Brave New World #4

Part 1
1. What puzzles Lenina about Bernard Marx's behavior?

Bernard Marx was very puzzled about Lenna's behavior because she was so forward about the whole arrangement. He had asked her so many times and had only ended up being rejected. She had come up to him in a public place and accepted his offer out loud, louder enough for the surrounding people to hear, making it public. It upset him that she made it such a public event. She also did not understand his behavior "he couldn't of been more upset if i'd made a dirty joke, he asked him who his mother was, or something like that."

2. Please provide examples of Lenina using what she learned from hypnopaedia.

"What a hideous color khaki is"

"I'm glad I'm not a gama."

3. Where are Lenina and Henry going?

Lenina and Henry are going to StokesPoges to play obstacle golf. Its their form of a date.

Part 2:
1. What makes Bernard Marx distressed? Why?

"Those who ment well behaved in a same way as those who ment badly." (pg 65) Bernard Marx is upset over the fact that everyone acts exactly the same as everyone else. He does not like the fact that nobody has any individuality to them. It distresses him because them is no emotion to anything, no real feeling, nothing for him to connect to. He is also distressed over the fact that Lenina is constantly referred to like a piece of meat. This distresses him because it is just another example of how people are not treated like people but rather as something to own or to have.

2. Where does Helmholtz Watson work? What is his job?

Helmholtz Watson works at the College of Emotional engineering. He works as a lecturer. He also works as an Emotional Engineer.

3. What does Bernard have in common with Helmholtz Watson?

Both Bernard and Helmholtz were born as individuals. They are looked at as different from the rest of society. Helmholtz was born with some sort of mental excess, while Bernard was born with a physical defect, he is shorter then the norm. Both seem to view the world differently, Helmholtz feels as though something is wrong, and he has something to say but does not know how. Bernard does not like the way society is set up, but can not place his frustration clearly.
4. What is troubling Helmholtz?

Helmholtz feels as though he has something to say, and the power to say it, but he does not know what it is he needs to say. He wants to be more violent, more real, and have more importance to his life. He wants to find a way to write with piercing words but can not figure out how to say something about nothing.