Brave New World Chapter 5 Summary

1.Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy

While reading chapters 1-3 of Brave New World, I was shocked, angered, and fascinated by the aspects of the world created by Huxley. I was shocked that the children are taught nothing of the past. In chapter 3, Mustapha Mond says “History is bunk.” He is implying that history is nonsense and that the society flourishes when living in the present rather than bothering to learn the past. I was irritated by the fact that the lower classes are given less oxygen as an embryo to purposefully make them underdeveloped and weak. In particular, the phrase “Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par” made me realize the cruelty underlying in the World State(Huxley 6). Despite these negative feelings, I have to admit that the society fascinates me. The class system is strictly separated by colors, occupations, and intelligence, science has advanced to the point that children are all taught and created in a factory

The motif, Newspeak, recurs throughout the novel, and illustrates how the government restricts knowledge through the limitation of language. Newspeak is a language that has a narrowed vocabulary in an attempt to exclude words that can raise awareness of any suppressive behavior that the Party exerts. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” This quote best illustrates the Party’s intentions for Newspeak in regards to this slogan. The first sentence establishes how this motif is increasing ignorance, by narrowing the range of thought. In doing so, the second sentence holds true as the more ignorance that is spread through society, the more strength and power the Party gains control over the people of Oceania.

1. The thesis of this essay in the author's words is "Travel is how we put a voice to the Other and step a little beyond our second hand images of the alien." In other words, the author is trying to tell us that travelling is necessary in order for us to not hold prejudices and experience the lifestyle of other cultures.

The first chapter of the book Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis, titled “Brave New World,” focuses around the discovery of the continent of North America, the origins of its first inhabitants, and the different ways that the European countries established settlements in America. The voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 were important to the development of America because even though he did not set foot on North America, he let the Europeans know that there was a “New World” and that there were people living there. The first Spanish settlements in the New World helped to change America because most of the settlements still exist today, such as the St. Augustine settlement in Florida. The establishment of the English settlement of Jamestown changed America because it was the spark that started an era of English dominance in North America.

The thesis of Judith Weisenfeld’s book New World A-Coming:Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration states that during the Great Migration period,  African-American people in the United States rejected their Negro-Christian identity given to them by creating new religio-racial identities, which gave them a new sense of power and purpose. The Great Migration was a large movement of African-Americans from the rural south up to Northern Cities after the Reconstruction period. During this time, African-American culture began to flourish heavily in these cities. The goal of this book is to examine how African-Americans reformed themselves through a mix of new religious ideas and racial identities.  

While in some extreme situations it can be useful to gain some semblance of unity and organization, totalitarian societies damage one 's individuality and feeling of self-worth; defining people without ever allowing them to make their own decisions. This can potentially cause one to feel ousted or distress. Totalitarianism creates no outlet for personal growth, and as seen in Brave New World. Totalitarian societies strip people of their basic human right, free will. Totalitarian governments impair the success of individuals, ultimately failing society.

The story starts off with a six year old boy named Ender. He has a monitor which is a device in which authorities can see the world through Enders eyes. That day he gets his monitor removed then returns to class. In class Ender gets teased by a boy named Stilson. Ender is very smart he hardly pays attention in class because he knows all the answer to all the questions. Then after class the boy that teases him goes to him and corners him and begs them to let him go but they don 't so he kick him in the stomach and falls to the ground then even though he was on the ground he kicked him again Several times very brutally then goes away to the bus stop, thinking he was just like Peter.

Chapter 5 Part 2 of Brave New World is the most disturbing chapter of the book I found repellent. The worst part of this chapter was during the religious service attended by Berndard. It has used a comparison towards Christian icons and concepts. On this part of the chapter consisting Berndard's Solidarity Service, which he attends every two weeks. Unlike us, Christians, we go to church every week.

Foster describes a quest as a story that contains a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there. These aspects of the quest can be modified to any number of situations. The framework of a quest can sometimes even be modified enough so that the reader doesn’t even recognize the passage as a quest, like the bike anecdote that Foster used in Chapter 1. An example of a quest I have seen with similar structure to Foster’s example is “The Spongebob Squarepants Movie”. In the movie, Spongebob is the quester who is going to Shell City in order to clear Mr. Krabs’ name. Some trials they encounter on their quest include a diver that Spongebob and Patrick perceive to be a cyclops and a monster-filled cavern. A real reason for Spongebob’s journey is to prove to himself and others that he is a man, and he realizes later that he is not a man, but a Goofy Goober at heart.

James Dacre states in the beginning of his critical review that the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is “stunningly relevant to our society today” and how “[Huxley] foresaw so many of the problems afflicting 21st-century society”. Dacre bases his statements on 21st century topics such as the control of technology by “powerful elites” influence our choices through social media and the prevalence of drugs in today society. We can see these accusations made by Dacre are true upon a close look at the book’s setting and tone.

Syme and Winston, two middle-class workers in Oceania, discuss the concept of Newspeak. Syme reveals that he supports the system, demonstrating how he has been brainwashed by the Inner Party who enforces the system. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words... You haven't a real appreciation for Newspeak, Winston... Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

In chapter one the purpose of the Hatchery in the “Hatchery and Conditioning Centre” is made very clear to the reader. It manufactures humans and predestines their fate according to pre-selected criteria. This idea of creating ready-made humans destroys the idea of self-determination, whilst the later mentioned “Bokanovsky Process” combined with the “Podsnap’s Technique” allows over 10,000 “twins” effectively from one single ovary, removing any sense of identity or individuality. -Conditioning.

This novel takes place in the year 632 A.F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. In the very beginning there are students being given a guided party line tour through the London Hatcheries. Two employees that work there are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne, they have been dating each other too much and are discouraged by the state. So Lenina’s best friend, Fanny, picks on her because of this. Lenina then meets Bernard Marx, and grows to like him so much that she agrees to go on a vacation with him to a New Mexican

Unlike our world today Brave New World is entirely different due to the way children are reproduced. The following paragraphs are summaries of chapters one through three in the book the Brave New World.