Reading Assignment 4: Chapters 10-11

Looking at the director's statement from the point of view inside the world state I guess I would have no choice but to say I agree with it. Having even one individual questioning, thinking and feeling can put the stability of the entire Society in danger. Especially Bernard because he tries to make other people feel the same way he does. From a point of view in today's world, this quote obviously sounds harsh. Difference in opinions and thinking allows most aspects of our world to continue. Without this thinking and questioning we would walk around similar to robots, almost like the people in this book.

At this point in the novel I am annoyed with Lenina but for reasons she has been conditioned to do. She questions the norm of the world-state but quickly falls to conformity whenever she talks to anyone else. Also when she is correcting Bernard on his feelings or reciting statements used in hypnopaedia she never really seems to know what she is saying. She just recites. I guess that isn't saying much about her just reciting because it is what she is supposed to do but i find it aggrivating. Bernard is also annoying but for the same reasons. When he first spoke about how differently he thought and how wrong he saw this world to be it was for the right reasons. It was because that is what he honestly felt, even though he's not supposed to. Now, he is out for his own gain. Two expamples of this are bringing John back so that he won't have to go to Iceland and how differently he acts once people start to notice him because of the Savage. I think Helmholtz is starting to feel more distant from Bernard. For the same reasons, Bernard has changed and not necessarily for the better.

Both John and Lenina's feelings for eachother intesnsified after the feely. Unlike Lenina John was ashamed of his physical feelings for Lenina and he went home. Crushed, Lenina skulked away and took some soma.