LITERATURA BRYTYJSKA – BRAVE NEW WORLD - QUOTATIONS

1) What these quotations show in terms of The World State people’s beliefs?
What is the main idea of The World State Society?

„Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful.
We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without
any one. [...]”

 This quotation comes from Chapter 5, when Lenina remembers waking up as a small
girl and, for the first time, hearing hypnopaedic messages whispered into her ear.
She is reminded of the quote by a discussion with Henry Foster about the fact that all
humans, regardless of caste, become equal after death.

 This quote illustrates the power of mind-numbing repetitiveness of the

hypnopaedic rules and beliefs that form the basis of World State society.

 The message also highlights the hypocrisy of the conditioning: it may be true that
“every one works for every one else,” but it is also true that certain castes have a
much better time of it than others

 people noticed as a whole, as a collective persona; the society which works fine due
to some rules and regulations; yet every individual is important in this immense
group to perform its duty/action

„A gramme is always better than a damn . . . A gramme in time saves nine . . . One cubic
centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments . . . Everybody’s happy nowadays . . . Every one
works for every one else . . . When the individual feels, the community reels . . . Never put
off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day . . . Progress is lovely [...]”

▪ The Use of Technology to Control Society → MAIN IDEA

 Samples of hypnopaedic sayings are pumped into the children’s ears in order to
create them in a desireable way, so they will follow all the rules, they will believe
in what the World Controllers want them to believe in
 These are samples of hypnopaedic sayings that are scattered throughout the
novel. Lenina is a continual source of them.
 In Chapter 6, she responds to Bernard’s soliloquy about the need to be alone with
almost nothing but hypnopaedic phrases.
 Bernard tells her how many times, and for how long, each phrase is pumped into the
ears of sleeping children. The irony is that Bernard himself is one of the people
responsible for the hypnopaedic phrases, but when he tries to escape their logic he is
 trapped by the people around him who take every hypnopaedic saying as undeniable
truth.
 The quotes sampled here reflect some of the basic principles of World State
society:
-the use of soma to deal with unpleasant emotions;
- the identification of happiness as the ultimate goal;
- the maintenance of the caste system and the use of conditioning to create
workers who enjoy their work;
- the prioritizing of the community over the individual;
- the support of instant gratification; the promotion of technology and science as
necessary foundations of the good life.