Brave New World

Why won't John have Lenina?
John is in love with Lenina. Lenina is in love with John. Lenina keeps giving him all the signs abut John keeps pushing her away. Why? "Dide he dare? Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that ... No, he didn't... How beautiful she was! How beautiful!" (pg 153). John will not Lenina how he feels because he feels he is unworthy to blessed with an intimate relationship with a woman so beautiful. He pushes her away because he thinks it will be too dangerous for him to express his emotions towards her.

Why doesn't Mustapha Mond want the higher castes to believe in a "goal somewhere beyond"?
If the higher castes believe that the goal of the society is "somewhere beyond" then they will "lose faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good." (pg183). The World Controllers can control happiness and mkae everyone "feel" happy. But if the people start thinking byond happiness the World Controllers cannot control that and so the society starts to crumble. Which is why the director wanted to send Bernard to Iceland because he was an "outsider" and his unorthodoxy, unhappiness, could've started rubbing off on others causing a ripple effect, hence collapsing the society. "That the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness... Whuch was, the Controller reflected, quite possible true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible" (pg 183).

Why do the people want to see John, The Savage, so much?
"It was John, then, that they were all after" (pg 162). All the people wanted to see John so much because he was an actual sexually reproduced organism of two people from their society. It amazes them to see this "Savage" because he shouldn't be alive since Linda took the precautions as for this exact thing to not happen. Since he had been living with the "savages" all his life this was the closet these people were going to one, unless they went out to the reservation. Jown was a wonder to the people and that is why they wanted to see him so much.

Final 1984

Yes Big Brother has won. Thanks to the Ministry of Love and Mr. O'Brien, Winston has fully accepted Big Brother, the State, and their policies. Like Winston said "the proles." The State has suck lack of faith in the proles and them not revolting that if the proles did rebel the Sate wouldn't know what to do. I think Winston either finally gets shot or they just let him live alone til he dies.

First Brave World Reading Entry

This place is a utopia. Everyone is happy,not by fear, but because there is no reason for them not to be happy. As an embryo they are fixed and taught to be happy. The only person who is not happy is Bernard Marx, who everyone thinks had some "alcohol put in his blood-surrogate." Bernard doesn't feel a part of this society, he feels like an outsider. Mainly because he's an Alpha with an Epsilon or Gamma body. This society has created conformity. Everyone is separated into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Gammas and Epsilons being the lowest of the caste and Alphas being at the top. Everyone is in acceptance of their caste because of "decanting" they are engineered exactly for that caste. There is no religion, "everyone belongs to everyone else" and "everyone works for everyone else."