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English 10H
Brave New World – Chapter Quotations/Important People, Places & Ideas
Alpha – Grey
Beta – Mulberry-colored
Gamma – Green
Delta – Khaki
Epsilon - Black
Chapter 1:
Hatchery and Conditioning Center
D.H.C.
“For the course some kind of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently – though as
little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible.”
Henry Foster (Alpha)
Bokonovsky Process
Decanting/ Decanted  “born”
Freemartins
“Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.”
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making
people like their unescapable social destiny.”
Lenina Crowne (Beta Minor – even though she wears green)
Chapter 2:
Infant Nurseries – Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms
“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks – already in the infant mind these couples were
compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded
indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”
Reuben Rabinovitch
Vivaparous
Hypnopaedia
Chapter 3:
“Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase
consumption.”
Children playing erotic games outside
“When you’re not accustomed to history, most facts about the past do sound incredible.”
Mustapha Mond –World Controller
Bernard Marx (Alpha Plus)
Description of “home”
“Everyone belongs to everyone else”
“And feeling strongly, how could they be stable?”
Pneumatic
Nine Years’ War – AF 141 (2048)
Contraceptive belt
Chapter 4 – Part 1:
Lenina asks Bernard on a date
Soma
Chapter 4 – Part 2:
Bernard’s personality/views toward society
“Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself
secure in his superiority.”
Bureau of Propoganda and the College of Emotional Engineering
Helmholtz Watson (Alpha Plus)
“What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals”
Helmholtz’s personal experience
Chapter 5 – Part 1:
Reinforcement of social classes
“Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we’re dead. Making plants grow.”
Lenina’s memory of her conditioning
“Everybody’s happy now.”
Westminster Abbey Cabaret
Soma consumption
Chapter 5 – Part 2:
Solidarity Service
Morgana Rothschild
Bernard’s experience vs. the expected experience
Chapter 6 – Part 1:
Savage Reservation
Downfalls of the North Pole
Lenina & Bernard’s date
“I’d rather be myself… myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
Pneumatic – double meaning
“I want to feel something strongly”
“It suddenly struck me the other day…that it might be possible to be an adult all the time.”
Chapter 6 – Part 2:
The DHC’s reservation story
Alphas - “it is their duty to be infantile even against their inclination”
Bernard was “elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.”
Helmholtz’s reaction to Bernard
Chapter 6 – Part 3:
“Progress is lovely, isn’t it?”
“…sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds…absolute savages… still preserve their repulsive habits and
customs…marriage…families…. No conditioning…monstrous superstitions…extinct languages…”
Iceland
Chapter 7:
Description of savages
Lenina’s reaction
Age preservation/Life expectancy
Native American culture + Jesus Christ
The savage with blonde hair (John)
Linda (Beta)
Mescal
“This beastly wool isn’t like acetate. It last and lasts.”
“It’s like living with lunatics”
Chapter 8:
John’s memories of childhood – alcohol abuse, violence, The Other Place, The great Transformer of the World,
ostracized, learning to read, broken heart
“Linda never seemed to know. The old men of the pueblo had much more definite answers.”
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“They worked all day, and all day he was filled with an intense, absorbing happiness.”
Bernard offers to bring John to London (and Linda)
“Hadn’t you better wait until you see the new world?”
Chapter 9:
Bernard’s plan
“His bored tone implied that he was in the habit of talking to his fordship every day of the week… He was
thoroughly enjoying himself.”
John in Lenina’s hotel room
Chapter 10:
Back at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
DHC’s speech about Bernard
DHC meets Linda and John
Chapter 11:
Linda’s behavior back in Society
“Bernard now found himself, for the first time in his life, treated not merely normally, but as a person of
outstanding importance.”
Helmholtz’s reaction to Bernard’s new behavior
Mr. Savage
John retches violently after seeing the factory
Upper-caste children: one egg, one adult “It makes education more difficult of course.”
“A savage reservation is a place which… has not been worth the expense of civilizing.”
Death conditioning
Lenina & John go to The Feelies
Chapter 12:
John’s refusal/ Lenina’s reaction
Mond – Not to be Published
“ What fun it would be if one didn’t have to think about happiness”
“I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”
“It was the Helmholtz of daily life who forgot and forgave, not the Helmholtz of a half-gramme holiday.”
Helmholtz’s poem on being alone/ Authority
Helmholtz & John’s relationship
Chapter 13:
Lenina’s thoughts of John
John’s declaration of love
Lenina’s “declaration of love”
John gets a phonecall
Chapter 14:
Park Lane Hospital for the Dying
Death conditioning
“Oh, God…”
John becomes a savage
Chapter 15:
Soma distribution
“O brave new world” (214)
“I’ll make you be free whether you want to or not”
Bernard “ran forward to help them; then thought better of it and halted; then, ashamed, stepped forward
again…”
Chapter 16:
Mustapha Mond’s study
Reasoning of old/new
“You can’t make tragedy without social instability”
“Happiness is never grand” (225)
Cyprus Experiment/ America
Bernard’s breakdown
Mustapha Mond regrets
Helmholtz chooses an island
Chapter 17:
“We inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul
that experiences it, that it makes up for all our other losses.”
“But tears are necessary”
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want
goodness. I want sin… I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
Chapter 18:
“I hate civilization.” (John’s reason for his unhappiness)
Mustard and water purification
The Lighthouse/ punishment begins
“progressively increasing violence”
Lenina arrives/ The story ends