Brave New World
What job does the Director want the people created by the Bokanovsky Process to have?
factory jobs
What is significant about names in the world state?
two thousand million inhabitants share only ten thousand names between them
What is the motto on this building ?
" community, identity, stability"
What hypnopaedia lesson does the Director refer to while talking about the Savage Reservation?
"The social body persists, although the component cells may change"
What did Linda say to John after the attack?
Don't call me mother, Im not your mother, calls him an idiot, blames John for being stuck in the Reservation
What abnormal activity are children encouraged to do?
Erotic play between children
Why does Huxley bring John into the story?
Everybody in the world state is too conditioned to see whats wrong, so Huxley need a fresh person to show that the perfect society isn't actually perfect
What is the hypnopaedia lesson Lenina and Henry refer to?
Everybody is happy now
How does Lenina feel about Bernard's suggestions and his anti world state sentiments?
Lenina is shocked and uncomfortable
What is Bernard less critical to now bc of his success?
Less critical to society
What is Helmholtz defect?
mental excess
what are free martins?
sterile women
How does hypnopaedia work?
the children listen to a recording numerous times while they are sleeping so they internalize the info
What does Mr. Foster say about the female embryos
30% of female embryos develop normally while the remaining 70% get a dose pf male hormones to make them sterile
Why does Fanny criticize Lenina's relationship with Henry Foster?
Lenina has been going out with Henry for four months
What are the social groups in the World State?
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
What is grown in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?
Babies
What does Bernard compare adults to when it comes to feeling and desire?
Babies. Infants where feeling and desire are concerned.
Why do people at the party get upset w Bernard?
Because John won't come out and that is the only reason they came
Who does Lenina agree to go to New Mexico with?
Bernard Marx
Who does Lenina express interest in to Fanny?
Bernard Marx
Describe Helmholtz?
Big, handsome, muscular, social
In what building does the novel open in?
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
What are people in the World State conditioned not to be bother by the age of 18 months?
Death
According to Mustapha Mond what no longer exists in the World State?
Family, monogamy, romance
What kind of games are allowed in the World State?
Games that require lots of parts to be bought so that the World State can make money
The eggs designated for which 3 groups undergo the Bokanovsky process?
Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons
Why does Bernard suddenly gain attention?
He brought John to the World State so people have to go through Bernard to see John
How does John react to Lenina's sexual advances?
He does not like it, he slaps her and pushes her away, calls her a *****, threatens to kill her, Lenina locks herself in the bathroom while John paces around reciting shakespeare
What does John think about the feely he saw w Lenina?
He doesn't like the feely, but it stimulates feeling
What does Mustapha do to the texts he considered subversive
He doesn't publish them
How does Bernard feel when Henry talks about "having Lenina" ?
He feels disgusted and he hates that they talk about her like an object.
What are Helmholtz jobs?
He is a gamma plus, a lecturer at the college of emotional engineering, writer for the Hourly Radio, writes feelies, slogans and hynopadeia lessons
What is Bernards reputation?
He is an Alpha Plus. He spends most of his time alone, he is ugly and short, has lots of Gamma qualities
What is Bernard self conscious about?
He is small and doesn't look like the all the other Alpha Plus men, he looks like a Gamma, nobody respects him
How is John different from the others in the reservation?
He is white, speaks English, has blue eyes and blind hair
What happened to the director when he went to the Savage Reservation many years ago?
He lost the girl he was with
How does John feel about Lenina?
He loves her
What does Bernard offer to Linda and John? Why?
He offers to take them back to the World State, Bernard wants to get back at the director for demoting him
What does Bernard do to humiliate the director?
He reveals that John is the directors son
What does Mustapha say to the students about old age?
He says " all the physical stigmata of old age have been abolished
After John tells Bernard that he is different and feels alone, what does Bernard say?
He says "So am I, I feel alone too" they are linked by being different
What does the Director do with Bernard?
He send Bernard to Iceland
What does Helmholtz get in trouble for?
He share a poem he wrote with his students about being alone and feelings
What does John do after he mentions the brave new world lines in the factory?
He started to throw up, sickened by what he sees, his body rejecting society
How does Helmholtz disappoint John?
He starts laughing when john reads him shakespeare, especially the part about mothers and fathers
What did John try to do to Pope because he slept with Linda?
He tried to kill and stab him
What things does Bernard want to do with Lenina while on a date?
He wants to go on walks in the Lake District and be alone w her
What two things does Bernard want? What is Lenina's response?
He wants to know what passion is and he wants to feel something strongly. Lenina says " when the individual feels, the community reels"
What does Mustapaha plan to do to Bernard?
He wants to teach Bernard a lesson
What desire regarding his writing does Helmholtz express to Bernard?
He wants to write something powerful and important
Why did John get upset after Kiakime's wedding?
He was in love w her
Who does Bernard go to speak to?
Helmholtz Watson
What saying does Mustapha Mond say that was inspired by Ford?
History is bunk
What is the name of the process that teaches the children in the world state morals/beliefs?
Hypnopaedia
Where does the director threaten to send Bernard?
Iceland
What happens if the wire fence around the Savage Reservation is touched?
Instant Death
Who refuses to attend Bernards party?
John
What two people share a love of words?
John and Helmholtz
What do john and Bernard do at the end of the nigh?
John reads shakspeare and Bernard takes Soma
What does Bernard report about John in his letter to Mustapha?
John refuses to take soma, and is stressed that his mother is permanently on a soma vacation
Who says " Well I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here" ?
John says this while talking to Bernard about his recent failure at success. John doesn't want to living a superficial life
Who says " But queer that Alphas and Betas won't make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there"
Lenin says this while talking to Henry about people being cremated. This shows that she looks down upon them. No matter how much the world state tries to differentiate the people they all end up the same way
How would you describe John?
Naive, unstable, 2 different personalities, doesn't fit in
What is the strongest reason people don't want to see Linda?
She has aged and people are disgusted
How is Lenina considered popular
She has slept with almost all of the men
Why does Lenina decline Henry's date?
She is in love w John
What is significant about Linda?
She is the woman from the director's story, she hates the reservation, wants to go back to the World State, has aged naturally
What disgusts Lenina as she walks thru the savage Reservation?
She sees an old man, it smells and is dirty, a woman who is breastfeeding
What does Lenina think of Bernard?
She thinks he is very odd
Why did a group of women in the reservation attack Linda?
She was sleeping with all the men
What does John admit to Lenina?
That he loves her
What did Lenina plan to tell John at the party?
That she loved him more than any other man she has known
What college is referenced?
The College of Emotional Engineering
What book did John get on his 12th birthday?
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Who says " And that... that is the secret of happiness and virtue-- liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny"
The Director says this after Mr. Foster refers to the conditioning process during the tour of the centre. His quote shows that in the world state there is no free will, no individual dreams, can't escape what the world state already has planned for them
Who says "Till at last the childs mind is these suggestions and the sum of these suggestions is the childs mind. And not the child's mind only. The adults mind too--all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides-- made up from these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions. Suggestions from the state.
The Director says this while referring to hypnopaedia while giving students a tour of the centre. The people in the world state are conditioned to not think for themselves.
Who say " Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr Foster, and you will see that no offense is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual--and after all what is an individual. we can make a new one w the greatest ease as many as we like, Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual, it strikes society itself. "
The Director says this, he doesn't see them as individual people, non conformity is worse than murder
Who is Mustapha Mond?
The Resident Controller for Western Europe
What kinds of bureaus are in the World State?
The Various Bureaux of Propaganda, The Bureaux of Propaganda by Television
What does the Bokanovsky Process enable a fertilized egg to do?
The process allows the creation of identical twins, multiple copies of itself
What is significant about newspapers in the World State?
There is a different paper for each caste, The Hourly Radio, The Gamma Gazette, The Delta Mirror, The lower the caste the lower the quality of the paper
What happens to people when they die in the World State?
They are cremated to create phosphorus in order to help plants grow. This exemplifies how non individual people are
What details are given about the Savage Reservation?
They don't know how many people are there, the people are allowed to get married, give birth, have diseases, wild animals, religion
What is done to condition the eight month old Deltas to hate books and nature?
They give the babies flowers and books to attract them and then the babies are shocked so that they associate the two memories together
Where do Lenina and Bernard plan to go once they get to New Mexico?
They plan to go to the Savage Reservation
What knowledge do Bernard and Helmholtz share?
They share the knowledge that they are individuals
What is the Directors name?
Thomas/Tomakin
What strange event does Bernard attend?
an orgy
What are movies called?
feelies
How does Bernard feel after the orgy?
he feels unfifilled and alone
What does Bernard do that makes Lenina say " thank ford"
he groped her
What does the director do after he is humiliated?
he resigns
How do Lenina and Henry travel on their date?
helicopter
Why is is significant that the way people in the world state are created is similar to an assembly line?
it shows how manufactured and processed they are, the people are products and the same throughout
What is John not interested in?
john is not interested in civilized intentions, he is more interested in the soul of people
What kind of instruments are played when Lenina and Henry go to the dining hall?
scent and color organ, sexophone
How does Linda spend her days in the World State?
she uses soma all day
What is the name of the drug that is encouraged to use?
soma
When Lenina and Henry go to a dining hall, what is served with their coffee?
soma
