BRAVE NEW WORLD Catsup

Chapter 1 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, A.F. 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly, Controlled, “Porcelain” ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability" ■Caste System –Alphas, Betas –Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons ■“Bizzarro”

Chapter 1 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –Passionate about his job, the experiments, and The World State –Very knowledgeable about his job ■Henry Foster –Seems young, like a prodigy –Proud of the mass production of human beings Was dating Lenina ■Lenina Crowne –She’s bought fully into the philosophy of The World State

Chapter 2 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly –Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms ■ ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability” –What’s missing? “Freedom,” “Individuality” ■Questions: Identity vs. Individuality

Chapter 2 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –Servant of the State – “A Company Man” ■p – Conditioning – country sports thingTommy –” I don’t know!” – pp –Product of Sleep Conditioning (Hypnopædia) –Hypnopædia is good for visceral, rote conditioning, but cannot “be made an instrument of intellectual education” (25).

Chapter 3 – Setting and Mood ■Outside the Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –“Erotic Play” among children – another “Bizzarro” moment ■Three(?) Conversations Going at Once: –Lenina and Fanny – Idle conversation? about who’s dating whom –Mustapha Mond and the Students/DHC – Philosophy of World State– Explains the “After Ford” (A.F.) thing –Henry Foster is talking about “having” Lenina – Bernard overhears and starts getting upset

After Ford ■What does the “A.F” time delineation tell us about this world? ■How do we think Huxley felt about mass production?

Chapter 3 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) ■Mustafa Mond (“The Controller”) –1 of 10 “World Controllers” ■Bernard Marx –Feels jealousy in spite of conditioning by World State –Sappy? Caring? Bitter? Soft? Depressed? Depends on how you look at it. –Shorter than the others – already feels somewhat different

Chapter 4 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Does everyone live in this compound? ■Bernard wants to speak in private, but Lenina doesn’t understand why (58). –Question of Western, specifically U.S. American culture vs. many others– ideas of personal space, privacy, etc. ■Bernard flies to Hemholtz Watson’s place.

Chapter 4 – Characters ■Bernard Marx –Existential Crisis –Feels like an outsider ■Benito Hoover –Good-natured former lover of Lenina, overweight –“Could get through life without Soma” – p. 60 ■Lenina Crowne –All about the World State –Brainwashed, Well-Conditioned ■Hemholtz Watson –Really well-engineered – a perfect specimen –Tells Bernard that Mustafa Mond is transferring him to Iceland

What’s the nature of Bernard and Hemholtz’s conversation?

Chapter 5 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly Compound ■Solidarity Service – What does it replace? ■“Orgy Porgy” (84-85) ■Soma

Chapter 5 – Characters ■Bernard Marx: –Still shallow—regrets being close to Morgana during orgy –“much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before” (86)

Chapter 6 – Setting and Mood ■More sex, this time between Lenina and Bernard –Opens with Lenina thinking of Bernard as “Odd, odd, odd” (87). ■Trip to the “Savage” Reservation

Chapter 6 – Characters ■Bernard: How does he feel about thinking differently from the others? –Unhappy, depressed, scared, “enslaved” (91) ■Lenina –Surprised at question of happiness ■The Director: What is his secret? –He has an illegitimate child with some “savage” lady.

Brave New World Film (1998) ■

Chapter 7 – Setting and Mood ■“Savage” Reservation –:

Chapter 7 – Characters ■Bernard ■Lenina ■“The Savage” (John) –: ■Linda – Who is she in relation to the DHC? –:

Chapter 8 ■“Savage” Reservation ■John’s story ■Where’s the title of the book from? ■Connection between John and Bernard

Chapter 8 – Notes

Chapter 9 ■John is falling in love with Lenina… see any potential problems here?

Chapter 9 - Notes

Chapter 10 ■Back at Central London Hatchery ■The Director’s humiliation

Chapter 10

Chapter 11 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 11 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 12 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 12 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 13 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 13 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 14 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 14 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 15 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 15 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 16 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 16 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 17 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 17 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne

Chapter 18 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability”

Chapter 18 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –: –Henry Foster –: –Lenina Crowne