Chapter 17

Chapter 17 was a weird one.Mond shows John his collection of banned religious writings, and reads aloud long passages from the nineteenth-century Catholic theologian, Cardinal Newman, and from the eighteenth-century French philosopher, Maine de Biran, to the effect that religious sentiment is essentially a response to the threat of loss, old age, and death. Mond argues that in a prosperous, youthful society, there are no losses and therefore no need for religion. John asks Mond if it is natural to feel the existence of God. Mond responds that people believe what they have been conditioned to believe.

Chapter 16

Chapter 16 is where they take john and tell him how he is not really fit to live here. John asks why mond doesnt just make everyome aphas and mond tells him that there needs to be people that woild be haply with the lower class work since the last experiment that they did with aphas kn the island did not end well for them and they all just went off on eathother and no one wanted to do the lower class work.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 gives us kind of the downfall of the director. We see the sudden change in his popularity as soon as Bernard gave us the inside on what he never told the people about. The director set standards to live by to everyone he looked over but never did he follow his own ideals. John was someone he looked over and found out about at the very end. John spared interedt to the people by showing how the other side of the world lives compared to them. But when bernard was the only one you could go to so you can see him or talk to him bernard become very popular to them and was treated with respect because of John and I think this was a nice view on what happened to bernard it is way better than going to Iceland.

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 has a lot to give us and many things are revealed but it was a very informative chapter regarding how the director was never really living up to what he preached. John’s character is revealed more fully in his confrontations with World State culture. His struggle to suppress his desire to touch Lenina demonstrates the moral code that he has internalized from Shakespeare and from the “savages” on the Reservation. A World State resident would have gone for instant gratification. John finds himself in the unenviable position of living in the World State without World State conditioning. He is attracted to Lenina, but his views on sex are so radically different from hers that conflict is inevitable. At the end of it Bernard also bring John to help the people see the truth about the director.

Chapter 9

The story really just continues Lenina takes enough soma to incapacitate herself for eighteen hours. Bernard flies to Santa Fé to call Mustapha Mond. He repeats his story to a succession of secretaries before finally reaching the World Controller. Mond agrees that John and Linda are a matter of scientific interest to the World State. He instructs Bernard to visit the Warden of the Reservation to pick up the orders that will release John and Linda into his care. Meanwhile, fearful that Bernard and Lenina have left without him, John breaks into the cabin where Lenina is still on soma-holiday. He rifles through her things before he finds her passed out on the bed. This is the part where he thinks of what he really wants to do to her but then manages to control himself. But the Savage manages to control himself and that shows us that there is a was to reverse what the director and his predecessors have created. This was In my opinion one of the key moments in the story.

What I want to learn

Brave new world is a good book but a problem I have is seeing the big picture of the book. Like what the main point is in the book and thing the author tries to tell us. That is something I struggle with and would like to learn to identify things that authors do to tell us these things.