BRAVE NEW WORLD (II & III)


  • Infant Nurseries. Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning this was where the babies were 'conditioned' to have a fear of flowers and books through loud noises (sirens) and shock therapy
  • Hypnopaedia - first used in A.F. 214 to continue moral lessons while the children sleep, this doesn't work for facts because the children blindly recite the facts not incorporate the ideas = the children's mind is suggestions about the caste system 
  • Elementary Sex and Erotic Play young children are playing this suggests that this is something fun and to children fun = happy
  • Note: (from class) the child who does not want to play is sent away to be fixed by a therapist
  • References the boundaries of today's world where adolescents cannot have sex and the auto-erotism and homosexuality being frowned upon, terrible
  • References family and motherhood also this story told though history and flows withing the story of Lenina Crown showing symptoms of emotional entanglement with one man (leaning toward monogamy) and we can hear the thoughts of Bernard Marx who seems to be rejecting this type of society
  • Then jokes about not liking Obstacle Gold also seeming important for later reference.

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