Deciphering Meaning: Understanding the Method behind Structure
Murky Waters & Brave New World’s Chpt. 3
Today we are going to tackle Chapter 3. Huxley has woven together three different
conversations: Mond’s discussion with the students taking the tour of the hatchery, Lenina’s
conversation with the girls in the women’s locker-room, and Henry’s conversation with the boy’s
in the boys’ locker-room). The problem is that these three conversations happen simultaneously;
moving from one conversation to another without any hints other than the context clues of the
discussion.
So, your mission:
Task #1: In groups, pick one of the three conversations, and type conversation from start to
finish on a word document. In other words, your group needs to present your conversation as one
whole story instead of three mixed together.
Task #2: What is Huxley’s purpose with this conversation? What is he trying to show you about
this segment of the Brave New World society?
Task #3: Why do you believe Huxley delivers these three conversations in such a jumbled
manner? How does this add to the meaning as a whole of Brave New World.
Evidence For
Statement
Evidence Against
The motto for this society, “Community.
Identity. Stability.” is worthy.
Evidence For
Statement
The motto for this society, “Community.
Identity. Stability.” is worthy.
Evidence Against
Evidence For
Statement
Evidence Against
The characters in this futuristic world are
satisfied with their lives and the roles they play.
Evidence For
Statement
The characters in this futuristic world are
satisfied with their lives and the roles they play.
Evidence Against
Evidence For
Statement
Evidence Against
London is more civilized than the Savage
Reservation.
Evidence For
Statement
London is more civilized than the Savage
Reservation.
Evidence Against
BVN Class Conditioning:
Remember this Hypnopaedia being repeated over and over again to the Betas?
“Alpha children wear grey. They work 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. 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.”
You are to write your own class conditioning for Blue Valley North. But our conditioning is different than
that in Brave New World. We want unity instead of divisiveness. You must become the director of
Administrator of Hypnopaedia. In order to attain unity, how do you want your seniors to help the
juniors, sophomores, and freshmen? When you write your hypnopeadic phrase, which should model
the manner of the example above, include why it is so great to be a senior, and include what would the
administration like for you to do in order to help out your peers. Make sure to include each levels’color.
Remember – you are shaping the behavior of seniors – what would the administration like to see them
do. (This should only be about the size of the paragraph above.)
Seniors – Black
Juniors – Green
Sophomores – Red
Freshmen - Blue
BVN’s Dept. of Propoganda
Brave New World is a social commentary and the Hypnopaedic phrases are used to ease
emotional pain, to create social stability.
Everyone belongs to everyone else.
When the individual feels, the community reels.
Ending is better than mending.
I’m so glad I’m a Beta. Alphas work much harder than we do, because they’re
frightfully clever.
As a member of the Dept. of Propaganda at BVN, you must create three hypnopaedic
phrases which pertain to these segments of school life here at BVN:
Class consiousness – Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Personal Conduct – In the halls? In the classroom? Anywhere in the school.
Attachment to BVN - We work well as a whole – Individually we fail.
BVN’s Dept. of Propoganda
Brave New World is a social commentary and the Hypnopaedic phrases are used to ease
emotional pain, to create social stability.
Everyone belongs to everyone else.
When the individual feels, the community reels.
Ending is better than mending.
I’m so glad I’m a Beta. Alphas work much harder than we do, because they’re
frightfully clever.
As a member of the Dept. of Propaganda at BVN, you must create three hypnopaedic
phrases which pertain to these segments of school life here at BVN:
Class consiousness – Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Personal Conduct – In the halls? In the classroom? Anywhere in the school.
Attachment to BVN - We work well as a whole – Individually we fail.
Identity, Stability, Community Poem
Brave New World
Weir ‘13
The Experiment
So, you don’t much like civilization, Mr. Savage. (218)
The optimum population (223)
modeled on (223)
good conditioning. (222)
It’s obvious theoretically. (223)
Everyone belongs to everyone else. (
But how can they live like that? (109)
In a crowd, (89)
alone, always alone? (137)
Such are the advantages of really scientific education. (199)
What do you want with me? (257)
The Experiment. (242)
But isn’t it natural to feel? (234)
When the individual feels, the community reels. (94)
I’d rather be myself…not someone else. (89)
I like your spirit. (229)
I want to know what it is like to be crucified. (137)
Yes, I think that will do. (229)
Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet (259)
like two unhurried compass needles (259)
Good Ole Savage. (255)
Don’t give a damn, take a gramme (
It’s Christianity without tears. (239)
Nothing costs enough here. (239)
Using the quotes from BNW, you are to create a found poem (using only words found in
the book) to create a poem which explores one of the following themes:
Identity, Stability, or Community.
Here are the rules:
Pick one of the themes from BNW, then look through your packet to find quotes that
would fit with your theme. Your poem should explore how the theme is portrayed in the
book.
Every sentence, clause, phrase you use must come directly from the text of Brave New
World – You never have to write an original word. The only things you may alter are the
tense of verbs and end punctuation. If you find a long sentence, but only want to use a
small portion, use the ellipse (see poem above).
If clauses and phrases are not found in the same sentence, they need to be on different
lines in your poem. If many different phrases are being used to form a sentence, stair step
them in your poem without spaces between.
You need to have a way of differentiating dialogue from narrative. Look at the poem
above. This is a conversation between two people. There is a line between dialogues
when the speaker has changed. Narrative is in italics. These are not the rules, but a way I
used to differentiate.
Here is how you will be graded:
Fully developing how a theme (identity, stability, community) worked
within the plot of the story.
Rules of found poem followed
Two elements of Hypnopaedia present and used well – not just to fill
Correct Page numbers presesent
Extra Credit Opportunity: Presence of Irony in poem
Total Points:
20 pts
5 pts
10 pts
5 pts
10pts
40 pts
This poem is due Monday, Mar. 11th. If you are absent, please email me the poem, or it
is late.
Brave New World
Sight Hypnopaedia
Weir ‘12
Look at the advertising world around you. You are bombarded with 3000 visual images a
day. 500 of those images are specific advertisements. We are living in a Brave New
World, but instead of teaching emotional appeal through sleep, our world does so through
sight.
For this project, you will create a collage (8x10 at least) of colorful print advertisement
from magazines. Your collage will focus one of the 15 emotional appeals advertisers
utilize. Here is what you need to include in your collage:
1) A title – the name of your appeal
2) Seven ad images that utilize your chosen emotional appeal.
3) Caption under each ad which states which magazine the ad was found and the date of
publication.
4) Since we are working with advertising, it must be aesthetically pleasing.
Here is how you will be graded:
Seven advertising images that emulate your emotional appeal
Captions
Overall Aesthetic Appeal
Total
15pts
5pts
5pts
25pts
Read the article Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals by Jib Fowles ( online at
http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/education/essay2/jfowles.html. Look at the aim of
your emotional appeal. All your examples should illustrate that basic concept.
Project is due: Block Feb. 8th or 9th.
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