"Brave New World" Notes Chapters 1-5

• Epsilons: letter from the Greek alphabet.
• Characters aren't designed to be different but interchangeable
• It's an allusion
• Book is based on timeless ideas
• Economic classes are a big part of this book
• Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gama <-- Dividers
• We have all the ingredients in society today for it to all fall apart tomorrow
• In Brave New World there are no rebels
• Cognitive Dissonance: Two ideas contradict each other and done to make you think
•  "Everyone belongs to everyone else" means they all share each other
• Why separate everyone into classes?:  Because Huxley wants to mess with people's minds
• Can't really know what it feels like to not have any emotions
• Racial Comments
• "Everybody's" living this way
• Word "Ford" was used like a lord (worshiped him)
• Ford was their god because he was the creator of manufacturing
• Marx--> symbolic
• Froid: psychoanalytic
• Why did they talk using "A.F." instead of saying the year they were in?: Means "AFTER FORD"
• Each name has a special significance
• Ford is the god head character in the story
• Bernard Marx: outsider; didn't like what was going on
• Pneumatic: airy/ fluffy (real definition).......  Referring to a girls figure in a sexual way (how it's used in the book)