Week 10 V5A Brave New World / Vocab

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Today's goals

1) At the end of this class, you will be able to distinguish the characters in Brave New World 

2) At the end of this class, you will understand CH4-6. 

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

How is the conflict between polygamy and monogamy reflected in Brave New World?

p. 34-35

"Think of water under pressure in a pipe. They thought of it. I pierce it once, said the Controller. What a jet. He pierced it twenty times. There were twenty piddling little fountains. My baby, my baby....! Mother! The madness is infectious. My love, my one and only, precious, precious....Mother, monogamy, romance."

Why do you think the writer uses this passage at the same time as the conversation between Fanny and Lenina?

How does Bernard want to spend his dates with Lenina?

What does the Director threaten Bernard with?

1. He threatens to demote Bernard to Epsilon.
2. He threatens to "take away" Bernard's family and friends.
3. He threatens to make Bernard go through a retraining program.
4. He threatens to send Bernard to Iceland.

How could polygamy as the norm be related to the government's message: community - identity - stability?

community - identity - stability 

Today's goals

1) At the end of this class, you will have made the Finish Up & Stepping Stones SO PTO 3. 

2) At the end of this class, you will have continued studying/practicing for PTO3

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

Practice/study/read 

• Continue with Brave New World (CH 7-8 Monday)
• Continue with the Merchant of Venice (Act 4 scene 2 for Tuesday)
• Study for PTO3: Finish Up 88-100 (EN-NL)
  

vocabulary from Stepping Stones CH 3 (NL-EN) 

• Make reading exam questions: zie Teams > bestanden > pto3 > leesteksten oefenen 

Themes 

"The theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such, but the advancement of science as it affects human individuals."

themes

• childhood indoctrination
• narcotics & pleasure as powerful tools to keep humans happy (motifs)
• science that puts humans in specific social roles (castes) 
• human emotion is non-existent, humans are conditioned to behave in a certain machine like way.  
• consumerism to create a stable world 

Chapter 2: where are we?

The students and director move to the Neo-Pavlovian conditioning rooms and later the dormitory where the state's principles are being taught to children in the form of conditioning and later hypnopeadia. 

What is the purpose of the colourful books and rose petals in the conditioning room?

Do you think words enhance prejudice in Brave New World? If so, how?

Chapter 2

Rose petals & colourful books are connected to 

electric shocks and heavy sound which develop a hatred in children for nature and books. This is all done in order to maximize consumerism. 

Sleep therapy -> listen to lines that underline the principles of the  Fordian State to enhance stability and social control. 

Chapter 3 

characters 

• Mustapha Mond - "history is bunk" / erotic play vs. surpressed sexual feelings 
• Henry Foster - pneumatic
• Lenina Crowne & Fanny Crowne - monogamy vs. polygamy
• Bernard Marx - savage reservation 

Mustapha Mond

• "erotic play": the director and students are in the garden where the children are having erotic play. He explains that erotic play among children was once forbidden and that it caused horrible results. In response to this Mustapha Mond uses the quote "history is bunk."
• "history is bunk" : This is used by Mustapha Mond, the resident world controller of Western Europe, one of the 10 controllers. He has some forbidden books on Shakespeare and religious writings. He ensures that everyone behaves correctly and provides the students with a history lesson. 

Henry Foster

• "pneumatic": this word is used by Henry Foster, the perfect alpha male and Lenina's lover. He talks about her as if she is a piece of meat. He refers to her as wonderfully pneumatic (= well rounded, nice body) and encourages the assistant predestinator to have something with Lenina. He tells the assistant predestinator: "I'm surprised you haven't had her." 

Fanny Crowne & Lenina Crowne

monogamy vs. polygamy : Fanny Crowne reminds her friend Lenina of the conventional values of the state, of which one is polygamy: women should have more men in their life than one. She warns Lenina that she might get in danger if she does not have more than one partner. Lenina is very inconvential and likes the idea of only having one partner. She reveals to Fanny that she likes Bernard Marx. 

Bernard Marx

Bernard Marx is unconvential as he does not like the way that alpha male Henry Foster talks about Lenina. He thinks it is very rude. Bernard is an alpha plus male and has proposed to Lenina to bring her on a trip to a savage reservation. He does not have a good reputation, he is rather small and not good looking. 

Do you think people in Brave New World are really satisfied?

Practice/study/read 

• Continue reading Brave New World
• Make notes on Brave New World
• Continue making notes on the Merchant of Venice
• Study for the SO: Finish Up 88-95 (EN-NL)
  

Words A + B from Stepping Stones CH 3 (NL-EN) 

What do you take away from this lesson? Mention 1 thing.