Brave New World

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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


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