Journal #3 Topic C

            The author's vision is very powerful, but I don't really see this taking place. It is very strong because it turns society into a completely different world. I don't really see this happening. I do not see the world becoming stable. I cannot see everybody give into a world government, or huge government used in this society. The chances of this society in this book is very very rare. In all honesty, I can't even see how the author can think of this being a possibility. This society uses a magical potion/plant called soma that gives a false image of happiness with no negatives. They have too many what if's in this society. Like, somehow breeding everybody to become perfect or making them into a lower class. This is very unlikely, and I consider it a what if, what if we can breed people into classes? The main reason why I can't see this society taking place is due to their stability. They try hard to be stable. Our society today is constantly changing. I can see the idea of wanting it to be stable, but I can't see the actual ability of being stable. Like I said earlier, people have different opinions and will always think differently of what society wants its people to be. People will always want to be themselves, I think. 
                This author gives us a hope that everyone will be happy someday, well, at least people will try to create happiness. He is tyring to say that medicine will greatly improve our society (soma). He uses a controlled embryo center to give stability in the society, which means that he hopes to have a controlled population in the future so we don't have to worry about over population. Lastly, he gives an alternative of death. Every dead body is cremated and the remains will do good for the future benefiting a eco friendly environment producing good materials instead of just rotting.

Journal #2/ Main Character

         Bernard Marx is an alpha plus in his society. He is considered to be one of the top quality type of person in this society. Unfortunatley, he has some problems. Unlike Lenina, who is another high ranked person in this society, he thinks differently than everybody else. Lenina has thoughts and feelings that are normal, and don't go out and beyond society. Bernard on the other hand has a hard time staying within society's norm. He feels limited in this society. He wants to be what society used to be like. He wants to feel and know multiple things, then just know what he needs to know in society. He can't just accept who he is. He wants to develop himself on his own in order to be himself truly. He dislikes society for sleep talk and how they put things into their minds.
          I think Bernard has both external and internal conflicts. As stated earlier, he doesn't like the society he is in. Bernard feels trapped within this society. They make him follow certain rules and act certain ways. They tell him to drink soma, a bottled medicine to make you feel happy. He didn't like it because he wanted to feel happy for himself. Not from medicine making you feel that way. It is artificial to him. Bernard feels like he is alone. He feels werid and unusual that he is the only person thinking outside of the thoughts and knowledge that are jammed into your brain from society.
        Bernard resists society by ignoring the soma and not drinking it.  He also resists by his actions and talks with Lenina. He tells her what is outside and what he wished to feel. And understand what family is like. Bernard had to go to Iceland for his behavior. Society accused him for being a threat of not being stable.

journal #1

Andrew Nodland
Journal #1 Topic A


"Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!
Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
Skies are blue inside of you,
The weather's always fine;
For
There ain't no Bottle in all the world
Like that dear little Bottle of mine."      p. 76

This society is structured by divided groups based on how you were developed at the hatching center. The fully developed ones are very smart and attractive. I think they are perfect or almost perfect. But there are one's that aren't as fully developed and aren't as smart. In the hatchery, they lower the amounts of oxygen delivered to the embryos to make the peoople turn out not as develpoed as others. When you are maturing, they have voices repeating over and over things in order for you to gain knowledge. Also, they shock you when around certain things, such as books, so you don't like them. They don't want the lower developed people to read because they want them to be as stable as they can and do one thing and one thing only. Books will make them think of various things which will ruin what this society has going.
This passage above is chosen because in this society, they tell the people to be joyous and here is the people singing this song. I think this is like propaganda, as in Ford is making them drink their daily dose and presdcribed bottles in order for everybody to not realize what this society is doing and just most importantly, make this society as stable as it can be. That's the World State's motto: Community, Identity, Stablity.
As I have been reading this book, I have noticed there is this kind of awkwardness in this society. They do certain things that aren't acceptable in our world today, like letting children interact with eachother in exotic and inappropiate ways. But they reference to our world saying we do bad things like having families. Also, that this person said he has this little unique thought in his head that he thought was weird. This makes this society have some flaws and that not all the people are perfectly stable.