Aseptically- never heard that word
Long sentence of paragraph of imagery starting with half dozen nurses and ending with marble.
Metaphor of paleness to the posthumous whiteness of marble
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. Not sure what literary technique it is, but it's something.
Deltas always loved nature and transport, but didn't get enough done in the factory. The shocks that made the babies fear flowers trained them to hate nature but still have the idea of transport even if they hated the country.
Viviparous- never heard that before.
The students don't know what parents are, which means they too were made by this interbreeding process. The boys find parents unpleasant, this is the director brainwashing bad things into the students mind so they will continue his inhumane lifestyle.
Anecdote of Tommy which shows that kids are taught to repeat things and merely memorize them, but not understand them.
80 children are exposed to this sleep-teaching, but not about regular education about moral education. The director is brain washing the children to learn about the different breeds of humans and the jobs of the different breeds.
Metaphor I think. Starting with Not so and ending with scarlet blob. On page 28 metaphor between the children and the liquid substance.
Restatement in the next paragraph. The director is emphasizing his power over the minds of these children who can't even talk.
Chapter 3
Apertures-?
Continued theme of breaking tradition or creating a new norm. In the old days kids could find anything and make games out of it, now children can only play games that are extremely difficult and help to build the mind.
Mustapha Mond - controller from Western Europe. Treated like a king.
He brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees...what does this paragraph mean?
Mond's advice is that History is bunk. Which he repeats twice. I believe he says this because the kids were never taught true history so that they would not all turn on the state, but now they are being taught history because they are brain washed enough to not want to leave this tradition.
Controller has to be careful, but truly he wants the kids to know what a family feels like and experience a feeling of love, but the kids find nothing of it. They find it horrible to ever have parents.
I believe the controller is talking about family and how it provokes suicide and so forth.
In the mix of this we are hearing the story of Lenina and Fanny. Are they friends? They seem to have more power than the students given that Lenina can date Henry who is the psychologist. Are the girls workers?
Fanny is going through pregnancy substitute, which I have no idea what that means yet, but maybe we will find out?
These girls are workers. The policy is that they can have "relationships" only if they have multiple people and as long as they are not intense or long-drawn. Lenina and Henry's relationship would be against the directors rules.
Now goes back to the controller. Not sure who is saying the paragraph that starts with mother and ends with stable. Not sure what it means exactly either.
Director described as the strictest conventionality.
The controllers statement about stability is a restatement and may include other literary techniques as well.
Common theme of everyone belongs to everyone else...even the workers follow this, referred to as a game
Anaphora on page 43 in the paragraph that starts with impulse.
Marx and Lenina both like each other or respect each other, but other people talking them out of it.
Great lines by controller...speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole. Page 46
Liberalism, of course, was dead of anthrax, but all the same you couldn't do things by force. Page 49 explains the world before all this happened
Controller is saying how hypnopaedia is bad, which is what they use.
Repetition is very important in this book because it shows how the morals are instilled into the children's head through the constant reminder.
Anaphora and other techniques in paragraph starting with now on page 55
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