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Chapter Three

Chapter Three.

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Chapter Three

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  1. Chapter Three Chapter 3 introduces many of the main philosophical issues within the novel. Huxley presents the social necessities for perfect stability within his society. These include the role of consumption, the interplay between sexuality and emotions, the role of history, and the redefinition of religion.

  2. Consumption • Consumption is viewed as beneficial to society. The society believes that more consumption means that the more goods will have to be made. This will increase the number of jobs and keep the society fully employed. Consumption is increased through hypnopaedic phrases which tell people to throw away old clothes and buy new and conditioning in each caste.

  3. Sexuality and Emotions • Because monogamy, sex, and family ties generate most human emotions, Utopian society embraces the opposite: promiscuity and baby factories. The goal is to eradicate emotions by replacing them with pure sexual desire and nothing else. This, combined with the baby factories, destroys family life and monogamous relationships. Emotions are therefore directed mostly by the state, which is necessary for social control and stability. The goal in the Brave New World is to eliminate sexual emotions.

  4. History • History and religion are viewed as dangerous and potentially corrupting. Having a history gives people a sense of time outside of their own time frame. This in turn makes people think about progression through time, which is something the society cannot permit without causing social upheaval. History is worthless and should not be studied.

  5. Religion • The new "religion" in the society is based on consumption. There is not really religion to speak of, but rather a system of ideologies which acknowledges Ford as its leader. Thus the society replaces the Christian "Our Lord" with "Ford" and uses the T instead of the cross. Consumption is viewed as extremely positive due to the introduction of mass production.

  6. References in BNW • Pg.44 “Ford’s in his flivver, all’s well with the world” taken from a Robert Browning poem “God's in his Heaven -All's right with the world!” • Pg. 56 the Controller says “Suffer little children” a reference to scripture from Matthew 19:14.

  7. Vocabulary • Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy: an intricate ball game played with complicated equipment • Erotic Play:a pastime for utopian children – sex discovery- meant to absolve all feelings of guilt associated with sex • “Feely” :a movie involving senses of touch/smell • Hypnopaedia: subconscious teaching during sleep • Pregnancy Substitute: amedical procedure that allows utopian women to experience the psychological benefits of childbirth without actually being pregnant • Malthusian Belt: a device worn to discourage sex in the unsterilized women to avoid pregnancy • Soma:a drug that dulls the passions and understandings of the people, creates false sense of happiness

  8. References to Famous People • Leon Trotsky (Polly Trotsky)-was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist • Thomas Malthus (Malthusian Belt) – a political economist best known for his highly influential views on population growth • Alfred Mond (Mustapha Mond) -was a British industrialist, financier and politician. He later became an active Zionist. • Sigmund Freud (Our Freud instead of our Ford) –revolutionized psychology, invented psychoanalysis • Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin" (Lenina Crowne)-was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the first head of the Soviet Union, and the primary theorist of Leninism, a variant of Marxism • Karl Marx (Bernard Marx)- was a Prussian philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary.

  9. Characters in Chapter 3 • D.H.C.: director of the hatchery; gives the students a tour of the facility • Mustapha Mond: resident controller of Western Europe; one of the ten world controllers; also lectures the students on the past and present state of earth; tells the Savage that the civilized world has decided to take happiness in exchange for freedom, art and religion • Bernard Marx: Alpha plus successful psychologist who has an inferiority complex due to his small height; feels isolated from rest of society; doesn’t believe in the promiscuous nature of his society; exhibits characteristics of man before Ford • Lenina Crowne: Woman who tries to persuade Bernard to take her to the reservation; always seems to unzipping her clothes • Fanny Crowne: works in the bottling room; friend of Lenina who pressures her to be more traditionally promiscuous

  10. Questions to ponder • How are the views about sex ones that we would consider strange or morally wrong in the new world state? • What word is considered profanity in this Brave New World? • According to Mond, what is the primal and ultimate need? • Why is history “bunk”? • How is Bernard Marx different and what might have made him this way?

  11. http://www.novelguide.com/bravenewworld/characterprofiles.htmlhttp://www.novelguide.com/bravenewworld/characterprofiles.html http://en.wikipedia.org www.somaweb.org http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/bravenewworld/section2.html http://www.brandnewworld.org.uk/video/BNWTrailer.wmv “The individual uses sex as he would a telephone, a spoon, a car-because it is needed at the particular moment. The individual must not “fall in love”, marry and raise children because this would demand allegiance to others, and the individual’s allegiance is to the state only.” –somaweb.org works cited, video clip, and final quote

  12. Chapter Four • Each caste has its own work , uniform and recreation • In the World State one should always be with others, always busy, never alone. • The World State does not want extraordinary individuals; it wants "cogs in a wheel.“ • Any deviation from the above and individuals are labeled as unusual or abnormal.

  13. Simian –reference to Old World monkeys and apes, used in refernce to a semi-moron. Ruminating – to ponder over, to muse on Vivaciously – full of spirit, lively Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator) and Herbert Hoover (American president)-Benito Hoover Vocabulary and References

  14. Questions to Ponder • Why was Bernard uncomfortable in the elevator? • What do Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx have in common and how are they different? • Why did Bernard check the door of his apartment at the end of Chapter 4?

  15. Chapter summary hand out, works cited and final quote • "The mockery made him feel like an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. This in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity." Pg. 65 • http://www.bookrags.com/notes/bnw/PART4.htm

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