Brave New World Study Guide – Flashcards

Community, Identity, and Stability

The director of Hatcheries and Conditioning

An egg is removed and fertilized, it undergoes predestination, Posnap's technique, and Bukanovsky's process, and then finally it travels on a conveyor belt for 267 days, are "decanted" or born on the 267th day.

It's the principle of mass production applied to the science of biologically identitical workers at indentical machines which will perform identitcal tasks. It divides embreyos into anywhere from 8-96 embreyos instead of one. It assists the progress of the "new world."

A way of ripening all of the eggs in the ovary. The goal is to do this over a 2 year period. For effeciency.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. They need a caste system to determine their social function.

Epsilons are taken out of the incubator after only 3 hrs. vs the normal embryos which stay there until maturity. They also get less oxygen so that they are less intelligent. They are conditioned for their predestination in the social predestination room.

Human babies are conditioned through electroshock to hate flowers and books.

It trains them not to enjoy those objects and to hate nature and curiosity.

In hypnopaedic slogan. AKA sleep teaching slogans, values, etc...

It teaches their place and worth in society. It doesn't teach them to play with the Epsilons, and it doesn't give them an education.

A sleep taught lesson on class importance

They are betas

Ford. Ford was a leader (psychological matters). It is also after Henry Ford because he is considered the father of modern industrialism.

Nobody really knows what a "mother" is in that society, and nobody really has one.

The women talk about Lenina and how she is strangely expressing distress. Also people are concerned about her seeking a long drawn relationship

Several hundred naked children are playing and participating in erotic behavior.

Mond expresses his unique views of freedom, happiness, and heroism.

They plan to see a movie that night

He is an Alpha plus, and he dislikes many things in his society.

She wants to see a savage reservation.

Soma is a drug to relieve any stress that you feel

They think that Lenina is an Epsilon-minus

She isn't really unique, interesting, challenging, or even intelligent.

Bernard is always embarrassed by what he considers intimate conversations taking place in front of others. And in the elevator she said she accepted his request to go to the savage reservation.

Bernard remarks about the beauty of the sky. Lenina only sees it as a backdrop to play obstacle gold.

He is very small. He feels especially self-conscious around men from the lowers castes because they are used to looking up to larger built men.

The

Helmholtz Watson is an Alpha-plus. They are both very intelligent. However, Watson has much more self-esteem.

He is a lecturer on writing at the CEE (College of Emotional Engineering). He also writes various propaganda slogans.

Helmholtz feels sorry for Bernard. He feels that Bernard should have more self-esteem and pride.

The dead are taken to crematories where bodies are burned and any valuable chemicals are recovered.

Lenina conditions phrases about colors of others castes' being ugly, and how glad she is to be a beta. It shows that all castes are seen at a different standing from each castes' point of view.

They sleep together

It is a 'religious' type of service where people take soma, chant, and feel a oneness. It's similar in the sense that it may remind one of communion, the singing of hymns, etc... However, it is very different because soma is a drug, and it's to reinforce the belief system, which has a very negative connotation to it.

She had a gross unibrow

He was miserably isolated now. He was separate and untoned, much more alone and hopeless, distracted by a unibrow.

"I drink to my annihilation." "Orgy-porgy." "Cause the one in control here is Jesus Christ." They all share the point that in times of crisis, people always turn to Jesus Christ.

"Yes I thought it was wonderful." (Not sure of the other lie that he told).

The solidarity group always ends with dancing, chanting, and people in bed together as pairs.

He wants to relax, talk, and have sex. He also wants to take walks, and to talk alone.

Very conditioned, selfish, he frightens Lenina, hovers, and is angry and weird.

A waste of time

Free from enslavement of his social conditioning (he feels very strongly about this).

He was surprised, and it brought back many memories to him.

Being woken up by that peal of thunder and finding her gone

Bernard's social behavior is suspect. The fact that he doesn't fit in -- and doesn't especially WANT to fit in-- being noticed. He is threatened to be exiled to Iceland by the director.

He goes ballistic and cries

He left his Eau-de-cologne tap on

Malpais - the savage reservation

Lenina was horrified by the whipping of the boy in sacrifice, or respect to god. She was also disgusted by the blood because of the hynopaedic treatment she had received.

Lenina was disgusted by Linda's appearance; her wrinkles, her missing teeth, etc... In the Utopia people are kept from looking anything but perfect, and Lenina is not used to seeing anybody as 'disgusting' as Linda. She is also disgusted by the lack of cleanliness of the location, and of the people.

In the utopia the aging process is prevented by keeping their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. They do not permit their magnesium-calcium to fall below what it was at thirty, they give them transfusion of young blood, and keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

When Bernard defends that being a mother is a beautiful intimate relationship that Lenina may have missed out on.

The synthetic noises made at Solidarity Services and Ford's day celebrations

The savages danced in circles with snakes, then the snakes were sprinkled with cornmeal and water. Then a painting of Jesus was brought out and a young boy bowed to it before being beaten with a whip

Linda is different because she grew up somewhere else and learned completely different morals and ideals. John is different because he is blonde and white, unlike the savages. He is teased and not treated equally for being this way. Something special about John is that Linda teaches him to read, which was a privilege others do not have.

His father is the director who had lost the girl he was having here in Malpais.

She was a beta

She despises her life on the reservation and dreams of being back at home. While she tells Lenina her story, tears come to her eyes just from thinking of the Utopia.

John recalled being a child and being put in another room than Linda by a man who seemed to have the wrong intentions. He also remembers how upset the savages were when Linda broke something, and most of all, he remembers Linda always being drunk and being taunted by the other children about the way he looked. Lastly he remembers the stories Linda told him about the Utopia and learning to read from her.

She was whipped by other women because she didn't understand that everyone did not belong here and their men weren't hers too.

Popé

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - and it was given to him by Linda

To work the clay

When he went to enter the Kiva with the other boys so they could come out as men, but they told him not to come, and they beat him with stones

They are both the outcasts of their society

He stood against a rock in the middle of the day, in the summer, with his arms out, like Jesus on a cross.

He asks because he likes her, but if Bernard is married to her it is wrong to like her

Bernard laughs because the concept is comical to him, but John laughs of joy

A drug induced state of relaxation

Mustapha Mond

It would be of sufficient scientific interest

When he thought Bernard and Lenina had left without him

He recited a poem from Romeo and Juliet to her

Juliet from Romeo and Juliet

To 'dismiss' Bernard in front of everyone (high caste workers), using him as an example as a public example.

Bernard upsets the Director by being "heretical," with strange behavior. The Director wants to send him to Iceland where he can't influence anyone. Linda calls the Director "Tomakin!" And John calls him 'father,' humiliating him so much so that he leaves.

He wants to expose the Director as John's father

The Director cups his ears and rushes out of the room

Linda was disgusting to look at because she was fat, had bad teeth, a bad complexion, and people felt sick looking at her. However, John was of interest because of what a savage he is, and because he was born, not decanted.

She spends it taking Soma, and trying to feel better with the feeling of 'eternity' even though she is shortening her life-span.

He becomes famous for being the Savage's (John's) accredited guardian, and be begins to feel very special now that there are no more rumors being spread about him, but he also becomes very conceited and egotistical. Some people even disagree with him because of his ego (ex: Helmholtz). He uses his popularity to get with women.

They laugh at movies of 'savages' beating themselves up with whips, and they visit the crematorium.

"O brave new world that has such people in it."

A school in London where John observes that there are no Shakespearean books there, and he sees children laughing at the movies.

A place for the outcasts and misfits

They don't want another distraction for the kids. No solitary amusements for them.

He thinks it's horrible and ignoble, and he hates the movie.

She cries because John leaves before having sex with her, and that is how she wanted her date to end. Also, she takes the soma to help ease the 'pain.'

He is considered the savages official guardian

He becomes egotistical

Mustapha Mond and Bernard leave

It makes it seem like Bernard has lied and that he is the bad person for making fools out of all the high caste people, and everyone is furious with him. The Arch-Songster advises him to "mend his ways" before it's too late or else he would become a laughing stock once again

The paper is heretical according to Mustapha Mond, and as far as the present social order, it is dangerous and potentially subversive. This is because of how the paper could raise curiosity that would make people lose their faith in the Utopia.

He was back in low spirits, soberly becomes his old self, and is plain miserable.

He uses an example he wrote himself, instead of one he was supposed to use while giving his Advanced Emotional Engineering course to the students.

He finds the story of Romeo and Juliet hilarious. He finds Juliet's actions, and those of her parents very idiotic. He isn't used to parents making choices for you rather than being decanted and free.

Helmholtz said Shakspeare had to have gone through something upsetting before being able to write such penetrating phrases since he has such insane and exciting things to write about (which made him a 'marvelous propaganda technician').

They are very interested with her sexual activity

Fanny suggests that Lenina should rape him

It shows how he is very sophisticated and emotional, and unaware of some dangers.

At first it surprises her, but then she throws herself at him. John acted how he did because he remembered that 3 weeks in a helicopter.

He calls her an 'impudent strumpet' (aka *****) because of how she undressed for him so abruptly, and because of how she acted.

Because of the situation, and their complete differences in sophistication, most likely not.

He goes to the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying

His mom (Linda) is ill

Linda thinks John is Popé

The Soma treatment is kind of an anesthetic of reality, and that fits with how the children are taught to not feel certain emotions

They are brought to the hospital and given treats. It is fitting because it shows them how to accept death. They're given treats to help them understand that death is not bad, and it is simply another part of life.

He reacts with anger. He grabs one and is ready to strike him.

The hospital is full of technology, TVs, is very modernized, and the people are a bit insensitive

They are very fierce, strict, and insensitive. In addition the children are naive.

He is angered and crying. It's inappropriate because the people in BNW are numbed to feeling emotions in that kind of way.

The Bokanovsky twins. They hovered over Linda's death (in a way that reminds him of maggots).

He tries telling the children to stop taking their Soma because it's a trap and that they're being lied to. He adds that it's like poison for the mind and body.

He just stood there listening to John speaking without knowing exactly what to do

They used a Synthetic Music Box which projected the Voice of Reason, and repeated "happy and good" over and over again.

John had a cut lip, scratched neck, and a bitten left hand. Helmholtz got a bloody nose. This was from when John tossed their Soma away and the Bokanovsky children became very very upset and charged the two.

Bernard was taken away too because as he woke up from being shot with anaesthetic, he tried to sneak out, and get away.

The controller's study

It is old and they don't have any use for old things, specifically beautiful old things (because beauty attracts people, and they don't want attraction to old things).

Their world is not the same as Othello's world. They do not have the problems to make things such as tragedies, and that is the price that they have to pay for social stability.

A society of Alphas couldn't fail to be unstable and miserable. An Alphsa man would go crazy if he had to do Epsilon work.

A large group of Alphas who were colonized with only Alphas, and were left to manage themselves. The result was strikes, disobedience, slack, ambition, and eventually, civil war

An iceberg (8/9 below water, 1/9 above)

It would be sheer cruelty to afflict them with excessive leisure because of an Ireland experiment (4 hours work days and increased Soma consumption).

Islands house the interesting men and women in the world, who have become too individual to fit into everyday life.

Bernard: Iceland Watson: Falkland Islands

John believes that they have paid a high price for happiness, they forgo art, science, religion, and passion.

John feels that humans need suffering and delight, and the pain worth suffering for the delight.

People must have adrenals stimulated from time to time, psychological of fear and rage without all of the inconvenience.

He said "I claim them all.

He was purifying himself of the civilization and sin which he had "eaten."

They are leaving to their respective islands tomorrow

The controller wanted to go on with the experiment

An old light house between Puttenham and Elstad, with a beautiful view. However, he deserved to lie in filth and suffering.

They witness him whipping himself, and reporters there amount it, and they come to interview him.

"Impudent strumpet! But oh, oh, her arms around his neck, the lifting of her breats, her mouth, then he goes to throw himself on a thorny bush."

The savage of surrey was released and felt in every first class feely house in western Europe, helicopters started flying into John's lighthoue

He lashes out at her with his whip

The spectators all mimed the savage's actions then they had an orgy.

He has hung himself because he remembered what he had done the night before.

They have come to see him whip himself