Themes, Motifs And Important Quotes

Themes Use of Technology to Control Society Incompatibility of Happiness and Truth Danger of an All-powerful State Consumer Society/Capitalism Themes

Pneumatic – has air pockets Motifs Pneumatic – has air pockets Sex Shakespeare Alienation Ford

Important Quotes: "Community, Identity, Stability". Chapter 1, pg 1. "And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny." Chapter 1, pg. 16 "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. 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 beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta." Sleep-teaching, Chapter 2, pg. 27

"You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk." World Controller Mustapha Mond, Chapter 3, pg. 34 "All of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." World Controller Mustapha Mond, Chapter 3, pg. 54 "a gramme in time saves nine," Lenina, "One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments," "A gramme is better than a damn." "When the individual feels, the community reels." Lenina, Chapter 6, Part 1, pg. 94 "Cleanliness is next to fordliness." Lenina, "Yes, and civilization is sterilization." Bernard, Chapter 7, pg. 110

"Why was that old fellow [Shakespeare] such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excriciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases... No, it won't do. We need some other kind of madness and violence. But what? What? Where can one find it?... I don't know." Helmholtz Watson, Chapter 12, pg. 185 "Our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get...And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. Which you go and chuck out of the window in the name of liberty, Mr. Savage. Liberty!... Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello! My good boy!... Of course [Othello is better than those feelies]. 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." World Controller Mustapha Mond, Chapter 16, pg. 220

"In fact', said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.‘ 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.‘ 'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome,' he said." Chapter 17, pg. 240

“Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet. 'Mr. Savage “Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet. 'Mr. Savage!' Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...” Chapter 18, pg. 259