"One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopaedia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
'Or the Caste System. Constantly proposed, constantly rejected. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.' " (page 47)
So, obviously Aldous Huxley has a pretty unique writing style here. Cool. But what's the point when I have absolutely no clue what's going on?! I could not follow who was speaking in this chapter at all, and it made me incredibly aggravated. Every other paragraph was told from another person's point of view. WHO IS SPEAKING?! WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! Are Lenina and Bernard the important characters here? Why couldn't the chapters just be separated by characters? The organizational pattern of this chapter just makes me want to pull my hair out of my head. I was so aggravated, I couldn't even read to understand what was going on. It was like being trapped in a nightmare. I am so incredibly confused. Hopefully I'm able to understand what's going on in this book soon, but right now i just feel like I hit rock bottom. And on top of that, this chapter associates families and mothers with talk of nonsense. What is this place?! Since when are family-oriented societies wrong? Homes are looked down upon in this novel. Monogamy and romance are considered disgusting and disgraceful in this "place." If our world ever turns into this nightmare of a place, I don't know what I would do with myself. This institution is just silly and lifeless. It's no where near the place that God intended Earth to be.
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