The Controller is giving a lecture to the students on history and what the world used to be like BF (Before Ford). The Controller, Director and students are in the garden. It is a kind of “verbal montage” of three different sequences outlined below:
The chapter actually isn’t that difficult to understand once you realise that as the chapter progresses, each section break is also a change to a parallel storyline. The Director leads the students to the garden, where several hundred naked children are playing. Review the ‘ Monarch Notes’ on BNW (information about the author, context, literary elements, chapters, etc.)Ĭhapter 3 has a non-linear narrative…some students actually stop reading the novel at this point, as it is unlike what they have read in the past and can be quite difficult for them to truly comprehend. Review ‘Who’s Who’ of BNW (the characters)Ģ. If you need some more guidance as you read Brave New World, you can:ġ. Hypnopædia/Sleep-training is conveying information to a sleeping person, typically by playing a sound recording to them while they sleep. If you aren’t already familiar with the idea of classical conditioning, have a quick read about it here. Huxley utilises the idea of conditioning in his novel. TheatreCloud also created this graphic to help visualise the caste system in Brave New World – click on the image to enlarge:
If you are unfamiliar with what a caste system is, SBS explained the traditional Indian caste system in a video here: In Brave New World, there is a five-tiered caste system. In comparison, Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949. TheatreCloud provides a little more context in their discussion of the Historical Perspective of the novel.
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