1. BRAVE NEW WORLD Mr. Craig’s British Literature and Composition Class Rockdale Career Academy Fall 2015 companion for study, research, and reflection

2. What This Is And How to Use It ■The contents of the following slides were made during (and in a few cases before) sessions of my Twelfth-Grade British Literature and Composition classes at Rockdale Career Academy, Fall Semester 2015. Some notes were recorded by the teacher on a laptop during class, while others are snapshots of the whiteboard taken from in- class annotation/discussion sessions. We did not cover each chapter of the Brave New World in class, so this PPT skips those parts of the book. Some general discussion questions are also scattered about. ■Use the slides to find specific page numbers, to approximate the location of events, and/or to refresh your memory on the events of the novel and class discussions.

3. Chapter 1 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, A.F. 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly, Controlled, “Porcelain” ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability" ■Caste System –Alphas, Betas –Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons ■“Bizzarro”

4. Chapter 1 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –Passionate about his job, the experiments, and The World State –Very knowledgeable about his job ■Henry Foster –Seems young, like a prodigy –Proud of the mass production of human beings Was dating Lenina ■Lenina Crowne –She’s bought fully into the philosophy of The World State

5. Chapter 2 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly –Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms ■https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrBsoU3PVIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrBsoU3PVI ■"World State" –Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability” –What’s missing? “Freedom,” “Individuality” ■Questions: Identity vs. Individuality

6. Chapter 2 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) –Servant of the State – “A Company Man” ■p. 22-23 – Conditioning – country sports thingTommy –” I don’t know!” – pp. 24-25 –Product of Sleep Conditioning (Hypnopædia) –Hypnopædia is good for visceral, rote conditioning, but cannot “be made an instrument of intellectual education” (25).

7. Chapter 3 – Setting and Mood ■Outside the Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –“Erotic Play” among children – another “Bizzarro” moment ■Three(?) Conversations Going at Once: –Lenina and Fanny – Idle conversation? about who’s dating whom –Mustapha Mond and the Students/DHC – Philosophy of World State– Explains the “After Ford” (A.F.) thing –Henry Foster is talking about “having” Lenina – Bernard overhears and starts getting upset

8. After Ford ■What does the “A.F” time delineation tell us about this world? ■How do we think Huxley felt about mass production?

9. Chapter 3 – Characters ■Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC, The Director) ■Mustafa Mond (“The Controller”) –1 of 10 “World Controllers” ■Bernard Marx –Feels jealousy in spite of conditioning by World State –Sappy? Caring? Bitter? Soft? Depressed? Depends on how you look at it. –Shorter than the others – already feels somewhat different

10. Chapter 4 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Does everyone live in this compound? ■Bernard wants to speak in private, but Lenina doesn’t understand why (58). –Question of Western, specifically U.S. American culture vs. many others– ideas of personal space, privacy, etc. ■Bernard flies to Hemholtz Watson’s place.

11. Chapter 4 – Characters ■Bernard Marx –Existential Crisis –Feels like an outsider ■Benito Hoover –Good-natured former lover of Lenina, overweight –“Could get through life without Soma” – p. 60 ■Lenina Crowne –All about the World State –Brainwashed, Well-Conditioned ■Hemholtz Watson –Really well-engineered – a perfect specimen –Tells Bernard that Mustafa Mond is transferring him to Iceland

12. What’s the nature of Bernard and Hemholtz’s conversation?

13. Chapter 5 – Setting and Mood ■Central London Hatchery, AF 632 –Sterile, Clinical, Orderly Compound ■Solidarity Service – What does it replace? ■“Orgy Porgy” (84-85) ■Soma

14. Chapter 5 – Characters ■Bernard Marx: –Still shallow—regrets being close to Morgana during orgy –“much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before” (86)

15. Chapter 6 – Setting and Mood Something happens between Lenina and Bernard. –Opens with Lenina thinking of Bernard as “Odd, odd, odd” (87). Why? ■Trip to the “Savage” Reservation

16. Chapter 6 – Characters ■Bernard: How does he feel about thinking differently from the others? –Unhappy, depressed, scared, “enslaved” (91) ■Lenina –Surprised at question of happiness ■The Director: What is his secret? –He has an illegitimate child with some “savage” lady.

17. Brave New World Film (1998) ■https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-eYYBdr1G0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-eYYBdr1G0

18. Chapter 7 – Class Notes

19. Chapter 7 – More Class Notes

20. Chapter 8 ■“Savage” Reservation ■John’s story ■Where’s the title of the book from? ■Connection between John and Bernard

21. Chapter 9 ■John is falling in love with Lenina… see any potential problems here?

22. Chapter 10 ■Back at Central London Hatchery ■The Director’s humiliation

23. Chapter 11 – Class Notes

24. Chapter 17 – Class Notes

25. Chapter 17 – More Class Notes

26. Chapter 18 – Class Notes