Journal 1 Brave New World Topic C

In Brave New World, the author sets the story as everyone is made artificially. Everyone is a perfect replica of everyone else. There are certain rankings and specific jobs and places that each person is given but everyone in general can not function without each other. Special medicine is given to keep everyone happy and free of any other human emotions. People are conditioned to certain extents and are taught values which makes the perfect society. Some hope that the author gives? There is the The Savage who has a completely different mind set then those of the Dystopian society. He has different morals and different perspectives on his own ideas. Such as love, when him and Lenina are together love is defined as two different meanings between the two. Or the fact that God is some old thing locked up and put away and a new religion is formed to stay with the present. All these new ideas from being out in the open on a reservation to being brought back to the perfect society and having to become accustomed to the different way of life style is a big leap and challenge for the Savage.

Journal 2 Brave New World Topic B

    Bernard feels like his trapped in the society. Being to perfect, Bernard wants to break out of the boundaries and be a normal person and a complete robot and a made human organism. What Bernard does to break away from the pack is, he stops taking the medications which allow a person to be constantly happy and worry free. With this medication it makes the person a complete android having no other emotions which leads to being perfect. By not taking the meds it allows him to be normal which is a plus but during the ceremonial events he doesn’t experience any of the “happenings” like the rest of the Alphas. Also by not taking the meds, Bernard tends to lash out more and act out on his emotions instead of being able to control and handle them on his own. In the end since Bernard doesn’t take his meds he eventually is told and threaten that he would be shipped off to Iceland because he is a not a perfect replica in the dystopian society.

Journal 1 Brave New World

Topic A

    “The swiftest crawlers were already at their goal. Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books. The Director waited until all were happily busy. Then, “Watch carefully.” he said. And, lifting his hand, he gave the signal.
    The Head Nurse who was standing by a switchboard at the other end of the room, pressed down a little lever.
    There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded.
    The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.
    [...] The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased...” (21)

From this passage it shows how at an early age, babies are conditioned to like or dislike certain things resulting in no originality. With the lack of individuality, children are more likely to be one in the same causing no hassle of trying to be different and unique. Without the uniqueness of individuality, the perfect society is formed. Being the same everyone has no reason to be raised or demoted in the standards of society. It allows the society to put you in a specific class, place and leave you there without you being able to do anything about it. Once you are made and put into that standard that society has stereotype you as, you will not become anything better or worse. What it reveals though is that being conditioned to be afraid of certain things, they won’t be able to become smarter, if afraid of books, and rebel and try to cause a riot of how this perfect society isn’t all that it seems to be. Conditioning breaks the whole idea of uprising and seeing how what’s in front of you isn’t as beautiful as once thought.