BNW Notes Chapters 6&7

Chapter 6 

--Lenina contemplated bailing on Bernard for the trip to New Mexico for Benito who was going to the North Pole

--she chose to go with Bernard

--Lenina doesn't understand walking & talking with Bernard

--Bernard wants to be himself; he doesn't want to be a part of something else (the social body)

--Lenina is confused with all that Bernard is saying to her

--Bernard thinks of Lenina as meat

--Bernard is becoming very curious 

--he's in mourning 

Part 2

--Bernard wants to see the savages and is attempting to get the director to sign off on a permit

--first sight of confidence in Bernard

Part 3

--they are now on the savage reservation

--Ford is repeatedly used in the context of God ie. "thank Ford"

--Bernard's confidence is lost again when Helmholtz informs him the Director plans to send him to Iceland

--they have arrived for the summer festival

Chapter 7

--they're exploring the Mesa

--first encounter with the savaged at the pueblo; Lenina does not like it

--"But cleanliness is next to fordliness," she insisted

--simile 

--imagery

--syntax/diction

--the celebration has begun; singing and dancing

--snakes were brought out in the midst of the celebration

--a sacrificial ceremony takes place during the celebration

--Linda was the directors interest of the time and he got her pregnant, their son being the stranger they meet after the sacrifice

--John is the son of Thomas (the D.H.C.) and Linda

--Huxley's births/birth control theory