The instant gratification is what keeps the people under control in the New World. Mostly everybody, besides a few, don't care about the rest of the world as long as they have their sex and soma. Soma make people forget about how bad the world really is and it just makes them forget about all the problems and issues the world has.
The society in such the novel takes place is consumer society. The people consume items in order to please them. The government doesn't care as long as they control everything else. The whole book is based off of sex, drugs, alcohol, the weak, the strong, and control over people.
I think one of the themes in this book is Pure Control. The government feels like they need to control everything and even control where people work and how people are made. There is no freedom in this book besides drugs, alcohol, and sex all of which happen to be bad for you.
Bernard and Hemholtz are like Batman and Robin. Hemholtz is everything Bernard wishes to be; strong, funny, attractive and many more things. The only thing they have in common is that they both hate the New World. Bernard is too weak for his position in society and Hemholtz is too strong and powerful for that kind of government. However, I feel like Hemholtz isn't as developed as he could be. The author doesn't go through him as deep as the other characters.
Throughout the beginning of the book Bernard is the main character up until the reservation ritual with Lenina and John. From that point on John becomes the center point of the book and Bernard faded away. As John is rejected by both the New World and the Indians he is the ultimate outsider. I honestly feel realy bad because I've never had the feeling of being rejected by everything and everyone. I wish that in some way I could help him.
Well ya see here John's mother was kind of slut back in the day when he was a child so he was bullied. Also nobody during his childhood accepted him for who he was and for that reason he is a little different today. When he was just a boy he had a rather large crush on a Native American woman and he brings her up getting married. I feel like he still likes her a lot and would do anything for her.
I've recently learned that Watson has slept with over 480 girls in 4 years. Honestly, that fact is extremely disgusting. Just imagine what kind of diseases you could contract and how gross you would feel afterwards. All in all this chapter is creepy.
This book is probably the most disturbing book. The fact that these people think that it's okay to shock and torture kids and teenagers for not being physical and having sex at such a young age is inexcusable. Even though there is no war it is still morally wrong to act that way towards kids.
This new book we are reading in English class is super crazy. It's weird to think about people breeding other people using Henry Ford's assembly line. I've been told that this book is all about sex, drugs, and doing what pleases you. Although those things may bring you pleasure the consequences will be much greater.
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