Page One:
Figurative language:
Personification "the light was frozen, dead, a ghost"
Juxtaposition "bleakly shining"
Irony, Dichotomy "fertilizing room" when previously talking about death
Symbolism "shield"
Restatement "wintriness responses to a wintriness"
Chapter 1:
Director doesn't have a name, a name creates personality.
Cold presence of cruel, artificial, external, imposed, freezer of death
"Director of Hatcheries" not mammal, industrialized
Operant conditioning: rewards and punishments alter one's behavior
Chapter 2:
"single window" dark isolated
Students are introduced to Nurseries with babies who are being trained by being shocked when playing with flowers and books.
Director manipulates the babies mind to dislike books in order to "be safe from books and botany all their lives."
Boys blush at "parents." Why?
Viviparous: bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent
In Elementary Class Consciousness, children listen to tapes that emphasizes their duties in their specific caste.
These names seem very distant and unrelateable, fake and industrial.
Chapter 3:
Naked children play in a garden.
I have a very difficult time understanding this chapter with the children in the garden and then the end of the chapter with three different conversations.
Chapter 4:
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