Brave New World Notes ( Ch. 1-3)

Chapter 1:

- Setting takes place in a building labeled: CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE.
- pg 3: Metaphor: "Some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh."
- pg 3: Simile: "Lying along the polished tubes like butter."
- pg 3: Personification: "The light was frozen, dead, a ghost."
- pg 4: Colloquialism: "Straight from the horse's mouth."
- Year: A.F. 632
- Usage of italics to emphasize the importance of the text whenever a student writes it down.
- They describe Bokanovsky's Process (bokanovskification)
- "Community, Identity, Stability."
- pg 8: Mr. Foster is introduced. The Director uses him to teach about the embryo and stages for producing identical twins.
- pg 9: Onomatopoeia: Whizz, click!
-"Embryos are like photograph film. They can only stand red light." -Simile
-They cut short oxygen to an embryo who are in lower classes.
- pg 16: Lenina is introduced. She knows Mr. Foster (Henry) very well.
- Predetermining behavior using temperature conditioning (rotation)

Chapter 2:

- In a different section of the building now. INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS.
- Nurses put out bowls roses and books on the floor.
- pg 19: metaphors/similies: Describing the roses to that of cherubs, etc.
- Delta-caste babies put down in front of roses and books. They begin to play with the items but then after a minute, a blaring noise sounded and the floor becomes electrified, traumatizing the babies.
- This trains them to hate nature as well as despise books. Productivity in factories are in favor.
- The Director and the students talk about parenting as well as family qualities. They are all negative aspects towards the subject.
- Hypnopaedia: sleep teaching method. First used in A.F 214. Teaches children to learn through repetitive talk,  only knowing what was spoken softly in their ears repeatedly.
- There is a high respect for Alphas and shun the lower castes.
- Henry Ford is a very important idol. Allusions towards the car company Ford. T-Model was said.
- Teachings from Elementary Sex to Elementary Class Consciousness. Keep note of that.

Chapter 3:

-Young and happy children playing in a garden naked. Game is called Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy.
-Director very much likes to repeat the word "charming". Interesting.
-The children engage in an erotic form of play, which is of the norm.
-Introduction to Controller  Mustapha Mond, head honcho.
-Controller commenting that "history is bunk". Their Fordship.
-Talk about families and the fact that they can't even imagine what it would be like to have a family.
-Three conversations go on near the end of the chapter, skipping around in a montage of dialect.
-Conversations: Lenina/Fanny, Bernard/his thoughts, Controller and students.
-Bernard in his own little conflict with himself and Lenina. Their feelings are jumbled.
-The structure has changed from lengthy paragraphs to short and choppy sentences throughout dialect.
-"Suffer little children." Allusion towards Jesus(?). Has different meanings.