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Chapter 4

Summary:
 Bernard Marx is insecure
 Lenina and Henrys date
 Hemholtz Watson (Bernards friend)
 College of emotional engineering
 Hedonistic – people act on impulse searching for instant pleasure
Power/  You mean all the emotions one would be feeling if things
Conditioning were different

Uniformity/  Conditioned to associate corporeal mass with social


Castes/ superiority
Lack of  He could’ve got through life without ever touching soma
individuality  What a hideous colour khaki is
 I’m glad I’m not a Gamma
 Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those
who behaved badly
 The mockery made him feel an outsider
 What the two men shared was the knowledge that they
were individuals
 I feel I could do something much more important
 When people start being suspicious with you, you start
being suspicious with them

Dehumanisation  At one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of
/ them
Rituals  She was publicly proving unfaithfulness to Henry

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