The Warden

 The Warden is the talkative chief administrator for the New Mexico Savage Reservation. He is an Alpha.

Henry Foster

 One of Lenina’s many lovers, he is a perfectly conventional Alpha male, casually discussing Lenina’s body with his coworkers. His success with Lenina, and his casual attitude about it, infuriate the jealous Bernard.

The Director

The Director administrates the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He is a threatening figure, with the power to exile Bernard to Iceland. But he is secretly vulnerable because he fathered a child (John), a scandalous and obscene act in the World State

Helmholtz Watson

An Alpha lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering, Helmholtz is a prime example of his caste, but feels that his work is empty and meaningless and would like to use his writing abilities for something more meaningful. He and Bernard are friends because they find common ground in their discontent with the World State, but Helmholtz’s criticisms of the World State are more philosophical and intellectual than Bernard’s more petty complaints. As a result, Helmholtz often finds Bernard’s boastfulness and cowardice tedious.

Linda

John’s mother, and a Beta. While visiting the New Mexico Savage Reservation, she became pregnant with the Director’s son. During a storm, she got lost, suffered a head injury and was left behind. A group of Indians found her and brought her to their village. Linda could not get an abortion on the Reservation, and she was too ashamed to return to the World State with a baby. Her World State–conditioned promiscuity makes her a social outcast. She is desperate to return to the World State and to soma. When she returned she was treated to a series of soma baths and a pleasant death.

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Caste System

The society exists as a five-tiered caste system consisting of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alpha caste members are the ruling elite, with each respective caste becoming progressively less intelligent and smaller in stature.

Decanting Room

The room in which the babies are removed from the bottles

Ectogenesis

Growing something outside of the body rather than inside; in this case growing embryos in bottles rather than in a mother's womb

Hypnopaedia

Sleep learning, which is part of the conditioning process. Huxley pretends that it was discovered that people could learn ethics while sleeping, and it is used extensively to help teach lessons that ensure social stability.

Boskage

A mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket

Asafetida

A gummy resin with an obnoxious odor

Epsilons

The lowest caste of the Utopian society. They are malformed and quite stupid.

Gammas

A low caste in society. They are mostly laborers and menial workers.

Bokanovsky Group

A group of identical twins created by dividing a single egg many times. This process is only used on Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.

Alpha

The highest caste in society

 

 

Cesar Sandoval 11c

Character - Mustapha Mond

The Resident World Controller of Western Europe, one of only ten World Controllers. He was once an ambitious, young physicist performing illicit research. When his work was discovered, he was given the choice of going into exile or training to become a World Controller. He chose to give up science, and now he censors scientific discoveries and exiles people for unorthodox beliefs. He also keeps a collection of forbidden literature in his safe, including Shakespeare and religious writings. The name "Mond" is similar to the French word "monde", which means “world”, and Mond is indeed the most powerful character in the world of this novel.

Charater - Berbard Marx

An Alpha male who fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events. His insecurity about his size and status makes him discontented with the World State. Bernard’s surname recalls Karl Marx, the nineteenth-century German author best known for writing Das Kapital, a monumental critique of capitalist society. Unlike his famous namesake, Bernard’s discontent stems from his frustrated desire to fit into his own society, rather than from a systematic or philosophical criticism of it. When threatened, Bernard can be petty and cruel.

Characters - john

The son of the Director and Linda, John is the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State. The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit in to World State society. His entire worldview is based on his knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays, which he can quote with great facility.

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Cloning, a new method

The concept of cloning is something that has been taken as a theme of discussion since the beginning of the twenty first century. Cloning implies to copy out the DNA characteristics of an individual, at least the physical characteristics. When the first cloning of species succeeded in a hundred percent, scientists thought this could be also take into consideration for humans, and maybe they´re right, cause the intention of this new scientific method is to improve.

Maybe is a theme that may hurt some people, and mostly the people from the church, but we´re only looking that fatal part of the situation, cause if we try to see it in another way, could be a possible solution for new coming diseases, and a new way to make things fair about this topic, is to try it in volunteers that may have terminal diseases and may have no longer or further solutions.

I think that cloning isn’t as bad as it seems, and the goal of scientists is to make a progress in the human anatomy without taking other people’s parts or taking dead bodies for studies. Cloning needs to be open for discussion, for it to be placed as a solution and not a problem or  a weird thing for people.

Cesar Sandoval 11c

Ten Words

Juan Felipe Baene

11-c

1. The tropical sunshine lay alike warm honey on the naked bodies of children tumbling promiscuously among the hibiscus blossoms.

Some children tend to be promiscuously intelligent.

2. They shook their hair

He shook his legs

3. I pierce it once

I pierce a cat.

4. The urge has but a single outlet.

I have an urge to study.

5. Along with them all the old man’s mental peculiarities.

My aunt has many peculiarities.

6. Take a holiday form reality.

Reality is subjective.

7. The madness is infectious.

Aids are infectious.

8. Lenina was protesting

9. There were also monogamy and romance.

Monogamy is the base of Christian marriage.

10. He patted me on the behind this afternoon.

My dad patted me on the back. 

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Decant: To pour off (wine, for example) without disturbing the sediment. 2. To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.

We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future.

Chemist use decanters to decant and separate liquids.

Posthumous: 1. Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award. 2. Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book. 3. Born after the death of the father: a posthumous child.

Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.

My friend didn´t his father because he is a posthumous child.

Indefatigable: Incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless.

But whereas the physically defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the consciousness of being separate, it was only quite recently that, grown aware of his mental excess, Helmholtz Watson had also become aware of his difference from the people who surrounded him. This

Escalator-Squash champion, this indefatigable lover (it was said that he had had six hundred and forty different girls in less than four years), this admirable committee man and best mixer had realized quite suddenly that sport, women, communal activities were only, so far as he was concerned, second bests.

I am going to work out all this summer so the next year I become indefatigable in the annual races.

Maudlin: Effusively or tearfully sentimental: "displayed an almost maudlin concern for the welfare of animals" Aldous Huxley.

“I always think,” the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing.

She asked me in a maudlin tone if I could fix that for her.

Surreptitious: 1. Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means. 2. Acting with or marked by stealth.

“Barring a little surreptitious auto-erotism and homosexuality-absolutely nothing.”

I killed those surreptitious guy.

Derision:  1. a. Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule. b. A state of being derided: The proposal was held in derision by members of the board. 2. An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.

“It’s all right, Director,” he said in a tone of faint derision, “I won’t corrupt them.”

He talked to us in a derision tone.

Ectogenesis: The growth process of embryonic tissue placed in an artificial environment, as a test tube.

“Take Ectogenesis. Pfitzner and Kawaguchi had got the whole technique workedout. But would the Governments look at it? No. There was something called Christianity. Women were forced to go on being viviparous.”

Ectogenesis is the science of the future.

Furtive: Characterized by stealth; surreptitious. 2. Expressive of hidden motives or purposes; shifty.

With a wave of his hand he indicated the gardens, the huge building of the Conditioning Centre, the naked children furtive in the undergrowth or running across the lawns.

He infiltrated the base furtively.

Abject: Brought low in condition or status. 2. Being of the most contemptible kind: abject cowardice. 3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched: abject poverty.

The Director glanced at him sourly. But the stamp of the World Controller’s Office was at the head of the paper and the signature of Mustapha Mond, bold and black, across the bottom. Everything was perfectly in order. The director had no choice. He pencilled his initials-two small pale letters abject at the feet of Mustapha Mond-and was about to return the paper without a word of comment or genial Ford-speed, when his eye was caught by something written in the body of the permit.

Camilo Fique 11c

Cloning

I am not in favor of cloning for several reasons. Cloning may present several problems such as imbalance in the nature, social discrimination, and health problems in the cloned humans. Cloning is against natural balance and may be more of a problem than a solution, that’s why I am not in favor of it.

Cloning may present an imbalance in nature. Cloning may cause overpopulation, which would be a disaster on the earth, as having too many people would cause ecological problems, such as deforestation and global consumption of earth’s resources which may lead to an ecological disaster.  Social discrimination is another example of a possible problem of cloning. Gene quality may be a factor on human qualification, work may be only for the genetically superior, or on the other hand, cloned or genetically manipulated people may be discriminated by religion, other institutions and society. Also there are theories that describe cloning as an anti-natural process that may cause several health problems. Cloned humans may present premature aging and other problems which were observed in dolly the sheep and may happen to cloned humans. Other possible diseases may be cancer and neurological ailments caused by the unnatural process of cloning.

I am not in favor of cloning as it may present several problems on humanity and the world. An imbalance in nature, social discrimination, and health problems are some of the possible results caused by this process, and some of the reasons for my position against cloning. Humans should no manipulate nature, as it is balance and any disruption on it may be fatal for the humans, the planet, and the life of it.  

Juan Felipe Baene 11-c

Cloning Essay

                                                                        

            Since the first time scientists began talking about cloning, people started to discuss if it was right or if it was wrong. Personally, I think that cloning is something that humans must stay away from for the following reasons.

            First of all, I think that cloning us a bad idea because by time this will become usual to us. With this, I mean that when we see, in the future, cloned people we will not feel something special about them so they will lose their identity. We will begin to not recognize if that person is a clone or not making human beings unrecognizable from clones. Another reason I think that cloning is a bad idea is that it is against nature to create a human being artificially. For example if you want to have a baby, it is better to have him by your own work, making that baby yours, not from some type of machine that produces babies. It is better to have your own genetic family than some artificially handmade people.

            But the most important reason of why I think cloning is a bad idea is that it could become, and actually I think part of these it will become, a business. First, clones can be sold as employees so they can work in factories. This will be cheaper for business men so they will prefer them taking the jobs from real human people. Also, organs traffic will become more abundant because, as clones are an unlimited source of organs, rich men and business men will kill them to sell their organs to real people who need them.

Losing our identity, losing our jobs and this science becoming a business are the main reasons of why I am not in favor of cloning.

                                                             Camilo Fique 11c