Chapter 4 analysis

So what we regard as morals today are the complete opposite of what they believe in. I think it must be a very lonely life if you don't have someone to spend it with, and just have sex with everyone. I noticed that the word "pneumatic" is used a lot, and this is what it means: containing or operated by air or gas under pressure; of or relating to the spirit. I don't know which one is being used when describing people, as it can be used to say that someone is "air-headed". And it's also used to describe a sofa.  It seems like Bernard's inferiority complex somehow relates to his having more morals than anyone else, as does Helmholtz's. There are "stereotypes" ? for each class, meaning that Alphas should be bigger and everyone is smaller as the social class gets lower. Because Bernard is small, some people automatically assume he isn't in the class that he is. This could be connected to today, where stereotypes are (but are becoming less) prevalent within our society.

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Analysis of chapers 2 & 3 brave new world

chapter 2
There is a lot of brainwashing (the "whispering" under the pillows). Children are tested like animals, using shocks to teach them to hate nature. For some reason, the students are embarrassed about how people used to be parents. There is a shame in being a parent, and staying with someone for life, but not being promiscuous. It's the complete opposite of the world we live in today. There is, in our culture, an increase among women that we should be able to be just as sexually...free? as men are, without being criticized for it. I can see how that's something that might happen in the future, no shame for anyone where sex is concerned.

chapter 3
Children are encouraged to play "sexual games" to prepare them for when they're older. I think it's also a way to find out if any of them are gay, and then "fix" them. Contraceptives are a big deal, because if you keep women from having babies, you keep motherhood away. After all, that's something to be ashamed of.. so is seeing just one man for four months. I don't know what a Resident Controller is, but I'm guessing he's a dictator type person wo=ho makes sure that all of the brainwashing, etc. keeps going. That part in the chapter when the writing was one sentence at a time from like three or four different scenes was really aggravating to me, and it was written like that to display a kind of feeling of chaos, but I found it super difficult to read. Also, there is a type of racism, obviously, towards the Gammas and the Epilsons or whatever they're called.  and being sunburned is attractive, for some reason

Lit terms #6

simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
soliloquy: an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
spiritual: of, relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
speaker: a person who speaks
stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
stream of consciousness: a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow
structure: the relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature

style: the ways that the author uses words
subordination: The use of expressions that make one element of a sentence dependent on another

surrealism: a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind

suspension of disbelief: That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

symbol: a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa,.

syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

theme: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
thesis: a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

tone: the author's attitude toward the reader, subject, and self
tongue in cheek: without really meaning what one is saying or writing.
tragedy: A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness

understatement: describe or represent (something) as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

vernacular: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

voice: The writer's voice is the individual writing style of an author, a combination of their common usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works

zeitgeist: the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.