Brave New World

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Brave New World

• Study Questions
• Chapters 4-6

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Chapter 4

• 1. Where do Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowe plan to
  visit?

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Chapter 4

• 1. Where do Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowe plan to
  visit?
• They plan to visit the Savage Reservation in New
  Mexico.

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Chapter 4

• 2. Explain Bernard Marxs attitude toward the
  State.

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Chapter 4

• 2. Explain Bernard Marxs attitude toward the
  State.
• Bernard expresses a desire for solitude and seems
  to want to oppose the teachings of the State.

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Chapter 4

• 3. What is Helmholz Watsons job?

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Chapter 4

• 3. What is Helmholz Watsons job?
• His job is an emotional engineer for the State.

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Chapter 4

• 4. Explain Watsons feeling toward the State.

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Chapter 4

• 4. Explain Watsons feeling toward the State.
• He dislikes his job, thinks things he writes are
  senseless, and feels he has ability which he
  cannot use.

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Chapter 5

• Compare the recreation and social activities of
  the lower castes with those of the upper castes.

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Chapter 5

• Compare the recreation and social activities of
  the lower castes with those of the upper castes.
• All castes engage in group sports in the country
  such as Escalator Squash and Centrifugal
  Bumble-puppy. Upper castes travel by helicopter
  while lower castes use the monorail. The
  Solidarity Service is a social activity reserved
  for the upper castes. Lower castes have
  community sings. Only upper castes can go on
  holidays to places outside the World State.

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Chapter 6

• 1. Over the stormy water of the English Channel,
  what desire does Bernard express to Lenina?

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Chapter 6

• 1. Over the stormy water of the English Channel,
  what desire does Bernard express to Lenina?
• He wants to be alone with her.

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Chapter 6

• 2. List three adjectives or phrases to describe
  Leninas personality.

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Chapter 6

• 2. List three adjectives or phrases to describe
  Leninas personality.
• Promiscuous, happy, and well-conditioned

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Chapter 6

• 3. The Director (Tomakin) tells Bernard of a
  visit he made to the New Mexico Indian
  Reservation twenty years ago. What unusual thing
  happened there?

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Chapter 6

• 3. The Director (Tomakin) tells Bernard of a
  visit he made to the New Mexico Indian
  Reservation twenty years ago. What unusual thing
  happened there?
• Twenty years ago he went to the same Reservation.
  During a storm, he became separated from the
  girl who went with him. She was presumed to have
  been killed.

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Chapter 6

• 4. Bernard learns that he is going to be deported
  to Iceland. Why?

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Chapter 6

• 4. Bernard learns that he is going to be deported
  to Iceland. Why?
• He does not conform to the standards of his
  caste, such as having many different girls and
  using soma.

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Chapter 6

• 5. Rephrase Leninas saying, Was and will make
  me ill. I take a gramme and only am.

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Chapter 6

• 5. Rephrase Leninas saying, Was and will make
  me ill. I take a gramme and only am.
• The past and the future are unimportant. Soma
  causes one to live only in and for the present.

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Chapters 4-6

• 1. Who is Helmholtz Watson? What is his problem?

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Chapters 4-6

• 1. Who is Helmholtz Watson? What is his problem?
• A lecturer at the College of Emotional
  Engineering, and Bernards friend.

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Chapters 4-6

• 2. The Solidarity Service has elements of several
  rituals in our world. Which ones?

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Chapter 4-6

• 2. The Solidarity Service has elements of several
  rituals in our world. Which ones?
• Religious services, seances, witches covens,
  orgies

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Chapters 4-6

• 3. What story does the D. H. C. tell Bernard?
  Was he supposed to?

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Chapters 4-6

• 3. What story does the D. H. C. tell Bernard?
  Was he supposed to?
• He tells him about his own trip to the Savage
  Reservation many years ago, and how he had left a
  female companion there.

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Chapters 4-6

• 4. What distressing information does Bernards
  call to Helmholtz reveal?

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Chapters 4-6

• 4. What distressing information does Bernards
  call to Helmholtz reveal?
• The D. H. C. plans to send him to Iceland.