Brave New World Terms – Flashcards
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death conditioning
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allows people to not fear death
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Bokanovsky's Process
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fictional process of human cloning that is a key aspect of the brave new world; the process is applied to fertilized human eggs in vitro, causing 8 buds to split into 96 identical genetic copies of the original
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centrifugal bumble-puppy
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is a game that children play; involves a steel ring and a ball
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bottled
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slang term for people who have taken soma also, embryos and babies are grown in bottles for nine months rather than in a womb
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hatchery
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where the embryos are grown/conditioned
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Conditioning Center
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where babies/young people are conditioned with hypnopaedia and other methods
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A.F
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the years after the death of Ford; After Ford
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hypnopaedia
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sleep-teaching; a series of repeated sayings used to teach children everything from their place in society to clever little sayings and proverbs; thought control
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decanting
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removal of the embryos from their bottle; "birth"
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Ectogenesis
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growing something outside of the body rather than inside; in this case growing embryos in bottles rather than in a mother's womb
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freemartins
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a sterile woman
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feelies
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movies that feature not only sight and sound but also the sensation of touch
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Malthusian Belt
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a fashionable belt worn by woman that carries contraceptives
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mescal
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a hallucinogenic brought to Linda by Pope
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soma
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a narcotic used to create pleasant sensations without any after-effects
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Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning
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process of raising a person; done with young babies while they are being brought up in the Hatchery and Conditioning Centers. Nurses supervise the linking of objects with positive or negative feelings and conditions (ex: flowers and books with electric shock and loud noises)
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Obstacle Golf
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one of the adult games
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Orgy-Porgy
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a meeting of about a dozen men and women where they pass 'the loving cup' of strawberry ice cream spiked with soma, sing Solidarity anthems, see Ford, and have sex
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Stoke Poges
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a club that Lenina and Henry go to to dance to synthetic music by Calvin Stokes and His Sixteen Sexophonists
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Solidarity Service
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a ceremony that replaces religion with strong sexual elements; orgy porgy
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Social Predestination Room
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where embryos are treated in scientific ways so that they will become members of the caste system/perform certain tasks
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Sexual Hormone Chewing Gum
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gum chewed by men to attract women
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Pregnancy Substitute
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since there is no live birth or pregnancy, only decanting, it is suggested that women take a pregnancy substitute, which lasts several months. The procedure is not described in detail. It is compulsory at age twenty-one, but some women have it as early as seventeen.
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Violent Passion Surrogate
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once a month, people are required to go to the Conditioning Center to have their systems flooded with adrenaline, which provides them with their ration of fear and rage, without actually having to act on any of it
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The Other Place
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the Savage Reservation (referred to as The Other Place by Linda)
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The Loving Cup
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strawberry ice cream spiked with soma passed around at orgy porgy
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Savage Reservation
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an area isolated from the Brave New World where things considered abominations, such as marriage, religion, disease, and wild animals still exist. The Reservation is in New Mexico. Malpais means 'bad country' in Spanish.
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Malpais
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where John and Linda are from
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Hospital for the Dying
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all aging and dying people are sent to this hospital so that others in society will not be exposed to anything but eternal youth and vitality
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Slough Crematorium
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where dead bodies are burned; Lenina and Henry Foster fly over this building on their way to the concert. In the crematorium, the gases produced are treated and ninety-eight percent of the phosphorous is removed for further use. Phosphorus is then used for fertilizer
