Brave New World

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Brave New World

• Study Questions
• Chapters 1-3

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Chapter 1

• 1. Describe the setting for the opening chapter
  of Brave New World. In what city and year does
  this novel take place?

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Chapter 1

• 1. Describe the setting for the opening chapter
  of Brave New World. In what city and year does
  this novel take place?
• It is inside the Central London Hatchery and
  Conditioning Center. The atmosphere is stark and
  clinical. A.F. 632

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Chapter 1

• 2. What is the motto of the World State?

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Chapter 1

• 2. What is the motto of the World State?
• Community, Identity, Stability

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Chapter 1

• 3. Explain what is happening at the Hatchery and
  Conditioning Center.

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Chapter 1

• 3. Explain what is happening at the Hatchery and
  Conditioning Center.
• The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is
  conducting new students through the Center. They
  are learning about artificial reproduction and
  the hatching of the eggs.

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Chapter 1

• 4. Describe Bokanovskys process.

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Chapter 1

• 4. Describe Bokanovskys process.
• One egg is made to bud, resulting in as many as
  96 identical embryos.

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Chapter 1

• 5. What are the five castes of the World State?

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Chapter 1

• 5. What are the five castes of the World State?
• Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon

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Chapter 2

• 1. What two objects are the babies being
  conditioned to dislike?

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Chapter 2

• 1. What two objects are the babies being
  conditioned to dislike?
• They are books and flowers.

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Chapter 2

• 2. Why does the State condition the masses to
  dislike the country?

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Chapter 2

• 2. Why does the State condition the masses to
  dislike the country?
• They do not consume any goods if they simply
  enjoy natural pleasures in the country.

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Chapter 2

• 3. Explain how hypnopaedia works.

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Chapter 2

• 3. Explain how hypnopaedia works.
• Children are taught State-prescribed moral and
  social principles through sleep-teaching, three
  times a week for 30 months.

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Chapter 2

• 4. What does the childs mind and, later, the
  adults become?

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Chapter 2

• 4. What does the childs mind and, later, the
  adults become?
• The child is the sum of all of these suggestions
  made through hypnopaedia.

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Chapter 3

• 1. What is the requirement for any new games?
  Why is this so?

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Chapter 3

• 1. What is the requirement for any new games?
  Why is this so?
• They must require at least as much apparatus as
  the most complicated of existing games to
  increase consumption.

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Chapter 3

• 2. Explain the States attitude toward sex. How
  does the State regard marriage?

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Chapter 3

• 2. Explain the States attitude toward sex. How
  does the State regard marriage?
• Citizens are expected to be promiscuous.
  Children are taught erotic play to free them of
  any sense of guilt or repression. They feel that
  marriage, monogamy, and romance keep a society
  from being stable because they cause an
  exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and
  energy, which focus upon the individual only as a
  part of the whole community.

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Chapter 3

• 3. Ending is better than mending. The more
  stitches, the less riches. How do these sayings
  express the economic views of the State?

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Chapter 3

• 3. Ending is better than mending. The more
  stitches, the less riches. How do these sayings
  express the economic views of the State?
• Mending, repairing any goods, is contrary to
  constant consumption, the economic basis of the
  World State.

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Chapters 1-3

• 1. What is AF. 632? What can you infer about
  this society from such a designation?

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Chapters 1-3

• 1. What is AF. 632? What can you infer about
  this society from such a designation?
• After Ford 632 this society worships
  production, materialism.

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Chapters 1-3

• 2. How many individuals can be produced from one
  egg and one sperm?

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Chapters 1-3

• 2. How many individuals can be produced from one
  egg and one sperm?
• 96

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Chapters 1-3

• 3. What is the purpose of the processes that
  take place in the Social Predestination Room?

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Chapters 1-3

• 3. What is the purpose of the processes that
  take place in the Social Predestination Room?
• The fetuses are chemically and otherwise treated
  to suit them for a certain social caste and job.

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Chapters 1-3

• 4. What is the point of conditioning the masses
  to hate nature?

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Chapters 1-3

• 4. What is the point of conditioning the masses
  to hate nature?
• A love of nature does not keep factories busy.

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Chapters 1-3

• 5. What kinds of things do the children hear
  while they are asleep?

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Chapters 1-3

• 5. What kinds of things do the children hear
  while they are asleep?
• messages that convince them they are very happy

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• 6. Who is Mustapha Mond? What does he say about
  history?

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Chapters 1-3

• 6. Who is Mustapha Mond? What does he say about
  history?
• Western European Controller Its bunk

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• 7. Describe Lenina Crowne.

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Chapters 1-3

• 7. Describe Lenina Crowne.
• A young and attractive woman who works at the
  Hatcheries and Conditioning Centre, Lenina is
  having Henry Foster exclusively.

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• 8. What is wrong with Bernard Marx?

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Chapters 1-3

• 8. What is wrong with Bernard Marx?
• He is a bit small for an Alpha, likes to be
  alone, doesnt like to hear Lenina discussed as
  if she were a mere piece of meat.

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Chapters 1-3

• 9. What is soma?

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• 9. What is soma?
• A drug with no side effects which provides an
  escape from reality