And the madness that is this dystopian world continues....
"They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an 'instinc- tive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives." The Director turned to his nurses. "Take them away again."--- I get a little bit of a Fahrenheit 451 vibe by this quote. Books do cause you to think and someday someone will read something they are not supposed to and revolt.
Hypnopedia, was first used officially in A.F. 214. Why not before? Hypnopedia is teaching something through sleep.
Example of hypnopedia--"Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, be- cause they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta chil- dren. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able ..."
"The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time.".... is hypnopedia, according to Henry Frost.
Chapter 3:
Introduces the scene with kids frolicking in a meadow- laughing in perfect harmony. If the story continues with the same psychotic sadistic ambience, the kids will soon be contorting in pain because some lesson is being taught to them. A lesson is being taught that emphasizes captivity and enclosure as the new norm.
-". imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness"
"In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the fo- cussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudi- mentary sexual game." --- yup should have known there was something more to this frolicking in the meadow than meets the eye. Each game is cold and calculating meant to educate and any games that do no attain a certain leveling of learning are forbidden. The factory is trying to follow the paradigm of the model-t contraption in which everything is made and done with a purpose and multiplied with interchangeable parts. No room is left for error and if such an anomaly were to occur, it would quickly be reprimanded.
- Mustapha Mond is introduced as a great man and all should be honored to have the opportunity for him to speak to the students.
- narrator refers to Mond the the director of the factory as horses "from the horses mouth"--- what could that imply?
- "everyone belongs to everyone else". Hence promiscuity and polygamy are encouraged. Monogamy is seen as horrible and unstable.
-"sixty-two thousand four hundred religions make one truth." Bernard said bc he is a specialist.
-maddening world to live in. Hey balsam monogamy in Christianity. Sure that might have been where it originated but even atheists are monogamists. Don't blame the religion for how people live, blame the people themselves for their life choices and their interpretations of their sect books.
- I like how the chapter has simultaneous conversations. You have the loud speaker on and ford talking. You have Lenina talking to her friend about Bernard, an alpha, and you also had Bernard ranting about how this society is wrong.
-"The Nine Years' War began in A.F. 141."
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