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  1. Nov 2024
    1. Ch 4 Notes: -Bernard and Lenina have plans to go to New Mexico because Lenina seems to have interest in Bernard and likewise. -Bernard as an insecure man shares the same mindset with his counter part Helmholtz Watson as they both believe to be individuals and having the feeling of being separate. -Bernard's insecurities translate to his work he speaks with an unconfident tone that people can easily make fun of and brush away. - Watson questions reality at times and feels limited to what he can say. he has the power to say anything but can't seem to put into perspective.

    1. Ch2 Page Notes: - Tour has led the students to the Infant Nurseries where the delta caste is being conditioned - The delta caste was once conditioned to like flowers to ensure them to like exploring the countryside. -the condition failed the Centre because of the fact that the delta's did like exploring the world but simultaneously really enjoyed nature and flowers leading to a decline to factories ending this condition. -The new condition was to hate the countryside but love country sports ensuring transportation use but also boosting factories economically. - Director tells the kids a story about a boy named Reuben who learned to understand and speak English through watching tv which led to the discovery of hypnopedia. - Words like viviparous are used to reference the times of human reproduction which is considered unpleasant. -Hypnopedia failed as well as a way of education -The higher up caste looked down upon the lower caste for the low intelligence

    1. Ch 3 Notes: - The students are now in the garden as a part of the tour. -During the tour a boy seems to not enjoy the sexual play that the other children seem to be fine doing. The boy is sent to the psychologist. -Reassuring the students he begins to explain the children about history and the old ways of reproduction in a dramatic manner. -The kids seemed confused on history. - Mustapha Mond (one of the ten world controllers) walks into the room and frightens the director due to his knowledge on history said to own bibles and other knowledgeable pieces of information of history. -Mustapha Mods does inform the students a tiny bit about history but in a bad light. He informs them that pre-modern times were unstable and miserable. - Mustapha Mond also explains the strong emotions of family relationships in a bad light as well. - Continuously he informs the defense of the former government and the beginning of the Nine Year war where all history then vanished using examples such as Christianity, liberalism, Shakespeare, and Democracy. - Mustapha uses chants to engrave the terrible though of history onto the children such as " Ending is better than mending" and "the more stitches the less riches" -Soma is a drug that apparently is "the perfect drug" its said to provide all of the good of the past without any defects ending Mustapha's lecture that the students should be glad they were born in the present.