Brave New World: 5

'It only remained to conquer old age.' 'Damn you, damn you!' shouted Bernard Marx. 'Hoity-toity.'" -pg. 54

Coming to the part of the book that is three-way conversations, I really had to pay close attention, so as to not match up words with the wrong speaker. It makes an entirely different, illogical story when you read the lines together. =P One conversation is between Lenina and Fanny, in which they discuss Lenina's love life, particularly that she has been going out with Henry Foster for four months now- and only him. I thought it was really odd that, while words like "parents" or "mother" make citizens in this time cringe or blush, it is socially correct to "have" more than one person at a time.

And the one with Mustapha Mond, the controller, and the students. I thought this was really interesting to read. That entails a listing of all the world's problems before the utopia arose. Of course, having never achieved a utopia, we can't say whether those issues are really what we need to change, and whether or not a utopia would be the real outcome if we eliminated those issues.

I found the conversation with Bernard Marx, Henry Foster, and another man also very interesting and in a way, ironic. Henry Foster and another man are discussing "having" women, such as Lenina and Fanny. Disgusted by that, Bernard is mumbling his strong feelings of resentment and disapproval of their insensitive language. I think (whether or not the author meant it to be) the fact that Bernard "stood up" for Lenina, or at least is a decently respectful guy when it comes to women (thusfar, anyways) is extremely ironic since the conversation in the women's locker room is predominantly negative aspects about Bernard's character. So we think that, because of what Lenina and Fanny say earlier, Bernard will be an unsuitable, undesirable person. In reality, he's better than the guy Lenina's already with. I have to say this back-and-forth between the girls reminded me of "The Bachelor" or some other dramatic reality show.