brave new world chapter 2

1. How do babies sent to the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms develop an "instinctive hatred of books and flowers?" Why were Deltas exposed to such treatment? the children were conditioned to hate books and flowers by associating these objects with shock therapy and shrill noises. this conditioning kept the children away form books and flowers with they believed will harm them.

2. What is a State Conditioning Center? Does it remind you of anything from Plato's Republic? the state conditioning center is where children of different castes were sent to have there instincts "trained." this is an allusion to Socrates' theory of the city where each caste system is to work at their level and stray from what they were conditioned to do.

3. What is hypnopaedia? Why wasn't it used for Science? What was it used for? Does it remind you of anything from Plato's Republic? Hypnopaedia was the process of teaching to ones unconscious side while they were sleeping. it wasn't used for scientific purposes because it did not yield any positive learning results. however, this process was used in the conditioning center for children to train their unconscious minds into accepting their caste status.

4. How does the Caste system work in the World State? What are the similarities and differences between this and the Hindu Caste system? the caste system in the World State is separated into 5 different castes, with one that has a higher status than the one after it. this system is similiar to the caste system of Hinduism because there five levels of the caste. however, unlike the Hindu caste system, one does not progress up the system when they die in order to achieve Moksha, but they are condemned to remain at that level until they die, then that is it for them.

5. What does the Director mean when he says, "Not so much like drops of water....rather, drops of liquid sealing wax."? by using this statement of liquid sealing wax, the director is saying that, unlike water, the kids would not be able to be remolded into a different form, they would always be in the caste that they were designated to be in.

brave new world

1. the state world motto was "community, identity, and stability."

2. the process was used to split an egg into two identical eggs which in turn is used to make up to 96 embryos. these embryos then grow up into 96 identical twins. the director calls this the major instrument of social stablility becase it allows people to be developed so that they will preform in a predestined job.

3. the Epsilion's to be kept below the bar so that they could be controlled easily and not have any intelligence to know that they were be controlled. also, they would enjoy what every life gave them.

4. Mr. Foster is saying that the scientists make the embryos enjoy their work so they work their hardest and acomplish the maximum of their ability. everybody works better when they enjoy what they are doing. This connects to what is happening in Row 10 because their aim is to nurture the embryo so it feels truly comfortable in a "home" type enviroment.

SHIVA: the destroyer; the feared one; the supreme one

notes from "the republic of plato"

Justice - work - good -virtue - prudent - wise -happy
injustice - corrupt work - bad - vice - thoughtless - unlearned - bad wretched

BOOK II

first introduction of "the city"
characteristics of the city Guardians

• philosopher (king)
• lover of learning
• spirited
• swift
• strong

reared and educated with Music and gymnastics

BOOK III

in the city there are 3 groups of people

1. Gold
guardians of the city
led by wisdom
calculating (superego)
2. Silver
Auxiliary and soldiers
led by courage
irrational (id)
3. iron & bronze
peasants and farmers
led by moderation
spirited (ego)


each class can spawn a child that could be of another class within the city

in order to have a just city:
each class is to isolated from the other two classes
everyone, regardless of position and labor, it to have an equal fixed wage
no one is to have private property
everyone gets what they essentially need

socrates believed that this system will create a perfect "just" city.

Group 4 reflection

what was your hypothesis?
the hypothesis that our group had was to determine any correlation between the depth of a salt pannes and temperature that is recorded from it.
explain your experiences in gaining and testing evidence. any issues?
to gain the evidence, someone had to wade into the middle of the salt pannes and measure the depth of it with a meter stick. we then recorded the temperature with the equipment. teh issue we had was getting the depth with some of the larger pannes
how was working in a group? what went well? what didn't?
our group cooperated well with gaining information and recording it. what didn't go well was how i sunk three feet into one of the salt Pannes.
how do you know that you gained scientific knowledge? i can't say now.