Reading Assignment 4: Chapters 10-11

1. It is ironic that the director is going to send Bernard to Iceland because of his actions and his views on sports, soma, and by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex life. This is ironic because the director is the father of John and he left Linda at the savage reservation.

2. He doesn't care about human life but is more concerned about the corruption of society.

4. She sees feelys as normal entertainment but John finds it offensive and vulgar.

Reading Assignment 1: Chapters 1-3

2. His answers could be annoying because he doesn’t give a complete scientific explanation, and when the kids ask a question he yells at them and makes them feel uncomfortable.


3. Bokanovsky Process is the process that allows the controllers to mass produce the human product. It brings social stability because the clone’s sameness has replaced the diversity of individuality. Human beings have become a predictable, manufactured product. Stability can be achieved if people think and look the same.

4. Huxley's presentation of the Director is satirical in this novel because he is making fun of the education system and the morals of today’s society.


8. Motto – “Community, Identity, Stability”
Community- dividing the population into segments, where the Alphas serve as intellectual superiors and Epsilons function as pure menial labor.
Identity - is established in the Conditioning Centre through the selection of the embryos into each of five groups.
Stability - is insured through the limitations placed on the intelligence of each group.

9. To achieve the “Community, Identity, Stability” goals, people lose their individuality, and their ability to make their own choices. Their futures are decided for them while they are still an embryo. Everyone in the Brave New World is essentially parentless. With the destruction of the family, the government has prevented the largest source of human emotion, love.

10. The with the evolution of time the need for religion has disappeared and has been replaced by the worship of another God, the American car manufacturer and assembly line innovator, Henry Ford. The calendar time begins with Ford’s birth – A.F. stands for “After Ford”.


12. Hypnopaedia, (repeated messages played during sleep). Can influence emotions and beliefs in a person, they do not understand the meaning behind what they are saying, and are only repeating what they have heard.

18. Soma use is encouraged by the government to be consumed by the citizens. The main reason for this is that soma puts the person into a deep numbness, void of all feeling.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894, into an intellectual family. He was a British author, most famous for his novel Brave New World.
When Huxley was 16 an eye illness made him nearly blind. He recovered enough to finish college, but was unable to become a scientist like he wanted. He decided to become a writer.
He published his first book in 1916.
Huxley used his scientific knowledge to write Brave New World.
He wrote 47 novels in his career.

Reading Assignment 4: Chapters 8-9

2. Finny denies that there is even an actual war going on, he says that it is made up by "old fat men" who want to protect their jobs. He makes fun of the war because he knows that he will never be able to enlist in the army and become a part of it. (which is secretly very upsetting to him.)

4. Leper is the first from Gene's class to enlist in the army. Leper usally does his own thing and doen't comform, so it is out of character for Leper to want to join the war.

5. The seasons are used sympolically by knowles. During the time that Gene and Finny are carefree, it is summertime. When Finny gets injured and Gene is full of guilt, it is wintertime.