Chapter 10 – Task 3

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3) What is so terrible fort he Director and the societ about the knowledge of his son? Has he done anything incorrect, unsocial or immoral?

I think what makes it so horrible for the Director is that he as a leader in the World State has totally infringed the highest moral principle of the World State from which this Society lives – not to born individual children but to produce indentical ones.

First, what he did was thereby much worse and incorrect than what he accused Bernard of in his speech.

Secondly, he cheated his own entreprise and everything he praises of.

He had broken the moral principles of the World State by his own. This fact makes him in his position not authentic, which is his horror, I think. He could lose all the respect he gained throughout all the years and everything he built up could break down if the people would understand what this means.

So, again, seen through the eyes of someone who really believed in the principles of the World State the Director had done something incorrect, unsocial and immoral.

Chapter 10 – Tasks 1a, b, c

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1a) What does the Director accuse Bernard of?

When the Director announces the dismissal of Bernard from his office in the World State in front of the workers of the Fertilizing Room, he accuses him to be a betrayer – on the one hand because he had been abusing the possibilities he was given to due to his position in society and on the other hand because he then had also been abusing the trust he gained. Plus, he had always been counteracting the rules and moral principles, either concerning his sex-life or his behave in his free time when he criticised the teachings of “Our Ford” or Hypopaedia at all.

This makes Bernard a subverter of the Orders and the Stabilitiy, the Civilisation and the Society of the World State.

b) How can this be seen in his behaviour up till now?

As the Director denounces, Bernard criticised the whole process people of the World State where conditionned and the way they lived due to their conditions. He did never take soma, he disliked the Solidary Service and he did not change his sexual partners very often. On the contrary, he even tried to advise the inhabitants of the World State of this bricolage as he thought it was. He even tried to commit Lenina to him impressing her with emotions.

c) Are the accusations correct?

Seen the accusations through the eyes of the Director or someone else from the World State, I think they can be considered as correct. Bernard made his job, but he always tried to brake out of the system of the World State. I do not think that he wanted to destroy the World State and its orders, society and stability. I think he more wanted to re-organise it so that everybody could think and feel. Through the eyes of the Director and the ones that are conditionned this must seem to be a harassment for the World State since it is something new that they could not understand or rather do not want to happen because the position they have.

In my opinion, however, he did not behave incorrect or immoral since my conceivabilities are contrasting towards the ones of the World State.

Chapter 9 – Task 4

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4) Why does John use the quotations from Shakespeare to express his feelings?

I think John uses the quotations from Shakespeare to express his feelings for Lenina since he has never learned another way to express them. It is remakable that John was an outsider and a loner. The only person he spent a lot of time with was Linda and she does neither feel nor know emotions like love due to her origin from the World State. Up to the moment when Popé left the book of Shakespeare for Linda, the only thing he read was the book about infant conditioning she kept from her former job in the World State. Already after having read the first lines, he throw it away. Therefore I can imagine that he, even though he also did not like the first poem of Shakespeare with which Popé wanted to aim at Linda`s sexual moral, read on because of the feelings Shakespeare expresses there, the feelings his mother could never express.

Summing up, I think the reason why John quotes from Shakespeare here, is that he has no other experiences with such feelings than these he read in his poems.

Chapter 9 – Task 1

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1) What do we learn about Bernard in this chapter?

In this chapter we learn about the way Bernard achieves that John and Linda are allowed to come with him to the World State.

He and John make use of the occassion that Lenina is, due to her abuse of soma the day before, deeply asleep and travel to the World State where Bernard makes the arrangements for John`s and Linda`s journey.

Within half an hour he gets through the Santa Fé Post Office, the World Controller`s Office in Whitehall, argues the Fordship`s forth personal secretary and then his first secretary to let him to Mustapha Mond in front of whom he beats behind the bush his real intention but centres the sufficient scientific interest of the World State. Convinced by this arguement, Mustapha Mond sends the neccessary orders to the Warden who finally passes the permission to Bernard.

Thereby the reader gets to know the disingenuous site of Bernard.

He makes use of John and Linda as well as of Mustapha Mond to avenge the Director. Thereby he has no sruples to lie to these peoples.

Chapter 8 – Task 2

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2) Linda`s position within the pueblo / her different view of morality

Due to the fact that Linda was born, grew up and worked in the World State, she has quite a different attitude towards live and morality than the people from the Reservation. She was a Beta who was conditionned like all the other people from the World State are. Therefore she is in contrary to the people from the Reservation unable to think on her own. She can only repeat the hymns of the hypnopaedia when it comes to certain questions. Before her journey to the Reservation, she worked in the Embryo Store and could not imagine to born children in the natural way. Even now, that she is a mother, she sicks at the never ending birthing in the Reservation. Once, she even points out at John that she regrets having become pregnant and that there was no abortion center close-by.

Additionally, she does not understand why people in the Reservation do only have one partner. In the beginning she changed men very often, but then got into trouble with the men`s women.

Further, she cannot repair clothes since she was used to buy new clothes if the old ones were bust.

Summing up, all these reasons lead to her thinking that life in ther Reservation is uncivilised which makes her, as a very civilised person who loved the joy she had in the World State, feel uncomfortable. That may also be the reason why she drinks so much mescal for being happy and refrains from getting up very often.

As a result, the inhabitants of the Reservation must think that Linda is stupid, a bad mother and as well a bad woman since she changes men or rather takes them from their wifes for sexual satisfaction instead of becoming pregnant.

She is a outsider, seen as a sinner and probably also compared to a prostitute which can be considered from the fact that Popé who actually benefits from her sexual morality, leaves her the book of Shakespeare and that John`s classmates, probably children of the angry wives, point their fingers at her and sing silly songs.