AP Literature: Brave New World Vocab

A.F.

“After Ford”, named after Henry Ford - creater of the assembly line

Bokanovsky Group

Identical siblings made from one egg

Bokanovsky Process

Cloning process involving shaking an egg so it buds 8-96 times

Bottling

Babies are grown in bottles, not in a womb

Caste System

Levels in society, Alphas, Betas, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon

D.H.C. for Central London

“Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning”

Decanted

Fetus is removed from bottle/born, no live births

Decanting Room

Where babies are removed from the bottles

Epsilon

Lowest level of caste system, little to no human intelligence

Freemartins

Sterile females, 70% of female population

Hypnopaedia

Conditioning technique while sleeping, teaches morals and values

Island

Place where they send people who are outcasts or want to create art or science

Malthusian Belt

Contraceptive device

Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning

Conditioning technique used to condition babies to like or dislike certain things for their entire lives

Nine Years’ War

World War that led to seizure of power by controllers, and creation of the World State

Phosphorous Recovery

After death, a person’s corpse is cremated and the phosphorous is used by the World State

Pregnancy Substitute

IV injection to balance female hormones by simulating pregnancy, required by age 21

Red Rocket

Transatlantic transportation

Savage Reservation

One of only areas left where people are not conditioned

Solidarity Service

Religious service that has sexual elements

Soma

Narcotic that supplies pleasant sensations with no after-effects