BRAVE NEW WORLD TEST

Where does the novel open? What activity is in process? Who is the D.H.C?

Central London Hatchery; fertilization; Person who conducts new students round the various departments

What is A.F. 632? What can you infer about society from a their worship of the man who invented the assembly-line technique?

year of stability; no uniqueness/ everyone is the same and everything is controlled/average/stable

What information can you infer from the sentence, "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories?"

Plain, boring, not unique, structural building where the fertilization takes place

What is the "Bokanovsky's Process"?

-one egg can multiply to 96 buds- all identical

-one of the major instruments of social stability

What is the planetary motto? Do you agree that these three elements are necessary for a properly-functioning societal unit and why?

Community, Identity and Stability

What happens in the Social Predestination Room? Why is this necessary?

organizing the individuals to contain all the relevant information

What can you infer from the name "Infant Nurseries' Neo-Pavlovian conditioning Room"?

work place for nurses creating/ birthing dozens of infants at a time

Why does Huxley refer to "shelves of infants" and uploading the babies"?

putting their creations on the floor as a presentation. Described as an item not as people

What is the point of conditioning the masses to hate the country?

So they still consume manufactured articles as well as transport. At the same time, love all country sports. Dumb them down so they'll work in factories

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

hypnopedia; sleep teaching; discriminate other groups a broadcast program from London; George Bernard shaw speaking

How did the condition the khaki babies to hate flowers and books?

A love of nature keeps no factories busy, To make then want to be going out into the country and consume transport hypnopedia. A nurse pulled a lever... LOUD explosion

What is hypnopedia?

sleep teaching; conditioning with words

Why is it considered a bad idea to allow people to develop games for which no equipment is needed?

it doesn't increase the consumption

What happens on the playground that we would consider morally wrong?

a rudimentary sexual game

Who is Mustapha Mond? What advice does he give the students? What does he say about history?

controller (fordship)/ leader; advice= history is pointless makes fun of history/doesn't matter

What does Mustapha Mond say about the kind of family life we consider normal?

Mothers give birth,, live with one's family and live in a home

Describe Lenina Crowne: What does her friend Danny criticize?

Beta/Alpha concerned of looks/selfish; she's only been with one guy (satire)

According to the Controller, what is the "primal and ultimate need" what cause a lack of it?

Stability/family; no more long term relationship (Community, Identity and Stability) emotions

Who is Bernard Marx and what is "wrong" with him? He over hears Foster and another man discussing Lenina. why does this bother him?

Alpha (something happened to him in tube). Worker in psychology- doesn't follow brave new world rules- thinks for himself; they're talking about her in a sexual way (like a piece of meat)

How does Lenina feel about him? How do other women regard him? What dies he invite Lenina to do?

She is starting to be interested in him (Alpha-plus) he has asked her to visit a Savage Reservation with him. Other women see him as a poor reputation because he doesn't like obstacle Golf and he spends time alone (stunted/small)

What is soma? What is Bernard's attitude about Soma?

A drug mustapha's discussing; Bernard refuses and then loses his cool

Why does Huxley have the Controller say "Suffer the little Children"?

A little girl in the yard outside tries to play with the controller. Jesus has a quote like this and he turns it a dark twist on it

How does Lenina surprise Bernard? What is his reaction and how does she view this reaction?

She wanted to talk to him about their New Mexico Plan. He was astonished, she was surprised he wanted her to go/she didn't have to beg

How is Bernard's "abnormality" removed to have happened?

He could have gotten through life without ever touching soma- always sunny

How does Huxley use the Red Rocket to satirize the perfection of the New World?

This comment by Henry is satirize the perfection by pointing to the fact that even though the world is so advanced there is still lateness

Who is Helmholtz Watson? What doe he and Bernard have in common?

They are both intelligent men who are discontent with the New World. Helmholtz Watson is unhappy although he is the perfect society's perfect human specimen; strong, attractive and intelligent

Hoe does overboard define the "something inside that was only waiting for you to give a chance to come out" that Helmholtz tries to describe to him? Is Bernard right?

Some sort of extra power that you aren't using- you know like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines. Bernard isn't sure what he means exactly, but Helmholtz sees to be on the brink of something big. The two seem to be fighting the same was on different fronts.

How are the bodies of the dead disposed of in the New World? How does this process have its practical side in their world? Why would the idea of a cemetery be useless to the new world citizens?

Burned. Get the bodies exposed quicker and creates work.

What does everyone have with their after-dinner coffee? What happens afterward Henry and Lenina after dinner?

Several somas leading to Henry and Lenina going to the roof after dinner

We have w?

40 first couple

The Solidarity Service is somewhat like what ritual in our society? What clues tell you?

Church... Soma like communion

What other elements of mysticism is Huxley also satirizing in the Solidarity Service?

Non mentality dancing

Why does Bernard want to be alone with Lenina? How does idea strike her?

He actually wants to talk. She thinks its ludicrous/odd

What are some of the phrases Lenina tosses out to console Bernard?

"A gramme in time saves nine"

"One cc cures ten gloomy sentiments"

Summarize Bernard's "mad, bad talk" Is there any hope Lenina will ever understand what Bernard is trying to say?

Talking about wanting to be an individual. Probably not because she has been so intensely conditioned to follow societies way of doing things

What story does the D.H.C. tell Bernard? Why is Bernard shocked?

Alpha(+) worker thinks for himself

Shocked because they are talking about past. Took someone to Savages and lost the girl.

Why did the D.H.C suddenly begin to criticize Bernard? What warning does he issue? How does Bernard react?

DHC was furious with him that he gave away one of his discreditable secrets... threatens to send him to Iceland. Bernard left with swagger and was elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance

Why does Bernard tells Helmholtz he told the D.H.C. to "go to the Bottomless Past"?

To pretend he is in control/above others

How does the Warden describe the Savage Reservation?

Five hundred and sixty square kilometer, divided into four distinct sub reservations, each surrounded by a high tension wire fence supplied with current from the Grand Canyon hydroelectric station and costed him a fortune and said there was no escape because of the fence; touch it= death

What does Bernard learn from his phone call to Helmholtz?

someone was going to replace Bernard because director didn't like how he was behaving and he was going to be sent to Iceland

How are animals and humans prevented from leaving the reservation?

The wire fence that killed anything if it was touched, surrounds reservation (like an electric fence)

The first sentence of this chapter is a simile. List three smilies used in this paragraph.

The mesa was like a ship be calmed in a strait go lion-colored dust

-the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky

What is Lenina's reaction to the reservation? Why? What does she like?

She's shocked and disgusted; she can't believe they live this way

Why does the old man shock Lenina?

He is old and wrinkly

How does Bernard react to the reservation?

Brave, Confident and Fine

briefly describe the snake dance.

Ceremonial/savage; throwing snakes, boy (18) gets whipped

Why is John, who is white, living at the reservation?

directors son; outcast; they're bi

Describe John's mother, Linda.

Stout, tattered clothes, material girl

Why does the women at the reservation hate Linda?

Slept around

What did Linda teach John as a boy that gave him a feeling of superiority over the man Indian boys?

to read

How did the Indian culture influence John?

isolated him

How did John learn about love, lust, death, and tragedy?

Shakesphere

What do Bernard and John have in common?

alienation from culture

On whom has John developed a terrible crush? How does she feel about John? What do you think will happen between then?

Lenina, she likes John too. Lenin will like John more than he likes her.

Why does theDHC denounce Bernard? What does he threaten to do with him?

Betrayed the trust and threatens to send him to Iceland (series of punishments)

How does Bernard discredit the DHC and avoid the punishment?

Brings in fat and ugly Linda (middle aged)

How does the upper-caste of London react to John and Linda? What was Linda's fate?

Resigned immediately. Linda looks the way she did because she got left at the Savage Reservation/ They were wild/excited, curious in a sick way.

How did Bernard suddenly become so important?

Everyone wants to meet John but can only meet him through Bernard

What changes in Bernard bothered Helmholtz?

Helmholtz lost his buddy and is now alone

How is a "feel" different from a movie? What is John's reaction to the "feel"?

swaying. noisy/standing and moving around movie. Community event rather than an individual event.

How are people affected by the Savage's refusal to greet the crowd? How does Bernard feel? Lenina?

Irritated and so is Bernard. Brave New World is suppose to have no disagreements-forced into doing stuff.

After guest leave, Bernard takes a large does of Soma; what seems to be happening to him?

Turning more into everyone else because its easier to give in

How has the Savage influenced Helmholtz?

He realizes how corrupt this society actually was, resulting in him writing poems

How does Bernard act childishly and why?

he gets jealous of Helmholtz and the savages close relationship

What is it that is troubling Lenina?

John is not seduced by her

Who does John the Savage keep quoting and why?

Shakespeare to express his adoration

Why does John go into such a rage calling Lenina a "stumpet" and a "whor*"

Because Lemma presses her body against his and begins to remove her clothes

Where do we find John at the beginning of Chapter 14?

Park Lane Hospital to be with his dying mother, Linda.

Who "invades" the hospital and why re their actions driving him crazy?

Delta children because they view death as a pleasant and useful thing rather than something to be feared.

What happens when Linda thinks John is Pope?

His misery turns to fury

how does John try to "help" the staff of the hospital? How do they respond to his help?

he calls to the deltas to give up the drug. When they fail to respond, he seizes the soma and throws it out the window

How does Bernard react to all the excitement? What's his real motive?

Tries to save John and they become involved in the riot themselves

What surprises and delights John about Mustapha Mond?

He quoted Shakespeare. He was shocked to find someone who had read old literature.

How is the Cyprus experiment similar to the Lord of the Flies?

They put a bunch of similar people on an island and gave them power to rule. They created bad rules that didn't work well and many were killed.

What does Mond say is an enemy of happiness?

intelligence/education

How does Bernard act during this meeting? How have your feelings about Bernard Marx changed at this point?

He started crying and begging to stay in civilization. He threw Helmholtz and John under the bus to save himself. I greatly dislike him now and he has changed for the worse.

Why does Mond envy the others?

Because they are breaking the rules and actually having emotions

What does Mond read about in Cardinal Newman's book?

God and religion

Why does John become indignant and angry?

At the casual ease of living in a society where science and conditioning abolish all frustrations

By the end of this chapter, John and Mond come to an understanding. What is it?

That John wishes will lead to unhappiness (God, poverty, real danger, freedom, goodness and sin)

What is John doing at the beginning of Chapter 18?

makes plans to retreat to a place of his own, far from the society he has rejected. Undergoes purification for "eating civilization"

How do Bernard and Helmholtz feel about leaving London?

They finally decided that they are leaving the civilized world and they re no longer upset or angry.

Where does John go?

London lighthouse

What is good about John's time at his new place?

Make clear that John's life is not influenced by the hermits of Christianity but by the demons of his own guilt

Does he allow himself much happiness? What does he do?

no, self-destructive rituals of purification by vomiting and whipping himself

What happens to destroy the relative peace John has found?

People (reporters eventually) see him punishing himself and are very amused. One man even makes a movie about him.

When Lenina arrives how has she changed?

Lovesick and heartbroken

How does John react to Lenina? How does the crowd react?

John attacks her with a whip

How does this chapter end for John?

He kills himself

How did you feel about the end of the book? How would you have it end?

I thought the end of the book was appropriate because John had gone off the deep end. The one hiding place he had that finally gave him peace and quiet was ruined and therefore so was his life. I wouldn't have ended the book any differently because the suicide showed the extent of the torture the New World imposes on anyone that is different. It exemplifies the phenomenon of everyone in the "civilized world" seeing nothing wrong while a few individuals cannot tolerate the horrible environment in which they live.