BNW Ch. 2 and 3

• director leads students to the nurseries where they witness babies baring electric mind shock and loud noises that is supposed to teach them to stay away form books and flowers
• this process will keep members from the lower caste away from books and any danger of changing their set nature
• nature bad because gave a sense of useless freedom and transportation not wanted for the lower caste 
• got rid of love for nature but kept transportation since its needed by the World State
• lower caste lovers of sports but haters of nature
• the term parent, mother, father and any of the sort have become word references to sex
• Reuben learned through being fed information in his sleep
• HYPNOPAEDIA: process of learning in your sleep
• he had no understanding of what he was speaking but could still be used to embed morals into the minds of people
• nurses whisper into the ears of the lower caste that they are that, inferior

• children and teems engage on erotic play
• in the World State it is a normal act where as in the past it was seen as unmoral
• students meet Mond who speaks to the astonished students
• Mond manages to make the director uncomfortable with his remarks to the children but means no harm
• Mond goes on o explain the importance of stability in the World State
• he explains how the instability of older times led to things like war and disease 
• after the nine years' war iconic figures like Shakespeare and ideas about religion and such were destroyed
• this is what they viewed as happiness- complete perfection
• Bernard overhears a discussion about Lenina going on with Henry taking part in it and is disgusted by his remarks
• Fanny suggests that Lenina is more open to more partners
• Lenina mentions Bernard as being a possible partner but Bernard is in even lower Alpha than the rest of them because of an accident
• Lenina still considers it and decides to give him a chance since she would also enjoy a trip to the reservation with him