Brave New World - Annotation Guide

While reading, annotation is one of the best ways to interact with the text on a deeper level. To help you out, I am providing you with “annotation targets” for each of the chapters. Note taking is one of the most important skills you can have before you go to college. I will be checking these notes periodically for a grade and you will have several pop quizzes that will cover the information on this guide.

CHAPTER ONE

  • motto of the “new world”
  • steps are involved in creating a human at the Central London Conditioning and Hatchery
  • Bokanovsky’s Process
  • Podsnap’s Technique
  • the five classes of people
  • How are lower class citizens predestined to enjoy their jobs

CHAPTER TWO

  • Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning
  • hypnopaedia
  • Elementary Class Consciousness
  • Ford

CHAPTER THREE

  • How has Lenina been behaving abnormally?
  • What are the children doing in the garden?
  • Mustapha Mond’s Lecture
  • Bernard Marx’s soliloquy.

CHAPTER FOUR

  • Lenina’s feelings about men
  • Why/How does Lenina embarrass Bernard?
  • Bernard’s behavior and what it says about his conditioning
  • Helmholtz Watson

CHAPTER FIVE

  • Death in BNW
  • Solidarity Service
  • Lenina
  • Bernard

CHAPTER SIX

  • Odd behaviors of Bernard
  • Relationship between Lenina and Bernard
  • Interaction between Director and Bernard

CHAPTER SEVEN

  • New Mexico Reservation (details of what is found there and what
  • Aging process in BNW
  • John the Savage
  • Linda

CHAPTER EIGHT

  • John’s memories of the reservation
  • Johns most important learning tool
  • John’s developing persona drawn in different directions
  • Differences and similarities Bernard and John
  • John’s “Rite of Manhood”

CHAPTER NINE, TEN AND ELEVEN

  • “Soma Holiday”
  • John twice reduced to tears
  • John in Lenina’s quarters
  • Incident between Bernard and Tomakin
  • London’s reaction to John/Bernard
  • Preparations of Utopian children for death
  • John’s reaction to the feelies
  • Lenina’s surprise

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  • Fanny’s advice to Lenina concerning John
  • How does John’s love confession prove his naiveté to the ways of the world?
  • John’s reaction to Lenina

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  • The treatment of dying
  • The conditioning of Delta twins conditioned in regards to death
  • John’s reaction to the twin
  • Details of Linda’s death

CHAPTER FIFTEEN AND SIXTEEN

  • John attempt to do in order to truly establish a “Brave New World?”
  • When/Why was Bernard standing “in agony of humiliated indecision?”
  • Details of the riot
  • Reasoning Mond gives for all Utopians not being decanted as Alpha-double-plusses
  • Cyprus Experiment
  • Mond’s thoughts on banishment

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN AND EIGHTEEN

  • The confrontation between Mond and John
  • John’s beliefs on life / Mond’s reaction
  • Violent Passion Surrogate
  • The plan for Helmholtz and Bernard
  • The details of John’s existence from this point
  • John’s reaction to Lenina