Brave New World: Ch 4 Analysis

1. Chapter 4
1. parathyroid → chemistry accounts to emotion, a concoction of emotions
2. “Bernard’s face flushed. ‘What on earth for?’ she wondered, astonished, but at the same time touched by this strange tribute to her power (pg 58)”
1. he blushed → she doesn’t understand, emotions and facial expressions are foreign to them
2. she has no empathy, unlike Bernard (who feels like an outsider for feeling certain things)
1. “‘Isn’t it beautiful!’ His voice trembled a little.”
1. Bernard is in awe; he is captured by the sheer beauty
2. “She smiled at him with an expression of the most sympathetic understanding. ‘Simply perfect for Obstacle Golf,’ she answered rapturously (pg 59)’”
1. on the other hand, Lenina talks about the purpose of it → she doesn’t see the beauty, doesn’t feel the emotion that has struck Bernard because of her conditioning
3. continued use of animal imagery
1. “‘Roof!’ called a creaking voice.”
2. “He smiled up with a kind of doggily expectant adoration into the faces of his passengers (pg 59)”  
1. Epsilon-Minus (indirect characterization) → no more, no less than a puppy
2. continued morphing of animalistic characteristics which can be inferred as a continued loss of humanity
4. direct characterization
1. “Benito Hoover was beaming down at him--beaming with manifest cordiality. Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny (pg 60)” → Benito
2. “Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy. ‘I am I, and which I wasn’t’; his self-consciousness was acute and distressing (pg 64)” → Bernard
3. “He was a powerfully built man, deep-chested, broad-shouldered, massive, and yet quick in his movements, springly and agile (pg 66)” → Hemholtz

Hemholtz → questioning, “‘Not quite. I’m thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I’ve got something important to say and the power to say it…’ (pg 69)”