DATE:
BLOCK:
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
1 (AP Lit & Comp)
WORK COLLECTED/CHECKED/DUE:
1. Read up through Chapter Fifteen in Brave New World
CLASSWORK:
1. What’s coming up:
 Finish Brave New World for tomorrow!
 SLO essay due tomorrow for those who have to take the final
 Brave New World test is tomorrow
2. Brave New World Chapters Seven & Eight worksheet (#115)
 “The spectacle of two young women giving breast to their babies made her blush
and turn away her face. She had never seen anything so indecent in her life”
(Huxley 111). What is ironic about Lenina’s thinking this? (Hint: think about
what she wants Bernard to do)
 Moments earlier, Lenina was wondering why Bernard hadn’t grabbed her
breast while they were flying through the air!!
 Read pages 119 through 122 [towards the end of Chapter Seven] again and focus
on what Linda says. Although she has been on the Savage Reservation for 18
years, what is interesting about her words and her behavior? [read passages again]
 She is still conditioned, and she still thinks like a Beta. She’s all about
cleanliness, even though she’s filthy (ended class yesterday with this)
 She’s trying to convince them that she belongs to their society still. “Name
dropping” or “term dropping” (“ ‘everyone belongs to everyone else, right?’”)
 She didn’t conform to the Savage Reservation. You’d think you’d be
conditioned to live THEIR way. Her original conditioning was so unnatural
and so harsh.
 Why doesn’t Linda simply return to London after she gives birth to John?
 The Director just left her there!
 She’s so ashamed of having had a child
 John is her only connection back to the World State
 Why not just leave him? Mother’s instinct (conditioning itself)
 Maybe Iceland would’ve been more shameful
 So attached to John (Huxley 122)

For each of the quotations below, why are these words from these plays
appropriate for John’s feelings?
 “Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/Stew’d in corruption,
honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty…” -- Hamlet III.v
 John is disgusted that all of the relationships are just physical, not
emotional, which ties into Hamlet’s view of Gertrude and Claudius’
relationship
 John doesn’t feel he has a purpose on the Reservation, just as Hamlet
didn’t feel part of the royal family. They are both outcasts.

“When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage/Or in the incestuous pleasure of his
bed…” – Hamlet III.iii
 Just as Hamlet wanted to kill Claudius for revenge, John wants to kill
Popé for the way he treats Linda (which is how all of the men treat Linda)
 John believes it’s incestuous to be on the soma
 As Hamlet does, John goes mad throughout the novel because he’s so
upset with the lives people live on the Reservation.
 They both are doing things for their mothers, even though their mothers
haven’t been the best people to them.
 Despite all of this, Hamlet and John both love their mother
 Linda, in fact, has a strong maternal instinct, even though she’s been
conditioned NOT to have it (bond between a mother & child)

“To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow…” -- Macbeth V.v
 In the World State, no one LIVES for anything
 John looks at the new world as a new start, and Macbeth is saying that
he’ll see what happens tomorrow
 John, like Macbeth, is alone, and things are crazy. John keeps thinking
about people wanting to be free and wanting to do their own thing.
 Macbeth always thought there would be a tomorrow because he thought
he was invincible. John is hopeful, too, but tomorrow keeps getting worse
and worse
 John feels that life in London is very robotic and that things just keep
going. Macbeth feels that he has to live with the guilt.
3. Brave New World Chapters Nine through Fourteen worksheet (#116)
 Students should work on answers individually for about 30 minutes before
discussing it with group members. Should you finish before your group members,
start reading for tomorrow! When everyone in the group is finished, start talking!
 Brave New World Helmholtz’s rhyme (#117)
1. “ ‘The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that
one should suffer than that many should be corrupted’” (Huxley 148).
2. a) “She flung the obscenity like a challenge into the outraged silence;…” (Huxley
151).
b) “…(for ‘father’ was not so much obscene as…merely gross, a scatological
rather than a pornographic impropriety)…” (Huxley 151).
3. “Othello, he remembered, was like the hero of Three Weeks in a Helicopter – a
black man” (Huxley 171).
4. Helmholtz is told that his rhyme (Huxley 181) is inappropriate to the society of
Brave New World. Identify at least two statements (not lines) from the rhyme and
explain their inappropriateness in the society of Brave New World .
5.
“…what a superb piece of emotional engineering! ‘That old fellow…makes our
best propaganda technicians look absolutely silly’” (Huxley 184).
6. “ ‘We need some other kind of madness and violence. But what? What? Where
can one find it?’” (Huxley 185).
HANDOUTS/NOTEBOOK UPDATE:
1. Method to the Madness of Metaphors (#47)
2. Tone (#56)
3. Brave New World Study Guide (#107)
4. Brave New World Free Write: What is the ideal? (#108)
5. Question of the Day sheet for the week of May 25, 2015 (#109)
6. Daily Edits Set #15 (#110)
7. Brave New World Allusions (#111)
8. Brave New World Chapter One Close Reading (#112)
9. Brave New World Propaganda and Pavlov’s classical conditioning handout (#113)
10. Notebook clear out list (#114)
11. Brave New World Chapters Seven & Eight worksheet (#115)
12. Brave New World Chapters Nine through Fourteen worksheet (#116)
13. Brave New World Helmholtz’s rhyme (#117)
ASSIGNMENTS/REMINDERS:
1. Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Complete Brave New World!
2. Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Brave New World assessment for all. If we have time,
Final Exam Quizzo afterward.
3. Wednesday, June 3, 2015: SLO essay due (printed out) for those who have to take the
final exam
4. Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Senior Final Exams for blocks 1 & 2 (regular school day)
5. Thursday, June 4, 2015: objective portion of final exam and something for those
exempt
6. Thursday, June 4, 2015: Senior Final Exams for blocks 3 & 4 (regular school day)
7. Friday, June 5, 2015: Who are you?
8. Monday, June 8, 2015: Graduation at Villanova at 7:30 PM!