bnw cpt 1-4

What is the guiding motto of the world state?

"Community, Identity, Stability."

explain the director's story of Reuben?

- Polish-speaking parents left the radio on while he slept -child woke up reciting a broadcast of a George Bernard Shaw speech verbatim -The parents did not understand English, so they thought something was wrong. -Their doctor understood English and notified the medical press of the event --- Reuben's overnight learning led to the discovery of sleep teaching, or hypnopaedia. **discovery of hypnopaedia came only twenty-three years after the first Ford Model T was sold. Reuben could repeat the speech word for word, but had no idea what it meant. The place where hypnopaedia can be used, however, is moral training.

what year does the book take place?

632 A.F. (after ford)

what is Centrifugal Bumble-puppy?

A game in which children fling a ball onto a platform. The ball then rolls down the interior and lands on a rotating disk that flings the ball in a random direction, at which point the ball must be caught.

Bokanovsky Group

A group of identical twins created by dividing a single egg many times. This process is only used on Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.

define Soma

A narcotic used to create pleasant sensations without any after-effects. The word is actually taken from a drug that exists in India.

explain the Elementary Class Consciousness lesson

A recorded voice whispers to each sleeping child in chapter 2, It states that Alpha children have to work harder than the other classes and it disparages the lower intelligence and inferiority of the lower castes. The voice teaches pride and happiness in the Beta caste: Betas do not have to work as hard as the cleverer Alphas, it explains, but they are still smarter than the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. the lesson will be repeated one hundred and twenty times, three times a week, for thirty months. Hypnopaedia instills the fine distinctions and prejudices for which electric shocks and alarms are too crude. "the greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time."

what are the 5 castes?

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. (Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky Process)

what does dhc stand for>?

Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning

why are casts conditioned to hate flowers?

Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons were once conditioned to like flowers and nature in general. The idea was to compel them to visit the country often and "consume transport" in the process. But since nature is free, they consumed nothing other than transportation. In order to increase the consumption of goods, The World State decided to abolish the love of nature while preserving the desire to use transportation.

world controller

Mustapha Mond is one of 10 world controllers.

violent passionate surrogate treatement

Once a month, people are required to go to the conditioning centre to have their systems flooded with adrenaline, which provides them with their ration of fear and rage, without actually having to act on any of it.

Mustapha Mond

Resident Controller for Western Europe and one of the Ten World Controllers. Mond figures in the novel as a kind of enlightened dictato understands the old world and the brave new world

explain the caste system

The society exists as a five-tiered caste system consisting of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alpha caste members are the ruling elite, with each respective caste becoming progressively less intelligent and smaller in stature.

Sexual Hormone Chewing Gum:

This is chewed by men, for instance, Bernard, to attract women. Benito Hoover gives him several packs to congratulate him on his achievement with the Savage.

why are the lower casts specifically deprived of books?

a hatred for books is ingrained in the lower castes to prevent them from wasting the community's time reading books that might "decondition" them.

feely

a movie involving senses of touch and smell a film that allows the audience to experience the same physical sensations as its characters

what happens when the delta children are presented w books and flowers in chapter two?

alarms ring shrilly. Then, the babies suffer a mild electric shock. Afterward, when the nurses offer the flowers and books to the babies, they shrink away and wail with terror. **this is to condition children to deplore nature and literature. 200 repetitions of the same process, the children will have an instinctive hatred of books and flowers.

what is libertarianism

an extreme laissez-faire political philosophy advocating only minimal state intervention in the lives of citizens.

obstacle golf

based on electromagnetic technologies, which means that the metal ball rolls into the hole almost automatically.

Malthusian belt

eferring to the theory developed by English economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), that the world population tends to increase faster than the food supply with inevitable disastrous results unless natural restrictions, such as war, famine, and disease, reduce the population or the increase is checked by moral restraint.

Helmholtz

extremely intelligent, attractive, and properly sized Alpha Plus who works in propaganda work leaves him feeling empty and unfulfilled

freemartins are....

female fetuses that are sterilized

Malpais // The Savage Reservation

filled with sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds, where things considered abominations, such as marriage, religion, disease, and wild animals still exist. The Reservation is in New Mexico. Malpais means 'bad country' in Spanish.

Bernard Marx

lpha-Plus psychologist rumored to have received alcohol in his blood surrogate, a circumstance that would explain his shortness. Bernard bristles at the social pressures for conformity (lacks the ability to rebel)

Pregnancy Substitute

mimics the hormonal effects of pregnancy.

what is the Bokanovsky Process?

shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings. facilitates social stability because the clones it produces are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. Alpha and Beta do not undergo this process as it can weaken the embryos

define Hypnopaedia

sleep learning // conditioning

What is the Podsnap's Technique?

speeds up the ripening process of eggs within a single ovary With this method, hundreds of related individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within two years average production rate using Podsnap's Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in 150 batches of identical twins the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.

the nine years war

swept around the world, changing the face and outlook of humanity forever marked the turning point from the old society to the new involved horrible chemical and biological warfare, an intense propaganda campaign, including the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150, began to weaken the resistance

what happens after fertilization?

the embryos travel on a conveyor belt in their bottles for 267 days On the last day, they are "decanted," or born. **mimicking the conditions of the human womb

pneumatic

used to describe girls, furniture, and shoes "filled with air" something w air pockets. commonly referring to lelina's sexuality / breasts. and to the chair's cushions --> sexuality has become a commodity