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By: Tricia Ekas

By: Tricia Ekas. Summary Closing time Lenina and Henry have dinner and soma at Henry’s apartment. After dinner, Lenina and Henry go to the Westminster Abbey Carbaret and dance amongst others. At the end of this chapter, Lenina and Henry take another dose of soma. . Summary

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By: Tricia Ekas

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  1. By: Tricia Ekas

  2. Summary • Closing time • Lenina and Henry have dinner and soma at Henry’s apartment. • After dinner, Lenina and Henry go to the Westminster Abbey Carbaretand dance amongst others. • At the end of this chapter, Lenina and Henry take another dose of soma.

  3. Summary • Bernard goes to FordsonCommunity Singery for a “meeting”. • The President begins the service by making two T signs signaling the service has begun. • A cup is passed around containing strawberry ice cream and soma and everybody drinks some. • During the ceremony, they hear a voice overhead saying “Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford…” • After the meeting, Bernard feels “separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being” (pg. 86).

  4. Part One • Closing time • Lenina and Henry take soma • Lenina and Henry go to the Westminster Abbey Cabaret to hear the Sixteen Sexophonists and dance • Part Two • Great Being is when 12 souls become 1 • During the ritual, everyone claims that they hear the footsteps of the Greater Being • Bernard does not feel “ in sync” with the others and pretends

  5. Zenith (pg.75): highest point or state • Switchback (pg.75): a human being finally and definitely disappearing • Diminuendo (pg.76): gradual decrease in loudness • Exultant (pg. 82): jubilant; triumphant • Consummation (pg.85): completion • Satiety (pg. 85): satisfied to the point of bordeum

  6. Malthusian drill (pg. 77): another device meant for the unsterilized women to avoid pregnancy • Five Step (pg. 76-77): a popular Utopian dance • Hypnopaedia(pg. 77): sleep-teaching to inculcate prejudices into the subconscious of the sleeper • Internal and External Secretion Trust (pg. 72): this utopian organization is in charge of hormones and extracts to keep the people young and happy

  7. Soma (pg. 75,77): a drug that creates a sense of false happiness, to escape reality, preserves social stability • Solidarity Service (pg. 78): a pseudo-religious gathering to promote fraternity among the upper castes • Ford (pg. 79): the Utopian idol, the nearest equivalent to God • Orgy-Porgy (pg. 84-85): a ritual where indiscriminate, en masse sexual relations ensure solidarity in the participants

  8. MorganaRothschild • FifiBradlaugh • Joanna Diesel • Clara Deterding • Tom Kawaguchi • Sarojini Engels • Jim Bokanovsky • Herbert Bakunin

  9. Part One resembles real life. • Great Being is far fetched.

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