IOP Journal #3

The day of my ominous IOP looms closer....

So far I have seen 4 people do their presentations and it doesn't seem like it will be too bad. Though I'm sure they were all really nervous. I just hope I will get a good grade!

Today I went through and found some of my evidence for the necessity for individualism. First I started with Bernard. I figured he would be easiest because it he is one of the more noticeable resisters to his society. Then, I went on to Lenina who is part of civilization and completely likes it. Finally, I went through to look for evidence of John's individualism and how he used it to his benefit.

1. Bernard: Part of the "civilization" but is an individual.

pg. 79 "'Obstacle, or Electromagnetic?' Bernard looked at her [...] and blushingly had to admit that he Had been playing neither."

pg. 90 "'Let's turn on the radio. Quick!' She reached for the dialling knob on the dashboard and turned it at random. [...] Then a hiccough and silence. Bernard had switched off the current"

pg. 91 "'How can I?' he repeated meditatively. 'No, the real problem is: How is that I can't, or what would it be like if I could, if I were free - not enslaved by my conditioning.'"

pg. 149 "'he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself."

His turn:

pg. 156 "'And I had six girls last week,' he confided to Helmholtz Watson."

pg. 157 "Meanwhile, however , there was the first Savage; they were polite. And because they were polite, Bernard felt positively gigantic - gigantic and at the same time light with elation, lighter than air."

pg. 173 "In the end Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms and informed he impatient assembly that the Savage would not be appearing that evening.The news was received with indignation."

pg. 226 "The Controller sighed. 'Very nearly what's going to happen to you young men. i was on the point of being sent to an island.' The words galvanized Bernard into violent and unseemly activity. 'Send me to an island?' [...]'You can't send me. I haven't done anything.'"

2. Lenina:Part of "civilization" and not an individual at all

pg. 93 "'Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have today,' she said gravely."

pg. 94 "'When the individual feels, the community reels,' Lenina pronounced"

pg. 257 :Inaudibly, she spoke again; then, with a quick, impassioned gesture stretched out her arms towards the Savage, stepped forward. 'We - want - the whip! We - want . . .' And all of a sudden they had what they wanted."

3. Savage: Not part of "civilization" and not part of the reservation. Striving to be apart of the civilization.

pg. 127-8 "The happiest times were when she told him about the Other Place. 'And you really can go flying, whenever you like?' [...] everything so clean, and no nasty smells, no dirt at all - and people never lonely, but living together and being so jolly and happy, like the summer dances here in Malpais, but much happier, and the happiness being there every day, every day. . . . He listened by the hour"

pg.136 "They would go down, boys, into the kiva and come out again, men. This time the man struck him, pulled his hair. 'Not for you , white hair!' 'Not for the son of a she dog,' said one of the other men"

pg. 137 "'Yes, that's just it.' The young man nodded. 'If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one. do you know, they shut me out of absolutely everything?'"

pg. 138 "'I wonder if you'd like to come back to London with us?' he asked [...] The young man's face lit up. 'Do you really mean it?'"

pg. 199 "'Is there any hope?' he asked. 'You mean, of her not dying?' (He nodded.) 'No, of course there isn't.'"

pg. 241 "'Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?' asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. 'I ate civilization.' 'What?' 'It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,' he added, in a lower tone, 'I ate my own wickedness'"

pg. 243 "The Savage had chosen as his hermitage the old lighthouse which stood on the crest of the hill between Puttenham and Elstead."