard drugs himself with soma to get over with the night with her.
"Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half, ... "I want to know what passion is," (94).]]> 2023-05-11 19:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680315 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680893 "The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry icecream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, “I drink to my annihilation,” twelve times quaffed" (80). Soma is a drug that members of the community take to feel happy and content. It basically works as a pleasurable hallucinogen. Soma represents how society uses drugs to control its citizens and keep them happy even though they are not truly happy.]]> 2023-05-11 19:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587680893 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587681265 "That mania, to start with, for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all. For what was there that one could do in private" (88). The people living there are taught to refrain from engaging in private activities, effectively restricting their desires and limiting their capacity to act independently. As residents are continually watched over and subject to restrictions, this lack of privacy strengthens the state's hold over their life. It illustrates the harsh features of the dystopian society, where freedom is diminished and individuality is suppressed. It emphasizes authority to uphold conformity and uniformity among its people.]]> 2023-05-11 19:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2587681265 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2589199361 2023-05-12 22:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2589199361 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2589199398 2023-05-12 22:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2589199398 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2589199508 As Bernard and Lenina go on throughout their "date" Bernard intents to try to get Lenina to show some type of romance with him and only him. Lenina, due to everything she's been taught, she's been conditioned to think the same as everyone else and show little to no emotion and continue their practices. Bernard seems pretty upset and beat about having to share Lenina with the other guys. Lenina here also feels a sense of confusion after seeing Bernard act different than everyone else making her seem uneasy about the entire ordeal. ]]> 2023-05-12 22:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2589199508 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590403087 “Those, I repeat who are born in the Reservation are destined to die there" (102). People born in the Reservation in the World State are destined to live and die there, suggesting that they are imprisoned and denied of any chance to escape their planned fate. It is a prime example of the lack of personal freedom and the harsh reality encountered by people who are regarded undesirable or outliers. This brings to mind the difference between the privileged citizens of the World State and the oppressed people in the Reservation.]]> 2023-05-15 00:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590403087 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590403843 2023-05-15 00:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590403843 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590404074 2023-05-15 00:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590404074 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590404255 "Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources to rely on) to some great trial, some pain, some persecution; he had even longed for affliction" (103-104). Bernard's need for personal challenges represents a desire for unusual experiences and the chance to assert his unique traits in a culture where originality is suppressed and conformity is encouraged. According to the quote, those who live in a soma-induced world of comfort are deprived of the opportunity to grow and realize who they truly are. It emphasizes the significance of personal growth and self-discovery in the development of individuality.]]> 2023-05-15 00:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2590404255 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2591812971 Bernard and Lenina get to a hotel before they embark on their trip to the savage land. They get to the hotel and they had music playing and scents throughout the whole hotel. The world has people constantly working by getting their senses activated. "Liquid air, television, vibro-vacuum massage, radio, boiling caffeine solution, hot contraceptives, and eight different kinds of scent were laid on in every bedroom. The synthetic music plant was working as they entered the hall and left nothing to be desired". (100)]]> 2023-05-15 19:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2591812971 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2591819516 Bernard and Lenina have headed to New Mexico to see the savage land. They are walking around with a guide when they see an old man. Lenina gets disgusted and curious about the old man because of how he looks and questions why he looks like that and not like the people back home.
"That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them a transfusion of young blood". (111)]]> 2023-05-15 19:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2591819516 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2591857459 As Bernard and Lenina arrive at the Savage reservation, they briefly discuss the imperfection of the pueblo, from old age, skin conditions. Compared to the "savages", those in the world state are considered perfect: always unafflicted and never ages, but cannot live beyond a certain "age". In their predetermined environment, they cannot experience the joys of grandchildren and livelyhood
"We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium... because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack!, the end. (111)]]> 2023-05-15 19:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2591857459 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2593590722 John explains his ruinous upbringing, from his loathing mother, his outcast from the village's boys,  and his only comforts of imagination and books. The heart of his loneliness stems from Linda, who disgraced him due to the world state's ideals]]> 2023-05-16 19:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2593590722 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2595861030 When Bernard and Lenina get to the savage land, they meet the women that was left behind by the D.H.C and her son. The son tells them about how he was treated differently and how his mom would drink mescal to try and replace the soma. The soma has such a big hold on her she tried to replace it with alcohol. "Pope used to come often. He said the stuff in the gourd was called mescal; but Linda said it ought to be called soma; only it made you feel ill afterwards". (125)]]> 2023-05-18 06:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2595861030 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2595869456 Once Bernard and Lenina learn everything and witness what happens at the savage lands. They go back to their place. Everything Lenina witnessed was so much for her that the only way she could feel happy again was to take soma tablets. "Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of somma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity". (140)]]> 2023-05-18 06:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2595869456 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2596389417 John is about to embark to the "Brave New World" that have dreamed of with little stories Linda told him. While waiting, he watches Lenina in her "sleep" and praises of her vestal and purity. Only that he fails to know what a different world the World State is, and that his crush is not what he think it is.
"Her eyes, her hair, her check, her gait, her voice;
Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink 
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh..." (144)]]> 2023-05-18 14:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2596389417 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2596655014 To perserve his place in London's society, he bought back Linda and John to humiliate the DHC. While both Linda and John reveled in their reunion of "husband" and father respectively, the director passed out in dread, as the people laughed at the obscenity of parent of high figure.
"Laughter broke out, enormous, almost hysterical, peal after peal, as though it would never stop. My father- and it was the Director!" (151)]]> 2023-05-18 18:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2596655014 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2596657764 The D.H.C is going to try and make an example of Bernard because he is not like the rest of them. He doesn't act like them or take soma as often or even have intercourse with other women as often either. They pretty much want to have certain control over him, because he think Bernard would be the one to break the brainwashing in a way. "This ex colleague ?-has grossly betrayed the trust imposed in him. By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, even as a little infant." (149)]]> 2023-05-18 18:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2596657764 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908275 "Lenina liked the drums\. Shutting her eyes she abandoned herself to their soft repeated thunder, allowed it to invade her consciousness more and more completely, till at last there was nothing left in the world but that one deep pulse of sound." (113). Here we see Lenina slowing distancing herself from what she has been conditioned to follow and is instead just allowing her guts and listening to herself. ]]> 2023-05-19 18:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908275 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908367 2023-05-19 18:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908367 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908436 2023-05-19 18:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908436 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908510 2023-05-19 18:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908510 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908566 In pg 156 there´s a line that states ¨Benito Hoover made him a  present of six packets of sex-hormone chewing gum¨ indicating that there are things that are being consumed that enhance they hormones to help stimulate their bodies. Allowing them to be this new type of human species that lives amongst us. ¨It was a small factory of lighting-sets for helicopters, a branch of the Electrical Equipment Corporation." (159) Here in this world they have a good sense of their electrical equipment and would be able to conclude that the industry behind everything is a thriving one and would be able to continue for years to come. ]]> 2023-05-19 18:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597908566 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909318 “Yes, and civilization is sterilization,” Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopaedic lesson in elementary hygiene. “But these people have never heard of Our Ford, and they aren't civilized. So there's no point in…” (110). The goal of the regime's brainwashing and indoctrination is to create a homogenous society free of individuality and critical thought. The World State's goal of progress and stability comes at the sacrifice of real human experiences, emotions, and freedom by associating society with purity. It draws attention to the dystopian aspect of a culture that values uniformity and conformity over individuality and self-determination.]]> 2023-05-19 18:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909318 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909621 "The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried; … because it meant more, because it talked to him" (131). The strange words that resonate with John represent a glimpse into a world beyond the controlled society of the World State. In a society where emotions are suppressed and individuality is discouraged, this moment of connection with the drums and the singing of the Corn Song evokes a longing for something deeper and more meaningful. It highlights the oppressive nature of the dystopian regime, which denies its citizens experience for genuine human experiences. ]]> 2023-05-19 18:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909621 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909693 "Lenina felt entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity" (140). Lenina's desire for a complete holiday after a day of queerness and horror reflects the overwhelming and oppressive nature of the society she lives in. The availability and widespread use of soma as a mood-altering drug to perpetuate the illusion of happiness and contentment, masking the underlying dissatisfaction and emptiness experienced by individuals. The quote highlights the dystopian aspect of a society that relies on a substance like soma to maintain control and conformity among its citizens.]]> 2023-05-19 18:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909693 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909776 "The comically smutty word relieved what had become a quite intolerable tension. Laughter broke out, enormous, almost hysterical, peal after peal, as though it would never stop" (151). The words act as a brief release mechanism for the characters' anxiety. The hysterical laughing that follows conveys a sense of artificiality and desperation, as if the citizens are looking for comfort in pointless distraction. This situation exemplifies how miserable it is to live in a society where real feelings are suppressed in favor of empty pleasures and pleasure. Highlighting the loss of real human experiences and the widespread control exercised by the World State.]]> 2023-05-19 18:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597909776 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597910569 "In one sense, yes,” Dr. Shaw admitted. “But in another
we’re actually lengthening it.” The young man stared, uncomprehending. “Soma may make you lose a few years in time,” the doctor went on. “But think of the enornous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity" (154). The quote exemplifies the society's manipulation and control over its citizens' perception of time and experience. Dr. Shaw's explanation of how soma can lengthen one's experience of time highlights the artificiality and superficiality of the world they live in. The emphasis on soma-holidays as a form of escape from reality perpetuates the illusion of happiness and contentment, while ultimately depriving individuals of genuine human experiences and personal growth. ]]> 2023-05-19 18:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597910569 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597919667 Linda and John are to stay in the world state, and the first thing Linda did was take on soma for her "holidays". Overtime, she grew addicted to deal with her time in malpais, taking stronger doses for the same effect. John disapproves such thing, and was observed by Bernard to not taking any even while he was vomiting.
"[The savage] refuses to take soma, and seems much distressed because the woman Linda, his m----, remains permanently on holiday. It is worthy of note that, in spite of his m----'s senility and the extreme repulsiveness of her appearance..."(161).]]> 2023-05-19 18:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597919667 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920613 Bernard and Lenina meet Linda, the girl that left behind by the D.H.C. They see what happened her after all those years. She told about her experiences there and how she was so different from them. Everyone being owned by someone. "Mad, I tell you, absolutely mad. Everybody belongs to every one else-don't they? don't they?" (121)]]> 2023-05-19 18:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920613 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920686 2023-05-19 18:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920686 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920795 2023-05-19 18:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920795 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920901 "Murder kills only the individual—and, after all, what is an individual?” 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" (148). The statement that murder only kills the individual and questions the significance of an individual implies a lack of regard for personal identity and uniqueness. The emphasis on the ability to create new individuals easily reinforces the idea that individuality is replaceable and expendable. This quote shows the theme of individuality by illustrating the oppressive nature of a society that disregards the importance of individual identity and discourages free thought.]]> 2023-05-19 18:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597920901 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597921080 Bernard is on tour to a helicopter factory with John the D.H.C's son. They are given a tour of the factory and how everything is operated and built. Each part of the conveyer has a delta, gamma, or epsilon. "And, in effect, eighty-three almost noseless black brachy-cehpalic Deltas were cold-pressing. The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-sic aquiline and ginger Gammas. On hundred and seven heat-conditioned Epsilon Senegalese were working in the foundry". (159)]]> 2023-05-19 18:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597921080 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597924453 Bernard ends up becoming popular once people see that he brought back Linda and her son. Important people started to treat him with respect and started giving him tours of important places. Like the factor that made lighting sets for helicopters. "Each process, explained the Human Element Manager, is carried out, so far as possible, by a single Bokanovsky group" (159)]]> 2023-05-19 18:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2597924453 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600483349 “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.”“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" (166). The quote illustrates how using soma to escape reality and limit individuality reflects the concept of dystopia and authoritarianism. It serves as an example of how society uses drugs that make people feel good, like soma, to manipulate and control its people.  It emphasizes how the World State manipulates people's emotions and desires in order to exercise dictatorial control.]]> 2023-05-22 18:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600483349 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600483695 Nearing the end of page 171 we hear Lenina deciding what amount soma to pour for her in order for her to not run the risk of not waking up in time. One gram, she decided, would not be enough; hers had been more than a one gram affliction. But if she took two grams, she ran the risk of not waking up in time tomorrow morning. She compromised and, into her cupped left palm, shook out three half-gramme tablets." (171). We continue to see the constant use of soma and its properties lead us to believe its a mood enhancer and is consumed by those within the walls of this society to ensure the best possible outcome. ]]> 2023-05-22 18:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600483695 betejeda1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600484585 As we get closer to the end of chapter 11, attempting to find a perfect median to take for her to take. One gram, she decided, would not be enough; hers had been more than a one gram affliction. But if she took two grams, she ran the risk of not waking up in time tomorrow morning. She compromised and, into her cupped left palm, shook out three half-gramme tablets." (171). The constant use of soma and its properties allow us to believe its a mood enhancer and is consumed by those within the walls of this society to ensure the best possible outcome. ]]> 2023-05-22 18:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600484585 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600489166 John explores more of London with first Bernard, then Lenina. In either case, he puzzled at this world's social and educational structure, confused on why the people reveled in an action movie with an African American as an antagonist and the laughter on the Savages' culture. 
"He took out his mouse-nibbled volume, turned with religious care its stained and crumbled pages, and began to read Othello. Othello, he remembered, was like the hero of Three Weeks in a Helicopter-a black man" (171).]]> 2023-05-22 18:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600489166 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600491810 Bernard and John are looking at kids being condition to think like everyone else. See the process and how they start to be have after it. Going to different classes seeing how each different kids is being taught and what they are being taught. "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". (164)]]> 2023-05-22 18:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2600491810 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471251 "As though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I've got inside me—that extra, latent power. Something seems to be coming to me.” (182). It emphasizes his developing sense of individuality and his desire to rebel against the homogenized culture that hinders free expression. The idea of a "extra, latent power" emphasizes the value of accepting and fostering one's distinctive talents by implying that each person possesses unrealized potential. It depicts the quest for self-awareness and the development of his unique voice in a society that prizes uniformity and sameness.]]> 2023-05-26 19:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471251 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471448 2023-05-26 19:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471448 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471534 2023-05-26 19:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471534 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471676 John when to go visit his dying mother at the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying. He walked into her room noticing all the things they have going on to make a patience as comfortable as possible. "Linda was dying in company-in company and with all modern conveniences. The air was continuously alive with gay synthetic melodies. At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribund occupant, was a television box". (198)]]> 2023-05-26 19:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471676 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471806 “Yes, act–at ocne. Do it now. I'd be scared, said Lenina. Well you've only got to take half a gramme of soma first" (188). It illustrates how the society relies on soma to calm its people and keep control of their thoughts and emotions. The immediate advice to take soma shows how people have been conditioned to look for instant gratification and avoid difficult or uncomfortable situations. The remark conveys the dystopian nature of the culture, where people are urged to use drugs as an escape from their realities rather than face them.]]> 2023-05-26 19:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606471806 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606472162 "As though any one mattered as much as all that! It might give them the most disastrous ideas about the subject, might upset them into reacting in the entirely wrong, the utterly antisocial way" (206). The idea that any one person matters in the society portrayed is viewed as risky since it could disrupt the existing order. The focus on harmful concepts and antisocial behavior is a reflection of the authoritarian control used to suppress individualism and uphold social order. The quote highlights the authoritarian character of the dictatorship, which aims to eliminate any idea of personal value in favor of a uniform and controlled population.]]> 2023-05-26 19:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606472162 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606472670 "He halted and, with bewildered and horrified eyes, stared round him at the khaki mob, in the midst of which, overtopping it by a full head, he stood. “How many goodly creatures are there here!” The singing words mocked him derisively. “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world…” (209). The line initially conveys admiration and respect for humanity, but it soon becomes clear that it makes fun of individuality and serves as a metaphor for the dystopian society. It draws attention to the obvious contrast between his admiration for human potential and the repressive government that restricts uniqueness. Overall, it highlights the disappointment and conflict between personal freedom and the dehumanizing rule of society.]]> 2023-05-26 19:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606472670 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606473744 As it turns out, discussing one's private feelings, let alone solitude, is ill-accepted. When Bernard was mocked by the party he invited to meet the savage, he can only douse himself with soma, and the next morning, Helmholtz revealed in using a solitude as an example of propaganda, he was reported by his students and is now under watch.
"I'm no surprised," said Benard. "It's flatly against all their sleep-teaching. Remember, they've had at least a quarter of a million warnings against solitude"(182).]]> 2023-05-26 19:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606473744 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606474677 Benard, Lenina, and even the Fordship all witnesses some form of unhappiness. Both Bernard and Mond were deprived due to the World state's expectations and conduct, with the former mocked about his pride and the latter reluctantly banning a theory that was very deep, but otherwise dangerous to the society's measures. 
"He picked up his peb again, and under thw words "Not to be published"... "What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have tot hink about happiness!"]]> 2023-05-26 19:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606474677 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606474721 “But it's absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd, she repeated ‘And about what? a man–one man" (187). This demonstrates Lenina's inability to comprehend the value of a person's emotional connections and attachments in a culture that encourages commonality and detachment. Her denial of the strength of her feelings for one man serves as an example of how the World State's conditioned feelings diminish personal ties and feelings. The line emphasizes the importance of originality by highlighting the challenges people have in preserving their own distinct identities and interpersonal connections in a dystopian culture.]]> 2023-05-26 19:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606474721 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475061 Lenina invites into John's room, and through confession of feelings, he denounces her methods. While he wanted commitment by hand of marriage, Lenina can only interpret this to fulfill sexual desires. The conditioning and unusual definition of happiness caused disorder between the two's crush for the other.
"Down from the waist they are Centuars, though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit. Beneath is all the fiend's]]> 2023-05-26 19:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475061 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475142 John went to go visit his mother in the hospital. So when he started to head towards his mother he met a nurse that asked him why he is there. Why he was in such a hurry not questioning why anybody would want to visit the hospital. "Why, whatever is the matter? she asked. She was not accustomed to this kind of thing in visitors. (Not that there were many visitors anyhow: or any reason why there should be many visitors)". (199)]]> 2023-05-26 19:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475142 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475233 At the hospital, John reunites with his mother, who has fallen ill. He tries to bring sense to her while she's being stimulated with TV and soma, thinking she is with Pope again, and mistakens him for that man. The conditional of the world state would become of her death, being so startled by John, both in her trip of "being everyone's else" and being a mother. 
"She knew him for John, her son, but fancied him an intruder into that paradisal Malpias where she had been spending her soma-holiday with Pope..as though there was something wrong, as though all civilized people didn't do the same" (205).]]> 2023-05-26 19:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475233 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475511 2023-05-26 19:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606475511 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606482056 John is at the hospital mourning the death of his mom. Listening and watching the deltas try and get soma from the cash box. Being denied because they weren't acting right. "Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful. A reparation, a duty". (210)]]> 2023-05-26 19:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2606482056 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2607544964 In vail attempt of "freeing" hospital workers of lower caste, John threw out a scheduled soma delivery. Their intelligence so limited, the Delta groups can only interpret it as destroying their happiness, represented in fury against their "savior". When police arrive, they are equipped with tools that reflect the drugging and hypnopedia the World State uses to control.
"Two Minutes later the Voice and the soma vapour had produced their effect. In tears, the Deltas were issing and hugging one another- half a dozen twins at a time in a comprehensive embrace."]]> 2023-05-29 04:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2607544964 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2609516514 The policemen takes the three rioters to Mond's office, connecting with them why the World State came to be and the dangers of their methods. The Controller, despite being a scientist and knowledgable in works like Shakespeare, tells by severing the country of human bonding, death, and disease, they are able to maintain the stability of society.
"The world's stable now. People are ahppy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passiona nd old age; they're plagued with no mothers of fathers" (220).]]> 2023-05-30 19:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2609516514 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2610863806 Bernard, Helmholtz, and John are being taken to trial and judged by Mustafa Mond. John questions why the controller won't let people hear about Othello. Why does he keep taking away old books? "I've told you; it's old. Besides, they couldn't understand it"... "And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if it were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello".(219-220)]]> 2023-05-31 18:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2610863806 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2610867318 John and Mustafa Mond have a Long talk about why people need God. Taking direct quotes from the bibles and other religious books. Giving reason why the controller can't share theses book to the public. "For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now". (231)]]> 2023-05-31 18:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2610867318 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612129981 “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. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead" (220) The emphasis on stability suggests that uniqueness and creativity have been given up in order to preserve control. The suppression of intellectual and emotional depth for the sake of brief gratification is best exemplified by the substitution of "high art" with shallow forms of amusement like feelies and the scent organ. By demonstrating how the society controls and manipulates its members' experiences and preferences to maintain social order, this emphasizes the topic of dystopia and totalitarianism.]]> 2023-06-01 18:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612129981 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612130043 "We are not our own masters. We are God's property. Is it nor our happiness thus to view the matter? Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?" (232). The quote makes reference to the notion of surrendering personal freedom and autonomy to a superior power, implying a loss of initiative and control. By exposing how society manipulates people's thoughts and perceptions, it highlights the topic of dystopia and authoritarianism. Being "God's property" suggests a rigid hierarchy and the stifling of individuality in the name of some alleged larger benefit. This serves to emphasize the oppressive nature of the dystopian society, in which individual comfort and happiness are foregone in favor of societal control.]]> 2023-06-01 18:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612130043 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612130104 John, Bernard, and Helmholtz learn their fate. They each know what is going to happen to them. While they accept it, John doesn't because he is just going to be used as an experiment. " 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". (243)]]> 2023-06-01 18:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612130104 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612130152 "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness" (245). The remark alludes to the dystopian society's destructive character, where people are infected by its harsh ideals and customs. The idea of being "poisoned" and "defiled" refers to the moral compass becoming tainted and the loss of personal integrity. The phrase "eating one's own wickedness" refers to the act of accepting and internalizing a repressive system, which makes people complicit in maintaining the dystopia. By emphasising the dehumanizing impacts of the society and the collapse of individual agency and morality, it accentuates the topic of dystopia and tyranny.]]> 2023-06-01 18:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612130152 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612131212 2023-06-01 18:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612131212 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612131259 Bernard, Helmholtz, and John are diverge as the two alphas leave to Falkland Island and the Savage runs away from London civilization. In his abode, he continues to purify himself  from the influences and actions in the World State, using a combination of flagellation, induced vomiting, and penance to exhaustion. He chooses to undertake these atonements in favor of being blinded again of decieved happiness of what was the "Brave New World".
"After all, it was not to sing and enjoy himself that he had come here. It was to escape further contamination by the filth of civilized life... He went indoors, opened the box of mustard and put some water to boil on the fire" (247). ]]> 2023-06-01 18:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612131259 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612138351 Discussion of how the World State came to be, Mond explains to the three the reason for skewing society in a pyramid class system. Proven by an experiment concluding anarchy among an all Alpha population, they predicted the purpose of the lower class, doing lower class jobs that would drive the higher class to contempt and madness. As such, it is reinforced by limiting their intelligence and conditioning them, unable to take removal of soma as a sign of freedom for instance.
"And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. Which you go and chuck out of the window in hte name of liberty, Mr. Savage... Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is!" (220).]]> 2023-06-01 19:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612138351 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612138417 "You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end" (233). It suggests that true independence and individuality cannot be attained merely through youth and affluence, reflecting the idea of individualism in Brave New World. It suggests that having a deeper link to something outside of oneself, possibly even a spiritual or transcendent aspect, is necessary for true identity. It emphasizes the significance of seeking something higher than materialistic goals and society norms to promote true individuality and personal development.]]> 2023-06-01 19:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612138417 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612138570 2023-06-01 19:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2612138570 datornero1001_2 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2613207915 John is still trying to live is solidarity, away from everyone and anything that will cause him to sin. He gets found by reporters and a movie director. They end up recording him doing his whipping. "He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather , hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand". (253)]]> 2023-06-02 19:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2613207915 ahlam101_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2613208274 In presence of unknown witnesses, John suddenly became an attraction first by news outlets to sightseers of a movie of him. Every time they call to him, the population and reporters alike refer to him as "Savage" and treats him like an uncivilized creature in its cage in a zoo. In seeing John's (deliberate) suffering, the outside world views this as an sensation of a beast. 
"Standing in a wide circle round the lighthouse, starting, laughijng, clicking their cameras, throwing (as to an ape) peanuts, packets of sex-hormone chewing-gum, panglandular petits beurrs" (255).]]> 2023-06-02 19:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2613208274 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2614444176 "Mr. Savage!" Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right" (259). The fact that they no longer refer to John by his name and instead call him the "Savage" illustrates a dystopian society. Because he opposes the society's values and chooses to live as humans once did, John is referred to as a savage in Brave New World. John is the most "civilized" in terms of thinking and experience, while rejecting what society tells him is "civilized," according to our standards today. This only serves to demonstrate how they are dehumanizing him because he does not share their belief in the World State.]]> 2023-06-05 06:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2614444176 ttran147_4 https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2614444361 2023-06-05 06:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ahlam101_4/qmrt94kzkht278qt/wish/2614444361