Brave New World Questions 4-5

1) Because, where Brave New World is based on, there's wasn't a clear 

definition of loyalty and fidelity. In those days, many people had more than 

one couple, but perhaps not because they were "bad", but just because of some 

sort of "tradition" or "unknowledge" about the importance of that issue. In 

many parts of the novel we could base ourselves to tell this, just like where 

Lenina said that she was bored with Henry. Because of this, we could start 

thinking that in this place there's no real understanding of what love (or 

loyalty/fidelity, as I told before) means.

"She was publicly proving her unfaithfulness to Henry" is the exact quote that 

demonstrates what it happened. In this place, the most important thing of all 

it to follow the rules and don't think at all. As the Romans said, there are just 

to needs of the people: bread and circuses. Until the point where people don't 

think, then there's no risk at a

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2) No, of course it's not natural. The idea of the government is to control 

people,and what better thing to do that to make people to be mere individuals. 

Groups are dangerous. Hopefully humans had as much couples as possible, so 

they didn't have a real relationship with any of them.

In the chapter 3 there's a clear message about the world: "Their world didn't 

allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, 

happy." We can't be happy if we are not free. In this case, we are imposed 

things, "traditions" that take from us the little piece of freedom we are 

supposed to have as humans. Even if I'm not entirely free to do whatever I 

want, at least I've got the idea of what freedom is, and I can fight for it. And, in 

the case of the Brave New World, the government doesn't want that to happen, 

and they will try to stop it at any cost.

3) Pneumatic is quite a powerful word to describe someone. You don't really 

know if it's something good or bad. There are some theories that say that in 

this case, it means that Lenina is curvy and sexy. But also it could mean that 

she's just "full of air", as the dictionary defines pneumatic. What could it mean 

this last definition? I think that perhaps it makes relation with a person that's 

completely empty in its inside.

4) It is a drug, consumed by people to escape from reality. They might want to 

hide sadness or fear, for example. It is supposed to have no side effects, apart 

of course from making you as less human as possible. "One cubic centimeter 

cures ten gloomy..." in chapter 4 is where they talk about it. It's something 

powerful, but consumed without really thinking of what can happen with it.

5) Bernard was a short man, as shown in chapter 4 "I have stood eight 

centimeters short of the standard Alpha height". But this wasn't taken 

superficially by Bernard, as he felt really uncomfortable with this. His physical 

characteristic made for him life quite more tough, as he was different to all the 

rest. He felt observed by others. As demonstrated in the next quote, in this 

world it was no good to be different: "For gammas, deltas, and Epsilons had 

been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal prejudice in favor of 

size was universal. Hence the laughter of the women to whom I have made 

proposals, the practical joking of his equals among the men. The mockery 

made him feel an outsider  

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